From the 5-day express tour to the 15-day Grand Tour, compare all SEV itineraries: Cairo, Nile cruise, Red Sea, desert. Prices from £460, English-speaking guide, owner cruises, WhatsApp quote within 24 hours.
Before anything else, picking an Egypt tour is a matter of settling on how long and how fast. A week for the highlights? A leisurely 7-night sail down the Nile? Or a fortnight taking in Cairo, a cruise and the Red Sea? Pricing, how tired you get, what the internal flights add and which sites make the cut all shift dramatically with the number of days you have.
Below are the 12 off-the-shelf itineraries put together by the SEV team in Cairo, sorted by length and by theme. Every one of them can be adjusted: stretch a stay, move up a hotel grade, bolt on Abu Simbel or some Red Sea diving. Your tailored quote lands on WhatsApp inside 24 hours.
Our tours cover 4 major possible itineraries: (1) Cairo + Nile Cruise (the classic 7-11 days), (2) Combined Cairo + Red Sea or Cairo + Hurghada + Cruise (10-15 days), (3) Western Desert + Siwa oasis (8-12 days), (4) Combined Egypt + Jordan via Petra (12-15 days).
Here is the complete matrix which allows you to choose at a glance the right format according to your available time. Prices are indicative per person in average season; domestic flights in Egypt (Cairo-Luxor, Aswan-Abu Simbel, Cairo-Hurghada) are organized and included by SEV, you arrange your flight to Egypt:
| Duration | Cities | Cruise | Red Sea | Price from | Ideal audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 days | Cairo + Alexandria | No | No | £460 | Quick cultural city break |
| 7 days | Cairo + Nile Cruise 4n | Yes (4n) | No | £990 | The most popular format |
| 8 days | Cairo + Hurghada family | No | Yes (4n) | £920 | Family with children |
| 9 days | Cairo + private Dahabeya | Yes (Dahabiya 6n) | No | £2,420 | Honeymoon, small groups |
| 10 days | Cairo + Nile + Abu Simbel | Yes (4-5n) | No | £1,300 | Ideal compromise |
| 12 days | Cairo → Marsa Alam | Yes (4n) | Yes (3n) | £1,190 | Grand culture + beach tour |
| 14-15 days | Desert, Red Sea, Nile and Cairo | Yes (7n) | Yes (4n) | £1,760 | Complete Grand Tour |
Can't find your format? All our tours are flexible - duration, hotels, cruise, extensions. Describe your project to us and we offer you a dedicated itinerary.
A quick cultural fix for a long weekend or a spur-of-the-moment break. With 4 nights in Cairo you cover the must-sees: the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM, opened in 2025), Khan el-Khalili, Saqqara and Memphis. If you like, add a day in Alexandria for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Price from £460/pers (domestic flights not necessary on this city-break format).
Our best-selling and best-balanced shape: 2 nights in Cairo covering the Pyramids and the GEM, a short flight to Luxor to join a 5★ boat, then sailing down the Nile calling at Karnak, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae before leaving the boat in Aswan and flying back to Cairo.
Price from £990/pers all-inclusive, domestic flights Cairo-Luxor and Aswan-Cairo organized by SEV (your flight to Egypt remains at your expense).
Browse the 7-day options: Cairo and Nile Cruise 2026
7 days feels rushed and 14 feels like too much? Then 10 days hits the sweet spot. It buys you one more night in Cairo (for Memphis and Saqqara), a cruise stretched to 5 nights and, above all, the trip out to Abu Simbel, a site with few rivals anywhere on the planet that shorter packages tend to leave out.
Price from £1,300/person all inclusive.
The ultimate format for those who want to see everything in one trip. 3 nights in Cairo (Pyramids + GEM + Memphis + Saqqara + Alexandria optional), 7 nights 5★ Nile cruise Luxor-Aswan-Abu Simbel, 4 nights 5★ Hurghada all inclusive hotel with diving. SEV organizes all your domestic flights (Cairo-Louxor, Aswan-Abou Simbel, Cairo-Hurghada) to connect each wonder without loss of time.
Price from £1,760/person in the middle season. Ideal for October-November or February-March.
See the package Cairo + Cruise + Hurghada or our 12 days tour from Cairo to Marsa Alam
The pairing we are asked for most: 5 nights in Egypt (Cairo plus a short Nile cruise) then 4-5 nights in Jordan (Amman, Petra, the Dead Sea and Wadi Rum). Direct Cairo to Amman flight, private transfers, an English-speaking guide in each country (Egyptian, then Jordanian). Price from £1,840/pers.
Prestige format: Nile cruise 7 nights + 4-5 nights Athens/Santorini. Includes Athens-Cairo flight. Prices from £2,530/pers.
Weighing them up? See Jordan versus Egypt and Egypt and Greece together
Dahabiya 8 privatized cabins, Mena House Pyramids view suites, limousine transfers, Luxor domestic business flight.
The Pyramids, the child-friendly Red Pyramid, then a Hurghada resort with water park, English-language entertainment and kids' club.
A 3★ Nile-view hotel, metro travel covered, a shared guide and no internal flights.
Cairo to Bahariya and the White Desert, a night in a Bedouin tent, on to Siwa oasis and back to Cairo.
Plenty of people judge agencies purely on the headline price and never check what is actually in each package. So here is a proper side-by-side on 8 key points:
| Criterion | FR tour operators (Kuoni, FRAM, TUI, Carrefour) | SEV (local Cairo agency) |
|---|---|---|
| English-speaking guide | Not always included, sometimes in English | 100% English-speaking, MOTA licensed |
| Interim margin | +25 to +35% on the land price | Direct DMC Cairo - no margin |
| Personalization | Fixed package, change often refused | 100% flexible (dates, hotels, duration) |
| Named hotels | Unnamed generic "5★" | Mena House, Sonesta St George, Mövenpick named |
| Cruise ship | Boat assigned on arrival | Boat chosen when signing the quote |
| Responsiveness 24/7 | International call center 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. | WhatsApp +20 109 656 9859 24/7 French |
| Visa | At your expense | Assistance + obtaining on site |
| Trustpilot/Google rating | 3,2-4,0 / 5 | 4.8/5 (156 verified reviews) |
Peak season for touring Egypt runs October through April. In winter Cairo and Luxor sit at a perfect 15-28°C and the Red Sea at 22°C; in summer Luxor climbs past 40°C, though the Red Sea comes into its own.
Here's a quick month-by-month for the circuits:
Guides by month: OctoberNovemberFebruaryMarch
Sem Élégant Voyage has been an English-speaking agency on the ground in Cairo since 2020, rather than a UK tour operator farming the work out. That makes all the difference:
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