CAIRO - HAMADA TOURIST SERVICES

CAIRO by DAY or OVERNIGHT

Many tour operators offer day or overnight trips by car or bus to Cairo……but beware! These usually involve departing around 3am and a tedious 6 hr drive each way. The route is across a monotonous desert landscape on a road not renowned for safety or the standard of driving.
It’s surprisingly cheap to fly to Cairo from Hurghada – provided you don’t leave booking to the last minute. Cairo is less than 60 minutes away by air and return flights with Egyptair can be secured for as little as 600LE.
We have arranged a program to suit clients who wish to experience Egypt’s capital city in relative comfort

BY DAY
You’ll take an early morning flight and be met by our driver at Cairo International Airport. He’ll take you to the Giza Plateau, site of the Pyramids and Sphinx, often getting there within 2 hrs of you’re leaving Hurghada! You can tour the pyramids site by horse, camel or buggy….or on foot.
It’s then back  to the city to visit the Cairo Antiquities Museum with its incomparable collection of artifacts spanning  five thousand years of civilization, the treasures of boy-king  Tutankhamen and the mummies of many of Egypt’s legendary pharaohs.
You can take lunch by the Nile…or even on a boat cruising the Nile.
After lunch visit the Citadel of Saladin and the Alabaster Mosque built by Mohamed Ali – the founder of modern Egypt.
There are other interesting places to visit in Cairo and, depending on your return flight, you may have time to visit the Mamluk Tombs in the City of the Dead, Old Cairo, the Gayer-Anderson Museum and, of course, the famous bazaar of Khan El Khalili.
At the end of your day our driver will return you to Cairo Airport in time to catch your return flight to Hurghada.
Our Cairo Tour costs 600LE per car and you should budget 300LE per person for entrance fees, lunch etc. The whole day, including flights, would cost a couple around 2400LE

OVERNIGHT
Staying overnight in Cairo will greatly increase the number of attractions you can take in. For example, on day two, you could visit the giant necropolis of Sakkara containing the tombs of Egypt’s early pharaohs and nobles as well as the famous Step Pyramid. There are many other pyramids nearby. Memphis, the administrative capital of Egypt in ancient times, is only a short drive away……see the massive recumbent statue of Ramesses the Great.
Reasonably-priced hotels are available in Cairo. One of our favourites is the President Hotel in leafy Zamalek…ideally placed for seeing Cairo without getting caught up in its renowned traffic!!
Our two-day Cairo Tour costs 1000LE per car and you should budget 800LE per person for hotel and dinner, lunches, entrance fees etc. The two days, for a couple, including flights would cost around 3800LE
As with all HTS private tours, we work out with you beforehand the sort of itinerary you would enjoy most and can then  give you a more accurate budget for the total cost of a one or two day visit to Cairo