Grand Egyptian Museum: Private Luxury Tour

The tour offers a private and luxurious way to explore the Grand Egyptian Museum, ensuring a hassle-free experience for you. Discover more about ancient Egyptian history and the sites you’ll visit with us.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • The Grand Egyptian Museum - Begin your tour at the Grand Egyptian Museum, the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization. It’s an excellent starting point for your day tour. Although the main museum is currently closed, you can admire the grand open court featuring the world’s first hanging obelisk, belonging to King Ramses II….
What's Included
  • Egyptian traditional lunch
  • Pick up and drop off from your hotel in Cairo and Giza with Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Entry/Admission to Grand staircase of the GEM
  • Entry/Admission to Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Expert Egyptologist Tour Guide
What's Not Included
  • Tipping
Additional Information
  • Car seats are available with 20 us $ upon request
  • Travel time is included on the total duration.
Location
The Grand Egyptian Museum
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Ergoanalyze
Oct 5, 2024
Best time in Cairo! - We had a fabulous time with Khalefa as a tour guide for our visit to the new Grand Egyptian Museum, a papyrus display and yummy lunch. He picked up the 4 of us at the Sheraton Cairo hotel and had a very good driver and minivan. He is an archaeologist and expertly explained the history of what we saw. He has excellent English speaking skills and established a good rapport with us. The new museum is gorgeous. The papyrus demo was good. He gave us several restaurant choices and menus. Delicious chicken and lamb shwerma. He provided cold bottled water on the trip. He is very knowledgeable about the history, the religions, the customs, and travel experiences. We highly recommend Mahmoud khalefa as a tour guide and travel planner.
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331huak
Oct 5, 2024
Like you travel with your habibi! - I like to support people who doing their job with love and Ayoub, our tour guide is one of that. You can tell by the way he treat you, the patient of him, the knowledge in history he provides ( also, he takes very good pictures!) . Mohmed the driver also very nice and polite, when I asked him to stop at a minimart for some snacks on the way, he even came out the car to accompany me make sure I’m safe as I’m travel alone woman. These make them the perfect team to travel around Cairo and every where in Egypt with! Thank you for great time, Habibi!
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Michelm337
Oct 5, 2024
Great Tour at Museum of Antiquities and Old Cairo - We had a great experience with Ayoub from Mina Tours at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. He was very knowledgeable about the pharaonic periods and artifacts, and he made sure we saw the most interesting parts of the museum. We left with a much better understanding of ancient Egyptian culture and craftsmanship. After the museum, Ayoub and driver Mohamed took us to some great local food spots in Zamalek and Old Cairo, which really added to the experience. This is the best time of year to visit—great weather and no crowds. Also, we felt completely safe the entire trip, with no security issues to worry about. I highly recommend Mina Tours for their expertise and for anyone visiting Egypt to explore its incredible history.
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Dzhelev93
Oct 1, 2024
It was great! - The museum is worth visiting and the mummies are very well preserved. Ayoub is knowledgeable and will explain to you in details. Ask him anything. It was a great day and would definitely recommend.
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Faraway34937109235
Sep 25, 2024
It's one more tour project, but the Guides were great! - The Guide this time was Mr. Ayoub, a male, who had about 10 years of Guide experience and knowledge, as well as being very caring and good at photography. The tour ended with ① the new Grand Egyptian Museum → ② free viewing → ③ lunch as stated, and in my case I left at 11am and returned to the hotel at 14:00. As far as the tour is concerned, I wish there was something else, but I guess this is up to the person. In any case, Ayoub here is recommended, so if you want to sign up for this tour, you should designate a Guide.
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Nynative57
Sep 24, 2024
A MUST SEE - I was picked up at my hotel by Ayoub, the tour guide. The driver was Omar. They were wonderfully pleasant and informative. Ayoub was the absolute BEST guide for the GEM and was gracious about snapping photos for me. We toured the GEM staircase....a word that hardly describes the experience......the "staircase" was literally a museum in and of itself. Ayoub knew everything about Ancient Egyptian History....a true font of knowledge. We had lunch and chatted about all things Egyptian. Highly recommend
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Nephilim72
Sep 15, 2024
Khalefa rocks - Today I met an archeologist named Khalefa. He is awesome and knowledgeable. He told us the story of The Great Egyptian Museum and the significance of each stone that made up the structure of the building. All the while inserting bits of historical information about ancient Egypt. The best part of it all Khalefa was so accommodating with our request to bring us to El Khalili Bazaar since my friend and I had time to spare. Definitely will recommend.
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Ijay
Aug 7, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyable day with Ayoub - Another brilliant tour with Ayoub! So much learning and history one wasn’t aware of and so good to have a guide explaining to you and doing it at your pace. First stop was the museum; a must in Cairo. We then went on to see the Hanging church, the Coptic church and we were treated to a delicious lunch too. On to the Ben Ezra museum and then a visit to the Mosque to complete what was a complete tour of key religious buildings. Ayoub was kind enough to take us to the bazaar where we had a good wander then we drove 2 two specialist shops for gold and the finest Egyptian cotton. If you want a guide who is genuinely passionate about his job, will go above and beyond, can customise tours to suit your needs, I’d recommend Ayoub and this company. We feel we’ve made a friend for life and look forward to returning to do the Mt. Sinai hike 😁
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Simonbg3bg
Aug 7, 2024
An excellent and varied trip with Ayoub and Nedi. - This is an excellent tour to take with a very knowledgeable guide in Ayoub who took us to a great variety of sites both Coptic and Islamic, in addition to, some really good shopping experiences in the Bazaar. The lunch provided was wonderful and gave us the chance to experience authentic local Egyptian food of high quality including a local chickpea and lentil dish which comes with three delicious sauces and two dips and fresh Egyptian bread, as well as, a mixed grill of beef and chicken pieces and Kofte. The sites visited included, the museum of Egyptian antiquities (mummies downstairs), two Coptic Churches (amazing icons and the holy family crypt), the synagogue of Ben Ezra, then onto the Islamic quarter to see the Al Azhar mosque which originally dates back to 971AD. We also took in Salauddin's Citadel and the Aqueduct during our journey around Cairo. The trip is very good value and Ayoub and the driver Nedi are so very caring and personable and helpful throughout. When next in Egypt we would love to book another trip again to say hello to our two new friends! Highly recommended.
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Carmine
Jul 31, 2024
Interesting tour - Beautiful guided tour of the Egyptian museum. The Ayoud guide was super helpful in all and explained the history of Egypt very well. I recommend it
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From $75
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).