The 4 day Cairo and Luxor tour package from Egypt Best Vacations puts Egypt’s two greatest cities into one private short break — just you, your companions and your own licensed Egyptologist guide — with domestic flights, 5-star hotels and all entrance fees included, from $790 per person. Departures run every day from Cairo, so it fits any long weekend or a stopover of three nights.
Day 2 belongs to Giza: the Great Pyramid, the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, the Sphinx, and the Grand Egyptian Museum with the complete Tutankhamun collection. Day 3 is a return flight to Luxor for the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut, Karnak and Luxor Temple. Day 4, before your flight home, is the Cairo most short itineraries skip: the Citadel of Saladin, the churches of Coptic Cairo and Khan el-Khalili bazaar — so you leave having seen pharaonic, Christian and Islamic Egypt in a single trip.
Egypt Best Vacations is a licensed Egyptian tour operator and winner of the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award in 2024, 2025 and 2026. Choose the Gold tier (5-star standard hotel) or the Platinum tier (5-star deluxe), in triple, twin/double or single rooms. Travelling over the Easter holidays? This route runs then as the 4 day Cairo and Luxor Easter tour.
Four days is the minimum for Cairo and Luxor done properly, and this 4 day Cairo and Luxor tour package is built so that none of those days is wasted on the road.
Your Egypt Best Vacations representative meets you inside the arrivals terminal at Cairo International Airport, holding a signboard, and assists with your visa and passport formalities before your private transfer to your 5-star hotel. Check-in is handled for you. The evening is free — rest after the flight, or ask us for dinner recommendations nearby.
Overnight in Cairo.
Meals Plan: No Meals Included
Your Egyptologist guide meets you in the hotel lobby after breakfast and takes you to the Giza Plateau, where the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure have stood for some 4,500 years. Beneath the Great Pyramid — the only ancient Wonder still standing — you learn how it was built and what lies inside (entry to the interior is optional), then walk down to the Great Sphinx, carved from a single outcrop of limestone. After lunch at a local restaurant, continue to the Grand Egyptian Museum beside the plateau, the largest museum in the world devoted to a single civilisation. Its galleries hold the complete Tutankhamun collection, displayed together for the first time, beneath the colossal statue of Ramesses II in the atrium. Return to your hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Meals Plan: Breakfast & Lunch
An early transfer to Cairo Airport for the one-hour flight to Luxor, where your guide meets you and crosses to the West Bank. In the Valley of the Kings, the New Kingdom pharaohs cut their tombs deep into the limestone to hide them from robbers; your ticket includes three of the open tombs, with Tutankhamun’s tomb and the tombs of Seti I and Ramesses V/VI available as extras. Continue to the terraced Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut began as regent for Thutmose III and went on to rule as a crowned king in full pharaonic regalia — with his regnal years still running alongside hers. Stop at the Colossi of Memnon, the two seated statues of Amenhotep III, then cross to the East Bank for lunch.
In the afternoon, walk the avenue of ram-headed sphinxes into Karnak — the largest temple complex in ancient Egypt, covering around 100 hectares — and end at Luxor Temple, joined to Karnak by the three-kilometre Avenue of Sphinxes. Transfer to Luxor Airport for the evening flight back to Cairo and your hotel.
Overnight in Cairo
Meals Plan: Breakfast & Lunch
After breakfast, check out and drive to the Citadel of Saladin, founded in 1176 to defend Cairo against the Crusaders, and the Alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali that crowns it, with views across the city to the pyramids on a clear morning. Continue to Coptic Cairo, inside the walls of the Roman fortress of Babylon: the Hanging Church, built over the fortress gate; the Church of Abu Serga (Saints Sergius and Bacchus), where tradition holds the Holy Family sheltered in the crypt; and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where the Cairo Geniza manuscripts were found.
Finish at Khan el-Khalili, Cairo’s great bazaar since the 14th century, for spices, silver, lanterns and a coffee at Fishawi’s. Private transfer to Cairo International Airport for your departure.
Meals Plan: Breakfast Only
The 4 day Cairo and Luxor tour is the shortest way to see the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, from $790 per person. Add one day (from $1,015) to include Aswan and Abu Simbel, or choose 6 or 8 days (from $1,075) to add a 3 night Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor.
| 4 Day Cairo & Luxor (this tour) |
5 Day Cairo, Luxor & Aswan | 6 Day Cairo & Nile Cruise | 8 Day Egypt Tour with Nile Cruise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 4 days / 3 nights | 5 days / 4 nights | 6 days / 5 nights | 8 days / 7 nights |
| Departs | Every day | Every day | Sun, Tue & Thu | Every day |
| Tour type | Private | Private | Private | Small group (max 16) |
| From | $790 | $1,015 | $1,075 | $1,275 |
| Places | Cairo and Luxor | Cairo, Aswan and Luxor | Cairo, then Aswan to Luxor by cruise | Cairo, then Aswan to Luxor by cruise |
| Getting around | Return flight Cairo–Luxor on day 3 | 2 flights and the train from Aswan to Luxor | 2 flights and a 3 night Nile cruise | 2 flights and a 3 night Nile cruise |
| Abu Simbel | Not included | Included | Optional excursion | Not included |
| Best for | A long weekend or stopover | Pyramids, Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings in one short trip | The classic Nile cruise in under a week | A relaxed full week with a small group |
| Details | You are viewing this tour | See the 5 day tour | See the 6 day tour | See the 8 day tour |
Other versions of this trip: budget by sleeper train, private luxury, solo travelers, Christmas and Easter. See all our 4 day Egypt itineraries.
