10 Day Egypt Tours Cairo, the Nile and More

A 10 day Egypt tour covers the full classic route, Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and a Nile cruise, and still leaves two or three days for something more: Abu Simbel, Alexandria, the Red Sea or simply a free day before the flight home. We offer fifteen private tours of nine to eleven days, from $1,250 per person (double room, October to April) on a budget cruise package to luxury programs with Marriott Mena House and domestic flights.

Below, all fifteen are compared on one table, followed by how the days are usually divided and which version fits which kind of traveler. For informational itineraries you can follow on your own, see our Egypt travel guide.

All Our 9 to 11 Day Egypt Tours

Prices are per person sharing a double room from October to April, except Timeless Egypt, which is published as a single starting price. Triple, single and May to September rates are on each tour page, and most packages cost a little less in summer.

How Ten Days in Egypt Divide

Almost every tour in the table follows the same frame: an arrival day in Cairo, a day at Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum, three or four nights on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, and a departure day. That takes six or seven days. What you do with the remaining three is what really separates one 10 day Egypt tour package from another:

• Abu Simbel. Cheops, Romantic Nile and Sun Ray include a day trip from Aswan to the temples of Ramses II and Nefertari, then fly or take the train back for a second Cairo sightseeing day. Our Abu Simbel guide explains the site.
• Alexandria. Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Ptolemy add a guided day on the Mediterranean, with the catacombs, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Qaitbay Citadel. See our Alexandria travel guide.
• The Red Sea. HAPI, Nile Legend, King Tut Dive, Nile Dream and Hatshepsut Dive end with resort nights in Hurghada, Sahl Hasheesh or Sharm El Sheikh. Our Egypt and Red Sea tours page compares every beach combination we run.
• A free day. Sun Ray, Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Cheops, Romantic Nile and Alexander the Great all keep an unscheduled day in Cairo, a useful buffer before a long flight.
• Golf. The Grand Egypt Golf puts the cruise first, then three rounds on Cairo courses, with optional sightseeing for a partner who does not play.

The two nine-day tours, PTAH and King Tut, are the core route with a four-night cruise and nothing else added. Choose one of them if you have nine days and want the river at an easy pace.

Three or Four Nights on the Nile

Four-night sailings start in Luxor and travel upstream to Aswan, which gives you a slower river section with a full day for Luxor’s East and West Banks and time on deck between Edfu and Kom Ombo. Three-night sailings start in Aswan and go downstream to Luxor, freeing a day for the beach or Alexandria. If the cruise is the part of Egypt you are most looking forward to, a 10 day Cairo Nile cruise tour with four nights on board, such as King Tut, Romantic Nile or Sun Ray, will suit you better. Our hubs on the 4 night Nile cruise and the 3 night Nile cruise compare the ships.

Timeless Egypt is the exception: eleven days entirely on land, with three nights at a resort hotel in Luxor, two in Aswan, a private drive between them with a stop at Kom Ombo, and four full days in Cairo. It suits travelers who would rather have a large hotel room every night than a cabin. Our page on Egypt tours without a Nile cruise lists the other hotel-based options.

Sleeper Train or Domestic Flights

On budget and classic packages you travel between Cairo and the south on the first-class overnight sleeper train, with dinner and breakfast on board, which saves both a flight and a hotel night on each leg. HAPI and Nile Legend also use a bus of about four hours from Luxor to Hurghada and a bus back to Cairo, and King Tut Dive returns from Sharm El Sheikh by road. The luxury tours fly. The King Tut, Alexander the Great and Nile Legend pages all note that the train or bus can be upgraded to domestic flights on request, which is worth pricing if you prefer short travel days.

Which 10 Day Tour Suits You

• Best value with a cruise: PTAH, Cheops or Cleopatra, all in our budget Egypt tours range with the La Sara and the Mamlouk Pyramids Hotel.
• Five-star Cairo hotel at a moderate price: King Tut, Romantic Nile or Alexander the Great, which use the Hilton Pyramids Hotel and the Le Fayan. See our classic Egypt tours.
• Flights and Marriott Mena House: Sun Ray, Ptolemy, Nile Dream or Hatshepsut Dive, compared with our other luxury Egypt tours.
• Couples who want time on the water: Romantic Nile or Sun Ray, both with four cruise nights and Abu Simbel.
• History readers: Alexander the Great or Ptolemy, which add Greco-Roman Alexandria to the pharaonic sites.
• A beach finish: HAPI or Nile Legend for Hurghada on a budget, Hatshepsut Dive for the Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh.

What You Can Add

Ten days have some room for extras. A hot air balloon flight fits any morning in Luxor. A day trip to Dendara and Abydos from Luxor suits travelers who want temples beyond the usual circuit, and works best on a four-night cruise or Timeless Egypt. On Cheops, Romantic Nile and Sun Ray the Abu Simbel trip goes by road, and the Sun Ray page notes it can be upgraded to a short flight. Tours without Abu Simbel can add it from Aswan as Abu Simbel by air. If your list keeps growing, compare our 14 day Egypt tours, or go shorter with our 7 day Egypt tours.

Booking Your Tour With Delta Tours Egypt

Nobody else joins your sightseeing on these trips. An English-speaking guide and a driver are assigned to your party alone, the entrance fees for the itinerary sites are paid in advance, and cruise nights come with all meals. We are a family-run company in Cairo, arranging travel in Egypt since 1974, and our team is reachable on WhatsApp throughout your stay. Read about the best season to visit Egypt before you pick dates.

Send us your dates, budget and the one extra you care about most, and we will suggest the right ten days or adjust one of these programs. For a route of your own, start with a tailor-made Egypt tour.