Worth it
You can't expect everything to be perfect but the toilet on the bus was to wean off. Especially if, among other things, you advertise it. Otherwise, the trip was well organized, even the German guide was great.
LilliFee17 · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă
If in Egypt you have to see the pyramids… but a very long day with children and not always child friendly
We really enjoyed our trip to the Giza pyramids. It is a very long day, we left our hotel at 2.30am from Harghada. We found our tour guide, Jimmy, to be extremely friendly and informative. Our first stop was viewing a church & a mosque. We then carried on to the museum. This is where Jimmy’s knowledge really shone & we left having felt we had learnt a lot. We also saw the Tutankahmun head dress and sarcophagus; which is amazing!
The Nile trip was an additional charge, but Jimmy did us a great deal and only charged for 4 persons instead of 5. Well worth adding to your trip.
Lunch was a buffet option, with grilled meat brought to the table. Drinks were an additional charge. The food was really tasty.
We had a little bit of time before heading to the pyramids so Jimmy took us to a perfumery, to learn how the pharaoh’s used scents & the opportunity to smell & purchase (no pressure) Really hospitable, were offered a drink & the prices were reasonable.
We then hopped back onto the bus & headed to the pyramids. Again, we were given the option to add camel riding to our experience, we declined the offer as we already have another excursion booked, but again, a really reasonable price & no pressure to do it.
Be careful at the pyramids as kind acts are not free; showing you how to tie your headscarf is quickly followed by let me take your photos (for a fee of course). The pictures taken will make a nice keep sake though, just be warned they drive a steep price.
A lot of market stalls at the pyramids selling headscarf’s, ornaments etc, again Jimmy helped enable a deal to get a very reasonable rate on some lovely scarfs.
Back in the bus and a short drive to see the sphinx and chance to take some pictures before heading off to the papyrus institute. I have been here before and my children were tired so we didn’t go in but from memory it is very interesting and again a chance to buy traditional scrolls (without pressure)
Back on the coach for the hotel bound leg of the journey again another 5/6 hours, so home by around 11pm. So in summary an enjoyable excursion albeit a long day. I would have personally preferred not to have done the church or mosque and had more time at the.museum or to add the museum of culture; as I don’t feel this was truly relevant to the theme of the trip and meant we had less time at the main attractions.
Thank you Jimmy for being a brilliant guide
Happiness63289252480 · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor
Amazing Day
This tour is really long but it is definitely worth it. We had an amazing day with Ahmed Rabea. It was only a small group- 6 of us which was great! The guide was really helpful and caring. He offered to take pictures of us and he had some patience doing so- thanks so much! The food was so good! My partner said that was the best chicken he ever had ha-ha
The drive is long but drivers were very good too and made sure we stopped enough times.
Everything was really good and would definitely regret if we didn’t do this tour!
We visited perfume shop and the person working there was very helpful. We also visited papyrus shop and the lady working in the shop was so amazing and helpful!
Only 2 small things: we never got to ride the camel- maybe due to time pressure. Not a big deal but it would be nice if we did
And a small tip for Ahmed- maybe break the day with some “fun fact” or a joke as it is a lot of people information to take in and easy to get confused between all the names and years. You could tell how knowledgeable Ahmed is but sometimes it is difficult to follow. Nothing negative, just an advice
Overall, amazing experience! Thank you Ahmed!
Marina T · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor
Pyramids
The trip from Hurghada to Cairo to the pyramids by bus was a great experience for the whole family and very well organized. The bus ride is long, yet you could sleep reasonably. The Egyptian Museum is very interesting and lunch was very delicious. The highlight was of course the pyramids including camel ride.
We made the trip with a total of 5 children aged 5 to 8 years and did not regret it.
claudiasH7995AQ · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă
Nice tour of Cairo.
Very nice German speaking tour guide. Everything was well explained and pointed to traps at the sights.
T5024JZpeterg · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă
Super nice tour
Super nice tour with nice tour guides.
Everything was explained in German and the little children were also taken into consideration.
Lunch was such very good.
petersJ2176SH · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă
Can do better
The Egyptian driving is very special, not enough space on the bus, it is very long, there is too much to visit that you hardly take the time to really visit, you have to be there for several days!
They prefer armored bus than think about the comfort of passengers who suffer.
However our French guide of the day explained very well
Guide41079327791 · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă
Very nice excursion with pyramids, sphinx and museum
All in all really a successful trip, our guide was also very nice and explained everything well. Food was quite oke, the pyramids and the sphinx were very cool.
Levi S · oct. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă
Once in a lifetime experience.
We had a great trip, everything about this trip was amazing from the tour guides Hanan and all her team a massive thank you to them for making the experience as amazing as possible. Would also massively recommend doing all the activities they offer you, especially the camel riding + the river Nile trip!! It was definitely a long day but would 100% recommend it to anyone :)
Explorer67507747930 · sept. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor
Cairo by bus a disaster
The foreign guide on the bus was unpleasant, not informing us of anything during the whole trip that lasted longer than expected we left at 1h and we returned at 1h ( 24 hours in a bus not comfortable the seats were glued together for legs it was terrible and visits accelerated. I do not recommend at all
laurence G · sept. 2025 · prin Tripadvisor · Tradusă