6 Days Cairo Nile Cruise Packages

Your Egypt Day Tours representative meets you at Cairo airport with a name sign and helps you through immigration and customs, then takes you by private air-conditioned car to your hotel. On the way they run through the plan for your trip and answer any questions, and at the hotel they help you check in. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: none.

After breakfast you are taken to Cairo airport for the flight to Aswan, where your guide meets you for the High Dam and Philae Temple before you board your Nile cruise for lunch. Overnight on board. Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The cruise sails to Kom Ombo for the double temple of Sobek and Haroeris, from the Greco-Roman period, then on to Edfu for the Temple of Horus, the best-preserved temple in Egypt, with its reliefs of the battle between Horus and Seth and its Nilometer. The boat then passes through the lock at Esna and continues to Luxor. Overnight on board. Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After breakfast your guide takes you to the West Bank for the Valley of the Kings, entering three royal tombs, the terraced Temple of Hatshepsut, one of the few women to rule as pharaoh, and the Colossi of Memnon. On the East Bank you visit Karnak, where almost every pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty added a building, with its Hypostyle Hall, Sacred Lake and avenue of ram-headed sphinxes. Overnight on board. Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

If you wish, start the day with a sunrise hot air balloon flight over the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens and the Tombs of the Nobles ($110 per person, depending on the cruise schedule). You then fly to Cairo, where your guide takes you to the Giza Pyramids, the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple of Khafre, then to the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Pyramids, home to the complete Tutankhamun collection, much of it on display for the first time, in galleries that take you through Egyptian history in order. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: breakfast.

After breakfast your representative takes you to Cairo airport and helps you through immigration and customs for your flight home. Meals: breakfast.

All prices are in US dollars per person and depend on your travel dates, group size and hotel category. Every tour is private, so we prepare a quote for your own group. You can pay online through our secure payment gateway with no extra costs or surcharges.

After you book, we email your confirmation and tour voucher with all the contact numbers you need.

Tipping is not included and is at your discretion.

• Under 6 years free, 6 to 11 years 50% of the adult price, 12 years and over full price.

100% refund if you cancel 60 or more days before arrival, 50% refund at 30 to 59 days, and free rebooking to new dates inside 30 days. Full details on our cancellation policy page.

A 20% deposit by card confirms your booking (70% for groups of 20 or more). You pay the balance in Egypt.

We strongly recommend travel insurance. Our cancellation policy page lists the providers we trust.

Not included unless listed: special entry tickets (such as inside a pyramid), visa fees, tips and personal expenses.

Your package includes 1 night in a Cairo hotel, 4 nights aboard a 5-star Nile cruise ship, the domestic flight between Cairo and Aswan, a private Egyptologist guide throughout, all transfers, entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary, and full board meals while on the cruise. Flights to and from Egypt and personal expenses aren’t included.

You’ll sail from Aswan to Luxor, visiting the High Dam and Philae Temple in Aswan, the Kom Ombo and Edfu temples along the way, and finishing in Luxor with the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, Karnak, and Luxor Temple before flying back to Cairo.

You’ll stay aboard a 5-star Nile cruise ship with full board meals included, breakfast, lunch, and dinner served on board each day. If you have a preference for a specific ship or cabin category, let us know when you book and we’ll do our best to arrange it.

Yes, a sunrise hot air balloon ride over Luxor’s west bank is available as an optional add-on for around $110 per person. Your guide can arrange it for the morning you’re in Luxor, just let us know you’re interested when you book.

This is a fully private tour. Your Egyptologist guide and vehicle are exclusively for you and your group on land, and while the cruise ship itself is shared with other guests, your shore excursions and guiding are private throughout.