Reviews

This is a very well organised tour which covers all the main sites in Egypt including a trip to Alexandria and El Alamein. Although there is a packed itinerary we never felt particularly rushed. This was helped by a good group size of 14. Both our national tour guide, Shady, and our Egyptologist, Karim, were excellent and knowledgeable right from beginning to the end of the tour. They helped us negotiate through the general chaos of the airports from obtaining our visas to ensuring we were safely through security checks and checked in for our flights home. Not only did we receive comprehensive information at each historical site but also had many opportunities to discuss what modern day life is like for the Egyptians. There were many highlights on the tour but we particularly enjoyed visiting the newly opened Great Egyptian Museum seeing the Tutankhamen exhibition and entering the incredibly well preserved tomb of Sety I in the Valley of the Kings.
The food was of a good standard throughout our stay but particularly good on the boat where the accommodation was excellent. The only hotel that was probably below the standard we expected was the Hilton in Alexandria which was sadly disappointing and a change from the originally scheduled hotel. You should also be aware that there are a number of very early starts in the day either to ensure seats on an internal flight or to reach a historic site before too many tourists arrived. We did not find this to be a problem but some in our group found these days to be very tiring. We would recommend taking or exchanging some money for small denomination Egyptian pounds to cover drinks and public toilets.
If you have ever wanted to visit Egypt to see and learn about it's culture then we would highly recommend this tour.

Some of the coach journeys too long and some restaurants unsatisfactory. The worst example, after driving 3.5 hours to Alexandria and seeing little of the city we spent an hour in heavy traffic to reach a restaurant, an hour there then a further hour in traffic to return to a very sad hotel which was barely adequate for the one night we stayed there.

Apart from Alexandria the rest of the tour was excellent in content and duration. Our guides were wonderful, very informative and nothing was too much trouble for them.