Round Trip Nile Cruise and Pyramids
Give yourself the sort of holiday you deserved with our Round Trip Nile Cruise and Pyramids package. Explore attractions of Cairo and cruise the Nile in 10 days in one of Egypt tours. Enjoy a unique round trip and sailing experience on board MS Mayfair Nile Cruise between Luxor and Aswan for 6 nights visiting Karnak Temple, Philae Temple and many more. See the spectacular Pyramids in Cairo during this 10-day package tour in Egypt.
- Meet and greet service by our representatives at airports
- Assistance of our guest relations during your stay
- All transfers to/from airport & hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle.
- Accommodation for 3 nights in Cairo including daily breakfast.
- Accommodation for 6 nights onboard Nile Cruise on full board basis
- Domestic flight Cairo/Luxor – Luxor/Cairo
- All sightseeing tours in Cairo are private guided tours.
- All sightseeing tours on the cruise sharing cruise group
- Entrance fees to all sites as indicated on the itinerary.
- English-speaking tour guide during your tours
- Meals at hotel, cruise and during tours as mentioned in the itinerary
- Bottled water during outings outside of hotel or cruise ship.
- All service charges and taxes
- International Airfare
- Entry visa to Egypt
- Any optional tours
- Personal spending
- Tipping
Day 1: Welcome to Egypt
Your tour manager will meet and assist you at Cairo International Airport (arrival procedures) and then he will escort you to the hotel by exclusive air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. At the hotel, the tour manager will assist with a smooth check-in and review your holiday itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for each tour.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 2: Pyramid and GEM
After enjoying a delicious wholesome breakfast at your hotel, your personal guide will take you to the Giza Plateau to start your journey by marveling at one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramids of Giza. Visit the iconic Sphinx and Valley Temple. After your pyramid visit, you’ll go for lunch at an authentic Egyptian restaurant and then head over to the New Grand Egyptian Museum, also known as the Giza Museum, which is an archaeological museum in Giza, Egypt, about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Giza pyramid complex. The GEM Complex is now offering limited access to test site readiness and the visitor experience ahead of the official opening. Admission is currently limited to the Main Galleries, Grand Hall, Grand Staircase, commercial area, and exterior gardens. Return back to your hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
Visits: Great Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Valley Temple, Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).
Day 3: Fly to Luxor - Nile Cruise Round Trip
Check out from hotel in the early morning then transfer to Cairo Airport for your flight to Luxor where you will be met and assisted, then transferred by an air-conditioned deluxe vehicle to embark your Nile Cruise. Have your lunch on board while sailing. Free time at leisure with afternoon tea on board the cruise ship. Dinner on board.
Overnight aboard your cruise in Esna.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 4: Edfu Temple - Sail to Kom Ombo
Breakfast on board while sailing to Edfu at the morning, then have a visit to Horus Temple in Edfu, the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. Back to the Nile cruise boat to continue sailing to Kom Ombo. Lunch on board with afternoon tea and Free time at leisure. Dinner on board with enjoying Egyptian Galabya party.
Overnight aboard your cruise in Kom Ombo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Visits: Horus Temple, Kom Ombo.
Day 5: Aswan Nile Cruise Tours
Early sail to Aswan while enjoying your Breakfast on board. Then, you will be picked up to enjoy a day tour to the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae. Head back to your cruise where Lunch will be served on board. End the night with a delicious dinner on board with a belly dance show and Egyptian folkloric show.
Overnight aboard your cruise in Aswan.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Visits: Granite Quarries, Temple of Philae.
Day 6: Aswan to Abu Simbel Optional Tour
Breakfast on board your Nile cruise with free time at leisure in Aswan, or enjoy an optional tour to Abu Simbel Temples. It takes about 3 hours driving from Aswan to Abu Simbel by a private air-conditioned vehicle. Arrive to Abu Simbel, see the impressive Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, which is dedicated to the four universal gods Ptah, Re-Harakhte, Amun-Re, and to Ramesses II. Then return to your Nile Cruise in Aswan. Free time at leisure, then have your dinner on board and enjoy a Nubian Show.
Overnight aboard your cruise in Aswan.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Visits: Aswan, Optional tour to Abu Simbel Temple.
* Optional Group tour by Coach to Abu Simbel Temples for an extra $120USD
Day 7: Sail to Kom Ombo Temple - Sail to Esna
Sail to Kom Ombo while having your breakfast on board, then enjoy a guided visit to the Temple shared by two gods Sobek and Haeroris in Kom Ombo. Back to the Nile Cruise to set sail to Edfu with lunch on board. Continue sailing to Esna, with afternoon tea on board. Dinner on board in Esna.
Overnight aboard your cruise in Esna.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Visits: Kom Ombo Temple.
Day 8: Luxor Nile Cruise Excursions
Overnight aboard your cruise in Luxor.
Day 9: Luxor Nile Cruise - Back to Cairo
Breakfast on board, then disembark your Nile cruise in Luxor and enjoy a guided tour to the East Bank of Luxor, visit the magnificent Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple. Lunch will be served in a good quality restaurant in Luxor. Later on, you will be transferred to Luxor Airport for your flight back to Cairo, where you will be met and assisted at the airport then escorted to your hotel nearby Cairo Airport.
Overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
Visits: Karnak Temple, Luxor Temple.
Day 10: Cairo - Fly Back Home
Breakfast at the hotel with free time at your leisure, then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.
Meals: Breakfast.
Highly recommend Memphis Tours. They made my trip to Egypt an unforgettable one!
I went to Egypt with my family this month, October, and we had an amazing experience. We loved the trip, Memphis tours did did an excellent job in organizing all tours, pick ups, hotel, food. We strongly recommend it!
The trip was a 7-day Nile cruise Luxor to Aswan and back, plus two days in Cairo. Our tour guide was a very competent and very kind guide. Everything was fine, and I find Memphis Tours a highly reliable organization.
My friends and I had the most fabulous experience in Cairo and in Luxor. Our guides Kadria in Cairo and Nabil in Luxor were excellent! My sincere thanks to them for making our trip to Egypt a memorable one. I would recommend Memphis tours to anyone wanting to be treated royally and who wants to learn as much as they can from friendly knowledgeable tour guides.
Wonderful tour!
Memphis Tours of Egypt's staff are great. Our guide was so fabulous, we still talk about her. The staff were organized, knew where we had to be and when, and prepared us for every variable. They treated us like we were the most important people in the world.
We booked last minute to go to Egypt(April 2nd wk,2012)..Memphis tour were flexible and catered to our needs. We were picked up from the airport cheerfully by Mr Usama, but the van had strong diesel fumes...next day they gave us a clean van.
The tour guide was nice, but it is very difficult to understand the accent and are not at all indepth(you better do your homework before you arrive). You want to watch your belongings carefully as my binoculars and polarizing lens were stolen.
We went to Abu Simbel, than 4d river cruise(Yasser, the guide was good) and back to Cairo.
It was a memorable trip, have to adjust to 3rd world conditions, vehicles etc and not expect the same as in US.
On the whole, Memphis tour made it possible, affordable and enjoyable to visit Egypt..thanks to the staff and managers
Visited April 2012
I would personally like to thank Yahia (Luxor), Momin (Cairo & Alexandria) and Mohammad (Cairo) for their hospitality.
I really enjoyed my Egypt travel with Memphis tour: very professional and knowledgeable on subject. It was nearly perfect except few minor issues I encountered. Below are the lists of goods and bads.
Good.
- Bassem was my email contact from America. He was very qiuck to answer all my questions with detail before and after my trip. Because of his response, I was able to establish good impresson on Memphis tour even before my trip to Egypt.
- Mostafa was my Cairo guide. He was very knowledgeable. I learned a lot about Egyptian culture and history.
- Ahmed was driver in Cairo. He was very courteous and pleasant.
- Sayed Selim was my Guide from Luxor - Aswan Nile Cruise. Very knowledgeable and humourous. I really enjoyed his company. Nile cruise is my highlight of Egypt Travel. All thanks to Sayed Selim
- In Aswan, I met this respresentative ( I didn't have chance to get his name). He is the one picked me up from Cruise to Airport. He mentioned he actually lives in Cairo. He was very professional. It was short moment, but I was really impressed with his professionalism.
- I got sick and had to cancelled my trip in last minute (It was optional one. that Memphis tour already processed the payment). I was suprised to get full refund without any argument. I didn't even have to mention anything. They just refund the whole amount. Also Sayed ( I belive he is manager) in Cairo called me to see how I was doing and asked if I wanted to see the doctor. I felt comfort by his concern. Thank you.
Bad
- There are two incidents, guide and representative were show up late in Cairo. They were late for 10 minutes and 20 minutes. They said they were sorry and explained the reason for being late. I understood the situation and accepted the apology. But regardless what it was, I think it is not professional.
- Tipping was bothering me a lot. I don't mind tipping. But without clear guidance, I was confused and worried. Well it is part my fault not searched those information prevousely, but I think it is better to give clear guidance. I ended up tipping driverss, representatives and guides. On top of that I think I felt dramatic attitude change from a representative before and after tipping (I can be wrong about this)
- I heard two persons mentioned bad things about guests from the particular country. I am pretty sure, there were reasons. But it wasn't pleasant to hear and made me wonder that I can be the one next time.
Over all it was very impressive experiance with Memphis Tour. Thank you all.
Visited October 2011
Visited October 2011
My wife and i decided to take a cruise up the Nile River from Luxor to Aswan and they fly to Cairo from there. The experience with Memphis tours was hands down the best tour experience we have ever had. (We've been on alot of tours by the way) They met us at the airport when we landed into Cairo and they took us to our lovely hotel - all the tours for the day were arranged with a private tour guide and air conditioned vehicle. The following day we boarded our cruise boat which was gorgeous. A real wonderful experience! Once again we had a private tour guide named Ahmed who was with us the whole way and i have to stay that if you go on this cruise - MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR AHMED TO BE YOUR TOUR GUIDE!!! He truly is the epitome of what a tour guide should be. His knowledge and the quality of his leading through the temples & sites is second to none. Other tourists were jealous of us because we had such a great tour guide. I think the only downside of our experience in Egypt is firstly, it is very dirty everywhere. There is alot of garbage thrown on the streets and even around the Pyramids so be prepared and secondly is the constant haggling and tipping. Be prepared with local currency (never tip more than 20 Egyptian Pounds). They will ask you to tip for everything and i mean absolutely everything! Even if you look at a local they will ask you to tip them. Its outrageous! Overall, in light of all the security issues, Memphis tours enables to forget about all that and simply enjoy the wonderful experience that is Egypt.
Visited October 2011
Many tourists seem to be a little unsure about using local - in this case Egyptian - travel agencies and prefer to consult those in their home country. Well, I chose 'Memphis Tours' in Cairo, as I had heard about them on previous trips to Egypt and must say, that the speed, efficiency, patience and friendliness with which my wishes were put into an itinerary by Bassem, amazed me. Never have I had such smooth holiday preparations.
Brigitte J.
England
Visited July 2011
Memphis Tours is an exceptional company providing many wonderful tours. Please consider them for your travel needs. My contact Mr. Fayex was extremely helpful and experienced. Do not hesitate to cont him or Memphis Tours for your next vacation.
Visited May 2011
We wanted an individual tour and only found memphis tours to organise it for us.
There were no problems at all, the timing was always perfect, the hotels booked were good and we felt treated as friends (our tour guide's wife made lunch for us, we could chat with one another, etc.).
Spontaneous changes were no problem for the travel agency.
Our guide, Mr Ahmed Nasser and our tour leader, Mustafa Osman were very kind and professional. They made sure we felt well all the time and we cannot complain about anything.
The next time, we will certainly book this agency again!
Visited April 2011
We decided to book a 10 day guided trip (from 12/19 - 12/29) which included a 4 night cruise from Aswan to Luxor, plus private guided tours and time in Cairo. We really knew very little about an Egypt Tour (what were the best hotels, cruise line, itinerary) other than wanting to see the pyramids. We took a chance and put ourselves in the hands of Mohamed Mokhtar, our contact with Memphis tours. He set up a planned itinerary which used Sonnesta Cruise Lines and The Marriott Cairo Hotel. I can't tell you how happy we were with both choices. We were on Sonnesta's Moon Godess ship, which had all balcony rooms, very nicely furnished, with the best of service. I did have my reservations about the Marriott, but it really did turn out to be a 5 star hotel and was located in one of the few areas of Cairo where my wife and daughters could go out for a walk on their own and feel totally comfortable and safe.
All of Mohamed Mokhtar choices were excellent. However, as nice as the accommodations were, the trip comes down to being as good as the tour guides are. In this case, I feel we lucked out both times. In Cairo and at all the stops on the cruise. The guides were very knowledgeable, professional and quite friendly.
We truly left Egypt with an understanding of their history and more importantly, finding out how nice the Egyptians are today!!!