8 Days Dubai and Egypt Tour Packages

Your Egypt Day Tours representative meets you at Cairo International Airport after baggage reclaim and customs and takes you to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.

After breakfast your guide collects you from your hotel for the Giza Pyramids of Khufu (Cheops), Khafre (Chephren) and Menkaure (Mykerinus), then the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple of Khafre. You continue to Saqqara for the Step Pyramid of Djoser, built in the 3rd Dynasty and considered the world’s first pyramid, and finish at Memphis, the first capital of ancient Egypt, where the colossal statue of Ramesses II lies. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: breakfast and lunch.

After breakfast your guide collects you for a full day in Cairo, starting at 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. In the afternoon you visit the Saladin Citadel and the alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali, then Old Cairo for the Hanging Church, the Church of Abu Serga and the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: breakfast and lunch.

After breakfast your guide drives you about three hours to Alexandria. You visit Pompey’s Pillar and the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, see the Bibliotheca Alexandrina from outside, and stop at the Citadel of Qaitbay, built on the site of the ancient Lighthouse. A drive along the corniche takes you past the Eastern Harbour and Stanley Bridge to the royal gardens of Montazah and the palaces of King Farouk, Egypt’s last king. You also see the Mosque of Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, the Unknown Soldier Memorial and the statue of Alexander the Great before returning to Cairo. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: breakfast and lunch.

After breakfast you are taken to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Dubai, where you are met and transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Dubai. Meals: breakfast.

After breakfast you join a five-hour group tour of Dubai, with pickup from your hotel between 09:15 and 09:45. You start at Dubai Creek, where the city began, and cross it by abra, the traditional water taxi, to the old souks for gold and spices. The tour continues to Jumeirah Mosque, Palm Jumeirah and Atlantis The Palm, then along Sheikh Zayed Road past the skyscrapers to a photo stop at the Burj Khalifa, before you are driven back to your hotel. Meals: breakfast.

The morning is free. At 15:00 you are collected from your hotel for a desert safari, driving over the dunes by 4×4 and stopping to try sandboarding. At a Bedouin-style camp you can dress in local clothes, ride a camel and watch the sunset, followed by dinner with belly dance and tanoura shows and shisha in a choice of flavours, before returning to your hotel. Meals: breakfast and dinner.

After breakfast you are transferred to Dubai International Airport 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 hotel accommodation in both Cairo and Dubai, a private Egyptologist guide for the Egypt days, the Dubai city tour and desert safari, transfers, and entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary. Flights and personal expenses aren’t included, and we’ll confirm the full details with you when you book.

After your 4 days touring Egypt wrap up in Alexandria and Cairo, you’ll fly from Cairo International Airport to Dubai, where our representative will meet you and transfer you to your hotel to start the Dubai half of your trip.

Yes, in Egypt you’ll have a private Egyptologist guide and vehicle throughout. In Dubai, the city tour is run as a shared group tour with a local operator, while the desert safari is arranged separately. Let us know if you’d like to discuss private options for the Dubai leg.

Yes, Day 7 is a Dubai desert safari, dune bashing across the sand dunes with stops for photos, followed by the usual desert camp experience in the evening.

Yes, if you’d like to spend more or less time in either destination, or reorder the itinerary, just let us know when you book and we’ll work out a version that fits what you want to see.