Every Egypt tour package we run is on this page — forty-odd itineraries from a two-day Cairo stopover to a three-week circuit taking in the Nile, the Red Sea and the Western Desert. You can browse them by how long you have, or by the kind of trip you want.
I’m Essam Ali, a professional Egyptologist and the owner of Egypt Best Vacations. We’re a licensed Egyptian tour operator based in Luxor, which means we’re not passing your booking to somebody else. The guides, the vehicles, the hotel contracts and the cruise cabins are all ours. When something needs sorting at nine on a Friday night, you’re calling the people who can actually sort it.
We run two kinds of trip. Short breaks, slow travel, luxury packages are fully private — your own guide, your own vehicle, your own schedule. Our other packages are small-group tours capped at 16 people, which keeps the group small enough to hear the guide inside a tomb and to move without waiting on stragglers. Each itinerary page states clearly which applies. Either way, the trip can be adjusted around what you actually want to see.
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Private airport transfers, hotels and cruise accommodation at the standard shown, a licensed Egyptologist guide, all entrance fees, a private air-conditioned vehicle with driver, daily breakfast with full board on cruise days, and direct support from our Luxor office throughout. Domestic flights are included where the route requires them. International airfare, your entry visa, travel insurance and gratuities are not included.
Both, depending on the package. Short breaks, slow travel tours and luxury packages run fully private — you won’t share a guide, a vehicle or a schedule with anyone outside your party. Our other packages are small-group tours with a maximum of 16 travelers. Every itinerary page states which model applies, and most private packages can be arranged as a private departure on request. Nile cruise ships are shared vessels in both cases, though guiding and shore excursions follow whichever model your package uses.
Packages start from around $570 per person for a short Cairo break and run to roughly $3,390 for a three-week circuit, based on three people sharing. The variables are hotel standard, whether you sail on a cruise ship or a Dahabiya, how many domestic flights the route needs, and your dates — December and the March to April window carry premium pricing.
An 8 to 10-day itinerary combining Cairo with a Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan. It covers the Pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Valley of the Kings, Karnak and the river temples without turning your holiday into a series of transfers. Shorter trips mean leaving out Upper Egypt, which is the part most people regret missing.
Yes, and most guests do. Add days, drop a site, upgrade the hotel or cruise category, change the pace, or combine destinations we haven’t paired on this page. The itineraries here are starting points rather than fixed products — tell us what you want and we’ll rebuild around it.
Children under 6 travel free on tours without domestic flights, and children aged 6 to 11 pay 50% of the adult rate. On packages that include domestic flights, the airline’s own fare structure applies: ages 0 to 2 pay 30%, ages 3 to 5 pay 40%, and ages 6 to 11 pay 50%. From 12 upward, the adult rate applies on all packages. Children share their parents’ room at these rates.
Most nationalities do. Many visitors — including citizens of the UK, US, Canada, Australia and most EU countries — can apply for an e-Visa online before departure or buy a visa on arrival at the airport. Your passport must be valid for at least six months beyond your arrival date. Requirements vary by nationality, so check the official e-Visa portal for your own passport before booking flights.
The tourist corridor — Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, the Nile Valley and the Red Sea resorts — welcomes millions of international visitors each year and is heavily policed. Several governments maintain travel advisories with specific regional exclusions, and we’d recommend reading your own country’s before booking. We don’t operate anywhere covered by a do-not-travel designation, and your guide stays with you throughout.
October to April, when daytime temperatures sit in the mid-20s Celsius and sightseeing is comfortable. May to September is hot — 40°C is routine in Luxor and Aswan — but workable with early starts, and prices and crowds both drop considerably. Red Sea resorts are pleasant year-round.
In many packages, yes. Cruise itineraries sail between Luxor and Aswan over three to four nights, stopping at Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae along the way. Some packages use a Dahabiya instead — a small sailing boat with a handful of cabins that moors at quieter sites. Each itinerary states which vessel type applies, and land-only packages that skip the river are also available.
Three to six months for travel between October and April, and longer for Christmas, New Year and Easter. Dahabiya sailings and the better cruise cabins fill earliest because the capacity is genuinely small. Outside peak season we can often work with a few weeks’ notice — it’s always worth asking.
