Is Ancient Egypt Tours worth it? The data verdict
Ancient Egypt Tours rates 4.27★ across 778 verified reviews — genuinely good, short of exceptional. Its trips run about £78/day — cheaper than the market median. The complaints below are consistent enough to take seriously before booking.
Where Ancient Egypt Tours scores
What travellers consistently praise
- Knowledgeable, attentive tour guides
- Skilled, punctual drivers
- Salwa's pre-trip and in-trip support
- Good value for the sites covered
The consistent complaints
- Hidden or surprise extra costs
- Commission-driven shop and activity detours
- Last-minute hotel/cruise downgrades
- Patchy pre-trip communication and itinerary accuracy
Both lists distilled from the same verified review base — we publish the bad with the good.
In travellers' own words
“Salwa the staff that I communicated has given excellent service, providing all information I needed like optional tour, the safety before I travelled to Egypt. The tour guide i”
“The driver was excellent, on time always! We had two guides, the first one Dina was not honest with us. She told us that the horse carriage ride around the Giza Pyramids was $35”
“Here’s our feedback on the 15-day tour with Ancient Egypt Tours. Overall it was enjoyable. But there could have been better management with fewer unannounced last minute changes: 1. Our biggest complaint is that Ancient Egypt Tours switched us out of the promised 5-star SEMIRAMIS II to a lesser, dow”
“OK - this was 100% a 5 star experience - we absolutely loved it! We are from Australia, and I have always wanted to see Ancient Egypt and to learn about the rich history...and also to figure out for myself if a”
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