Our Egypt tour packages are private from start to finish — your own guide, your own driver, your own vehicle, and an itinerary that can change while you are travelling. Each package covers a fixed route and length so you can compare them directly, and any of them can be extended, shortened or rebuilt as a tailor-made trip. All are operated by Travel Lovers Egypt under E.T.A.A. Licence No. 2390.
The single biggest decision is length, because it fixes how much of Egypt you can reach without spending the trip in transit. Cairo and Luxor are 650 km apart; Luxor and Aswan are a further 210 km along the Nile.
Three days is Cairo and Giza only, and it works well: the pyramids and the Sphinx, the Grand Egyptian Museum, Saqqara and Dahshur, Islamic and Coptic Cairo. Add a private evening at a monument and it stops feeling like a stopover. What it will not fit is Luxor.
Five days brings Luxor into reach by a one-hour internal flight. That buys Karnak, Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, with the east and west banks taken on separate days rather than crammed into one.
Seven to eight days is the classic route: Cairo and Giza, then Luxor, then a Nile cruise down to Aswan for Philae and the High Dam. Ten to fourteen days adds Abu Simbel, Alexandria or the Red Sea. This is where a Nile cruise stops being an add-on and becomes the spine of the trip.
Most site days start early, because the Giza plateau and the Valley of the Kings are both cooler and emptier before mid-morning. Your driver collects you from the hotel, your Egyptologist meets you at the site, and tickets are already arranged. Lunch is at a restaurant we have chosen rather than the nearest tour-bus stop. Afternoons are deliberately lighter — a museum, a market, or nothing at all. Nothing on the itinerary is shared with another group, so if a site holds your attention you stay in it.
A group tour fixes the pace to the slowest person and the route to the coach schedule. On a private package the itinerary belongs to you: start later, stay longer, skip what does not interest you, swap a site on the morning of. It also changes what is possible at the sites themselves — restricted-access visits such as the Osiris Shaft, Wahtye's Tomb or the interior of the Great Pyramid outside public hours are arranged per party, and cannot be run as a group departure.
