Egyptexcursions Reviews 10

First of all, their prices are way too high. They are thiefs. I could not attends a tour because I got to hospital in an emergency. I told them the day prior but because it was less then 24 hrs before, I could not get a refund on the get your guide platform. They said they would try, then they said they could not like the platform was the issue. Finally get your guide said they refused to refund. They don’t care, even with medical papers and no one having to work, they paid a driver and a tour 154$ for 3 hours, which is a ton of money for egyptians. Those people are scammers, fraud and not honest people. Don’t do business with thiefs.

Great experience from start to finish. Excellent communications and could not have wanted better for our day trip to Luxor.

We booked multiple excursions through Egyptexcursions.co.uk, Quad bike Safari, Bedouin Show and Star Gazing and a day trip to Cairo by Plane from Sharm El Sheik.

You get a message on WhatsApp (all communication with the company is through WhatsApp, very archaic) to meet a random man at the front of your hotel with sometimes hundreds of pounds of cash to pay for the pre-booked excursions, this random man will give you a couple of slips of paper for the excursions and you have to pray that they are honest and will turn up to pick you up for these excursions and not bugger off with your money.

The quad bike safari was great, however the Bedouin show was without the star gazing, the driver essentially drove us a little further into the desert and opened the door of the mini van, and pointed at the sky.

You are without a tour guide on both the safari and the Bedouin show, you just get dropped of to the site of the activity, and of course, there are always people demanding your money and trying to pressure you into buying things you don't want.

For the Cairo trip, you are dropped at the airport and left to figure out where to go and what plane to get on, once you get on the incredibly old EgyptAir or AirCairo plane (if you survive the flight) you have to figure out who is picking you up and driving you to the pyramids. Your only way of communication with the company who organises this is through WhatsApp, which hardly works as the mobile data in Egypt is that of a third world country, or by telephone, where there is a significant language barrier and lack of understanding.

Once we got to the pyramids, the tour guide began to explain the history of the country and the pyramids, which was great and informative.

You go through security and pay for your own ticket to enter the pyramids, and you pay for the parking for the car that brought you there, which isn't disclosed before hand.

The tour guide demanded to take photos of us, but in every photo used 'Portrait' mode, and so every single photo had the background blurred, which is obviously the whole point of the pictures in the first place. Because of this also, you felt as if you couldn't take your own photos, as they might be upset you weren't satisfied with the awful ones they took. Again, the common theme of intense pressure.

After seeing the pyramids, the tour guide continued to offer additional services that you can pay for around the pyramids, like camel rides or horse and cart rides, however, these people are actually the tour guides friends, and so it is essentially a set up. After doing one of the camel rides which was great, the 10 year old something child leading these huge animals demanded a tip after already being paid for the service provided, and when offered twenty Egyptian pounds, turned his nose up and demanded more, which we were forced to give by the tour guide.

After this, we were told we would visit a museum about the kartouche, which in reality was the jewellery store of another friend where we were pressured into buying jewellery that we didn't want, some pieces coming up to 800 USD.

After that, we were carted to a papyrus and oil store, the guide ushered us into the building and then sat outside with the droves of friends and family just hanging around the building, waiting for us to be rinsed of all our money.

After this lovely act of kindness by the tour guide, which the second and third time we had escaped as we were simply pissed off at the disrespect, we stopped to have lunch at a nearby McDonald's, as this was our alternative choice to a restaurant that was probably another one of the tour guides friends.

After that, we drove through the centre of the slum which is the city of Cairo, to the Egyptian museum, we walked through the droves of police armed with AK-47 rifles and metal detectors, and once stepping foot in the museum I had had such a bad bought of panic attacks as a result of the situations we had been put in by the tour guide and the immense peer pressure to do things I didn't want to do, that we demanded to be taken back to Cairo airport 5 hours early and canceled the rest of the tours, including a trip from Sharm to Luxor.

Overall, the sights and history of the country is great, but the people completely tainted the trip, I seriously recommend spending more money and booking these excursions through a trusted travel agent of your own country, as these people have no respect for you or your money.

Not to mention the whole system is unorganised and completely based on trust, and these are not the sort of people you can trust.

highly recommended for excursions and any other questions... very professional, always just on time and helpful… thx

Hi I am Rengan,
I was on a holiday from Uk to Hurgada In Egypt for a week between 17th to 24th December 2021. This was my first visit to Egypt and I was planning to visit Cairo and luxor. I travelled with my daughter and about arranging the trip on short notice. The Cairo trip was decided on Saturday and I booked the trip with Egyptexcursion on the website for Monday which is short notice. Mohamed contacted me on Sunday and flight ticket was booked for Monday as planned. I was picked up by tour Guide Amy(Amen) and our private tour started. The guides gave a good summary of the planned visit and other alternatives like Sakara step pyramids which I took. It was a Good suggestion. The driver was good and Amen was excellent. The lunch was part of the package. After lunch we visited Cairo museum. Amen explained about the artefacts in the museum which very interesting and knowledgeable. I also learnt about perfumes and papyrus making. The private guided tour was well organised on short notice and everyone in the team was very helpful. I carry fond memories of my trip to Cairo and thank the entire team who made it memorable. I will definitely use the services again when I visit Egypt again. All the best.

Excellent tours on this site. Our tour Operator Mohamed really looked after us to ensure we had an excellent holiday. Hope to go to Egypt again very soon. Just wish we had more time to enjoy more excursions.

We booked several excursions with Sharm excursions including: parasailing, 5-in-1 Safari and Cairo by bus.

Booking information and confirmation was provided in a timely manner with Mohamed more than happy to help with any queries as well as helping to accommodate any changes and offer recommendations on other excursions available during our stay.

Our tour guides Ahmed (Sim Sim) and Maryam were very friendly knowledgeable and made our excursion experience all the more enjoyable. We also appreciated Mohamed taking time to meet us and ask about our experience during our Cairo excursion.

We fully recommend booking with Sharm excursions for the value for money and service. It was our first trip to Egypt and we enjoyed it so much we will be back in the future!

Thank you once again for a memorable Sharm experience.

Excellent trip to Luxor with Egypt Excursions with a lovely driver, Brian, who collected us from our hotel in Hurghada and took very good care of us on our 4 hour journey to Luxor for a range of visits including Valley of the Kings and who chauffeured us during the whole trip. Arriving in Luxor we were greeted by Mahmoud, a most excellent guide- speaking very good English and who is an expert Egyptologist having studied Egyptology at the University here. Mahmoud was very attentive, checked we were happy constantly and protected us from lots of pushy traders. The day in Luxor was awesome, we took in so much more than the advertised trips, including the offer of an additional boat trip on the Nile. I would highly, highly recommend Mahmoud for anything you could ever wish to know about ancient Egypt and Egypt Excursions as the first choice for your trips whilst in Egypt!

I booked this trip for myself and 2 friends before arriving in Egypt. The booking process was extremely easy on the company website and communication from Mohamed when I was unsure of things was responded to really quickly. When we arrived in Egypt, our friend on another flight was delayed and we were supposed to meet the representative at our hotel, so I called to rearrange and this was done with no problems at all. When the rep did arrive to collect payment he was very informative about what we would need to take and what to expect. The bus we were taken on was really comfortable - needed when your travelling for 4 hours! And refreshment stops were taken. When we arrived at Luxor we were met by Marwa who was our guide for the day. She was fantastic! Really informative and friendly and knew her stuff on Egyptian past. Thanks Marwa for making our trip! All in all fantastic tour company - the group wasn’t large either - and would definitely recommend anyone to book with this company. (Also really well priced)

We booked trip to Luxor from Hurghada with this company only one week before our holiday , it was very easy to book online and we enjoyed this trip also we recommend this company egyptexcursions.co.uk to all people who want best service and cheap prices .
our guide in Luxor Marwa . She is very friendly and warm and she told us very interesting things about the history of the monuments. The guide tour was very pleasant and educational.
Mark