Egypt and UAE tours

Old Cairo, new Gulf

These trips are built on contrast. In Cairo the pyramids of Giza show the beginnings of monumental architecture, and the medieval streets around Al-Muizz Street show a thousand years of mosques, madrasas and gates still in daily use. In Dubai the creek and the wind-tower houses of Al Fahidi show how people built for the Gulf climate before air conditioning, and Burj Khalifa and Palm Jumeirah show what the city builds now.

Every trip follows the same order. You arrive in Cairo, where someone meets you at the airport, see Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum with your guide, then fly to Dubai. Some trips end there. Others continue by private road transfer to Abu Dhabi for the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and Louvre Abu Dhabi. On the Egyptian side, two trips add the Nile and one adds the Red Sea.

The six routes at a glance

The 7-day Cairo and Dubai tour gives each city three nights, joined by a single flight, so you unpack only twice. The 9-day Egypt, Dubai and Abu Dhabi tour reads three cities as one story about building, with two nights in Abu Dhabi.

The 10-day Family Discovery tour spends three nights in each of Cairo, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The 11-day Pyramids, 4-Night Nile Cruise and City tour sails from Luxor to Aswan before Dubai.

The 12-day Cairo, Red Sea and Desert Safari tour adds three nights in Hurghada and four in Dubai. The 14-day Luxury Dahabiya, Dubai and Abu Dhabi tour spends four nights on a boutique dahabiya and ends in Abu Dhabi.

Cairo, the Nile and the Red Sea

Cairo is the start of every trip, with a full guided day at Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum. Most trips add a day in the older quarters, from Al-Muizz Street to the bazaar of Khan el-Khalili; the family trip makes that a gentler day with a museum visit, a short historic-quarter walk and plenty of breaks.

The 11-day tour spends two nights in Cairo, then flies to Luxor for a four-night cruise to Aswan, with Karnak, Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's temple, Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae. The 14-day tour boards a boutique dahabiya in Luxor for four nights toward Aswan, with the West Bank, the Temple of Horus at Edfu and Kom Ombo; Philae is not included unless agreed in your final program. On both, your quote confirms the vessel and its departure, and a Cairo night after the flight from Aswan protects your connection to Dubai. Abu Simbel is not part of the 11-day itinerary.

The 12-day tour heads to Hurghada for three nights on the Red Sea, by domestic flight or private road transfer as confirmed in your quote. Boat trips to the Giftun Islands, snorkeling and diving are optional and not included.

The flight from Cairo to Dubai

Every trip crosses from Egypt to the United Arab Emirates by air, with one flight from Cairo to Dubai. On the 7-day, 9-day, 10-day and 12-day tours, international airfare is not included, and that includes the Cairo to Dubai flight unless your quote lists it. On the 11-day and 14-day tours, international airfare and the domestic and regional flights are not included unless your quote lists them.

The flight always has a day to itself, and on arrival in Dubai you are met again. On the three trips that continue to Abu Dhabi, the onward journey is a private road transfer, which is included, so there is no second flight inside the country.

Dubai

Every trip gives Dubai two kinds of day. One is spent by Dubai Creek and in the Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, where abra boats, dhows and wind towers bring the old trading port to life. The other is spent among the towers around Burj Khalifa, with a view toward Palm Jumeirah. Burj Khalifa observation-deck tickets are optional and not included.

The 12-day tour spends four nights in Dubai and adds an afternoon desert safari outside the city with a licensed operator. The safari is included, with the activities listed in your quote, which vary by operator and conditions. Three trips end in Dubai: the 7-day, 11-day and 12-day tours.

Abu Dhabi

The 9-day, 10-day and 14-day tours travel from Dubai to Abu Dhabi by private road transfer and end there, with meet and assist on departure from Abu Dhabi. Each gives the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and Louvre Abu Dhabi an unhurried day of their own. Louvre Abu Dhabi admission is not included unless your quote lists it.

The 9-day tour starts its Abu Dhabi stay with a settling-in day on the Corniche. The family trip adds a full day at Ferrari World on Yas Island, kept separate from the mosque and the museum so nobody has to combine a theme park with a long cultural circuit. Ferrari World admission and transport are not included unless your quote lists them.

Traveling as a family

The 10-day Egypt, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Family Discovery is planned around the way families travel. In Cairo your guide tailors the story of the pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum to your children, and the following day is a gentler one. Transfers use a vehicle suited to your family and luggage. Park tickets, ride restrictions and room configurations differ for every family, so all of them are confirmed in your personal quote.

What is included and what is not

Each trip includes meet and assist on arrival in Cairo and in Dubai and on departure, private airport and hotel transfers as described day by day, the hotel nights listed for that trip in the category named in your quote, and the guided sightseeing named in the program. On the dahabiya trip, private guiding in Cairo and an Egyptologist for the shore visits are included. Meals are included only where your confirmed quote lists them.

Not included on any of the six: international airfare, entry visas for Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, gratuities for guides and drivers, travel insurance, optional tickets and personal expenses.

How to request a quote

Pick the trip that fits, or tell us your dates and whether you want the Nile, the Red Sea or more time in the Gulf, and request a quote. A planner replies within 24 hours with your hotels, your flights and any ticketed extras, such as an observation deck, set out clearly. For the two Nile trips, the quote names your ship or dahabiya and its sailing.