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How to book an Egypt day tour: from request to pickup

Request, reply with the price and plan, deposit, pickup: how booking a day tour works on this site.

Written by Mahmoud Barakat · Reviewed by Marcela · Checked October 13, 2026 · 4 min read

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In short
  • Send the date, the number of people and your contact details from the tour page form, the contact page, WhatsApp or phone; no payment is taken with the request.
  • You confirm with a 25% deposit paid online by card or PayPal; the rest is paid in cash on the day of the tour.
  • Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the tour starts, with a full refund; less than 24 hours before, or a no-show, gets no refund.
  • Prices are per person, for 2 or more people; 8 tours show a "from" price, 24 an approximate market price, and the others are priced on request.
  • Domestic flights are never part of a tour price; on the days by plane, the flights follow the airline's own rules.

To book a day tour on egyptdaytours.net, you send a request with your date, the number of people and your contact details, from the form on the tour page, the contact page, WhatsApp or phone. The reply gives the price for that date and the plan for the day. You confirm with a 25% deposit paid online, and the pickup is booked. No payment is taken with the request itself.

The steps, from request to pickup

  1. Pick a tour. Each tour page shows the whole day stop by stop, hotel to hotel, with the drive to each stop without traffic and what is included and not included.
  2. Send a request. Give the date, the number of people and your contact details, through the form on the tour page, the contact page, WhatsApp or phone. No payment is taken with it.
  3. Read the reply. It gives the price for your date and the plan for the day.
  4. Ask for changes. Before booking, ask if you want to skip a stop or change the order; you are told what the tour allows.
  5. Confirm with a deposit. You pay a 25% deposit online, by card or PayPal. The pickup is booked, and its time is confirmed.
  6. On the day. You pay the rest in cash. The tour starts at your hotel and brings you back to it.

What to put in your request

DetailWhy it helps
DateThe price in the reply is for that date.
Number of peoplePrices are per person, for 2 or more people.
Contact detailsThe reply with the price and the plan comes back to you.
Your hotelTraffic and the hotel's location change the pickup time.
Your Nile cruise boat, if you are on one7 tours in Luxor and Aswan also collect guests from Nile cruise boats.
Changes or optional extrasA stop can be skipped or the order changed where the tour allows. Going inside the Great Pyramid is an optional extra on 12 tours, and the Tutankhamun tomb ticket in the Valley of the Kings on 7 tours.

Payment, date changes and cancellation

SituationWhat happens
Confirming the bookingA 25% deposit paid online, by card or PayPal
The rest of the pricePaid in cash on the day of the tour
You cancel up to 24 hours before the tour startsFree: full refund
You cancel less than 24 hours before, or do not show upNo refund
You change the dateFree up to 24 hours before, subject to availability
A balloon flight is cancelled for weatherAnother date or a full refund
A day by planeThe flights follow the airline's own rules
We cancel the tourFull refund

Prices, and what a price covers

Prices are per person, for 2 or more people. 8 tours show a "from" price, from $42 for the quad bike at the Giza pyramids to $162 for Abu Simbel; 24 tours show an approximate price taken from similar tours on the market, which the quote confirms; the other tours are priced on request. What a price covers depends on the tour: most tours include the entrance fees to the sites in the program, nearly all include bottled water and list tips as not included, and each tour page lists what it covers. How Egypt day tour prices work on this site goes into more detail.

Tours that travel by plane

7 tours travel by plane, such as Cairo in a day by plane from Hurghada. Domestic flights are never part of a tour price, so the price in the reply does not cover the flights, and the flights follow the airline's own rules rather than the tour's. Egypt day trips by plane explains how those days run.

Before the day

Every tour on Egypt Day Tours, a site dedicated to day tours in Egypt, starts and ends at your hotel, except the Cairo layover tour, which starts and ends at Cairo airport. Tour pages show approximate clock times, but the pickup time is confirmed when you book, because traffic and your hotel's location change it: the confirmed time, not the page's estimate, is the one to plan around.

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