13 days / 12 nights starting at $3025
Alexandria / Cairo / Luxor / Aswan
THIS PRIVATE TOUR Highlights include:
* Guided Tours to the "A" list of sites in Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and the city Cleopatra made famous, Alexandria
* International buffet breakfast daily plus lunches and dinners while on the cruise
Fully escorted from arrival to Cairo
Guaranteed weekly departures year round
PRIVATE TOUR with your own guide and transportation
The Romance of Egypt tour is a PRIVATE tour, with your own guide and transportation providing the opportunity to immerse yourself in ancient egypt with guides who have the ability to bring to life over 5000 years of history.
Whether you are celebrating your recent marriage or renewing vows made decades ago this Travel Egypt tour offers a combination of luxury, entertainment and educational experiences in a setting like none other on Earth.
Travel Egypt's Romance of Egypt is an upscale tour featuring luxury 5* hotels with deluxe or superior view rooms and a deluxe 5* Nile cruise with an upper decks, panoramic Nile view cabin.
Egypt tourism should be relaxing. Travel Egypt Egypt tours are fully escorted from your arrival to Cairo, giving you the opportunity to enjoy the experience carefree.
Highlights include visits to the Giza plateau, featuring the Great Pyramid and Sphinx. The Egyptian Museum of antiquities where you will marvel at King Tut's treasures. Temples along the Nile from Aswan to Luxor, the Necropolis of Thebes featuring the Valley of the Kings and the city Alexander the Great founded but Cleopatra made famous. All costs associated with these visits including transportation, entry fees, guide, service charges and taxes are already included in the tour price.
Included meals are giant international buffets with breakfast daily plus ala carte and buffet lunches and dinners while on the cruise.
Sample
Tour Outline:
Day
01: (Monday) Arriving clear immigration and customs then staff will transfer you to the Mena
House hotel, where you will enjoy a Pyramid view
room with private balcony. Overnight Cairo
VISAS: All travelers to Egypt must have a visa. Citizens of most countries can obtain one on arrival. Please let us know what passport you are traveling with and we will confirm whether you can get your’s on arrival.
Day 02: (Tuesday) A full
day tour of Memphis,
the ancient capital, Sakkarra
with it's famous Stepped Pyramid and Dahshur
with it's famous Bent and Red Pyramids plus the new Imhotep museum. Overnight Cairo (B)
Day
03: (Wednesday) Tour of the Giza
plateau where you will marvel at the
seventh wonder of the world, the Great Pyramid. Stare
into the face of the inscrutable Sphinx.
Overnight Cairo (B)
OPTIONAL Tour: Pyramids sound and light show $40 per person
Day
04: (Thursday) Enjoy a visit to the Egyptian
Museum of Antiquities, featuring King
Tut's treasures. Then visit the famous Khan
el Khalili bazaar where travelers have
been finding bargains since the middle ages. Overnight
Cairo (B)
Day
05: (Friday) Depart Cairo by air-conditioned
vehicle for Alexandria.
The city Alexander the Great built and Cleopatra made
famous. Arriving enjoy the comfort of the beautiful
Maritim Jolie Ville Hotel right on the shore of the Mediterranean
Sea. Overnight Alexandria (B)
Day
06: (Saturday) Tour Alexandria including the
Greco-Roman sites, the museums and the new world famous
library.
Return to Cairo in the evening and the comfort of the
Fairmont
Heliopolis hotel. (B)
Day
07: (Sunday) Staff transfers you to the airport,
assists with checking in and you fly to Luxor. Arriving
staff transfers you to the Sonesta St. George hotel
where you will have a Nile view room. Overnight Luxor
(B)
Optional tour: Dendara and Abydos Temples: $120 per person
Optional tour: Sound and Light show at Karnak temple $40 per person
Day
08: (Monday) Buffet breakfast, check out, staff will transfer you to the M/S Amarco or M/S Royal Viking cruise. Lunch on board. Following lunch visit Luxor’s East Bank Temple of Karnak and Temple of Luxor. Return to the ship for dinner. Overnight Luxor (B, L, D)
Optional Tour of West bank sites not included in cruise: $95 per person (includes the Valley of the Queens, the tombs of the nobles and artisans, Medinet Habu, Ramessium, temple of Seti 1)
Day
09: (Tuesday) Breakfast then visit Luxor's West Bank including the Valley
of the Kings, the Temple of Queen
Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari and the Colossi
of Memnon. After touring return to the ship for lunch. Sail to Esna. Dinner on board. Overnight Esna (B, L, D)
Day
10: (Wednesday) Breakfast, sail to Edfu and visit the Temple
of Horus. Sail to Kom Ombo. Overnight Kom Ombo (B, L, D)
Day
11: (Thursday) Breakfast then visit the Temple of Kom Ombo. Sail to Aswan. Lunch on board before visiting the Aswan High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk and the Temple
of Philae. Dinner on board. Overnight Aswan (B, L, D)
Day
12: (Friday) Breakfast on board before disembarkation. Staff transfers you to the airport, assists with checking in and you fly to Cairo. Arriving staff transfers you to the Fairmont
Heliopolis. Overnight Cairo (B)
NOTE: Optional excursion to Abu Simbel this morning including transfers, flights, private guide, entry fees, service charges and taxes $250 per person
Day
13: (Saturday) Staff will transfer you to the
airport, assist with exit formalities and checking in
for your international departure.
TOURS
INCLUDE: 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). 5 star Deluxe Nile
cruise with outside Nile view cabin, private
bath, individual climate control. Meals as outlined
by B for breakfast, L for lunch and D for dinner. Fees
for visiting antiquity sites and museums. Services of
an English speaking licensed Egyptologist. Service charges
and taxes.
NOTE: During any of our small group tours people may join or leave at various times, however at no time would any group be larger than 16 travelers. We can provide private tours with an additional supplement. The cost depends on the tour chosen.
NOT
included are: INTERNATIONAL AIR, Air ticket taxes, fuel surcharges,
items of a personal nature such as tips (tipping guideline), entry visa
(available at the airport on entry for USA citizens.
Other nationalities should check with the nearest Egyptian
consulate), phone calls, laundry, beverages, any items not specifically covered in the included items.
Laundry in Egypt
All hotels and the cruises have laundry/dry cleaning available.
Sample laundry prices IN EGYPTIAN POUNDS (LE) are:
Men:Shirts (collared, short or long sleeve): 9 to 17 LE
Trousers: 12 to 20 LE
Under shorts: 5 to 7 LE
T Shirts: 6 to 13 LE
Socks: 3 to 6 LE
Shorts: 7 to 13 LE
Ladies
Blouse: 10 to 17 LE
Panties: 5 to 8 LE
Bra: 5 to 8 LE
Slacks: 12 to 22 LE
Dress: 20 to 36 LE
T shirt: 6 to 13 LE
Shorts: 6 to 13 LE
Laundry in before 9AM is back at 6PM.
Laundry in after 9AM is back the following day.
Rush laundry is generally available at 50% more cost.
Dry cleaning is available with prices about the same as laundry.
Children's clothes are generally 50% of the adult cost.
Beverages
No drinks are included in tour prices. Some hotels and cruises give one bottle of water free daily others do not. As a general guide you could expect to pay:
Bottled water at hotels or on the cruise: $1 to $3 for a small bottle, $2.50-$5 for a large bottle.
NOTE: This is filtered water. If you order perrier it will cost more.
Coffee or Tea: 50 cents
Soft drinks (Coke, Pepsi, etc): $1 each
Alcoholic drinks:
Local beer: $3 per bottle
Imported beer: $5 to $8 per bottle
Wine: local $4 to $6 per glass. imported will be more $$.
Liquor: local $5 per cocktail + cost of mixer (soft drink, juice, etc), imported $8-$15 per cocktail + cost of mixer)
ICE: In the hotels and on the cruise the ice is prepared from filtered water.
| Romance
of Egypt Price |
PP/Double |
PP/Single |
| Low (Jun, Jul, Aug) |
$3,025 |
$3,775 |
| Shoulder (May and Sept*) |
$3,195 |
$3,995 |
| Peak (Oct-Apr) |
$3,345 |
$4,195 |
| Holiday (Christmas, New
Year, Easter) |
$3,945 |
$4,945 |
*September tours must end no later than September 30 to get the shoulder season rate.
Round trip air from JFK starting at $966
Tours must be booked at least 45 days prior to arrival.
Prices
and itinerary subject to change without notice.
Single Price
is for Single occupancy hotel rooms and cruise cabins
based on a minimum of two travelers. Single travelers
(one person on the tour) would have additional cost.
FREQUENT
TRAVELERS: You are welcome to arrange your own
international air or we can assist if you are departing from the USA. Also if you are
a member of any hotel chain frequent traveler program
you are welcome to use your points for hotel rooms and
the cost of the tour will be reduced accordingly OR
if you want to accumulate points plus take advantage
of membership hotel room upgrades let us know which
program you want to use.
We
contract with most major hotel chains including:
Prices
are based on using the hotels shown. If you change hotels
the tour price may change.
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