Unfinished Obelisk Tours and Tickets - page 6

We really enjoyed this excursion.Both the unfinished obelisk and high dam are well worth visiting .Our guide Maram was excellent,explaining the facts about both places very well and we learnt a lot.Also comfortable transport and happy with our excellent driver Mohammed.Would be happy to recommend this excursion,especially if you have limited time.

Excellent trip with very knowledgeable friendly guide, Milad. Driver professional and skilled with lovely modern clean car. Milad was good at answering our questions. They were punctual picking us up. We would highly recommend this tour.

Great private tour of the high dam, philae temple and the unfinished obelisk. My guide , Mohamed , was very knowledgeable , friendly and engaging. He had all the answers to my questions ( and I had lots of 😄). I could not recommend it more especially if you’re looking for and experience where you got at your own pace without rush . Thanks Mohamed !

Overall this was a really good tour. The guide was attentive from start to finish and incredibly knowledgeable. He explained everything clearly and shared a wealth of information. The logistics were spot on too: no queuing for tickets, and a private motorboat to Philae. Honestly perfect on that front. Two things let it down, though. First, the stop at a perfume shop, which felt like a classic tourist trap. I was given a "private tour" of the shop and pressured to buy, which I never signed up for. Part of why I booked a private tour was to avoid exactly this kind of situation, not to be taken straight into one. Second, at the end the guide explicitly asked for a tip for himself and the driver. I did tip, but given the price I paid for a private tour, being directly asked felt a bit off. I'd still recommend the guide and the organization, but I'd love to see the shopping stop removed (or made optional) and tipping left to the traveler's discretion. knowledgeable. He explained everything clearly and shared a wealth of information. The logistics were spot on too: no queuing for tickets, and a private motorboat to Philae. Honestly perfect on that front. Two things let it down, though. First, the stop at a perfume shop, which felt like a classic tourist trap. I was given a "private tour" of the shop and pressured to buy, which I never signed up for. Part of why I booked a private tour was to avoid exactly this kind of situation, not to be taken straight into one. Second, at the end the guide explicitly asked for a tip for himself and the driver. I did tip, but given the price I paid for a private tour, being directly asked felt a bit off. I'd still recommend the guide and the organization, but I'd love to see the shopping stop removed and tipping left to the traveler's discretion.

Samir Gaber is an informative guide and I learned a lot about the sites I visited! I would recommend this tour if you want to visit these sites and gain a better understanding about Egyptian history.

I enjoyed this tour between the transfer time from Abu Simbel to Cairo. I was picked up at Aswan Airport and sent back. It is convenient for me to go to some of the main tourism place for a short time. But it might be kind to make clear that extra rate is needed if someone takes pick-up and drop-off service from and to the airport both. (I agree to be charged because the airport is far.)

Great tour, picked. Up from our Cruise ship on time and given a guided tour of the Top Dam at Aswan, the Philae Temple via a small boat and a visit to the Unfinished Obelisk, our Guide the lovely Mary is excellent and very knowledgable, she even stopped off at a local shop and provided us with a bottle of cold water. Fantastic value for money and highly recommended tour!

We had a nice tour. Fathy our guide was really kind and after we got picked up. We were hunger and wanted to eat something local. He took us to a local place. Didn’t allow us to pay. If you have time crunch half day tour at Aswan is good.