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Tour Details
| Duration |
10 Days / 9 Nights
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| Tour Location |
Cairo / Aswan / Luxor / Sharm El Sheikh
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| Tour Type |
Daily Tour
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| Pickup |
Cairo Airport
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Romantic 10 Days Honeymoon Package to Egypt
This 10-day Egypt honeymoon, Cairo Nile cruise, and Sharm El Sheikh package by Tripidays is designed for couples who want to travel around Egypt across three distinct environments in a single all-inclusive itinerary that covers three days exploring Cairo's ancient monuments privately, three nights sailing the Nile on a comfortable cruise from Aswan to Luxor, and three nights relaxing at a Red Sea resort in Sharm El Sheikh. Every component hotel, cruise cabin, two domestic flights, a private Egyptologist guide, all entrance fees, and every honeymoon-specific experience are included with zero hidden costs.
The full itinerary covers the following in sequence. Day 1, arrival in Cairo and a private Nile Dinner Cruise that evening. Day 2: the Giza Pyramids Complex, Great Sphinx, and Grand Egyptian Museum. Day 3: the Citadel of Salah El-Din, Muhammad Ali Mosque, Hanging Church, Ben Ezra Synagogue, and Khan El-Khalili Bazaar. Day 4, fly from Cairo to Aswan, visit the Unfinished Obelisk, Aswan High Dam, and Philae Temple, then board your Nile cruise. Day 5, Kom Ombo Temple and Horus Temple at Edfu while sailing north. Day 6, the Luxor West Bank Valley of the Kings, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Colossi of Memnon, and a private sunset felucca on the Nile. Day 7, Karnak Temple Complex and Luxor Temple, before your afternoon flight to Sharm El Sheikh. Days 8 and 9, the Red Sea is entirely to yourselves. Day 10, departure.
Why Book This Tour
- Perfect Honeymoon Design — 3 Cairo days, 3 Nile cruise nights, 3 Sharm nights in one seamless itinerary
- All-Inclusive for Couples — Zero hidden costs with every romantic experience included
- Private Egyptologist Throughout — No groups, no fixed schedules, completely private touring
- A Nile Cruise Experience — 3 nights full board from Aswan to Luxor with all stops included
- Extended Sharm El Sheikh Stay — 3 Red Sea nights instead of standard short resort stays
- Grand Egyptian Museum Included — Full Tutankhamun collection with a private guided visit
- Private Sunset Felucca Experience — Exclusive sailing on the Nile for just the two of you
- Two Domestic Flights Included — Cairo → Aswan and Luxor → Sharm fully arranged
- All Entrance Fees Covered — Every attraction listed in the itinerary included
- 24/7 Tripidays Assistance — Dedicated support throughout your entire journey
- Fully Customisable Itinerary — Extend, upgrade, or personalise every part of the trip
Included
- Meet and assist with the Tripidays representative at the Cairo airport
- 3 Nights of accommodations in Cairo hotel
- 3 Nights of accommodation on a Nile Cruise
- 3 Nights of accommodation in Sharm el Sheikh hotel
- Private Egyptologist of all major attractions
- All transfers are by modern private A/C vehicles
- Domestic Flight Ticket Cairo → Aswan, Luxor → Sharm el Sheikh
- Entrance fees to all attractions mentioned in the Itinerary
- One bottle of water during the tours
- Meals are provided as mentioned in the itinerary
- Our assistance during your stay
- All Taxes and Charges
Excluded
- International flights to and from Egypt
- Egyptian entry visa
- Travel insurance — required and strongly recommended for a multi-destination honeymoon
- Tips and gratuities for guide, driver, and cruise crew — customary and appreciated
- Personal spending, shopping, and souvenirs
- Optional activities in Sharm El Sheikh
- Tutankhamun Tomb or Seti I Tomb in the Valley of the Kings — separate ticket
- Camel ride at Giza — available on the day, not included
- Cruise cabin upgrade to suite — available on request
Highlights
Giza Attractions
- The Giza Pyramids
- The Great Sphinx
- Grand Egyptian Museum
Cairo Attractions
- Citadel of Salah Eldin
- Hanging Church
- Church of Abu Serga
- Ben Ezra Synagogue
Aswan Attractions
- Philae Temple
- Aswan High Dam
- Unfinished Obelisk
- Kom Ombo Temple
- Edfu Temple
Luxor Attractions
- Hatshepsut Temple
- Valley of the Kings
- Colossi of Memnon
- Karnak Temples
- Luxor Temple
Itinerary
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Your private Tripidays representative meets you at Cairo International Airport the moment you clear arrivals, transfers you to your 5-star hotel by private air-conditioned vehicle, and handles every detail so your 10-day Egypt honeymoon, Cairo, Nile cruise, and Sharm El Sheikh package opens without a single queue or taxi negotiation.
Nile Dinner Cruise
As night falls, enjoy your first unforgettable experience as a couple with a romantic Nile Dinner Cruise. Glide along the legendary river while savouring fine Egyptian cuisine, soft lights, and live traditional music. It’s the perfect intimate setting to celebrate love under Cairo’s glowing skyline and a memorable introduction before you explore all 10-day Egypt packages for couples designed around romance and shared experiences.
Meals
Dinner
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Your private Egyptologist guide picks you up after breakfast for the drive to the Giza plateau. The pyramids appear above the roofline long before you arrive, and the scale of them only becomes real when you are standing at the base.
The Great Pyramids of Giza
Stand at the foot of Khufu's pyramid and look straight up: 139 meters of limestone blocks stacked with a precision that structural engineers still cannot fully replicate. Your guide positions you at the eastern face at the angle where all three pyramids align the photograph every couple leaves Egypt with.
The Great Sphinx
You approach from the side first, which is where the full length registers 73 meters from paw to tail, longer than a Boeing 737. From the front, your guide points out the erosion patterns on the chest that have generated a century of argument about exactly when it was built.
Grand Egyptian Museum
Discover the wonders of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), home to over 50,000 artefacts, including the complete treasures of King Tutankhamun. A cultural highlight of your romantic Egypt tour in 10 days for couples.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
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After breakfast, your guide takes you south into the oldest layers of the city. Islamic Cairo and the Coptic Quarter sit within walking distance of each other and together cover 2,000 years of continuous history in under a square kilometre, the most human day of the entire Cairo leg.
Citadel of Salah El-Din
You enter through the main gate, and the Muhammad Ali Mosque appears immediately above, its Ottoman domes and twin minarets commanding the entire skyline. From the terrace on a clear morning, the Giza plateau is visible to the southwest your guide will point out exactly where the pyramid tips break the horizon.
Muhammad Ali Mosque
Your guide walks you inside, where the alabaster walls reflect a cold white light and the central dome sits 52 meters overhead. It was modelled on the great mosques of Istanbul and built entirely by Egyptian craftsmen between 1830 and 1848. The interior feels nothing like the exterior prepares you for.
Hanging Church
You climb an external staircase to reach the entrance of the church, which is suspended over two towers of the original Roman fortress, from which the name comes. Look up at the nave ceiling: it is designed to resemble the hull of Noah's Ark, painted in deep reds and golds, a detail most visitors miss entirely.
Ben Ezra Synagogue
From the street, it looks like a modest neighbourhood building; inside, the restored interior opens into carved cedarwood screens, marble columns, and arched windows filtering afternoon light. It dates to the 9th century and stands on the site where, by tradition, the infant Moses was found.
Khan El-Khalili Bazaar
Your guide walks you in through the original Fatimid gate, built in 1382, and leaves you free to move at your own pace through the copper lane, the spice alley, and the perfume section, each one smelling completely different from the last. Give yourselves an hour minimum.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
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Your morning flight from Cairo to Aswan takes just over an hour. The air when you land is drier, quieter, and noticeably warmer, and the Nile here is narrower, greener on the banks, moving with a different pace, and looks nothing like Cairo's river. Your guide meets you at the airport and takes you to the sites before boarding in the afternoon.
High Dam
Visit the impressive Aswan High Dam, a symbol of modern Egypt’s strength and innovation. Take in panoramic views of Lake Nasser together. Travellers wanting to expand beyond the Nile into Egypt's remote landscapes often also consider a Nile cruise and a Sahara desert adventure in Egypt, which combines river history with the Western Desert.
Unfinished Obelisk
You crouch beside the granite and see tool marks still cut into the stone from 3,500 years ago. Workers abandoned it when a crack appeared, and it has lain in the quarry ever since. At 42 meters, it would have been the largest obelisk Egypt ever raised; the fact that it never left the ground is exactly what makes it worth seeing.
The Philae Temple
You reach Philae by motorboat from the dock, and the temple appears rising out of the water as you approach it was relocated to this island in the 1970s when the original site flooded. The reliefs of Isis and Osiris cover every interior wall in deep-cut hieroglyphs that still hold traces of their original paint.
Meals
Lunch, Dinner
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The ship docks at Kom Ombo in the morning. Today is the Nile cruise at its most cinematic: two temples, two dockings, the river moving between sugarcane fields on both banks, and the afternoon sun turning the sandstone a colour that photographs never quite capture.
Kom Ombo Temple
Your guide walks you through the hypostyle hall to the central axis, where the temple's defining feature becomes clear: it is perfectly symmetrical, built simultaneously for two gods, Sobek the crocodile on the right, Horus the falcon on the left, every chamber mirrored across the dividing wall. The mummified crocodiles in the side chapel are 2,000 years old and still have their scales.
Horus Temple at Edfu
You enter through the first pylon, and the scale stops you immediately at 36 meters. It is the tallest pylon in Egypt, and the two granite falcon statues flanking the gate stand twice human height. It is the best-preserved temple in the country, sealed under desert sand for centuries before excavation began in the 1860s, which is why the carving and paint look almost new.
Meals
Lunch, Lunch, Dinner
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The ship docks on the West Bank before breakfast. Your guide crosses the river with you by motorboat, and the day moves through the three sites in the limestone hills before ending on the water as the sun drops, the single most memorable day of most couples' entire Egypt honeymoon, Cairo, Nile cruise, and Sharm El Sheikh itinerary.
Valley of the Kings
Your guide takes you into three tombs, painted corridors running 100 meters into the hillside, their ceilings mapped with the complete journey of the sun through the underworld in colours so saturated it takes a moment to accept they are 3,000 years old. The air inside is cool and completely still, sealed from the outside heat.
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
You see it from the valley road first three colonnaded terraces cut directly into the cliff face, pale limestone against pale rock, perfectly symmetrical in a landscape that has nothing else human in it. Your guide takes you to the far left colonnade, where the reliefs show Hatshepsut's divine birth, the story she ordered carved to legitimise a female pharaoh ruling Egypt alone.
Colossi of Memnon
The two seated figures rise 18 meters directly beside the road. Greek and Roman tourists carved their own names into the legs 2,000 years ago, and your guide points out the graffiti at knee height, some of it still legible beside hieroglyphs three times older.
Private Sunset Felucca on the Nile
Your guide arranges a private felucca for the two of you as the afternoon light turns gold over the West Bank cliffs. The boat moves by sail only, the water is quiet, and the Theban hills change colour as the sun drops behind them, no engine noise, no other passengers, nothing organised about it.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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An early pickup from the cruise ship at 7 am. After visiting the east bank temples, leave the ancient temples behind as your journey together shifts from golden stone to turquoise shores. By sunset, the Red Sea welcomes you into a new chapter of romance, where history gives way to quiet moments made just for two.
Karnak Temple Complex
Your guide walks you into the Great Hypostyle Hall where 134 columns rise 23 meters and stand close enough together that the sky almost disappears above you. Thirty pharaohs and 2,000 years of continuous construction built what you are standing in. It started around 2000 BC and was still being added to when the Romans arrived.
Luxor Temple
You enter from the northern avenue where the sphinx processional road leads to the main pylon, flanked by two 15-meter colossi of Ramesses II. At the far end, your guide shows you where Napoleon's soldiers carved their names into the wall in 1799, directly beside hieroglyphs three thousand years older, neither one more or less permanent than the other.
Meals
Breakfast
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No guide, no schedule, no sites. This day belongs entirely to you. Couples comparing Red Sea experiences sometimes look for a Nile cruise and Hurghada all-inclusive alternative if they prefer a different coastal atmosphere while keeping the same luxury Nile journey.
Free day in Sharm El Sheikh
The reef begins just offshore, and you can snorkel from the beach and be in 10 meters of visibility within minutes of entering the water, with parrotfish, lionfish, and coral formations that have no equivalent in the Mediterranean. The hotel beach is private, the sun loungers face the Gulf of Aqaba, and the water is warm enough to swim in every month of the year.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Your last full day a free morning followed by a private candlelit dinner at the resort, as your Egypt honeymoon Cairo Nile cruise, Sharm El Sheikh journey closes on the Red Sea.
Free day in Sharm El Sheikh
Spend your final day in Sharm El Sheikh, slowing the world down together. Walk hand in hand along the private beach, sink into the warmth of the Red Sea, and savour the last moments of your escape as endless blue waters stretch toward the horizon. Beneath the surface, vibrant marine life and colourful coral gardens create one last unforgettable scene a beautiful farewell to the romance and memories you've shared.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
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After breakfast, your private transfer takes you to Sharm El Sheikh International Airport. Your Tripidays representative handles check-in and baggage with the same seamless, private service as your 10-day Egypt honeymoon, Cairo Nile cruise, and Sharm El Sheikh package opened with, closing the same way.
Departure
A private transfer takes you to the airport, carrying hearts full of love, cherished moments, and the magic of your romantic Egyptian journey.
Notes:
* You can let us know if you'd like to customize your tour itinerary to meet your needs. We value your input and aim to accommodate your requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
This all-inclusive package covers 3 nights in a 5-star Cairo hotel, 3 nights on a 5-star Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor, and 3 nights at a Sharm El Sheikh Red Sea resort with a private Egyptologist guide, all entrance fees, two domestic flights, a Nile Dinner Cruise on arrival, a private sunset felucca, and a candlelit farewell dinner, all at zero additional cost.
This is the only itinerary structured as equal thirds: 3 days Cairo, 3 nights Nile cruise, 3 nights Sharm El Sheikh with the Grand Egyptian Museum, a private West Bank felucca, and a candlelit resort dinner included and pre-arranged for couples. Every competitor gives Cairo 2 days, skips the GEM, and ends in Hurghada for 2 nights rather than Sharm for 3.
The cruise runs 3 nights on a 5-star ship sailing north from Aswan to Luxor, boarding after Philae Temple on Day 4, stopping at Kom Ombo and Edfu on Day 5, and completing the Luxor West Bank on Day 6. All meals on board are included, and all entrance fees at every cruise stop are covered in the package price.
Absolutely. Tripidays specialises in creating romantic, private experiences for honeymooners. You’ll enjoy comfortable accommodations, private transfers, and personalised guides throughout your journey.
Yes, Cairo to Aswan on Day 4 and Luxor to Sharm El Sheikh on Day 7, both economy class. Your Tripidays representative handles check-in and boarding at every airport, so you never navigate an Egyptian domestic terminal alone.
What to Pack
Hat
Backpack
Comfy Shoes
Powerbank
Medical Kit
Comfy Clothes
Sunglasses & Sunscreen
Personal Hygiene Products
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