Private Tour of Cairo and Alexandria
All in 5 days

The New Alexandria Library – Overlooking the underwater site of Cleopatra’s Palace
Photo by Gérard Ducher, via Wikimedia Commons.

Give us five days, and we’ll show you all the best sights in Cairo and Alexandria.

DAY 1 – CAIRO – Daily – Year Round – Choose your own arrival date.
On arrival, our local representative will greet you at the airport and whisk you to your hotel. Visa may be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport.

VIP Meet & Greet Upon arrival at Cairo Airport
Visa issued locally in Cairo (for a limited number of nationalities) no photos required. Our representative greets you at the airport and whisks you to your hotel. Visa will be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for a limited number of citizens such as: American, Australian, NZ, EU, Canadian, EU Singaporean and Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo. Our local rep. will meet you with a sign that carries your name, and will be waiting for you with the prepaid visa stamps to proceed to the passports control to stamp your passports and then you claim your luggage. After you clear the passport and customs formalities and exit the terminal, our local representative will escort you by private vehicle to the hotel. Welcome fruit basket & Egyptian pastry awaits you in your room with our compliments.

DAY 2 – CAIRO (BL)
We plunge into Cairo: the treasure-filled Egyptian Museum including the “Mummies Room”; the Citadel of Saladin, perched high above the city; and Mohammed Ali’s Alabaster Mosque. After lunch at Hadaik el-Azhar or Naguib Mahfouz, we explore Old Cairo: first a Roman fort, then the Jewish Quarter, then the Coptic Christian Quarter. We visit the Coptic churches of Abu Serghius and Al Molaka, the Coptic Museum, and Ben Ezra synagogue. Finally, we wander through the alleys of Khan el-Khalili bazaar in search of magic carpets and other traditional souvenirs.

DAY 2 – Cairo – Alexandria (BL)
After breakfast, our local rep. will assist with your transfer to the Railway Station to board your first class reserved seats on the air-conditioned Express train to Alexandria. Upon arrival in Alexandria, your private guide, and private air-conditioned vehicle will be waiting for you.

Today, we’ll get to known Alexandria in depth, as we visit the Roman Amphitheater, the Koum El Shougafa Tombs and Qayet Bey Fortress. Qayet Bey Fort was built on the same site of the ancient wonder of the world: the famous Alexandria Light House. A brief stop at “El Selsela” the site of the underwater reserves where Cleopatra Place was discovered, as well as Caesar Kiosk. Lunch at a local restaurant, and then it’s off to the new site for the Alexandria Library. Time permitting we ‘ll visit the new museum in Alexandria, the building was originally built in 1926 for the US consulate in Alexandria and is a masterpiece in 1920’s architecture and Mediterranean style buildings. In the afternoon we tour: Zanket El-Setat and the local souks, el-Raml district and downtown area with coffee and tea served at one of the local cafes, then on to the railway station and back to Cairo, where our local rep. will be waiting for you at Cairo Station for your transfer to the hotel.

DAY 4 – CAIRO (BLD)
We drive to Giza to see the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Cheops Royal Barge Museum and the Valley Temple. If you’re physically fit, you may scramble deep within the Great Pyramid to the king’s chamber. After lunch at a local restaurant, we tour some of Egypt’s most ancient sites: the ruins of Memphis, the step pyramid of Sakkara, and the “bent” pyramid at Dahshour, open to visitors after a half-century of seclusion: A grand pyramid field south of Cairo. We visit the great pyramid of Senfru, father of Cheops, and other structures:

The “Discovery” of Dahshour:
For almost half a century, the great field of huge pyramids near the desert village of Dahshour, 25 miles south of Cairo, has been off limits to the public. Confined within the perimeter of a military base were many pyramids, including the great 4500-year-old pyramid built by Senfru, father of Cheops. Senfru’s pyramid, the largest in Egypt until his son built Giza’s Great Pyramid, is rhomboidal in shape: it tapers more distinctly on its upper half. All the pyramids were coated in thick plaster at one time. Most have lost these protective, decorative sheaths, but Senfru’s–miraculously–is still in place.

Lunch is included at the Mena House. In the evening, we host you on a Nile dinner cruise complete with exotic Egyptian entertainment.

DAY 5 – DEPARTURE (cB)
After a full breakfast, our staff escorts you to the airport for your flight home. Bon Voyage!

Rate Includes:

• All transfers, always in a private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur.
• Hotel accommodation, tax and service charges.
• First class reserved seats, air-conditioned Express train: Cairo Alexandria Cairo
• Guided sightseeing, including all entrance fees
• Pre-set menu meals including B = Breakfast, (or cB, Continental Breakfast), L = Lunch, D = Dinner as listed in the itinerary.
• VIP Meet & Greet At Cairo Airport
  Our representative greets you at the airport and whisks you to your hotel. Visa will be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport (photos are not required).
• Egyptian Visa will be issued for a limited number of citizens such as: American, Australian, NZ, EU, Canadian, EU Singaporean and Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo. Our local rep. will meet you with a sign that carries your name, and will be waiting for you with the prepaid visa stamps to proceed to the passports control to stamp your passports and then you claim your luggage. After you clear the passport and customs formalities and exit the terminal, our local representative will escort you by private vehicle to the hotel. Welcome fruit basket & Egyptian pastry awaits you in your room with our compliments.

Rates do not include:

• Tips.
• International air fare from/to your home country
• Insurance (we’ll be glad to send you the flyer)
• Drinks with meals. Meals not specifically mentioned. Tips for guides and hotel personnel.
• Expenses of a personal nature
• Travel Insurance

Great Sphinx of Giza and the pyramid of Khafre
By most likely Hamish2k, the first uploader[GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

• Egypt
  • Alexandria
  • Al-Alamein
  • Cairo
  • Cairo and Giza
  • Cairo and Giza (Overnight in Cairo)
  • Cairo and Giza (2 nights)
  • Giza
  • Luxor / Safaga
  • Private Luxor Tour (fly from Cairo)
  • Al-Alamein and Alexandria (4 days)
  • Al-Alamein and Alexandria (start in Cairo)

A Four Day Private Tour
Start in Cairo

Entrance of Abu el-Abbas el-Mursi Mosque in Alexandria, Egypt.
By Leonard J. DeFrancisci (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

You’ll be escorted by your private guide, in addition to your private chauffeur.

Combine With your Princess Cruise, Oceanic Cruise, Crystal Cruise, Royal Caribbean or other Mediterranean cruises. If you have only a short time, this is the perfect way. Your few hours in Egypt are filled with exotic sights, sounds, scenes and scents. Arrive on ANY cruise ship. This is the perfect add-on to your Mediterranean cruise. Extensions are available to Aswan, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurgada, Marsa Alam, and Nile Cruises. Check out our Private Luxor Tour: Flying from Cairo. More cruise Shore Excursions: Cairo, Greece, or Turkey, Luxor and Cairo.

Day 1: Full Day – CAIRO – ALEXANDRIA  (Lunch Included)
Today, our local tour escort and driver will meet you at your hotel in Cairo, and escort you in your private air-conditioned vehicle to the Railway station to board the EXPRESS FIRST CLASS train for Alexandria. First class seats, reserved. Tickets are of course included in our rate. In Alexandria (Sidi-Gaber station), our guide will be waiting for you on the platform with a sign in your name. Once again, you ‘ll have your own private air-conditioned vehicle and private chauffeur. If you are starting in Alexandria, please click here.

Conqueror of the Mediterranean Coast – Alexander the Great
In 332 BC, Egypt was laboring under Persian military control when Alexander the Great arrived to drive out the invaders without the shedding of a drop of blood. The Persian governor surrendered and the conquering hero was hailed as a liberator and given Egypt’s double crown symbolizing control of Upper and Lower Egypt. Alexander reinstated Egypt’s traditional government and founded the city of Alexandria at the country’s most important crossroads: where the Nile meets the Mediterranean.

We’ll get to known Alexandria in depth, as we visit the National Museum in Alexandria. The building was originally built in 1926 for the US consulate in Alexandria and is a masterpiece of 1920’s architecture and Mediterranean style buildings. The Roman Amphitheater; the Koum El Shougafa Catacombs; Eliahou Halevi (or Hanabi) synagogue (Nabi Daniel Street) –  a 150-year-old synagogue, it is the only active synagogue in Alexandria, and houses the treasurers of the seven other older and / or closed Alexandrian synagogues –  and an afternoon horse-drawn carriage ride on the water front, and inspect the exterior of the mosque of the Alexandrine local “saint” Morsi Abu-Al-Abbas; a leisurely walk through the local souks and Zanket-El Setat to get a feel for this charming old part of Alexandria; followed by lunch which is included in an Alexandrine restaurant.

Later in the day we check-in at the legendary deluxe Helnan Palestine Hotel, overlooking the Mediterranean, and Al-Montazah Royal Palace of the former Royal Family of Egypt.

Al-Alamein WWII Commonwealth Cemetery. The battle’s sad human cost.

Day Two: From Alexandria to Al-Alamein (BLD)
Full Breakfast is included at your hotel. Private air-conditioned sedan or private deluxe mini-coach. Today we head west and on to Al-Alamein, and Rommel’s territory.

To really enjoy the day and avoid the heat, we suggest that you start your day no later than 7 AM leaving from your hotel.

We’ll cross into another era of history today as we motor westward through the dunes along the Mediterranean coast following the route of Field Marshall Montgomery to El Alamein. Here we’ll visit the fields of battle where Rommel’s advance on Cairo was finally halted. We’ll visit the museum. Lunch included at el Alamein, before we head back to Alexandria.

We will tour the Military Museum, the Allied, Italian and German memorials. Before we head to Al-Alamein we will go to the Charm Hotel for lunch (tea, coffee, and bottled water included with your meal).

The local war museum has on display collectibles from “the civil war” and other North American battles. You will visit also the Italian and German Military Cemetery on Tel el-Eisa Hill just outside the tiny town. The German cemetery is actually an ossuary containing the remains of 4200 German soldiers which is built in the style of a medieval fortress. The Italian cemetery is a mausoleum containing many galleries of tombs. Wherever possible, each tomb bears the soldier’s name, but many are simply marked “IGNOTO” – “Unknown”.

El Alamein is on the Mediterranean Sea (see map). You will tour as well the Commonwealth war cemetery with graves of soldiers from various countries who fought on the British side. This has monuments commemorating Greek, New Zealand, Australian and South African forces. The Commonwealth cemetery, consists of parallel rows of gravestones, each one bearing an engraving of the deceased soldier’s unit emblem, his name and an epitaph from his family. Rows upon rows of gravestones stand witness to the battles’ human cost.

Lunch is included at the new Charm Al-Alamein Hotel and then we head back to Alexandria (about 70 kilometers to the east). Back at your hotel to enjoy the siesta. In the evening we drive to Mahatet El-Raml and hit town and a leisurely walk through the medina. We can stop, if you wish, at one of the local street cafes for tea or coffee with sweets. Dinner is included back at the hotel.

Octavious visiting Alexander the Great’s Tomb in Alexandria.
Octavious had just defeated Cleopatra and Marc Anthony armies. He left his coat at Alexander the Great’s tomb as a token of respect. The search continues for Alexander the Great’s Tomb.

Day Three: From Alexandria to Wadi El-Natroun and Cairo ( B, Lunch Box)
Full Breakfast is included at your hotel. Lunch Box prepared by your hotel. Private air-conditioned sedan or private deluxe mini-coach, always private chauffeur and private Egyptologist. Today we suggest that we start no later than 8 AM to avoid the heat. Tour of the Qayet Bey Fortress which is built on the same site of the ancient wonder of the world, the famous Alexandria Light House. Pompey’s Pillar and the Serapeum which houses the huge mummified Bulls that were were worshipped by Ancient Egyptians. Then a brief stop at “El Selsela,” the site of the Underwater reserve where Cleopatra Place was discovered, as well as Caesar Kiosk. Then it’s off to the new site of the Alexandria Library.

Video by ACG Travel Videos

We head south and on to Wadi El-Natroun, deep in early Egyptian Church territory and early Christianity in Egypt. Wadi El Natroun is almost half way between Alexandria and Cairo. We tour the Coptic Monasteries where early Egyptian Coptic monks and Popes used to seek refuge as Egypt fell finally under Rome’s influence and the Vatican aggressive effort to bring the Egyptian Church into the fold.

Reach Cairo late afternoon and your hotel: The Four Seasons standard room or the Grand Hyatt (club level room).
Always a room with a view of the Nile.

Day Four: Departure From Cairo (B)
Full Breakfast at the hotel. Private air-conditioned sedan or private deluxe mini-coach and private chauffeur.
As well as private tour escort. Off to Cairo Airport. Bon Voyage!

You may wish to consider upgrading to the Four Seasons in Alexandria – Based on Standard Room:
The Four Seasons Hotel Alexandria at San Stefano, Egypt. Edging the Mediterranean in a setting of legendary glamour, discover an intimate enclave within the stately Grand Plaza shopping and residential complex. Indulge in classically elegant accommodations, European spa treatments and terraced restaurants with fresh sea breezes. Four Seasons care outshines all else in Alexandria.

Included:

• Private air conditioned deluxe sedan, private chauffeur.
• All transfers as per itinerary.
• One way, first class seats on the Express train Cairo Alexandria
• Private English ( or other language of your preference) speaking guide
• All tours, guided sightseeing with admissions, taxes, service charges as per itinerary.
• Lunch – Pre-set menu during your full days of tours, yet decent number of choices is available.
• Two nights hotel accommodation in Alexandria at the Helnan deluxe Palestine (sea-view room) Hotel or similar with tax breakfast, and pre-set menu dinner daily.
• One night hotel accommodation in Cairo at The Four Seasons standard room or the Grand Hyatt (club level room). Always Nile view room

Rate doesn’t include:

• Any International air fare.
• Any visa Fee
• Trip/travel insurance
• Tips
• Personal Expenses
• Any Beverages
  

There were two battles of El Alamein, both of them during 1942. The Battles occurred in Egypt in and around an area named after a Railway Stop called El Alamein. During the Battles, Allied (primarily British Empire) forces were lead by British Field Marshall Claude Auchinleck during the first Battle and Bernard Montgomery during the second Battle. The first Battle ended in a stalemate in which the British finally stopped the eastward advance of the Germans and Italians who were under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. These two battles are considered by many World War II historians to be the turning point in the war against Germany and the Axis Powers. Although much fighting remained in Africa and the European Continent, the importance of these battles might best be summed up in the words of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in November 1942 stated that:

“The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

First Battle of El Alamein – 1-27 July 1942
Second Battle of El Alamein – 23 October-4 November 1942

Map of El Alamein, Egypt

Private Mediterranean Cruise Shore Excursion
Fly from Cairo

Statues in Karnak temple complex near Luxor, Egypt
By Karelj (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Combine with your Princess Cruise, Louise Cruise, Oceanic Cruise, Crystal Cruise, Royal Caribbean or other Mediterranean cruises. If you have only a short time, this is the perfect way. Your few hours in Egypt are filled with exotic sights, sounds, scenes and scents.

Arrive on ANY cruise ship. This is the perfect add on to your Mediterranean cruise. Extensions are available to Aswan, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurgada, Marsa Alam, and Nile Cruises. More cruise Shore Excursions: Barcelona, Cairo, Greece, or Turkey. Compare with the four day Al-Alamein and Alexandria private escapade.

You may start as well from Alexandria or Safaga on the Red Sea

Private Deluxe Mini Coach: Mercedes, Lexus and such sedans are not advisable in Upper Egypt tourist sites due to the terrain, particularly on the West Bank in Luxor.

Rate per person in double:
At the Old Winter Palace in Luxor ( Nile view room): $ 865.00 USD

Rate per person in Single:
At the Old Winter Palace in Luxor (Nile view room): $ 1150.00 USD

Rate per person in double:
At the Steignberger Nile Palace in Luxor ( Nile view room): $ 610.00 USD

Rate per person in single:
At the Steignberger Nile Palace in Luxor ( Nile view room): $ 850.00 USD

DAY 1: Cairo / Luxor
Our local tour escort will pick you up in the early morning from your hotel and escort you to Cairo Airport for your flight to Luxor (always with a private air-conditioned vehicle and a private chauffeur). Air fare is included Cairo – Luxor – Cairo, in economy class, tax included.

Upon arrival in Luxor, we proceed from the airport to the west bank at Luxor – one of the most important archaeological sites in the world (always with a private air-conditioned vehicle, private Egyptologist and a private chauffeur).

Valley of the Kings:
The Valley contains 62 tombs to-date, excavated by the Egyptologists and archaeologists from many countries. Not all of the tombs belonged to the king and royal family. Some tombs belonged to privileged nobles and were usually undecorated. Not all the tombs were discovered intact, and some were never completed.

Time permitting we will include three Royal Tombs of our Ancient Pharaohs including King Tut’s (Tutankhamen).

Hatshepsut, the first Queen to rule as a Pharaoh of Egypt
Name: Ma’at-ka-Ra Hatshepsut

Ma’at-ka-Ra – her name means Truth/Order/Balance (“Ma’at”) is the Spirit/Double (“ka”) of Ra’ Hatshepsut – ‘Foremost of Noble Women’

Although not the only female ruler of Egypt, Ma’at-ka-Ra Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty) is one of the best known (next to Cleopatra). She managed to rule for about twenty years, before disappearing from history, coinciding with Thuthmose III’s becoming Pharaoh in his own right.

We will also stop by the Memnon colossi, before we head to:

Medinet Habu temple
The ancient Egyptian name for Medinet Habu, in Arabic the “City of Habu” was Djamet, meaning “males and mothers.” Its holy ground was believed to be where the Ogdoad, the four pairs of first primeval gods, were buried.

Medinet Habu was both a temple and a complex of temples dating from the New Kingdom. It adjoins the cultivation at the southern end of the Theban necropolis, opposite southern Luxor. The area was one of the earliest places within the Theban region to be associated with the worship of Amun. Hatshepsut and Tutmosis III built a small temple to Amun on the site of an earlier structure. Next to their temple, Ramesses III built his mortuary temple, Medinet Habu’s most conspicuous standing monument.

Video by Oswas

After a very full morning, head back to the hotel and check-in. Enjoy your siesta and a leisurely afternoon. Then we meet up again around 5 or 6 PM for a horse-drawn carriage ride around the town and a stroll through Luxor’s local souks and village.

The souq (open-air market) in Luxor, Egypt
By Marc Ryckaert (MJJR) (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

DAY 2: Back to Cairo (B)
Breakfast is included at your hotel. This morning we head to the mighty Karnak Temple complex – just imagine 20 Vatican’s put together. We stand in awe before the gigantic Great Temple of Amon at Karnak, then on to the smaller yet most charming Temple of Luxor, dedicated to Amon-Ra, followed by a tour of one of the best displays of antiquities in Egypt, located at the Luxor Museum opened in 1975. Housed within a modern building, the collection is limited in the number of items, but they are beautifully displayed. It is well worth the visit.

Off to Luxor Airport, fly back to Cairo where our local tour escort will assist with your transfer to the international terminal or your hotel in Cairo. Bon Voyage!

Included:

• All airport transfers, always with a private air-conditioned vehicle and a private chauffeur
• Air fare is included: Cairo – Luxor – Cairo, in economy class, tax included
• Guided sightseeing in Luxor, as per itinerary, including all entrance fees (always with a private air-conditioned vehicle, private Egyptologist and a private chauffeur)
• Private English (or other language of your preference) speaking guide
• All admissions, taxes, service charges
• Hotel accommodation as listed, including breakfast, tax and service charge

Rate doesn’t include:

• Any International air fare.
• Any visa Fee
• Trip/travel insurance
• Tips
• Personal Expenses
• Any Beverages

Private Mediterranean Cruise Shore Excursion
Private Full Day Tour of Cairo and Giza
With an Overnight Hotel Stay in Cairo

Great Sphinx of Giza (foreground) Pyramid of Menkaure (background). Cairo, Egypt, North Africa.
By Mstyslav Chernov [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Private Guided Tours of Cairo and Giza with an overnight at the Four Seasons Nile Plaza, Four Season First Residence, Grand Hyatt, Cairo Marriott, Conrad, the J. W. Marriott resort, or similar.

Your guide will meet you will meet you in Alexandria or Port Said and escort to Cairo. In addition you ‘ll have your own private chauffeur. Available as well for Alexandria and Luxor. Compare with the four day Al-Alamein and Alexandria private escapade.

Cairo and Giza Full Day with Lunch

Number: 2 – 4 guests
Grand Hyatt Level Hotels.
Cost per person: $ 360. USD Per person.
Based on using private Sedan/mini coach, and always with a private guide.

And Return to Alexandria (or Port Said)
Cairo and Giza Full Day with Lunch From/To Alexandria
Click here for guests that plan to return to cruise same day

Minimum: 2 -3 guests
Grand Hyatt Level Hotels
Cost per person: $ 600.USD
Based on using a private air-conditioned Sedan/mini coach, and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference).

Minimum: 4 guests
Grand Hyatt Level Hotels
Cost per person: $ 510. USD
Based on using a private air conditioned mini-coach depending the number pf guests in your party , and always with a private guide. For the evening Pyramids Sound and Light show please add  $ 35 USD per person, including transfers and entrance fees.

For the Four Seasons Hotel or the Oberoi Mena House – Palace Building please add $ 201 per person in double.
All rates include taxes, breakfast and service charges.

Meet with your guide at Alexandria or Port Said port passenger Terminal. Drive to Cairo. Return to Alexandria or Port Said the next day.

Day 1: CAIRO and GIZA (L)
Today we see the major sights of Giza and Cairo: the Egyptian Museum including the Mummies Room. We’ll continue to the edge of Cairo, to the mysterious Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza. After Lunch tour Memphis Sakkara or enjoy a walking tour of the ancient Khan El Khalili Bazaar district before we head back to Cairo and your hotel. We’ll take our lunch on a Nile cruise at a local restaurant, El Khan, or Lunch will be in Azhar Park overlooking the Citadel. Sunset half hour felucca cruise on the Nile.

For the evening Pyramids Sound & Light show please add $ 35 USD per person, including transfers and entrance fees.

Day 2: CAIRO / BACK TO YOUR CRUISE (B)
After breakfast check out and drive back to your cruise in Alexandria or Suez or Port Said. For guests who have an evening departure today, then you may add more touring today, please click here. 

Cairo & Giza Full Day with Lunch From Alexandria / to Cairo

Minimum 2 – 4 guests:
Grand Hyatt Level Hotels
Cost per person: $ 401
Based on using private Sedan / mini coach, and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference).

For the Four Seasons Hotel, or the Oberoi Mena House – Palace Building please add $ 201 per person in double. All rates include taxes, breakfast and service charges.

Day 1: CAIRO and GIZA (L)
Today we see the major sights of Giza and Cairo: the Egyptian Museum including the Mummies Room. We’ll continue to the edge of Cairo, to the mysterious Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza. After Lunch tour Memphis Sakkara or enjoy a walking tour of the ancient Khan El Khalili Bazaar district before we head back to Cairo and your hotel. We’ll take our lunch on a Nile cruise at a local restaurant, El Khan, or Lunch will be in Azhar Park overlooking the Citadel.

Day 2: CAIRO – Departure Cairo Airport (B)
After breakfast check out and drive to Cairo Airport. Bon Voyage!

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
By Christophe Badoux (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Included

• Private air conditioned Mercedes sedan or a private air conditioned coach or mini coach depending on the number of  guests
• Private English (or other language of your preference) speaking guide
• All admissions, taxes, service charges
• One night deluxe hotel accommodation in Cairo as listed, including tax and continental breakfast.
• Lunch – Pre-set menu, yet decent number of choices is available, with tea or coffee as well as one large bottle of water (for each guest) included

Rate doesn’t include

• Any International air fare.
• Any visa Fee
• Trip/travel insurance
• Tips
• Personal Expenses
• Any Beverages

Combine with your Princess Cruise, Louise Cruise, Oceanic Cruise, Crystal Cruise or other Mediterranean cruises. If you have only a short time, this is the perfect add-on to your Mediterranean cruise. Your few hours in Egypt are filled with exotic sights, sounds, scenes and scents. Extensions are available to Aswan, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurgada, Marsa Alam, and Nile Cruises.

Cairo from Alexandria or Port Said / Suez
Alexandria to Cairo drive is about 3 Hours (225 kilometers)

Private Mediterranean Cruise Shore Excursion

Private Tour of Cairo and Giza
With Two Nights Hotel Stay in Cairo
and Two Days of Touring

The Nile River defines the border between Cairo and Giza
Cairo on the east bank, Giza on the west bank of the Nile

Private Guided Tours of Cairo and Giza with an overnight stay at the Grand Hyatt or Conrad or the J. W. Marriott resort. Available as well for Alexandria and Luxor. Compare with the four day Al-Alamein and Alexandria private escapade.

A- Start and end in Cairo
Cairo and Giza Two Full Days with Lunch

Minimum 2 guests:
Cost per person: $ 750 Per person Based on using private Sedan , and always with a private guide ( Please advise the language of your preference) . Minimum 2 guests

Minimum 4 guests:
Cost per person: $ 710 Per person with or a private air conditioned mini-coach, and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference). Minimum 4 guests

Minimum 6 guests:
Cost per person: $690 Per person with or a private air conditioned mini-coach , and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference). Minimum 6 guests

B- Start in Alexandria (or port Said)
And Return to Alexandria (or Port Said)
Cairo and Giza: Two Full Days with Lunch From/To Alexandria
Click here for guests that plan to return to cruise same day

Minimum 2 guests:
Cost per person: $ 890 Based on using private air -conditioned vehicle, and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference).

Minimum 4 guests:
Cost per person: $ 850 Based on using a private air conditioned mini-coach depending the number of guests in your party, and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference).

Minimum 6 guests:
Cost per person: $ 790 Based on using a private air conditioned mini-coach depending the number pf guests in your party, and always with a private guide. (Please advise the language of your preference).

Meet with your guide at Alexandria or Port Said port passenger Terminal.
Drive to Cairo. Return to Alexandria or Port Said at the end.

Day 1: Arrival Alexandria – Drive to CAIRO and GIZA (LD)
Drive from the Alexandria port to the new Alexandria Library and a brief stop at the Eliahou Halevi (or Hanabi) synagogue (Nabi Daniel Street). A 150-year-old synagogue, it is the only active synagogue in Alexandria and houses the treasures of the seven other older and/or closed Alexandrian synagogues.

Then it is off to Cairo where today we see the major sights of Giza: drive to the edge of Cairo, to the desert of Giza to tour the mysterious Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza. After Lunch at the Mena House, we are off to tour Memphis Sakkara before we head back to Cairo and your hotel. Sunset half hour felucca cruise on the Nile. Dinner is included at “Zeitouni” restaurant at the Four Seasons Nile Plaza.

Day 2: CAIRO (BL)
After breakfast check out from your hotel. Today it is the major sights of Cairo: the Egyptian Museum  including the Mummies Room and King Tut’s Gold Treasure Hall. In the afternoon it is off to the Coptic/Jewish old quarter touring  the Coptic Museum, al-Moalaka Church and Beni Ezra Synagogue, as well as the spot where it is said that Baby Moses was found by the Queen’s entourage. After lunch at the “Naguib Mahfouz” restaurant (or similar) enjoy a walking tour of the ancient Khan El Khalili Bazaar district  and tour Wekalet El Ghouri.

Day 3: CAIRO – BACK TO YOUR CRUISE (Alexandria or Port Said) (BL)
After breakfast check out from your hotel. Then drive back to your cruise in Alexandria or Suez or Port Said. For guests who have 2 days only, please click here.

Included

• Private air conditioned Mercedes sedan or a private air conditioned coach or mini coach depending on the number of  guests
• Private English (or other language of your preference) speaking guide
• All admissions, taxes, service charges
• Deluxe hotel accommodation in Cairo as listed, including tax and continental breakfast.
• Lunch – Pre-set menu, however a decent number of choices are available, with tea or coffee as well as one large bottle of water for each guest included.

Rate doesn’t include

• Any International air fare.
• Any visa Fee
• Trip/travel insurance
• Tips
• Personal Expenses
• Any Beverages

Combine With your Princess Cruise, Louise Cruise, Oceanic Cruise, Crystal Cruise or other Mediterranean cruises. If you have only a short time, this is the perfect way. Your few hours in Egypt are filled with exotic sights, sounds, scenes and scents.

Arrive on ANY Cruise Ship This is the perfect add on to your Mediterranean cruise. Extensions are available to Aswan, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurgada, Marsa Alam, and Nile Cruises

Cairo from Alexandria or Port Said / Suez:
Alexandria to Cairo drive is about 3 Hours (225 kilometers)