Cairo Top Tours

An Egyptian day-tour and package company

Cairo Top Tours is an Egyptian travel company that sells and organizes day tours, shore excursions and multi-day packages across Egypt, with extensions to neighboring countries. Its About page calls it a tour operator that works "with a team of professional tour operators" and says it employs Egyptologist guides in each Egyptian city and runs its own fleet of air-conditioned vehicles. The homepage lists its core excursion destinations as Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada, and the day-tour menu goes further: Dahab, Taba, Marsa Alam, Nuweiba, El Gouna, Port Ghalib, Soma Bay and Makadi Bay, plus tours from Cairo airport. Shore excursions are listed from Alexandria, Port Said, Safaga, Sokhna and Sharm El Sheikh. Beyond Egypt, the footer lists Egypt and Jordan, Egypt and Dubai and Egypt and Turkey tours, and packages for Dubai, Oman, Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco. Prices are shown in US dollars per person.

The About page says the company has been providing Egypt tours "for over 9 years, since 2015". The homepage, in another block, says "Since 1984, Cairo Top Tours has been showcasing the pyramids", so the site gives two different starting dates.

Day tours and packages

The Egypt Day Tours page describes its range as covering "Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, and many other remarkable destinations", and highlights a private Cairo day tour taking in the Grand Egyptian Museum, the mosques of Islamic Cairo and the churches of Coptic Cairo, as well as Luxor and Aswan temple tours and Red Sea excursions from Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada, Dahab and Taba. Sub-menus cover Cairo half-day tours, Cairo overnight tours (2-day packages with a night near the pyramids), budget Giza pyramids tours and wheelchair-accessible day trips.

The resort-area day tours are described by activity: Dahab trips to the Colored Canyon and desert safaris, Makadi Bay excursions with diving, snorkeling, horse riding and quad biking, and Alexandria day tours taking in the library and Roman ruins. The Cairo budget tours page says even its low-cost option comes with private certified tour guides.

The homepage shows a few named products with details. A day tour to the Nubian Museum from Aswan lasts 4 hours, starts at 8:00 am with hotel pick-up by a licensed guide, and is listed at $ 50 per person. A Cairo itinerary of 2 Days/ 1 Night covers the Giza pyramids, Saqqara, Memphis, Islamic Cairo and Coptic Cairo for $ 250 per person. An 11 Days luxury tour runs from Cairo to Hurghada, taking in the White Desert and Bahariya Oasis, Luxor and Aswan, for $ 1999 per person. Shorter activities include camel or horse riding at the Giza pyramids from the airport (4 hours), a camel trip to St. Simeon Monastery in Aswan (3 hours) and a Banana Island tour in Luxor (2 hours).

Multi-day packages are grouped as desert safari tours, classic tours, Christmas and Easter tours, luxury packages, Nile cruise tours, Cairo short breaks, honeymoon packages, budget tours, group packages, luxury small group tours, family tours and wheelchair-accessible tours. The homepage says its packages also include cooking classes, pottery workshops and an introduction to papyrus. The Holy Land page combines Egypt with Petra, Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea in Jordan, and Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Guides, transport and accessibility

The homepage promises a private tour guide during each tour, and the About page says guides are Egyptologists chosen in each city and that vehicles are the latest air-conditioned models, used for private transfers. The Nubian Museum listing shows how the day works for at least one product: hotel pick-up in Aswan by the licensed guide, and a fixed 8:00 am start.

Accessibility has its own section. The day-tour page says its wheelchair-accessible trips provide "the needed tools for any special physical needs or need for a wheelchair", and the homepage says the company offers tours for wheelchair users. The site does not describe the vehicles or equipment used, so travelers with specific needs should ask for those details. The homepage names September to May as the company's recommended season for outdoor sightseeing.

Booking, payment and cancellation

Tours can be booked from the tour pages or requested through a tailor-made form, which asks for nationality, number of travelers by age band (over 12, under 12, and 0 to 2) and a budget band of less than 1000 USD, 1000 to 2000 USD, or more than 2000 USD. The FAQ says the company will customize tours to the traveler's budget and interests and lets travelers choose their hotel. There is an online payment page, and the About page says card details are protected by secure payment methods. The About page says a team of tour operators is available 24/7, and contact is by phone at +201041637664 or email at inquire@cairotoptours.com.

The FAQ publishes a tiered cancellation policy for trips cancelled by the customer, based on the start date: 15% of the total cost from booking up to 61 days before departure, 25% from 60 to 31 days before, and 35% from 30 to 15 days before. The rest of the scale sits behind a "Show more" link, so the charge for cancellations closer to departure is not visible on the page. The About page adds that personal information is used only for the booking.

What the site leaves open, and who it suits

Beyond the conflicting founding dates, the site does not say which languages its guides speak, how large its small-group and group packages are, or what the deposit is for multi-day trips. Most day-tour categories are described in general terms without a price, duration or meeting point, so the three priced homepage products are the clearest examples. Several descriptions mention Red Sea diving and snorkeling, but the site does not say whether the company runs those trips itself or arranges them with partners.

Cairo Top Tours suits travelers who want private guided day tours in Cairo, Luxor and Aswan with hotel pick-up, cruise passengers stopping at Alexandria, Port Said or Safaga, and anyone planning a longer Egypt trip, possibly combined with Jordan or Jerusalem, who wants a company to build it around a stated budget. Its wheelchair-accessible category and published cancellation tiers are useful. Travelers who need exact group sizes or late-cancellation terms should ask before paying.