Day Tour to Luxor from Hurghada

I have been on two tours in Cairo and two tours in Luxor with Memphis and they were all excellent. They pick you up fromyour lodgings in the morning by private car and take you to the sites. They get the tickets for you and help you deal with the hawkers. The egyptolost tour guides are really knowledgeable and helpful.

I was particularly impressed by Mohamed Salam in Cairo though Maha and Abdou were also good. I would recommend Memphis Tours to any of my family and friends who come to Egypt.
 

We used Memphis Tours for trips to Luxor and Cairo. Despite the tensions in Egypt, everything went well. You are escorted 100% of the time. All staff were very professional and friendly. Guides were very knowledgable and did a good job keeping souvenir vendors at bay. For me, going to Egypt for a beach holiday from the UK makes zero sense, unless you also want to absorb a bit of culture and history. I would definitely recommend Memphis Tours - there might be some others that are a little bit less expensive, but they can't be faulted for professionalism.

Me and my 13year old daughter have just come back from a visit to Makadi Bay, Hurghada and while we were there used Memphis Tours to organise our trip to Luxor and I cannot rate them highly enough! Fantastic company with some great guides.

Having researched a little while in the UK in the weeks before our trip to Egypt, I decided that we would visit Luxor and the temples and tombs around this area. However I didnt fancy 4hrs each way on a coach so decided to book a private car instead and it was one of the best decisions I have made. We were picked up at 5.30am promptly by Islam the guide for the first part of the journey, and Mohammed the driver for the whole day. Both were extremely courteous and welcoming. The journey is 4 hours to Luxor, with a break half way. It actually didnt feel that long and the car was very comfortable and islam was very informative and chatty along the way.

Once in Luxor our guide for the day was Alaa and he provided an excellent sevice, informative, helpful and also kind. The tour was well put together, showing us the major sites around Luxor - totally fascinating!
The resturant where we had lunch was brilliant - happy to accomodate us when learning we are vegetarians, and showing great kindness to my daughter who was feeling a little unwell from the heat. Because of this care, she was able to recover enough to complete the tour.

Because of the good service we recieved during our trip to Luxor, I was happy to organise other outings with the company - Alaa organised a visit to Hurgadha one evening to see an egyptian show/display - a brief history of Egypt with impressive models of the Sphinx etc, a display of horsemanship - which was brilliant, belly dancers, whirling dervishes and a coloured fountain display - beautiful. Our guide was Aziz and he showed us around the massive hotel complex where the show takes place and around the small museum that holds replicas of many famous Egyptian artefacts - again very imformative, interesting, and a fun evening - highly recommended!

Aziz was also able to organise trip on a glass bottomed boat - which was amazing. This boat doesnt just have a small veiwing hole - it has a section inside the boat that is submerged and has strengthed windows that provide huge veiwing stations. You sail out for about ten minute sat on the deck, looking at the beautiful coastline, then you go inside the boat where its nice and cool and take a seat and watch as millions of fish go by and see all the beautiful coral- its like an aquarium, there are so many fish! I can see why its a top destination for diving! Absolutely stunning - and a must do!

Memphis Tours are an excellent company and I fully recommend them, and thank them for making our trip to Egypt so memorable. If/when we get a chance to return I would definately use them again.
 
 louisa t
“Our trip to Luxor and more with Memphis Tours”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed May 6, 2013

Me and my 13year old daughter have just come back from a visit to Makadi Bay, Hurghada and while we were there used Memphis Tours to organise our trip to Luxor and I cannot rate them highly enough! Fantastic company with some great guides.

Having researched a little while in the UK in the weeks before our trip to Egypt, I decided that we would visit Luxor and the temples and tombs around this area. However I didnt fancy 4hrs each way on a coach so decided to book a private car instead and it was one of the best decisions I have made. We were picked up at 5.30am promptly by Islam the guide for the first part of the journey, and Mohammed the driver for the whole day. Both were extremely courteous and welcoming. The journey is 4 hours to Luxor, with a break half way. It actually didnt feel that long and the car was very comfortable and islam was very informative and chatty along the way.

Once in Luxor our guide for the day was Alaa and he provided an excellent sevice, informative, helpful and also kind. The tour was well put together, showing us the major sites around Luxor - totally fascinating!
The resturant where we had lunch was brilliant - happy to accomodate us when learning we are vegetarians, and showing great kindness to my daughter who was feeling a little unwell from the heat. Because of this care, she was able to recover enough to complete the tour.

Because of the good service we recieved during our trip to Luxor, I was happy to organise other outings with the company - Alaa organised a visit to Hurgadha one evening to see an egyptian show/display - a brief history of Egypt with impressive models of the Sphinx etc, a display of horsemanship - which was brilliant, belly dancers, whirling dervishes and a coloured fountain display - beautiful. Our guide was Aziz and he showed us around the massive hotel complex where the show takes place and around the small museum that holds replicas of many famous Egyptian artefacts - again very imformative, interesting, and a fun evening - highly recommended!

Aziz was also able to organise trip on a glass bottomed boat - which was amazing. This boat doesnt just have a small veiwing hole - it has a section inside the boat that is submerged and has strengthed windows that provide huge veiwing stations. You sail out for about ten minute sat on the deck, looking at the beautiful coastline, then you go inside the boat where its nice and cool and take a seat and watch as millions of fish go by and see all the beautiful coral- its like an aquarium, there are so many fish! I can see why its a top destination for diving! Absolutely stunning - and a must do!

Memphis Tours are an excellent company and I fully recommend them, and thank them for making our trip to Egypt so memorable. If/when we get a chance to return I would definately use them again.
 

As it was a private tour my son and I were picked up by car and driven from our hotel at Soma Bay and to Luxor. En route our guide, Abdelaal Wanan, gave a formidable history lesson, and then escorted us to through the main Luxor sights: Valley of the Kings, Memnon, over the Nile to Karnak Temples. Despite the number of tourists and tourist development the sights themselves are still spectacular. The lunch stop was fine, but don't expect white table clothes and a superior restaurant. Considering the price of the tour I would have expected more. Both the guide and driver, Magad, were upmost repectful and friendly, which is much valued as a mother traveling with her son. They clearly helped us avoid the usual hassles of becoming tourist prey, which for us is a premium well worth the investment.

We went on a one day trip to Luxor to see valley of kings, Karnak temples and Hatshepsut temple. We were picked up early morning in our makadi bay hotel (close to hurghada) by our excellent guide and our excellent driver! Abdelaal Wanan was our guide, he gave us great insight into the history of the ancient places we visited and he was very friendly and funny! Our driver Magad made sure we had a safe and pleasant drive, he was very friendly and we felt very comfortable with him as our driver! It was a great day exploring the amazing sights in Luxor. We also had a delicious lunch arranged by Abdelaal on the rooftop in luxor looking over the Nile. and we would strongly recommend both Abdelaal and Magad - and using Memphis to arrange your sightseeing! Thank you for great service!

Regards from Ida and Adrian (Norway)

Prior to our departure to Makadi Bay on 19th April I booked a private tour with Memphis Tours of Cairo.
The trip was by private vehicle with driver, tour leader and English speaking guide to the antiquities in Luxor and the Valley of the Kings.
Our trip organiser in Cairo was Miss Eman Rashad and on the designated date the day commenced with our pick-up from our hotel in Makadi Bay and the run to Luxor accompanied by our tour leader, the very amenable and knowledgable, Mohamed Sakr and the driver, "Captain" Maged from Luxor who has three of the most beautiful children you could ever imagine to say nothing of his wife.
Upon our arrival at the Memphis Tours office in Luxor, Mohamed was replaced in our vehicle with Ms. Shimaa Baheeg, who was to be our beautiful and slightly misterious guide to the antiquities for the day.
We received a most comprehensive and interesting precis of ancient Egyptian history on the way across the River Nile to the Valley of the Kings which helped to put various facts and historical personages into some sort of temporal perspective for at least one self-confesed, almost total ignoramous on the subject of the history of Ancient Egypt.
We were conducted by Shimaa to access three of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings but no words of mine could possibly do them justice, suffice to say that my wife was rendered speechless and you can take it from me that this is an almost unheard of state of affairs.
Our trip then took us to the valley of Dier el-Bahari to see the Temple of Hatshepsut which was originally built on the orders of the Queen and Pharaoh, Hatshepsut as a monument for herself and her father, Thutmose I.
Once again you have to see this for yourself because it beggars description.
"Captain" Maged then returned us to Luxor where, on my request, we were taken to a Koshari restaurant for lunch. It was a fiercely hot day, the restaurant was open-fronted and obviously not air-conditioned so our guide, Shimaa went to the trouble of fetching our food to the car where we were able to eat in air0conditioned comfort and I'm pleased to report that the Koshari was as good as any that I've had.
After lunch we were taken to the temple complex at Karnak and spent about two and a half hours being visually stunned by an almost unending array of ancient architectural buildings and artifacts, statues and sphinxes, pillars and obelisks.
To accompany this we had a commentary from our friend, Shimaa which Dr. Jacob Bronowsky would have been proud to deliver, the difference being that Shimaa's delivery was a continuous and unscripted tapping of her encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of Ancient Egypt.
On conclusion of this visit we were taken back to the Memphis Tours office in Luxor where our fantastically knowledgeable guide to the antiquities took her leave of us. Our thanks to you Ms. Shimaa Baheeg for giving us the best day imaginable in Luxor.
At this point our tour leader, Mohamed rejoined us and the trip back to Makadi By proceeded uneventfully with our arrival at the hotel being approximately 17.30 hrs.
To conclude, the trip itself was a memorable day made even better by the friendly demeanour of all three of our fellow travellers.
If I might make two suggestions regarding the on-line booking procedure.
a) The Cairo telephone numbers given on the e-mails that I received at home during the booking process did not work when I got to the hotel in Makadi Bay, not for me and not even for the hotel switchboard operator. This might bear looking at.
b) We were in country at the hotel in Makadi Bay when the trip organiser at the office in Cairo faxed to request a photocopy of our passports. Although we were able to get this done by the hotel reception staff, it would have been considerably easier to have sent these photocopies from home as an accompanyment to the initial deposit.
Visited April 2012

Found Memphis Tours on the net and arranged a day trip for 2 to Luxor from Soma Bay hotel. Payed £95 pp which was stunning value compared to using the tour company (Thomas Cook). Collected by private car from the hotel on time and speedy drive to Luxor arriving just before 0900 where we picked up our guide Yahia Ahmed (John). We did all the usual sights - Collossus of Memnon, Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsuts temple & Karnak. We had a horse and carraige transfer from the lunchtime restaurant to Karnak. The ride lasted just under an hour and cost us a whole £6 (for the carraige not each). Was finished at Karnak around 1700 hrs and back the hotel just after 2000 hrs. If you have never been to Luxor this is a must as it is almost Egypt in a day (better than Cairo in my view). John the guide was fantastic with excellent English, just the right amount of information and nothing too much trouble. I payed deposit by card in advance with no issues. Would fully recommend this company and definately the guide John.
Visited November 2011

One of our main goals for visiting Egypt was to visit Luxor. we are a famelie with 3 teenage kids.
I booked the trip from home from there homepage.
we were picked up at our hotel in Hurghada, by a 9 seater minibus, and drove to Luxor, a 3 hour trip, where we meet our guide for the day, we spend the next 7 hours visiting all the splenders of Luxor, sayid our guide, knew the history and stories from ancient Egypt, and told stories, when we drove to our next stop, in a very entertaining way.
The entire famelie was facinating with the trip, and we are still talking about the stories Sayid told in such a living way.
I highly recommend it.
and a big thank to Sayid, our Guide, for a facinating day. we all now know who queen "hot chicken soup" is.
Visited June 2011

i done many hours enquiring about tours etc while on our hol in hurghada i spoke to basshem at memphis tours egypt and have to say he was very helpful in organising our trip which we wanted hopefully all will go well and we will def go back to egypt and use his service again!!! thanks for all your help its been a pleasure to do a trip with you.
Visited June 2011

I would thank Memphis Tours & Mr.M. Sakr and all other representative, Guides & drivers whom i met in Hurghada, Cairo & Luxor for arranging such a nice plan for me every where all things were ordered properly, would definately suggest others also to apln with memphis, all guide were good english speakers.
Thank you Memphis & Mr.Mohammed Sakr

My wife and I are fairly well traveled, and we took our first trip to Egypt in December. Since we were only there for a week and it was in an unfamiliar part of the world, we decided to do guided tours, which is not our usual way.

We were staying in Hurghada and booked two separate tours -- Luxor and Cairo. We are really glad we did because these trips would have been difficult to pull off on our own given that we were only there for a week.

Their trip advisor was very responsive to my emails and gave clear instructions and answered my questions promptly. Once in Egypt, the trip coordinators both spoke excellent English, and were very friendly and helpful. The pickups and dropoffs at the hotel were in a late model car -- very clean and comfortable -- and the drivers were both excellent, particularly the one in Cairo, which has world-class traffic.

But it's the guides at the sites who are the stars. We had "John" (Yahia Abdou Ahmed) in Luxor. He was very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. John loved to answer our questions as we visited the Temple of Karnak and Valley of the Kings and he anticipated many of them. He's obviously very proud of his heritage.

In Cairo, Maha Mahmoud El Halwagy took us to a mosque, a Coptic Christian Church, the Egyptian Museum, the pyramids and the Sphinx. She, too, was extremely well versed about these sites and really brought our experience to life. Maha not only informed us about the antiquities we were seeing, but gave us valuable tips on how not to be hustled at the pyramids, introduced us to delicious pure sugar cane juice from one of her favorite street stands and gave us insights into daily life.

Memphis Tours is doing it right. They not only meet, but beat your expectations.