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Grand Egyptian Museum and the pyramids
A private day from your Cairo or Giza hotel: Giza pyramids, Sphinx and Grand Egyptian Museum, with lunch included.
- Length
- Full day
- 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
Your Egyptologist guide picks you up from your hotel.
- 8:30approx.1VisitThe Pyramids of Giza: history, hours and tickets →
The Great Pyramid of Cheops and the pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus.
- 10:00approx.2Visit
Statue with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.
- 10:45approx.Visit
Part of King Chephren's funerary complex.
- 11:00approx.Lunch, included
Lunch at a local restaurant.
- 12:15approx.3VisitGrand Egyptian Museum: history, hours and tickets →
Museum near the pyramids with artifacts from across Egypt's dynastic history.
- 14:45approx.Shopping stop, optional
An optional stop: skip it if you'd rather go straight back to your hotel.
- 15:45approx.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 Grand Egyptian Museum and the pyramids. We reply with the price for your day and confirm the pickup from your hotel.
From $144 per personFor 2 or more people
- 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.
What can you see in Cairo in 6 hours?A half-day tour, one cluster of nearby sites, or a two-hour felucca sail or quad ride; check last entry.
Best time of day to visit the Giza pyramidsOpening hours, the 4 p.m. cutoff, Ramadan hours, monthly temperatures and the evening show.
Cairo day tours for families with kidsFree entry under 6, student tickets with ID, what each Cairo tour includes, and what to ask first.
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