EGYPT FAMILY TOUR

8 days / 7 nights
Cairo / Aswan / Luxor with an optional Red Sea Beach holiday extension
Fully Escorted Private tours (just your family with their own guide and transportation). Choose from four options including:

Luxury: Featuring the Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton in Cairo, the Sofitel Winter Palace in Luxor and the Sofitel Old Cataract in Aswan.

Deluxe: Featuring highly rated 5* hotels including the Mena House Cairo, the Joile Ville Kings Island resort in Luxor and the Movenpick Aswan resort.

Superior: Featuring the Hilton World Trade Center in Cairo, the Iberotel Luxor and the Helnan Aswan resort.

Budget: Choose your own hotels and flights (or sleeper train). We take care of all transfers and day tours related to the program.

GUARANTEED Weekly departures year round

This is a tour designed for families with children ranging in age from preschool thru teens. While the program features introduction to the major historic sites of Egypt it does so in a "hands on" environment by exposing them (the children) to a living history example of what life was like in ancient Egypt for both the royal families and the workers. Instead of being "tombed out" by repetitious visitations to places that after a few days all resemble one another, they are transported in time to relive the adventure and thrill of events as they occurred. Not only that, but they will be entertained by camel rides into the desert, sailing on the Nile in a Felucca (native sailboat), entering a pyramid and feeling the mystery, climbing around old fortresses and more. They will come to know the sophisticated city children of Cairo and the village children of upper Egypt.

They will have time to enjoy the highly rated (by fellow travelers) family oriented first class hotels, chosen especially for this tour, that offer not only fine accommodations but giant swimming pools, entertainment centers, playgrounds and all kinds of sports activities. Regardless of anything else it is the guide who makes a trip special. Your guides are all parents and grandparents, who have raised children and know their moods and levels of interest and understanding plus how to keep them entertained.

The Program:

Day 01: (Sunday) ARRIVAL
Arrive Cairo, clear immigration and customs then staff will transfer you to your hotel. Note: We use top rated 5* hotels with family rooms or suites. These include the Concorde el Salem, the Hilton World Trade Center Residences and others. The exact hotel depends on your family size and your choice. Overnight Cairo

VISAS: All travelers to Egypt are required to obtain a visa. Travelers from many countries can get theirs on arrival or on the web at: 
https://www.visa2egypt.gov.eg

Day 02: (Monday) SAQQARA, DAHSHUR, GIZA PLATEAU
A guided tour of Sakkarra, famous for it's Stepped Pyramid. Visit the tomb of Maia, wet nurse to King Tut (and maybe his half sister). Dahshur, with it's famous Bent and Red Pyramids plus the new Imhotep museum. Then visit the Giza Plateau with the seventh wonder of the world, Cheop's Pyramid and the inscrutable Sphinx. Overnight Cairo
Meals: Breakfast
NOTE: Your guide can arrange entry to the Great pyramid, a visit to the solar boat museum or a photo op camel ride while you are there.
Giza sound and light show: $40 per person (minimum of two)

Day 03: (Tuesday) EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM, FLY TO LUXOR
The 5.2-million-square-foot Grand Egyptian Museum is the world's largest museum devoted to a single civilization.  (As a reference the Smithsonian in Washington is 1.5 million square feet).
Costing more than $1 billion, the museum is home to some of the country's most precious relics including an exhibit of all of the treasures found in King Tut's tomb. Its expansive, glass-fronted building offers sweeping panoramas of the Giza plateau and Great Pyramids, which stand just a mile away.
Meals: Breakfast
Optional Tour: Karnak temple sound and light show: $40 per person (minimum of two)

Day 04: (Wednesday) NECROPOLIS OF THEBES, TEMPLES OF KARNAK AND LUXOR
Buffet breakfast followed by an early departure for the West bank and the Necropolis of Thebes where you will visit the Valley of the Kings with entry to King Tut's tomb, the Valley of the Queens, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut and the the Colossi of Memnon. In the afternoon visit the famous Temples of Karnak and Luxor. Overnight Luxor
Meals: Breakfast

Day 05: (Thursday) LUXOR TO ASWAN WITH VISITS TO THE TEMPLE OF HORUS AT EDFU AND THE TEMPLE OF TWO GODS AT KOM OMBO
Depart Luxor for a road trip to Aswan stopping along the way to visit the Temple of Horus at Edfu, the best preserved of all the Nile temples. Continue upriver to the Temple of two gods at Kom Ombo. The temple is unique because its double design means that there are courts, halls, sanctuaries and rooms duplicated for two gods, Sobek and Haroeris. Arrive Aswan early afternoon and enjoy staying at the Movenpick Elephantine Island resort or the Aswan Nile resort. At either you will enjoy Nile view rooms with private balconies. Overnight Aswan
Meals: Breakfast
NOTE: The distance from Luxor to Aswan is about 130 miles.

Day 06: (Friday) FELUCCA, CAMEL TREK, TEMPLE OF PHILAE, UNFINISHED OBELISK, NUBIAN MUSEUM (OPTIONAL ABU SIMBEL EXCURSION)
Cross the Nile by Felucca (native sailboat) (or motor launch is there is not enough wind) and board your 'ship of the desert' (camel) for a visit to St. Simeon's Monastery ruins. Sail to Elephantine Island, site of some of Egypt's oldest antiquities and a wonderful Nubian village. Returning to the East bank visit the Temple of Philae, the Pharaohs granite quarries with the unfinished obelisk and the Nubian Museum. Overnight Aswan
Meals: Breakfast
Optional excursion to Abu Simbel

Day 07: (Saturday) ASWAN TO CAIRO, OLD CAIRO, CITADEL, KHAN EL KHALILI BAZAAR
Staff transfers you to the airport, assists with checking in for a morning Egyptair flight to Cairo. Arriving enjoy a tour of Old Cairo with its famous churches and synagogue, the Citadel of Salah el Din, bane of the crusaders and the Khan el Khalili bazaar where travelers have been finding bargains since the middle ages before checking into either the Concorde al Salam or the Le Meridien Airport hotel. Overnight Cairo
Meals: Breakfast

Day 08: (Sunday) INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURE OR ADD A RED SEA BEACH HOLIDAY
Staff transfers you to the airport, assists with exit formalities and checking in for your international departure or extend your tour with a Red Sea beach holiday to Hurghada or Sharm el Sheikh.

PRIVATE TOUR Includes: Domestic flights in Egypt in coach (economy) class. All transfers by air-conditioned vehicle relating to the tour program starting with arrival to Cairo. Baggage handling of no more than 1 piece of luggage per person however baggage and personal effects are at the owner's risk at all time during the tour (baggage handling does NOT include tips for bellmen, porters, etc.). Hotels (based on double occupancy with children sharing room). Meals as noted. Included meals are in the main dining room, no speciality restaurants or room service. Fees for visiting antiquity sites and museums that are included in the program. Services of an English speaking licensed Egyptologist. Service charges and taxes.

NOT included are: INTERNATIONAL AIR, items of a personal nature such as tips (tipping guideline), entry visa, phone calls, laundry, beverages of any nature at any time, any items not specifically covered in the included items.

Tour Price:

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Tours must be booked at least 45 days prior to arrival.
Prices and itinerary subject to change without notice.

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