8 Day Egypt Tour Packages

Comfortably, yes. Eight days covers Cairo and the Nile Valley without rushing, and leaves one day to spend on something a shorter trip cannot fit — the Red Sea, a longer cruise, or a destination like Lake Nasser or Siwa. If you want two extra regions rather than one, look at ten days or more.

One day, but it lands in a useful place. A seven-day trip is Cairo plus the Nile Valley, and everything else has to be traded against it. The eighth day is the first one you can spend by choice: two proper days on the Red Sea instead of one, a four-night cruise instead of three, or a route into the desert or Middle Egypt that a week cannot reach at all.

Airport meet-and-assist and all transfers in private air-conditioned vehicles, seven nights of accommodation, a licensed Egyptologist guide, all entrance fees to the sites on your itinerary, daily breakfast plus the meals listed in your day plan, domestic flights where the route requires them, and all service charges and taxes.

These packages use Gold and Platinum accommodation. In Egyptian terms that is 5-star standard (3.5 stars in Europe and the USA) and 5-star deluxe (4 stars in Europe and the USA). Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism licenses almost every hotel and Nile cruise ship in this class as 5-star, so the official paperwork will say five stars across the board. We publish the Western equivalent next to it because the two scales are not the same thing, and we would rather you knew before you booked than after you arrived. Guiding, transfers, entrance fees and the itinerary are identical in both tiers — the difference is where you sleep and which ship you sail on. If you want the international 5-star benchmark, our Egypt luxury tours use ultra deluxe and luxury-category properties instead. We confirm the exact hotel and ship before you pay.

Many do. On eight days you can take a four-night cruise ship between Luxor and Aswan, a Dahabiya sailboat, a felucca, or a Lake Nasser cruise south of the High Dam. Routes without a cruise use flights or road transfers instead, which buys more time on land.

Lake Nasser is the reservoir behind the High Dam, and it holds the Nubian temples that were moved when the lake was created — Kalabsha, Wadi es-Seboua, Amada and Abu Simbel itself. A Lake Nasser cruise reaches them from the water, arriving at sites that see a fraction of the visitors the Nile Valley does. It is a genuinely different trip from a Luxor–Aswan cruise, and eight days is the shortest itinerary that fits it properly.

Cairo plus a Nile cruise. It covers the Pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum, Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae, which is the great majority of what people come to Egypt for, and you unpack once on the boat. Keep Lake Nasser, Abydos and the White Desert for a second trip.

Yes, on every itinerary that includes Cairo. Entrance fees and your Egyptologist guide are included. GEM is the largest archaeological museum in the world and now holds the complete Tutankhamun collection, so we allow half a day rather than the rushed hour many operators schedule.

Small group by default, private on request. Standard departures are capped at sixteen travelers, well below the forty-plus coach tours common in Egypt. Any itinerary on this page can also be booked privately, with your own guide, driver and vehicle and start times you choose, for an additional charge.

Generally yes, with two things worth knowing. A cruise-based route suits both groups best, because you unpack once and the boat moves while you rest. The desert and Middle Egypt routes involve long drives and rough ground, and suit them less well. Tell us the ages in your party and any mobility needs before you book, and we will tell you honestly which routes will work.

October to April, when daytime temperatures in Luxor and Aswan are comfortable for a full day outdoors. May and September work with early starts. June to August is genuinely hot in the Nile Valley and in the desert, and a Red Sea route or an early-morning schedule will serve you much better than a full land itinerary.

Yes. Swap a cruise ship for a Dahabiya, add Abu Simbel, upgrade the hotels, extend to nine or ten days, or combine two of the routes above. Tell us how you want the week to feel and we will build it rather than fitting you into a fixed package.