Seven days is the shortest trip that gets you all three sides of Egypt without feeling like a sprint: the pyramids, the tombs and temples of ancient Thebes, and a stretch of the Red Sea to finish. This Cairo Luxor Hurghada tour package does it in that order, so the beach comes when you have earned it.
Cairo first, with three nights. You’ll spend a full day on the Giza plateau — Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure and the Sphinx — and then cross to the Grand Egyptian Museum, where the complete Tutankhamun collection is displayed together for the first time since it left the tomb. Cairo’s second day waits until the end of the trip: Coptic Cairo, the Citadel of Saladin, and the lanes of Khan el-Khalili.
Then you fly to Luxor. The West Bank in the afternoon — the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut’s terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari, the Colossi of Memnon — and a night in the city. Next morning, Karnak and Luxor Temple before the road east.
Hurghada closes it out: two all-inclusive nights on the Red Sea, with a full free day in the middle for the reef, a boat, or a lounger and nothing else.
Two accommodation tiers, Gold and Platinum. Rooms in twin, single or triple — three people genuinely fit in one room on this itinerary, which is not true of our cruise packages.
Every archaeological site on this Cairo Luxor Hurghada tour package is led by a licensed Egyptologist. Egypt Best Vacations is a licensed Egyptian operator based in Luxor, and a TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice winner three years running — 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Your Egypt Best Vacations representative meets you inside the arrivals terminal at Cairo International Airport with a signboard and assists with visa and passport formalities. Private transfer to your hotel, and the rest of the day is yours to rest.
Meals Plan: No Meals Included
Your Egyptologist guide collects you from the hotel for the Giza plateau. The pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure stand in a line running south-west, built across three generations of one family, and the Great Pyramid is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. The Sphinx sits below them, carved from a single outcrop of bedrock left behind when the plateau was quarried. You’ll hear how the pyramids were built, who built them, and why the shape kept changing. Going inside the Great Pyramid is an optional extra ticket, bought on the day.
Then the Grand Egyptian Museum, two kilometres from the plateau and built in sight of it. The complete Tutankhamun collection — more than 5,000 objects — is displayed together here for the first time since it left the tomb, and the Grand Staircase carries statuary up towards a window framing the pyramids you stood under that morning. The main galleries run chronologically from the Predynastic period to the Roman era. Transfer back to your hotel.
Meals Plan: Breakfast Only
Transfer to Cairo Airport for the short flight to Luxor, where your tour guide meets you outside the terminal.
Straight across to the West Bank. The Valley of the Kings — Ta-Set-Maat to the ancient Egyptians, the Place of Truth — holds the tombs of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th Dynasties, roughly 1550 to 1069 BC. Your ticket covers three tombs, chosen from those open on the day; each one is a corridor cut hundreds of metres into the rock and painted from floor to ceiling.
Then Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir el-Bahari, three colonnaded terraces cut back into the cliff face. 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. The middle terrace carries reliefs of her trading expedition to Punt and of her divine birth.
Finish at the Colossi of Memnon, twin seated statues of Amenhotep III eighteen metres high — all that stands above ground of what was once the largest temple ever built in Egypt. Overnight in Luxor.
Meals Plan: Breakfast Only
After breakfast, Karnak: the largest religious complex ever built, around 100 hectares, worked on by roughly thirty kings across two thousand years. The Great Hypostyle Hall alone holds 134 columns, the tallest of them 21 metres. Nothing prepares you for the scale of it.
Then Luxor Temple, three kilometres downriver and connected to Karnak by an avenue of sphinxes. Built mainly by Amenhotep III and Ramesses II, it was the setting for the Opet festival, when the statues of the gods were carried here from Karnak once a year. Both temples served the Theban triad: Amun, Mut and Khonsu.
In the afternoon, the road east to Hurghada — around four hours across the Eastern Desert — for two all-inclusive nights on the Red Sea.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
A free day. The house reef, a pool, and nothing scheduled. Diving, snorkelling trips, glass-bottom boat, desert quad safari and submarine trips can all be arranged locally on request.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Transfer to Hurghada Airport for the flight to Cairo, then a transfer to your hotel for the final night. The rest of the day is free.
Meals Plan: Breakfast Only
Coptic Cairo first, in the oldest inhabited corner of the city. The Hanging Church is suspended on the bastions of the Roman fortress of Babylon and named for it; its carved wooden ceiling, built like an inverted ark, and its icons are the reason to go slowly here. Then the Church of Abu Serga — Saints Sergius and Bacchus — built above a crypt where tradition holds the Holy Family sheltered during their time in Egypt. The quarter ends at the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where the Cairo Geniza was found: a store of nearly 300,000 manuscript fragments that rewrote what historians knew about medieval Mediterranean life.
Then east into Islamic Cairo and the Citadel of Saladin, begun in 1176 to defend the city against the Crusaders and the seat of Egyptian government for almost 700 years afterwards. Inside it stands the Alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali, built between 1830 and 1848 in Ottoman style and faced in the alabaster that gives it its name — the silhouette you see on the skyline from almost anywhere in Cairo.
The tour finishes below the Citadel in Khan el-Khalili, a working market since 1382 — narrow lanes, copper, spice, glass, and coffee houses that have been in the same families for generations. Then a transfer to Cairo International Airport for your flight home.
When you want to come back — Aswan, Abu Simbel, a Nile cruise — just ask.
Meals Plan: Breakfast Only
