Trade grey skies for warm desert light. This five-day Cairo and Hurghada Christmas tour puts the Giza plateau at the start of your holiday and the Red Sea at the end of it, with a festive gala dinner in between — so you get the two things a December escape should deliver: something extraordinary to see, and somewhere warm to do nothing at all.
You begin in Cairo, standing at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza and face to face with the Sphinx that has watched over them for four and a half thousand years. Your Egyptologist guide explains not just what you are looking at but why it was built, and what it meant to the people who raised it. That afternoon you meet Tutankhamun at the Grand Egyptian Museum, then fly south to the coast.
Hurghada in late December sits at around 24°C by day — swimming weather, without the crushing heat that makes the Egyptian summer hard work. Your resort is all-inclusive, decorated for the season, and running a full festive program. You have a whole free day for the Red Sea: snorkel over the coral gardens off Giftun Island, take a glass-bottom boat out, ride into the Eastern Desert by quad, or move no further than the sunbed.
Egypt Best Vacations is a licensed Egyptian tour operator, founded and led by a working Egyptologist, and a TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice winner three years running 2024, 2025 and 2026. Flights, transfers, guides, entrance fees and your festive dinner are arranged before you land. Browse the rest of our Egypt Christmas tours if you would like to see the Nile as well.
The festive gala dinner is in the price, not on the bill. Many operators quote a Christmas package and then add a compulsory gala supplement at check-in. Yours is included in the figure you are quoted.
Two domestic flights, not an eight-hour bus. Cairo to Hurghada and back by air. The road transfer takes most of a day in each direction; you spend that time at the Red Sea instead.
An Egyptologist at the Pyramids, an all-inclusive resort at the coast. A qualified guide for the half of the trip that needs one, and no guide, no schedule and no bill at the half that doesn’t.
Your Egypt Best Vacations representative meets you inside the arrivals hall at Cairo International Airport, holding a signboard with your name, and helps you through visa and passport formalities before your private transfer to the hotel. Settle in and rest. If you land early and want to fill the evening, ask us about a sound and light show at the Pyramids or dinner on the Nile.
Meals Plan: No Meals Included
After breakfast your private Egyptologist guide collects you for the morning most travelers come to Egypt for. On the Giza plateau you will see the three great pyramids — Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure — and the Sphinx carved from the bedrock beside them. Your guide covers how they were built, who built them, and what the plateau meant as a working religious landscape rather than a row of monuments. Entering the Great Pyramid of Khufu is available as an optional extra ticket.
After lunch at a local restaurant, continue to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest archaeological museum in the world, standing within sight of the pyramids you walked around that morning. The complete Tutankhamun collection lives here — more than five thousand objects from a single tomb, the golden funerary mask among them, displayed together for the first time in history. Later, transfer to Cairo Airport for the short flight to Hurghada. Your driver meets you on arrival and takes you to your all-inclusive resort, where dinner is waiting.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today is yours. The resort runs its full festive programme — decorations, live music, a holiday menu, and children’s activities for families — and the beach is a few steps from your room. The Red Sea here is calm, clear and warm enough to swim in through December, with reef fish visible from the shallows.
If you would rather be out on the water, our Hurghada day tours include snorkelling trips to the coral gardens around Giftun Island, glass-bottom boat cruises for those who prefer to stay dry, diving for certified and first-time divers, and quad or jeep safaris into the Eastern Desert with a Bedouin dinner. Book any of these through your representative.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (all-inclusive)
Enjoy another free at the Red Sea. The Red Sea here is calm, clear and warm enough to swim in through December, with reef fish visible from the shallows.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (all-inclusive)
After breakfast, your driver takes you to Hurghada International Airport to fly back to Cairo for your departure flight. Leaving is the hard part. When you are ready for the Nile, Luxor and Aswan are waiting — see our Egypt tour packages whenever you want to come back.
Meals Plan: Breakfast Only
| Hotel Category | Triple | Twin | Single |
|---|---|---|---|
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Gold: Egyptian 5-Star Standard – Western 3.5 Star |
$1,055 | $1,150 |
$1,955 |
Cairo Hotes: Safir Cairo Hotel. Sonesta Cairo Hotel. Holiday Inn Citystars. Cairo Pyramids Hotel. Tolip Gardens Hotel. Ramses Hilton Hotel or similar category
Hurghada Hotels: Pharaoh Azur Resort. Titanic Beach Resort. Marriot Hurghada or similar category.
| Hotel Category | Triple | Twin | Single |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Platinum: Egyptian 5-Star Deluxe – Western 4 Star |
$1,200 | $1,300 |
$2,210 |
Cairo Hotels:Hilton Nile Tower Hotel. Concorde El-Salam Hotel. Hilton Cairo Heliopolis. Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel. Tolip Family Park Hotel or similar category.
Hurghada Hotels: Titanic Palace Resort. The Grand Resort. Hilton Plaza or similar category.
