| Duration |
7 Days / 6 Nights |
|---|---|
| Tour Location |
Cairo / Luxor / Alexandria |
| Tour Type |
Daily Tour |
| Pickup |
Cairo Airport or Your Hotel |
This 7 day budget Egypt tour covers Cairo, Luxor, and Alexandria, connecting ancient pharaonic sites, medieval Islamic districts, and the Mediterranean coast in a single affordable itinerary. Cairo delivers the Giza Pyramids, the Great Sphinx, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Museum, the Citadel, and Khan El Khalili; Luxor covers the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, Colossi of Memnon, Karnak Temple, and Luxor Temple; Alexandria rounds out the week with the Catacombs of Kom El-Shokafa, the Graeco-Roman Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Roman Amphitheatre. Maximum sights-per-pound: Cairo, Luxor, and Alexandria all included in the most affordable 7-day Egypt tour on the market, no luxury markup, no compromise on sites. Travelers looking for additional low-cost options can explore other Affordable Egypt Packages.
Starting in Cairo with the Giza Pyramids, the Valley Temple of Khafre, the Great Sphinx, and the Grand Egyptian Museum on Day 2, the itinerary then flies south to Luxor for two full days: the West Bank yields the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, and Colossi of Memnon; the East Bank delivers Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple.
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Welcome to Egypt and the start of your unforgettable Budget tour. Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, you’ll be warmly greeted by our Tripidays representative and transferred in a private air-conditioned vehicle to your hotel in Cairo. After check-in and time to settle in, the evening begins on the Nile.
You'll board a lit river vessel as Cairo's skyline reflects across the water below, a relaxed first evening on your 7 day budget Egypt tour. The cruise runs approximately 2 hours along the central Nile corridor, giving you a ground-level orientation of the city before the sightseeing begins.
Dinner
Your guide picks you up after breakfast for a full day at the Giza Plateau and the Grand Egyptian Museum, then transfers you to Cairo Airport for the afternoon domestic flight to Luxor. Two world-class sites in the morning and early afternoon, then a 7-day budget Egypt tour flight south, no wasted hotel night in between.
Your day begins at the legendary Great Pyramids of Giza, where towering stone monuments tell stories older than time. With your expert guide, uncover how these ancient marvels were built, proof that a cheap tour can still deliver world-class sights.
You'll step into one of Egypt's best-preserved Old Kingdom temples, where granite walls align with astronomical precision to the pyramid above. The interior is quiet and unlit in sections, giving you a direct sense of how ritual space was designed to feel.
Your guide walks you to the viewing terrace directly in front of the Sphinx's paws, where the proportional relationship between the statue and the Khafre pyramid behind it becomes clear. The Sphinx was carved from a single limestone outcrop, with the head representing Khafre himself.
Enjoy a tasty local lunch, simple, authentic, and easy on the budget.
Your guide leads you into the Grand Gallery, where a 10-metre-tall statue of Ramesses II greets you on the staircase before you reach the complete Tutankhamun collection — over 5,000 objects displayed together for the first time since the tomb was sealed in 1323 BCE. The museum sits 2 kilometres from the Giza Pyramids and is the largest archaeological museum ever built.
Breakfast and Lunch
Your guide collects you from the hotel after breakfast for the West Bank crossing. This is a full day inside Luxor's ancient burial landscape on your affordable Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria tour.
Your guide leads you through the entrance corridor of three royal tombs selected for their preserved ceiling paintings; the detail runs uninterrupted from floor to ceiling across chambers that extend more than 100 metres into the rock. Entry to Tutankhamun's tomb is ticketed separately if you want to see it.
Look up from the lower terrace and you'll see how the three-level colonnaded structure was cut directly into the cliff face, a scale that only registers when you're standing at ground level. Hatshepsut reigned for around 20 years in the 15th century BCE and her likeness was systematically defaced after her death.
You'll walk to within a few metres of two 18-metre seated figures of Amenhotep III, now isolated in open farmland after the mortuary temple behind them was dismantled for stone. For centuries, ancient tourists carved graffiti on the northern statue to record the eerie sound it made at dawn.
Breakfast and Lunch
Your guide collects you after breakfast for the East Bank, Luxor's two great standing temples accessible on foot or by short drive along the Corniche.
Enter the Hypostyle Hall, and you'll find yourself inside a forest of 134 sandstone columns, the tallest reaching 23 metres, densely carved with reliefs that took multiple pharaohs across 200 years to complete.
From the outside, the first pylon's 24-metre towers frame the single remaining obelisk of a pair originally erected by Ramesses II; the second stands today in Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Breakfast and Lunch
An early morning flight brings you back from Luxor to Cairo. Your guide meets you at the arrivals hall, and the day runs straight into sightseeing without a dead afternoon, the kind of itinerary efficiency that makes this cheap Egypt tour package worth the cost.
Your guide steers you through the ground floor's monumental statuary and into the Tutankhamun galleries on the upper floor, where the golden mask and throne are displayed in cases less than an arm's length away. The museum holds over 120,000 objects, most of which have never travelled outside Egypt.
You'll enter through the Bab El-Azab gate and look north across the full Cairo skyline from a medieval fortification that controlled the city for 700 years. The Citadel was the seat of Egyptian power from Saladin's construction in 1176 until Khedive Ismail moved the government to the new city in the 19th century.
Step inside and look up: the central dome rises 52 metres above the prayer floor, ringed by smaller semi-domes and alabaster walls that diffuse the interior light. The Ottoman-style clock tower in the courtyard was a gift from French King Louis-Philippe, sent in exchange for the Luxor obelisk.
Walk the length of this pedestrianized medieval spine and your guide will name the structures as you pass: the Madrasa and Mausoleum of Sultan Barquq, the Sabil-Kuttab of Qaytbay, the Qalawun complex, a sequence of Islamic architecture spanning 600 years within a single kilometre.
End the day at Khan El Khalili Bazaar, perfect for affordable souvenirs and authentic local vibes.
Breakfast and Lunch
Your guide picks you up from the Cairo hotel after breakfast for the road journey to Alexandria, approximately two to two-and-a-half hours along the desert highway. Alexandria runs as a full-day trip, returning to Cairo in the evening.
Descend three levels below street level into the largest Roman-era funerary complex ever found in Egypt, where the burial niches blend pharaonic, Greek, and Roman carved motifs on the same wall panels.
Your guide walks you through galleries displaying finds from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, including portrait mummies, carved Ptolemaic heads, and a Hadrianic-era mosaic floor.
Enter the main reading hall and look up at the sloped glass ceiling, which admits natural light onto eleven terraced reading levels containing over eight million volumes.
You'll walk down into the excavated Kom El-Dikka theatre, the only Roman-era amphitheatre found intact in Egypt, where thirteen rows of white marble seating survive around a central performance floor.
Breakfast and Lunch
After the final breakfast, your Tripidays representative transfers you to Cairo International Airport for your departure flight.
Breakfast
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The tour includes accommodation in Cairo and Luxor, domestic flights between Cairo and Luxor in both directions, a private Egyptologist guide throughout, entrance fees to all 16 attractions in the itinerary, including the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Egyptian Museum, daily breakfast, selected lunches, and all private transfers. International flights, visa, and tips are not included.
This is the only 7-day budget package covering all three cities, Cairo, Luxor, and Alexandria — with domestic flights, a private guide, and all entrance fees included at a price point no comparable itinerary matches. For a wider range of overland routes covering similar geography, see the 7 day classic Egypt grand overland.
You’ll explore Egypt’s most iconic landmarks, including:
All are included as part of your affordable Egypt package for 1 week.
Alexandria adds a completely different layer to the tour, Greco-Roman and Mediterranean rather than pharaonic, covering the Catacombs of Kom El-Shokafa, the Graeco-Roman Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Roman Amphitheatre in a single efficient day trip from Cairo. No other budget-positioned 7-day package in this portfolio includes Alexandria alongside both Cairo and Luxor.
Domestic flights cover both legs between Cairo and Luxor, outbound on Day 2 and return on Day 5 — while Alexandria is visited as a road day trip from Cairo, approximately two to two-and-a-half hours each way. All intercity movement uses private air-conditioned vehicles, or the included domestic flights; there are no overnight bus legs.
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