Cairo and The Nile Budgeted Package

from $1125
In High Demand
Duration
Duration:
8 Days
Type
Type:
Private Tour In cairo & Group Tour onboard the Cruise
Run
Run:
Every Saturday & Wednesday
Overview

Lose yourself in your 8 days exceptional Egypt Vacation by this Cairo and Nile Cruise Package to experience the mesmerising wonders of Ancient Egypt, including Cairo’s main attractions such as Giza Pyramids, Great Sphinx and famous Egyptian Museum. Escape the busy streets of Cairo on a relaxing train journey to join a Rejuvenating, beautiful, and one of a kind  Nile cruise tour & explore the best of Egypt’s ancient sights in Nubian Aswan and Luxor including tours to Karnak Temple, Philae Temple and much more on your unparallelled Egypt Tour Holiday.

Included

What is included in your Egypt Vacation:

  • Met and assisted at Cairo airport upon arrival and departure by our Representative.
  • Expert assistance and guidance during your stay by our Personnel, including all tours mentioned.
  • All airport transfers by private deluxe A/C vehicle.
  • Accommodation for 2 nights at Cairo on a bed and breakfast basis (or similar)
  • Accommodation for 3 nights onboard on a 5-star Nile Cruise on a full board basis (or similar)
  • Accommodation for 2 nights aboard sleeper train on a half board basis.
  • Tour to Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Valley Temple, Egyptian Museum.
  • Tour to Karnak and Luxor temples.
  • Tour to Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut temple and colossi of Memnon.
  • Tour to Kom Ombo and Edfu Temples en route.
  • Tour to the High Dam, Temple of Philae and Unfinished Obelisk.
  • All sightseeing tours between Luxor and Aswan to join small- group tours
  • Lunch meal during tours in Cairo.
  • Bottled water during the road and the tour.
  • Entrance fees to the sights throughout the tours.
  • Professional English-speaking Tour Guide during all tours.
  • Applicable taxes for all hotels and Nile cruise included in the price.

 

Note: The Egyptian Railway Authority has designed and equipped sleeper trains quite comfortable according to Egyptian standards. They take about 14 hours from Cairo to Aswan and about 11 hours from Luxor to Cairo. Nevertheless, if you do not enjoy long journeys, you can take an internal flight with an addition $ 165 per person.
 

 

Excluded
  • International airfare.
  • Entry Visa to Egypt.
  • Personal spendings.
  • Optional excursions.
  • Tipping for Guides and Nile Cruise crew.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Arrive Cairo ‘Welcome to Egypt’

On this Egypt Vacation, You will be met and assisted upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport by your Tour Manager from Memphis Tours, who will accompany you to your hotel in Cairo for check-in and a free welcome drink. There you will be introduced to your Tour Leader for your Egypt Pyramids and Nile Cruise Tour, who will explain what to expect on your visit. Your Tour Leader will be your point of contact throughout the whole Egypt trip and will give you details of how to contact him at any time whilst in Egypt under the care of Memphis Tours. Throughout your touring holiday in Egypt, in addition to the Tour Leader, you will meet a variety of English-speaking, hand-picked and experienced Tour Guides throughout your Egypt Tour Holiday in each of the areas you are visiting. After check-in, you are free to spend the rest of the day/evening at your leisure with an Overnight stay at your hotel in Cairo.

Welcome Drink

Day 2: Cairo Tours - Sleeper Train to Aswan

Check-out after breakfast where your private Tour Guide will accompany you to your first pitstop in Cairo of your Egypt Vacation to visit the famous Pyramids in the area. Kicking-off your Cairo Day tour with the famous Giza Plateau to visit the only remaining wonder from the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu (called Cheops by the Ancient Greeks). Also on the plateau are the pyramids of Khafre (Chephren) and the smallest Pyramid Menkaure (Mykerinos). The plateau is as famous for the mysterious structure 'the Sphinx' as it is for the Pyramids, where you will visit the Valley Temple. Then you will visit the world-renowned Egyptian Museum in Cairo that was built in neo-classical style and designed by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon. The museum's vast collection of over 120,000 artefacts ranges from pre-dynastic era, through the Pharaonic era to the Greco-Roman period of Egypt. Amongst the most famous items which you can see throughout your visit to the museum on your Cairo and Nile Cruise Package are the funerary treasures of the child King Tutankhamun, the colossal statues of the heretic king, Akhenaten, and the only surviving image of Khufu, creator of Egypt's Great Pyramid. Visiting the Egyptian Museum is a great way to get acquainted with the ancient Egyptian civilization, including their famous art of mummification. After that, you will visit the famous Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, a major souk in the Islamic district of Cairo, the bazaar district is one of Cairo's main attractions for tourists and Egyptians alike. Finally, we conclude the day with dinner during an overnight trip to Aswan onboard the Sleeper Train finalizing the first phase of your Egypt Tour holiday.

Please Note: There is an additional charge for entering the Pyramids. Please speak with your tour guide should you wish to purchase a ticket to enter one of these sites.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 3: Aswan Nile Cruise Tours

Enjoy your breakfast with a sunrise view from the train before arriving at Aswan, where you will be met by Memphis Tours Representative who will transfer you to your Nile Cruise Boat then escorted by your Egyptologist tour guide for a day tour in Aswan. You will begin this phase of your Egypt Vacation by visiting the Aswan High Dam, built in the 1960s to provide the much-needed electricity and irrigation for Egypt. Nubia, the area that was flooded, experienced the biggest and most thorough archaeological excavations that Egypt has known. Then we go to see the ‘Unfinished Obelisk’ which still lies in the granite quarries used to provide the main building material in ancient Egypt. It would have been the largest piece of stone ever handled but when a crack was discovered it was abandoned where it was being hewn. Cross by boat to Angelika Island, to see Philae Temple, one of the Nubian Temples rescued before the High Dam was built. Enjoy Philae’s long colonnades, towers, and reliefs which include the last surviving hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions in Egypt after which you will be transferred back to your Nile boat with Overnight stay on board in Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 4: Edfu and Kom Ombo Temples

After enjoying breakfast on board your Nile cruise ship in Aswan you sail to see Kom Ombo Temple. Of all the ancient temples in Egypt, this is the only one which is divided into two, to reflect that it is dual devotion to two Gods: Sobek, the Crocodile God of fertility; and the falcon-headed Horus, God of the sky. Kom Ombo is also famous for the depictions of surgeon's instruments, giving us an early record of medicine and surgery in Ancient Egypt.
In the afternoon, you will continue your Egypt Vacation by sailing down the Nile to visit the huge Ptolemaic Temple of Horus at Edfu, which is the most complete and best-preserved of Egyptian Temples, consisting of many columns, halls, chambers, and chapels. Two statues of Horus flank the twin-towered entrance gate one of the truly magnificent items inside is an interesting inscription listing the titles of books (scrolls) held in the library. Finally, you will head back to your Nile cruise for dinner, and refreshing afternoon tea served on the cruise’s sundeck with an overnight stay onboard the Nile cruise concluding this day of your Egypt Tour Holiday.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 5: Luxor Nile Cruise Tours

Proceeding your Egypt Vacation by an excellent breakfast on board the Nile Cruise then you will be taken to the West Bank of the River Nile to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon). Then visit the ceremonial Valley of the Kings, where many magnificent tombs were discovered (including the Boy King Tutankhamen), These tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the Pharaohs and here you will visit 3 tombs. (The permitted amount of tombs to visit was determined by the Egyptian Government as to preserve them from the large flow of visitors and are rotated throughout the year, therefore, making confirming wich tombs nearly impossible). Continue your tour to visit Hatshepsut’s Temple at El Deir El Bahary, this impressive temple is dedicated to the Queen Hatshepsut the only female Pharaoh. Rising out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it. We then head back to the cruise for lunch and some afternoon tea on the ship with plenty of free leisure time and overnight stay onboard the cruise closing out the fifth day of your Egypt Tour holiday.

- Optional Sound and Light show at the Temple of Karnak. (Highly recommended).

Please Note: There is an additional charge for entering the Tombs of King Tutankhamun and Ramses VI..

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 6: Luxor Nile Cruise - Sleeper Train to Cairo

Relax as you watch the beauty surrounding you on the banks of the Nile while having breakfast on board the Nile Cruise before continuing your Egypt Vacation. After which you will leave your Nile Cruise Boat to enjoy a visit to Karnak Temple, which is the world's largest ancient religious site. The hypostyle hall with its colossal granite columns is one of Egypt’s infamous landmarks. There will be free time to explore the different parts of the huge complex built during the reigns of various Pharaohs, then moving on to the Luxor Temple which was built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for holding rituals and festivals that was dedicated to the God Amon. Later you will be transferred to Luxor train terminal to board your Sleeper Train back to Cairo with a late dinner and overnight stay onboard your designated cruise ship.

Meals: Breakfast & Dinner

Day 7: Cairo Optional Excursions

After enjoying a delicious breakfast aboard the train before arriving at the Giza Train Station where you will be met and assisted by a Memphis Tours representative, then transfer to your Cairo Hotel, ( you will check into your room as early as possible). Optional excursions in Cairo, with free leisure time. Overnight stay at your Hotel in Cairo finalizing the last phase of your wonderful Egypt Vacation before flying back home.
Meals: Breakfast

Day 8: Cairo - Fly Back Home

After a refreshing breakfast at your Hotel, you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your return flight home.
Meals: Breakfast
Prices
Prices & Accommodation
hotel
Hotels
Cairo pyramids hotel
Iberotel Crown Empress Nile Cruise
dollar
Prices
MAY-SEPT
$ 1125 Per Person in Triple Room
$ 1180 Per Person in Double Room
$ 1985 One Person Traveling Alone
OCT-APRIL
$ 1215 Per Person in Triple Room
$ 1285 Per Person in Double Room
$ 2135 One Person Traveling Alone
Golden Accommodation:
hotel
Hotels
Hilton Pyramids Golf Hotel
MS Salacia
dollar
Prices
MAY-SEPT
$ 1265 Per Person in Triple Room
$ 1299 Per Person in Double Room
$ 2145 One Person Traveling Alone
OCT-APRIL
$ 1415 Per Person in Triple Room
$ 1470 Per Person in Double Room
$ 2415 One Person Traveling Alone
  • Charitable Giving

We make a donation to the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation for each booking reserved.

  • Prices: 

Per Person in Sterling Per Tour and can be paid in US$ or Euros by credit card via a secure payment system with no extra surcharge. Current prices are valid until April 30, 2024. excluding Easter and Christmas Holidays.

 

  • Children Policy:

Up to 2 years: FREE

Age from 2 and below 6 years: 25% of adult price

Age from 6 up to 11 years: 50% of adult price

Ages 12 and Up: adult price.

 

  • Notes: 

Children's policy is applied to children who share rooms with their parents. If your tour package includes airfare then extra charges for your children may apply.

 

  • Payment:

Early Reservations are advised to avoid disappointment in securing your spaces. Booking is secured upon receipt of a 25% deposit. During the Christmas holidays, packages require a deposit of 50%. forming part of your final payment. Packages and vacations which include International flights will require the full flight cost and deposit (25% or 50%) due to the regulations of the Airlines that require full payment

 

  • Transportation:

Transport for all tours included: domestic flights, trains, and air-conditioned vehicles by road. Wi-Fi, Bottled water and an ice box are all included whilst travelling by road. All are new vehicles with the latest design and technology.

 

  • Tour Guides:

Are available to assist you with transfers to and from Airports, and Hotels assisting at Airports with visas, tickets, and luggage. All tours of the sites in Egypt include the constant guidance of a highly qualified Egyptologist Tour Guide.

 

  • Travelling with Children:

Children delight in touring the Pyramids, Temples and Tombs in Egypt as often it is part of their school study programme. Memphis Tours offers packages to suit all ages with excellent combined multi-location destinations such as Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Nile Cruise and the Red Sea Resorts.

 

  • Wheelchair Travellers:

Specially adapted Nile Cruise boat MS Amarco 1 has all amenities for wheelchairs and special assistance for customers on the boat and disembarking for tours. Assistance from the Boat Crew and Tour Guides is always ready and available.

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