- Egypt Day Tours sells only day tours in Egypt: 73 day tours, and no multi-day packages, hotel bookings or Nile cruises.
- 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.
- Every tour starts and ends at your hotel (the layover tour at Cairo airport); 7 tours in Luxor and Aswan also collect guests from Nile cruise boats.
- Your car and guide are private on every tour; on 17 tours the activity itself, such as a boat or a show, is shared with other guests.
- 7 tours travel by plane, and domestic flights are never part of a tour price.
A day tour in Egypt is a guided outing that starts and ends at your hotel: a private car and a guide take you to one or more planned stops and bring you back. Egypt Day Tours (egyptdaytours.net) is a site dedicated to day tours in Egypt, and that is all it sells: 73 day tours from 8 bases, with no multi-day packages, hotel bookings or Nile cruises.
What a day tour includes
Each tour page shows the whole day stop by stop, in order, hotel to hotel: a map, the drive distance and drive time to each stop (map routing, without traffic), photos of each stop, approximate clock times, and what is included and not included. Hotel pickup and return, and a car and guide for your group only, come with every tour. The rest depends on the tour:
| What | Tours that include it |
|---|---|
| Bottled water | 72 tours |
| Entrance fees to the sites in the program | 53 tours |
| An English-speaking Egyptologist guide, that is, a guide trained in ancient Egyptian history | 44 tours; the others list an English-speaking guide or tour leader |
| Lunch | 30 tours: 24 at a local restaurant or a cooking class, 6 on board a boat; optional and not included on 7 tours |
| Tips | Listed as not included on 71 tours |
Some tickets are extras: 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. The guide to what is included in an Egypt day tour goes through the lists in full.
Kinds of day tours
Besides sightseeing days at temples, tombs and museums, the site groups its tours by experience:
| Kind of day | An example from our tours |
|---|---|
| Sightseeing with a guide | Luxor East Bank: Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple, with lunch at a local restaurant |
| Nile boat trips | Nubian village by boat, from Aswan: a motorboat on the Nile to the village of Gharb Soheil and a Nubian home |
| Sea and snorkeling | Tiran Island snorkeling, from Sharm El Sheikh: the Blue Lagoon, reef stops and an open buffet lunch on board |
| Desert days | Sunset quad safari, from Marsa Alam: a quad ride, a Bedouin village with tea, a camel ride at sunset and a barbecue dinner |
| Evenings and shows | Pyramids sound and light show with dinner: the show on the Giza Plateau, then dinner at a local restaurant |
| By plane | Cairo in a day by plane, from Hurghada: the Giza pyramids, the Sphinx, the Grand Egyptian Museum and Khan El Khalili; the flights are not part of the tour price |
