Layover Tour To Giza Pyramids & old Egyptian Museum & Khan

The guide was helpful and courteous. A good mix of guided touring and free time to explore. Highly recommend.

We had a great moment with our French speaking guide. Good explanations and good care of us. The driver was great also. We have enjoyed our day. Pickup at the airport on time. Restaurant good. No surprise.

We were in CAIRO (first days of April 2019) for a scheduled stopover of 17 hs, in which we wanted to take advantage to know the most important and really worthwhile! When we arrived at the airport 8 am, we were waiting for the guide ADAM, who from the beginning was very friendly and like an open book as he explained in Spanish the whole tour... For almost 12 hours of the tour we could get to know the Pyramids, papyrus museum, Egyptian Museum, Nile walk in faluca, the bazaar, the mosque and a plus lunch buffet included! We were really amazed with the explanation in each place of the guide ADAM, a genius!!! I highly recommend the Enterprise and the guide as it was all EXCELLENT!!! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!

We had a good time with Ahmed and the driver Amir. They were both very accommodating to what we wanted to do. They picked us up very promptly and we went about the itinerary on time. Ahmed was very knowledgable and very enthusiastic, he was ready to answer any questions we had. We struggled a bit to understand him as he spoke very fast, but slowing down his speech would help a lot. The price of the tour was very good, but there were added costs that we knew about, it might have been good to know the prices before hand as we didn't actually bring enough money! Ahmed was very kind and lent us the extra money we needed to go into the museum etc. The sites were all fascinating. We did struggle a little as for some reason we didn't stop for lunch? We hadn't asked for this, but perhaps as we are British and far too polite, we didn't mention it as we expected it would be soon! This meant that, although they provided some snacks, we were quite hungry by the time we were in the museum, which made it harder to go around and fully take in the experience, as well as the bazaar. We finished early as a result. Overall, Ahmed made us feel very welcome, and we were pleased with his tour, a few minor tweaks might have made it a 5 star tour!

<p>From the Mendoza's: Mohammed was a fantastic tour guide! He has great communication skills, good spoken English language, very knowledgeable about of all the sights not only Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Egyptian Museum but also general history/knowledge of Cairo and Egypt. Furthermore, he also took us to a wonderful papryus store where they showed us how papryus paper is made. The store had a great selection of souvenirs. We also had the opportunity to visitor Oriental Perfumes which is a must for ladies, and husbands.... hint.... Our family thoroughly enjoyed our layover tour with him! From the sightseeing to the camel rides, souvenir stores, to even the picture taking. We have the best pics of all the sights along with some very creative pictures! Elwahed, the driver, did a wonderful job driving but also safeguarding our possessions in his vehicle as we were sightseeing. We can't say enough of how we enjoyed our tour because of these gentleman.</p>

Ahmed and Khaled were waiting for us at airport. They were accommodating to our changes in itinerary (ie: no perfumery stop). Lunch was very good. Cannot beat the price/performance of this tour.

I got picked up on time by my wonderful guide H at the airport. He covered everything listed in the itinerary and did his best to ensure we had a good time and we did. Very informative, knowledgeable, helpful and flexible as well. The driver i forgot his name was also very pleasant, always opened the door and drove seamlessly thru some crazy Cairo traffic. Highly recommend this tour but ask for H

It was just perfect and I think the most of our joyful tour in Giza and Saqqara was because of especially our tour guide, Mohamed Goda. This Layover tour is designed to have the best of Cairo in a day which is sandwiched between your travels. As we wanted to visit only Giza pyramids EMO Tours management kindly accepted to give us Saqqara and Memphis instead of the rest of Cairo (Bazaar, Mosques, Egyptian Museum etc.). Mohamed Goda, our tour guide picked us up in Cairo airport (in the most convenient way which we should except) and looked after us and all our needs very carefully, professionally and friendly. First we went to Saqqara where we had a fully informative tour of Saqqara pyramids with some surprises, special and fantastic viewing completed with reach commentary and historic explanations. Then we headed to Giza and had very amazing tour of great pyramid. After a complementary camel riding (courtesy of EMO Tours), which was very cheering with kind local camel keepers, we had an informative visit of famous Sphinx. We had to have our lunch after all of our tours of all our requested sites in order to visit all before official closing time at 4pm. But it's worth it as we went to a nice restaurant in Giza with delicious Egyptian meals. Mohamed Goda then brought us to two different workshops and souvenir shops to show us how to make Papyrus and silver crafts which were very informative and interesting. Please bare in mind that those kind of places are businesses for selling their items but there is no obligation and no harm too if you don't want to buy anything. We felt very safe and convenient with Mohamed Goda and our driver which we are thankful to EMO Tours because of managing all. Goda treated us like his close friends or even relatives. His knowledge about Egypt and its history was beyond of our expectation and everyone in our family even my six years old daughter enjoyed his comments and graphic explanation. At the end of the day he dropped us in Giza railway station where he stayed with us until he helped us to settle in our train cabins for travelling to Aswan. Though at the end of the day we missed Memphis visit because of wanting to explore other sites more carefully but the day was amazing especially Saqqara, Giza and camel riding which refreshed up everyone. I recommend EMO Tours Egypt because of their customer service, professionally approach and flexibility in order to meet their customers' needs and as I'm sure that there are many fantastic Egyptologist (as they are called in Egypt) tour guides but I wish somebody like Mohamed Goda is guiding you through your amazing Egypt history journey. We all missed him and became sorry that our ways didn't come across each other in this trip again.

First of all, a big thank you to Emotours. Our expectations were met and we had a wonderful day . We became aware of Emotours through the positive reviews and contacted these organizers via email. Within an hour Joseph contacted us and confirmed that a German guide would be available for that day. So we immediately agreed. Since we booked a package holiday in Sharm El Sheikh and had not booked this tour through our organizer, we were full of expectation as you never know what you will get. We arrived in Cairo at 06:30 by plane and were met by Ikramy (Ramy) in the airport reception hall. After a short introduction we were led to the parking lot where our vehicle and driver were waiting. During the trip we briefly discussed our daily schedule. First we visited the bazaar in the morning. Since it was early, most shops were still closed. This did not bother us as we know exactly what it means to stroll through a bazaar;0) . Our guide Ikramy (who looks like Imothep from the movie THE MUMIE) invited us for a breakfast snack which was very delicious. Next on the agenda was the Egyptian Museum. Since our time was very limited we also found it very good that we were shown only the highlights. Of course, you also had some time to explore the museum yourself. After the museum we spontaneously took a small boat trip on the Nile where we could take beautiful photos. (Not included in the price / but for small money great experience /positive: we were offered it spontaneously / our expectations were to see as much as possible in one day (and this was fulfilled). After the boat trip we went to a local restaurant which was at the pyramids. (I'm just saying WOW effect) . After the meal we went to the “Pyramids” . There we were able to take many photos. You can trust Ramy's tips ! (Ex. Climbing into the main pyramid is not a MUSTDO/ but if you want to do it can of course do it / we asked others and they said : Wasted money!) After the pyramids we continued on to our camel ride at the pyramids. Great photos taken !!! And last but not least, we could marvel at the sphinx. Now the official part of the day was over and we decided to visit Cairo’s biggest shopping mall for 2.5 hours as our return flight was late in the evening. Our plan was to go to the airport on our own. But since we were so satisfied and had great confidence we organized the return trip via Ramy who waited patiently for us! Conclusion : Great flexible organizer ! Great guide! But the only thing you can save are the small coffee drives stops. You'll never be forced! If you don't want to, you can say it .Everything is voluntary . Always EMOTOURS!!!!!!! LG J&M

<p>They know what they are doing the best anabolic only the best English is awesome they really know their sheet. Mr H and driver 100% epic</p>