7 Day Egypt Tours One Week, Private and Planned

A 7 day Egypt tour is long enough for the Giza Pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum and the tombs and temples of Luxor, and on most of our packages it also fits a three- or four-night Nile cruise, Abu Simbel or a short stay on the Red Sea. We run thirteen private tours of six to eight days, from $860 per person (double room, October to April) on a budget package that uses sleeper trains to luxury programs with domestic flights and five-star hotels.

This page puts all thirteen side by side so you can pick by budget, route and pace. If you want sample day plans rather than packages, our Egypt travel guide covers those.

Every 6 to 8 Day Egypt Tour We Offer

Prices are per person sharing a double room from October to April. The three tours marked * are priced by group size instead of season, and the figure shown is the per-person rate for two to four travelers. Each tour page lists single, triple and summer rates.

How a Week in Egypt Is Best Used

Every tour above starts with an arrival day in Cairo and ends with a departure day, so a seven-day trip gives you five full days on the ground. The question is what to do with them. Our one-week packages fall into four shapes:

• Cairo and Luxor only. One day at Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum, two days in Luxor for both banks of the river, and a last day in Islamic and Coptic Cairo. Anubis, King Treasure and Tut Treasure follow this plan. You see fewer places, but you see them without rushing.
• Cairo and a Nile cruise. Fly or ride the train south, then sail between Aswan and Luxor for three or four nights with stops at Kom Ombo and Edfu. This is the most complete picture of ancient Egypt that fits in a week, on RA, Queen Nefertari, Hathor, Best of Egypt and Ancient Egypt Revealed.
• Hotels with Abu Simbel. Jewels of Egypt and Treasures of the Pharaohs use flights and a private car to reach Aswan and Abu Simbel without spending nights on a ship.
• Temples, then the beach. ISIS Dive, Sun and Sea and TITI Dive drop Aswan and give you two or three nights on the Red Sea after Luxor. Our Red Sea guide explains the resort areas.

Six, Seven or Eight Days?

The extra day matters more than it looks. At six days, the Cairo and Luxor tours keep a full day in each city but leave out the river south of Luxor, while Jewels of Egypt reaches Abu Simbel by packing the schedule tightly. At seven days you can add Aswan and Abu Simbel with hotel nights, as on Treasures of the Pharaohs, or a short cruise with flights, as on Best of Egypt. An 8 day Egypt tour is where a cruise fits comfortably: Hathor and Queen Nefertari both give Cairo two separate visits, one before the river and one after, so the Grand Egyptian Museum or the old city comes at the end, once you have seen the tombs in Luxor.

If you are flying from North America, remember the journey itself. EgyptAir’s nonstop flight from New York JFK to Cairo takes about ten and a half hours, and most trips from the US, Canada or Australia involve an overnight flight. An eight-day package often fits a nine- or ten-day absence from work better than a six-day one squeezed around jet lag.

Nile Cruise or Hotels on a One-Week Tour

A cruise solves the main problem of a short trip, which is the distance between Luxor and Aswan. The ship moves while you eat and sleep, meals are included on board, and you unpack once for three or four nights. The trade-off is a fixed sailing schedule. Hotel-based tours give you a full-size room and more control over the day, but someone has to drive the river road, as on Treasures of the Pharaohs, or the route has to skip Edfu and Kom Ombo. If the river is the reason you are going, compare our Pyramids and Nile cruise tours and the ships themselves on our Nile cruises page. Travelers who already know they prefer hotels can see all our options on Egypt tours without a Nile cruise.

Sleeper Train or Domestic Flights?

On a trip this short, transport is where budget and luxury tours differ most. Budget and classic packages use the first-class overnight sleeper train between Cairo and the south, with dinner and breakfast on board. The train saves the cost of a hotel night and a flight, and you arrive in the morning ready to tour, but a berth is smaller than a hotel bed and you lose a little sleep. Luxury packages fly, which keeps evenings free and travel days short. ISIS Dive and Sun and Sea also include long road legs to and from Hurghada. The RA, Sun and Sea and ISIS Dive pages all note that train or road legs can be replaced with flights on request, so ask us for the difference.

Which One Week Egypt Tour Suits You

• Lowest cost: Anubis for Cairo and Luxor, RA if you want a cruise. Both are in our budget Egypt tours range.
• Mid-range comfort with the train: King Treasure or Queen Nefertari, which use the Hilton Pyramids Hotel. See our classic Egypt tours.
• Five-star hotels and flights: Hathor for a cruise, Tut Treasure without one. Our luxury Egypt tours page compares them with the longer programs.
• Abu Simbel in one week: Jewels of Egypt, Treasures of the Pharaohs, Best of Egypt or Ancient Egypt Revealed.
• Beach time: ISIS Dive, Sun and Sea or TITI Dive. Our Egypt and Red Sea tours page lists the longer combinations too.
• Families or a small private group: the three journeys priced by group size get cheaper per person as the group grows, from two travelers up to sixteen.

What You Can Add to a 7 Day Egypt Tour Package

A week leaves little slack, so add only what matters most to you:

• A dawn hot air balloon flight over Luxor’s West Bank, which fits any tour with a Luxor morning.
• Abu Simbel by air from Aswan, for the cruise tours that end or start there without it.
• The Pyramids Sound and Light Show on a Cairo evening.
• An extra night in Luxor. On TITI Dive, for example, travelers who want a slower look at Thebes often ask for one.

If the list of extras keeps growing, a longer trip may serve you better. Our 10 day Egypt tours add Abu Simbel, Alexandria or the Red Sea to the same core route, and our 14 day Egypt tours add a full beach week.

Booking a One Week Private Egypt Tour

All of these tours are private: you have your own English-speaking guide and vehicle for the sightseeing, and only the cruise ship or hotel is shared with other guests. Entrance fees to the sites in each itinerary are included, and on the luxury tours your guide is an Egyptologist. Delta Tours Egypt is a family-run company based in Cairo, and we have arranged travel in Egypt since 1974. Our team is on WhatsApp throughout your trip. For when to go, read our guide to the best season to visit Egypt.

Tell us your dates and how you like to travel, and we will match you to the right week or adjust one of these programs. You can also start from scratch with a tailor-made Egypt tour.