What a Private Egypt Tour Includes

On our private Egypt tours, only your own party travels with the Egyptologist and the driver. Each tour includes the private guide, the private air-conditioned vehicle, entrance fees for every site in the itinerary, bottled water, service charges and taxes, and the hotel and boat nights as listed. Tips, optional tours, personal spending and international flights are extra.

Key Takeaways

All sightseeing is a private guided tour, with a guide speaking English, Portuguese, German or Spanish.
Transfers run in a private, air-conditioned deluxe vehicle, and a representative meets you at the airport with a name sign at passport control.
Hotel nights come with daily breakfast; nights on the Nile boat are full board.
Not included on the private tours: tips, optional tours, personal spending and international flights.
Four private itineraries run from eight to eleven days, with a Nile boat, a Red Sea stay or a dahabiya.

The four private tours side by side

Tour	Length	Nights	Ends with
8 Days Egypt Private Tour Package	Eight days	Three in Cairo, four on a five-star boat from Luxor to Aswan	Back to Cairo, then departure
8 Days Private Egypt Trip	Eight days	Four in Cairo, three on a deluxe boat from Aswan to Luxor	A free last day in Cairo
10 Day Private Egypt Tour with Red Sea	Ten days	Three in Cairo, three on a five-star boat, three all-inclusive in Hurghada	Two free days in Hurghada, then Cairo
11 Days Private Guided Egypt Tour with Dahabiya	Eleven days	Four in Cairo, two in Luxor, four on a dahabiya from Esna to Aswan	The Grand Egyptian Museum and the Citadel of Saladin

What a private day looks like

Day two of the 8 Days Egypt Private Tour Package shows the pattern. Your private Egyptologist takes you to the Great Pyramid of Khufu and the pyramids of Chephren and Mykerinos, then the Sphinx. A short camel ride into the desert is included, and the afternoon goes to the Egyptian Museum, with an Egyptian lunch at a local restaurant in between. On day three you are met at the airport in Luxor and taken straight to the boat, and Karnak and Luxor Temple fill the afternoon.

On the dahabiya trip the private guide follows a slower river schedule. A horse-drawn carriage takes you to the Temple of Horus at Edfu, a guided walk at Wadi El Shat covers villages, palm groves and desert paths with no monuments at all, and Gebel El Silsila shows the sandstone quarries that supplied stone for half the temples in Upper Egypt. Dinner is served under the stars near Maniha, and the last morning is at Daraw, which holds a camel market.

What is included

People: a private tour guide, meet and assist by our representatives at the airports, and guest relations assistance throughout your stay.
Vehicle: all transfers in a private, air-conditioned deluxe vehicle.
Sightseeing: every visit is a private guided tour, with the entrance fee for every site in the itinerary paid.
Beds and meals: breakfast with each hotel night, full board on the boat, and the meals listed in the itinerary in good-quality restaurants.
Small items: bottled water on the tours, with service charges and taxes already in the price.

What is not included

Tips for guides, drivers and staff, any optional tours, personal spending and international flights are not part of the tour. The 10 Day Private Egypt Tour with Red Sea also lists anything not shown in the itinerary as extra.

Choosing between them

Classic Cairo and Nile in eight days: the 8 Days Egypt Private Tour Package if you want to start in Luxor and finish in Aswan, the 8 Days Private Egypt Trip if you prefer to sail towards Luxor and keep a free last day in Cairo.
A beach at the end: the 10 Day Private Egypt Tour with Red Sea, which keeps the same Egyptologist throughout.
A quieter river: the 11 Days Private Guided Egypt Tour with Dahabiya, whose dahabiya stops at Edfu, Wadi El Shat, Gebel El Silsila, Kom Ombo, Maniha, Daraw and the Nubian village at Koubania.
Cairo only: the 5 Days Luxury Private Tour Egypt, five days with private guides around Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the royal mummies, the Citadel and Old Cairo.

For an hour on the water in the capital, the Private Felucca Ride gives you the boat to yourselves. All private itineraries sit under Egypt private tours.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is in the vehicle with us? Only your own party, the driver and the guide.

Which languages does the guide speak? English, Portuguese, German or Spanish, as listed on each page.

Are entrance fees included? Yes, for every site in the itinerary.

Are meals included? Breakfast with the hotel nights, full board on the boat, and the meals listed in the itinerary.

What is not included? Tips, optional tours, personal spending and international flights.