Egypt Luxury Private Tour: Cairo, Luxor & Aswan by Nile

Arrive at Cairo International Airport, where your Memphis Tours representative meets you inside the terminal, assists with passport control and baggage, and escorts you to your private air-conditioned vehicle.
Transfer to the Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence, where your representative reviews the days ahead with you — pickup times, what to pack for four nights aboard, and how your touring works. The remainder of the day is at leisure.

Overnight in: Cairo – Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence

Meals: None

Signature Experience: Private arrival assistance and an itinerary briefing at the Four Seasons

Good to Know: Your final room and cabin category confirmation is issued with your travel documents before departure.

After breakfast, meet your private Egyptologist and begin at the Giza Plateau. Explore the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple, then enjoy your complimentary professional photo session overlooking the Pyramids.
Continue for lunch at a local Egyptian restaurant, followed by a visit to Saqqara, home to the Step Pyramid of King Djoser and the earliest monumental stone architecture in Egypt. Return privately to your hotel.

Overnight in: Cairo – Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Visits: Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Valley Temple, Saqqara, Step Pyramid of Djoser

Signature Experience: Complimentary professional photo session at the Pyramids

Optional Premium Experience: Interior entry to the Great Pyramid can be arranged at additional cost.

Good to Know: Dinner this evening is not included, leaving you free to try Cairo's restaurants. Your guide can recommend and reserve.

Transfer privately to Cairo Airport for your included flight to Luxor, arriving in around an hour. You are met and taken to the M/S Sonesta St. George to settle into your cabin.
In the afternoon, visit the Karnak Temple Complex, where the Great Hypostyle Hall's 134 columns still carry traces of their original color, and the ceremonial Luxor Temple linked to it by the restored Avenue of Sphinxes. Afternoon tea and dinner are served aboard.

Overnight in Nile cruise, moored in Luxor – M/S Sonesta St. George

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Visits: Karnak Temple Complex, Luxor Temple, Avenue of Sphinxes

Signature Experience: Cairo in the morning, moored beside Luxor's temples by evening

Good to Know: Sightseeing from the cruise is a shared group excursion with an accompanying Egyptologist. Your Cairo touring is private; the cruise portion is not. Domestic flight times are confirmed by airline availability and may require an early departure. Baggage allowance is 1 checked bag up to 23 kg (50 lb) plus 1 cabin bag up to 7 kg (15 lb) per guest.

After breakfast, cross to the West Bank to descend into the painted burial chambers of the Valley of the Kings, where three tombs are included in your visit.
Continue to the Temple of Hatshepsut, rising in three colonnaded terraces against the cliff face, and pause at the Colossi of Memnon. Return aboard for lunch as the vessel casts off, taking afternoon tea on deck as she transits the Esna Lock toward Edfu. Dinner is served aboard.

Overnight in Nile cruise, moored at Edfu

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Visits: Valley of the Kings (three tombs), Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Colossi of Memnon

Signature Experience: Watching the vessel work through the Esna Lock from the sun deck, tea in hand

Optional Premium Experience: Separate-ticket entry to the tomb of Tutankhamun can be arranged on the day. Sunrise hot-air balloon flight over the West Bank can be arranged at additional cost, weather permitting.
Good to Know: Sightseeing today is a shared group excursion with an accompanying Egyptologist.

After breakfast, visit the Temple of Horus at Edfu — the most completely preserved temple in Egypt, its roof, columns and sanctuary still intact after centuries buried in sand.

Return aboard for lunch as the vessel sails to Kom Ombo and its unusual double temple, divided between the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed Haroeris. Continue sailing south to Aswan, with dinner served aboard.

Overnight in Nile cruise, moored in Aswan

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Visits: Temple of Horus at Edfu, Temple of Kom Ombo

Signature Experience: Two of the Nile's great temples in a single day, with the sailing between them

Good to Know: Sightseeing today is a shared group excursion with an accompanying Egyptologist.

After breakfast, visit the Unfinished Obelisk lying in its ancient granite quarry, still attached to the bedrock that cracked beneath it — the clearest surviving evidence of how Egypt's monoliths were cut.

Continue by motorboat to Philae Temple on its island setting, dedicated to Isis and rescued stone by stone from the rising waters of the High Dam. Return aboard for lunch, with the afternoon at leisure and dinner served on board.

Overnight in Nile cruise, moored in Aswan

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Visits: Unfinished Obelisk, Philae Temple

Signature Experience: Approaching Philae by motorboat, the temple rising from its island as you cross

Optional Premium Experience: Private felucca sailing around Elephantine Island and the Botanical Gardens at sunset, and a day excursion to Abu Simbel by air, can both be arranged at additional cost.

Good to Know: Sightseeing today is a shared group excursion with an accompanying Egyptologist.

A final breakfast aboard before disembarking, with free time in Aswan to walk the corniche or the souk before your transfer.
Continue to Aswan Airport for your included flight back to Cairo, where you are met and transferred privately to the Four Seasons for the remainder of your stay. The rest of the day is at leisure.

Overnight in: Cairo – Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence

Meals: Breakfast

Signature Experience: Returning to the same Cairo hotel you started in, with no need to repack for the final stretch

Good to Know: Domestic flight times are confirmed by airline availability and may require an early departure. Baggage allowance is 1 checked bag up to 23 kg (50 lb) plus 1 cabin bag up to 7 kg (15 lb) per guest. Lunch and dinner are not included today.

A full day given to the Grand Egyptian Museum, standing two kilometres from the Pyramids you visited on Day 2. More than 100,000 artifacts span 5,000 years here, and the complete treasures of Tutankhamun are displayed together for the first time since their discovery.
Your private Egyptologist takes you through the galleries at a pace that lets the collection make sense, with lunch at a local Egyptian restaurant. The rest of the day is at leisure.

Overnight in Cairo – Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Visits: Grand Egyptian Museum

Signature Experience: Seeing Tutankhamun's complete collection after standing in his tomb at the Valley of the Kings earlier in the week

Good to Know: Dinner this evening is not included.

Your final full day, shaped around what you want from it. Stay in Cairo at your own pace, or choose a curated experience with your guide.
Travel to the Mediterranean for a day in Alexandria — the Qaitbay Citadel on the foundations of the ancient Pharos lighthouse, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa. Or spend the day closer to the table, with a private market visit and cooking class. Or simply rest before the journey home.

Overnight in Cairo – Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence

Meals: Breakfast

Signature Experience: A day built around your interests rather than a fixed schedule

Optional Premium Experience: Full-day Alexandria excursion, or a private Egyptian food tour and cooking class, both available at additional cost.

Good to Know: The Alexandria day trip involves approximately three hours' driving each way and is best booked in advance.

Enjoy breakfast and a relaxed final morning. Depending on your flight time, luggage storage can be arranged at the hotel should you wish to spend a few last hours in the city.

Your private air-conditioned vehicle and representative collect you at the appointed time and transfer you to Cairo International Airport, where you are assisted through check-in and security for your onward flight.

Meals: Breakfast

Signature Experience: Private departure transfer with airport check-in assistance

Good to Know: Standard check-out is 12:00. Late check-out is subject to availability and a supplement.