- This site sells only day tours, 73 of them, with no multi-day packages, hotel bookings or Nile cruises.
- Every day tour starts and ends at your hotel, so it never moves you to a new city.
- The tours start from 8 bases; Cairo & Giza has 27 tours, Luxor and Aswan 10 tours each, and the Red Sea resorts 21 tours together.
- Between bases, the sleeper train from Giza takes approximately 9h25m to 10h10m to Luxor and approximately 12h25m to 13h30m to Aswan.
- 7 tours in Luxor and Aswan also collect guests from Nile cruise boats.
A package tour sells a whole trip at once: hotels, travel between cities and guided visits, on a set program. Day tours split the trip into single days: you stay where you choose and book each day from your hotel. Egypt Day Tours, a site dedicated to day tours in Egypt, sells only day tours, with no multi-day packages, hotel bookings or Nile cruises.
The difference at a glance
| Day tours on this site | A package tour | |
|---|---|---|
| What you book | A single day at a time, each from your hotel and back | The whole trip at once |
| Hotels | Booked separately: this site books no hotels | Part of the package |
| Travel between cities | Arranged by you: each day tour ends at the hotel where it started | Part of the package |
| What you see each day | The tour you pick; a stop can be skipped or the order changed where the tour allows, if you ask before booking | Set by the package program |
| Car and guide | Private for your group on every tour | Depends on the package |
| Price | Per tour, per person, for 2 or more people; a 25% deposit online confirms each tour and the rest is paid in cash on the day; domestic flights are never part of a tour price | One price for the bundle |
| Cancelling | Per tour: free up to 24 hours before it starts, with a full refund | Set by the package's terms |
Building a trip from day tours
You pick a base, stay there, and add the days you want. The 73 tours start from 8 bases: Cairo & Giza has 27 tours, Luxor and Aswan 10 each, Sharm El Sheikh 7, Hurghada 6, Alexandria and Marsa Alam 5 each, and Dahab 3.
Some days reach another city and still end back at your hotel, so you can see it without changing hotels. For example:
| Day tour | Starts from | First drive, without traffic |
|---|---|---|
| Luxor in a day from Aswan | Aswan | 225.2 km to the Valley of the Kings, about 2 h 52 min |
| Cairo and the pyramids from Alexandria | Alexandria | 214.5 km to the Giza pyramids, about 2 h 26 min |
| Alexandria in a day from Cairo | Cairo or Giza | 216.1 km to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, about 2 h 26 min |
| Luxor in a day from Hurghada | Hurghada | 289.7 km to Karnak Temple, about 3 h 43 min |
| Luxor in a day, by road | Marsa Alam | 355 km to Karnak Temple, about 4 h 11 min |
7 tours go further by plane, to Cairo or Luxor, and domestic flights are never part of the tour price; Egypt day trips by plane explains how those days run.
