VIP EXPERIENCE
This itinerary is designed by Egypt Luxury Tours Local Experts. With their first-hand and local knowledge, they make sure every detail is looked after, while you get to enjoy a private luxury experience in Egypt.
Tour Style:
Private Luxury Tour
Schedule:
Everyday, You can pick the date freely and we will arrange for you based on it.
Tour Highlights:
- Pyramids and Civilization Museum Tour – Mummies Halls
- Luxury Hotels
- Trip to Alexandria, It is a Mediterranean port city in Egypt
- Cairo, Fly to Luxor – Luxor Museum & Karnak & Luxor Temples
- Luxor King Tut’s tomb – Valley of Kings & Queens
Day 1: Welcome to the land of the Pharaohs
Egypt Luxury Tours offers top-notch VIP treatment. Upon arrival, your tour guide will be waiting for you. They will be holding a sign of Egypt Luxury Tours. This service is an exclusive meet and greets service. Egypt Luxury Tours Services ensures a swift, smooth, safe passage through Cairo International Airport.
From the moment we start, your tour guide will give you full attention. Once in the car, He will talk to you about all the aspects of your tour that will interest you.
You will be transferred by a Luxury A/C car to your Luxury hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Experience Egypt like never before with our Luxury Private tours and dedicated professional Tour guide/Leaders.
Day 2: Pyramids and Civilization Museum Tour – Mummies Halls
Enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel. Start your tour by visiting the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization is the only museum in Egypt which offers a general overview of all the different historical periods of Egypt. It has more than 50,000 artefacts, presenting Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to the present day.
The crown jewel of the museum is the Mummies Halls. The whole world has been amazed at the Pharaoh’s Golden Parade of 22 Royal Mummies from the Old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to their new permanent residence in the National Museum of Civilization.
Among the Mummies are the mummies of King Ramses the second, Queen Hatshepsut, King Thutmos the third and Queen Ahmos Nefertari. The Royal Mummies Hall is specially designed to display the mummies of ancient Egypt. The design and the underground location of the Mummies aim to give the visitors the feeling of strolling down the Valley of Kings where most of the mummies were originally resting. The Royal Mummies Hall exhibited about 150 pieces, including the mummies as well as their coffins. For the first time, each mummy will be exhibited near the coffin where it was found. The mummies are now placed inside special halls below the main hall, symbolizing the “underworld” in which the royal mummies were found.
Then you will have a chance to visit the main exhibition halls which showcase Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to the present day, using a multidisciplinary approach that highlights the country’s tangible and intangible heritage
Then move to visit the Great Pyramids – Cheops, Chephren & Mykerions. Cheops is the most colossal ever built. Next is a close-up look at Sphinx – a huge funeral complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of king Chephren.
(Optional) Evening trip to attend the Sound & Light show in the Pyramids area.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 3: Alexandria
Enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel.
Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel to start your tour to Alexandria. Start the tour with the library of Alexandria; the biggest library in the world – now with 8 million books. You will visit Alexandria Library open court and you will have a chance to take a photo with the statue of alexander the great, Then you will visit the Sadat museum in The library & Art exhibitions in the library.
Then your tour guide will take you to visit the Jewelry Museum, You will not only enjoy the luxurious interiors of the palace preserved in its original nature but also admire the decorations and household items of the royal family of Mohammed Ali’s dynasty. The museum is located in a luxurious building of exquisite neoclassical architecture. The royal decorations exhibited inside the palace are true works of art. The museum includes about 11,500 artefacts that were once personal belongings and gifts belonging to the family and descendants of Mohammed Ali. And recently, other jewels of the Mohamed Ali family, which had been pledged for six decades at the Central Bank of Egypt, have joined the collection of the museum.
Note: Alexandria Library is closed on Fridays and on every public holiday. To enter the reading area you will need to purchase an extra ticket.
Then visit the Site of the Lighthouse; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World on which now stands the castle of Qaitbey. Visit the royal gardens of King Farouk (the last king in the history of Egypt) and see the royal palaces of Haramlek and Salamlek as well as the royal beaches of the queens. Continue your tour by visiting the prettiest and biggest mosque in the city: the Abbo Elabbas Mosque, as well as the memorial of the Unknown Soldier of Alexandria and the statue of Alexander the Great.
You can then stop for optional lunch before visiting the church of St. Mark – the oldest church in Africa before driving along the Cornish (30 km) to see the whole city of Alexandria from the seaside which includes the old harbour of Alexandria where we found 7000 monuments underwater. Stop over the famous bridge of Stanley – the modern landmark of modern Alexandria, before visiting the old downtown of Alexandria and walking through the old city-centre of Alexandria: built by Alexander the Great. Travel in comfort back to your hotel.
Alexandria has so much to see, feel, eat and buy so if you have time and want to add more to your itinerary – just let us know what you are interested in and we will arrange it for you at the cost price – no profit to us.
Travel in comfort back to your hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day4: Fly to Luxor – Luxor Museum & East Bank
Enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel. Transfer to the domestic airport to take your flight to Luxor. Arrive and transfer to your hotel and check-in. Then start your day tour to the east bank of Luxor and necropolis.
visit Luxor Museum, This wonderful museum has a well-chosen and brilliantly displayed and explained collection of antiquities dating from the end of the Old Kingdom right through to the Mamluk period, mostly gathered from the Theban temples and necropolis.
Then move to visit the Karnak Temples, the greatest example of worship in history and was dedicated to the God Amon, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu. It was constructed from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom to the Graeco Roman Kingdom.
Then move to Luxor Temple. It was built by Amunhotep III in 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom and it was completed by Ramesses II during the 19th Dynasty.
King Ramses II was the most famous king in the 19th Dynasty. He ruled Egypt for about 67 years. It was dedicated to the great god Amun-Ra, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu together representing the Theban triad. Enjoy visiting Obelisk of Ramses II in front of the 1st Pylon
Back to the hotel. Overnight in Luxor.
Day5: Luxor King Tut’s tomb- Valley of Kings & Queens / Back to Cairo
Enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel. Our guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor to discover the West bank of Luxor. Cross to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings, and visit the tombs of various Dynasties. King Tut’s tomb which you will visit from the inside. Tutankhamun ruled Egypt for approximately 10 years from around 1336-1327 BCE. In November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered Tutankhamun’s near-intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The king’s mummified body was found surrounded by precious grave goods, in his golden coffin, after his burial chamber was officially opened on 17 February 1923 in the presence of Egyptologists and government officials.
Today, Tutankhamun is ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaoh. But how much do you really know about the boy king? Here during this tour, I will tell you the lesser-known facts about Tutankhamun…
Continue to Visit the Valley of the Queens, known as Ta-Set-Neferu “The Place of Beauty”. The valley served as a
necropolis for the tombs of royal family members and the elite, with about 90 tombs belonging to Queens and princes of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom (1550-1070 BC). whilst here, you will have a chance to visit the magnificent colourful tomb of queen Nefertari (With an extra ticket)
Then move to visit the Temple of Deir El Bahari of Queen Hatshepsut. On the return journey stop at the Colossi of Memnon which are two gigantic sitting statues representing Amenopis III facing the Nile. Then visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
Then transfer to Luxor airport and departure by plane to Cairo. Arrival and transfer to the hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Day6: Farewell to Egypt
Enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel. Today a private transfer will bring you to Cairo International Airport where you will check-in for your onward flight.
Farewell to Egypt!
Tour inclusions:
- VIP treatment.
- Luxury hotel accommodations.
- All your tours and excursions are by an A/C private vehicle.
- Private Tour Manager/Tour Guide Egyptologist.
- Meals as listed in the itinerary.
- Domestic flights (Cairo/Luxor & Luxor/Cairo).
- Private Sightseeing Tours and entrance fees.
- Our prices include all taxes and services.
Tour exclusions:
- International Airfare.
- Egypt entry visa. (We can provide you with your visa upon arrival at your request).
Accommodation Plan:
- Cairo: Four Seasons -Marriott Mena House – Kempinski Nile Deluxe – Fairmont Nile Premium.
- Luxor: Sofitel Winter Palace.
| All year round | Christmas and Easter | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per person in Dbl room | 2670 $ | 2920 $ |
| Solo traveller | 3720 $ | 3970 $ |
Important Notes:
Payments
Egypt Luxury Tours accepts all methods of secure payments.
Hotel Rating in Egypt
Kindly note that the hotel rating in Egypt is not the same as in USA or Europe, so Luxury hotel options are always recommended.
Travel Insurance – from AIG
secSecure your trip and give yourself greater peace of mind with the Travel Insurance program proposed by AIG for Egypt Luxury Tours.
One week 150$ per person
Two week 250 $ per person.
Our Guides/ Tour Leaders /Drivers
We don’t only choose qualified and professional Tour guides/leaders/ Drivers but also choose those who are friendly, with a sense of humour who are committed to offering a superior level of service so you can enjoy your time with them.
Travelling by overnight train
Egypt Luxury Tours don’t recommend it, it takes15 to 18 hours on a very noisy train. Food is not good in general. Beds: moderately comfortable. Comment from a client: “However, I am 6’0″ (183 cm) tall and barely fit into the bed — anyone taller would have to curl up.”
Personalized Tours
You will be Traveling with a private Egyptologist guide and driver just for you so they will be always very flexible to accommodate your needs. Unlock details you may have overlooked with insider information only a Egypt Luxury Tours Expert and private guide can offer