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Cairo & Giza day tour
Giza pyramids and the Egyptian Museum
A private trip from your Cairo or Giza hotel: Giza pyramids, Sphinx and Egyptian Museum, Tahrir, with lunch included.
- Length
- Full day, about 8 hours
- Tour type
- Private, just your group
- Pickup
- Your hotel in Cairo or Giza
- Guide
- English-speaking Egyptologist
- Lunch
- Included, local restaurant
- Shopping stop
- Optional: Khan El Khalili or near the pyramids
The tour journey
Your day, step by step
Times are estimates; traffic and your hotel's location change them. Drive times are from map routing without traffic.
- 8:00approx.Pickup
- 8:30approx.1VisitThe Pyramids of Giza: history, hours and tickets →
The pyramids of Cheops (Khufu), Chephren and Mykerinos.
- 10:00approx.2Visit
- 10:45approx.Visit
- 11:00approx.Lunch, included
Egyptian lunch at a local restaurant.
- 12:30approx.3VisitEgyptian Museum: history, hours and tickets →
Museum in Tahrir Square with statues, sarcophagi and royal objects.
- 14:30approx.Shopping stop, optional
An optional stop: skip it if you'd rather go straight back to your hotel.
- 15:00approx.Drop-off
Included
- All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
- Pick up services from your hotel & return
- Private English Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to all the mentioned sites
- A bottle of water during your trip
- Lunch meal will be served in a local restaurant
- All taxes & service charge
Not included
- Entry inside the Great Pyramid (optional)
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tipping
Book this day
Request this tour
Send your date and group size for Giza pyramids and the Egyptian Museum. We reply with the price for your day and confirm the pickup from your hotel.
Price on request
- Private, just your group
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Change or skip a stop: just ask
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before
Nothing to pay with the request. To book, a 25% deposit by card or PayPal; the rest in cash on the day. Payment and cancellation
Before you go
Guides for this day
How hotel pickup works for Cairo day toursDrive times without traffic from three Cairo hotel areas, who meets you, and what the transfer includes.
Best time of day to visit the Giza pyramidsOpening hours, the 4 p.m. cutoff, Ramadan hours, monthly temperatures and the evening show.
Giza pyramids or Saqqara: which day trip first?Giza first, then Saqqara: what each site has, hours, tickets and the drive between them.
Egyptian Museum or Grand Egyptian Museum?Tutankhamun is at the GEM and the royal mummies at NMEC: what each Cairo museum holds and how to choose.
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