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5-Day Private Egypt Tour package by Flights

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Cairo, Egypt

5 days (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
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Offered in: English

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Overview

What's Included

Air tickets from Luxor to Cairo
Air tickets from Aswan to Cairo
Flight tickets
Sunrise VIP hot air balloon ride
Private transportation
Door to Door Transfers from and to your Hotel
handling fees
Professional licensed Driver
Air-conditioned vehicle
All taxes and service charges
Cruise accommodation
Professional Private Egyptologist -speaking guide

Gratuities ( Optional)
Entrance fees

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Operating hours
.9:00 am

Itinerary

Day 1

Day 1: Giza pyramids & Sphinx & Travel to Luxor

4 Stops

Giza

4 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Grand Egyptian Museum

3 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Cairo

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Luxor

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Not included

Day 2

Day 2: Hot Air Balloon & West bank & Karnak temple & Ship accommodation

6 Stops

Hot Air Balloons Luxor

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Valley of the Kings

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

Temple of Hatshepsut

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Colossi of Memnon

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

The Karnak Temple

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

Luxor

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Not included

Day 3

Day 3: Edfu and Kom ombo temples

2 Stops

Edfu Temple

2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Kom Ombo Temple

2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Not included

Day 4

Day 4: Check out & Abu Simbel & Travel to Cairo

3 Stops

Abu Simbel

8 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Aswan

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Cairo

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Not included

Day 5

Day 5: Alexandria tour

5 Stops

Kom Ad Dikah

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Catacombs Of Kom El Shoqafa

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Kayetbai

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

Cairo

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Accommodation: Not included

Meals: Not included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation

Infant seats available
Most travelers can participate
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.6

based on 56 reviews

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Fun and Chaotic Week in Egypt

Christopher_C, Jan 2026

This tour was probably the most chaotic tour we have ever booked. That said, everything worked out and feel that overall it was a great value and not disappointed in what we got to see. I would recommend this trip to others, but it would come with some caveats. This tour was hosted through Happy Tours. Their itinerary online while somewhat detailed, did left gaps in certain areas that I looked for additional answers for. Although I sent them several messages through the website, I never received a response. It wasn’t until I found their WhatsApp contact that I was finally able get in contact with someone and even then we didn’t get very good responses to our questions, we were on the verge of cancelling the tour, but decided to just go with it. One of the questions that I had that wasn’t fully answered until we were on the trip was if the hotels in Luxor and Cairo were covered as part of the trip and where we would be staying. Both are covered and apparently, they don’t book the rooms until the day before. We ended up in The Temple Hotel in Luxor and the Three Pyramids Boutique Hotel in Giza. Both hotels were nice. I do know there were some from our tour that stayed in other hotels and one group even stayed on the boat in Luxor. Once we got into the tour, the communication was much better with Happy Tours as they would provide an update the night before and provide details for the next day. There were several conflicts within the information they provided which was frustrating at times. It should be noted while this trip is listed as a “private” tour this was not the case for all of it. The first day in Cairo and the last day in Alexandria was a private tour, but the time in Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Abu Simbel is all group tours of about 20-30 people. Day 1: Our tour guide in Cairo was very nice and knowledgeable and it was overall a very good day. Our biggest disappointment was that we did not go to the Grand Egyptian Museum as advertised. We instead went to The National Museum Egyptian Civilization. While nice, we missed out on the King Tut artefacts which we were really looking forward to. Day 2: The Hot Air Ballons were FANTASTIC. We felt rushed through the Valley of the Kings but still got to see most everything. We did not have time to see any of the other tombs within the complex. We had about 30 minutes of free time at the other sites on the day. Day 3: These sites felt a little rushed as well, we had about a 30-minute intro into at each site and about 30 minutes to walk around ourselves. We felt we got to see everything, but it was rushed. Day 4: The day at Abu Simbel was nice, but the tour starts at 3:30 in the morning abord a large Coach bus to get there in time. This was nice so you could sleep for most of the trip there. After the trip to Abu Simbel, the guide told us that we could do an optional tour to the Nubian Village for lunch. We questioned if we would have time and how we would get our bags as we would have already checked out of the cruise ship. All we ever got in response was “don’t worry”. In reality, the cruise ship overnights in Aswan and the bags are held in storage after check-out. I can’t recommend the Nubian Village lunch as we paid $40 per person and all we did was have lunch, once lunch was over we were rushed out and had no time to walk through the village. Day 5: This was a great private day trip to Alexandria. We never felt rushed on this trip and the information provided was great. The biggest time waste on this tour is that admission to the sites isn’t included in the tour, which means we had to wait in a ticket line to purchase tickets at every site. This wasn’t too bad for the private tours, but for the group tours we probably wasted 25% of the time just waiting for everyone to get tickets. Would have been better for the tour company to purchase the tickets in advance and not have to wait in line on an already limited timeframe. Overall, we really enjoyed our tour and got everything we wanted out of it. The communication could have been MUCH better, but everything worked out. Based on previous reviews, we had expected the chaos and went into the tour with the plan to just go with it.

Best archeological sites visit

Christian_I, Nov 2025

Been to luxor with gerges and the service is very good and explain really well. The places choices are also very well

Personal Views

Sai_N, Oct 2025

We had a good time, but it could have been better with planning. Everything was last-minute planned. From the beginning to the end, our Tour Coordinator, Marena, was wonderful, even keeping me updated on any changes. We had wonderful tour guides in Giza (Anna), Luxor (Nelly Hazem), and Aswan & Abu Simbel (Hanni), & Alexandria, to name a few. I would recommend tour guides more than the company. With poor planning, we missed Karnak Temple and the West Bank. The Nile River cruise was good. The Luxor hot air balloon experience was wonderful & with breathtaking views.

Amazing Tour of Egypt!

Elsa_A, Jun 2025

We had an absolutely wonderful time booking with this tour company. From the beginning to the end, our Tour Coordinator Marena was wonderful, even keeping me updated on any changes. It’s a packed tour so every day get ready to do more adventure, it was enough to see Egypt in 6 days and still had time to do the Hot Air Balloon in Luxor (definitely recommend!!) It deserves five stars because everything was on time and on schedule, we had wonderful tour guides in Giza, Alexandria (Mohammed), Luxor (Essra) and Aswan (Andro) to name a few. Marena was such an excellent coordinator for such a busy schedule. The boat tour cruise from Luxor to Aswan was amazing, we enjoyed the cruise by the Nile a lot. Would definitely book with this company again!

Saved by the tour guides, Do Not Book with Nice Tours

Sam_R, Dec 2024

Okay I have a bit to say about this tour, I recommend reading this review before booking. Firstly, it was advertised as a private tour, however, 3 out of the 5 days turned out not to be private. Day 1 in Cairo was private, day 2 they sent me to Abu Simbel with a group (which is mentioned in the description so that is fine) and then they also sent me to Kom Ombo with a group when this should have been a private tour. Day 3 they sent my to Edfu temple with a group when it should have been private. Day 4 in Luxor was private but day 5 in Alexandria I got grouped with a family of 5 with 3 young kids when I should have been on a private tour. I then had to walk around Alexandria with this family and have lunch with them, I felt like I was a teacher on a primary school trip rather than a tourist on an expensive private tour. When I messaged my contact from Nice Tours with my issues they proceeded to try and tell me everything they did extra for me to try and make up for the fact that it wasn't private instead of taking my complaints seriously, and the extras they did, like a free lunch in Alexandria, I would have preferred to not have as I had to sit down with this family that I didn't want to be with, and paid more money to not be with, and have a lunch with them. They also tried lying to me, when I brought up the fact that it wasn't private, they tried telling me that private meant I will be with a small group from Nice Tours, I had to send them screenshots of what private tour actually meant. I had to threaten them with taking this further as the tour was false advertisement before they did anything to make up for it, it shouldn't have had to get so far that they think I might take them to court before they try to resolve the issues. The tour guides I had were all brilliant, especially Anna from Cairo and Christine from Luxor, they were the only thing stopping this from being a 1 star tour. At the Valley of the Kings the tour company charge you 10USD per person for any extra tomb you wish to see outside of the 3 tombs assigned, their reason is the wait time for the tour guide. A tomb takes maybe 10 minutes to see so 10USD for the wait time is absurd. I spoke to a couple who wanted to see 2 extra tombs so they had to pay 40USD for about 20 minutes longer on the tour. They also book the flights for late at night but make the days activities finish early so I had 2 choices, pay Nice Tours more money to do something else or wait in the airport for 8 hours, everything they did throughout the week was a way to make more money off their client, I would strongly suggest finding a different company to book your tour with. I travel the world for a living and I can honestly say that Nice Tours is the worst company that I have had a tour with. Do yourselves a favour and find a different company that can provide you with a similar tour. I am not writing this out of emotion, the hot air balloon got cancelled the night before, but I understand that that wasn't the fault of the tour company, but the poor customer service, the lying, the grouping up of many people on a private tour, the poor quality of the tour in general, that is the fault of the tour company and it is unacceptable.

Personal Impressions (from a Japanese perspective)

HIROMI_K, Sep 2025

A week before the tour started, my Marena contacted me on WhatsApp. They also sent me a PDF round-trip e-ticket for the domestic flight, giving me the exact location of the pickup on day 1 and the drop-off on day 5, so I could leave Japan with great peace of mind. Hadeer, our guide on the first day of the tour, took a lot of pictures and was very happy with the careful explanation. Thank you for making time for our free time until we're done. The day-use hotel was also good. The second day was the worst. The guides were especially bad. In the first guide, we will discuss Front desk meeting at 4.55am - Balloon - Breakfast - Depart at 9am - Valley of the Kings - Hatshepsut - Temple of Karnak - Cruise ship embarkation It was. But in the end, it was about an hour later that our guide came to get us on the balloon, and then we went back to the hotel, as we had promised, and we were waiting at the hotel at 9 o’clock, and the guide told us that we had left at 8 o’clock, and he said to us as if we had made a mistake. The guidance from the NIC tour, which said it was 9am and showed us WhatsApp correspondence, was grumpy and very unpleasant. In the end, he was told that he had no time anyway, and Hatshepsut could not go, and the Karnak temple was sorry to see it in a hurry. And yet, the guide told me I needed a break, and I was dropped by a souvenir shop. They demanded tips outright, and I didn't want to give them to them, but I had to give them to them because they were hostages. Cruise ship staff, the food was good. At lunch and dinner, we had beer. The third day's guide didn't seem to require any tips, so I only gave them to the driver. On the fourth day, we visited the Temple of Absimbel. I got a call from the 4am meeting and the evening before via WhatsApp saying it was 3.45am after bedtime, but I was glad I had waited since 4pm without noticing. Because it was 5:15 when the guide picked us up!!! For your information, the settlement details of cruise ships are shown below. Drinks (Menu table shows beer @ £195 * 5 bottles + water @ £55 * 4 bottles) Tips @ £800 *2 days + £100 porter I paid in US$70 cash. Credit cards were not accepted. The bus to the Temple of Absimbel was full and the seats and seat pitch were small and exhausting. It was very helpful to have a day-use hotel in Aswan. It was extremely hot, so we could relax until the flight time. After that it was extremely comfortable. The airport pick-up driver waited for us 10 minutes in advance, which allowed us to have a slow dinner at Aswan airport. The pick-up and drop-off car attendant from Cairo airport sent me detailed WhatsApp messages from my time in Aswan. It was nice to see the pyramids again at the hotel where you can see them from the rooftop. The fifth day was also great. The drivers were good, and our guide, Engy Saeid, who joined us from Alexandria, was professional and easy to listen to in English, and we were very happy with the restaurant, which had a view of the Mediterranean Sea. Here are the tips we gave you for reference. Guide → Basically unnecessary (Day 2 Guide £200) Driver → USD 5 long distance, half day, £100 short distance Edfu carriage (£210 return three-seater) Room cleaning £20 Toilet £10 In summary: Operator Marena, guides outside of the second day, drivers, inside of individual tours → 5 stars No appointment until the evening before -> minus 1 star Day 2 Operation Error and Day 2 Guide → minus 1 star That's why I made it three stars. Also, information that I wish I had participated and knew beforehand. The guides are different every day, meeting and disbanding at tourist spots, and the driver only comes to the hotel entrance, so you check in at the hotel yourself. There were no convenience stores or supermarkets around the hotel, so it is a good idea to buy water when you can and take a few Japanese meals with you. WhatsApp and internet access from Japan is essential. They ask for tips so much, £10.20 mandatory Cash withdrawals with Y's Card have cost 1,000 yen, by ATM. (Some were 0 yen) Entrance fee is card only. Overall, it was fun.

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Tour guides are very cheerful and easy to talk to. Your English...

Takayuki_S, Sep 2025

Tour guides are very cheerful and easy to talk to. It was very helpful for me to explain it in a way that was easy for me to understand even though I didn't speak much English. I had a wonderful time thanks to you. I'd like to be on her tour again.

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Très beau voyage organisé...

Georges_C, May 2025

Très beau voyage organisé par Nice Tours. Le programme a été complètement remanié avant notre départ mais la communication est bonne (via WhatsApp) et l'organisation a été optimisée. Les nombreux guides anglophones que nous avons eu sont très commerciaux et très professionnels. Les sites visités sont somptueux. Le bateau option croisière de luxe vaut vraiment la peine. Je recommande vivement cette formule de voyage. Ps: achetez néanmoins par vous même vos billets plutot que de prendre le forfait à 145 dollars par personne. Nous avons été à 70% dans un tour privé et à 30% avec d'autres personnes. Ceci n'est pas gênant. Globalement, nous sommes ravis.