2Your first time in Egypt
The routes that cover the things you came for, without trying to do everything.
Trip styles
Egypt trip styles: what kind of traveller are you?
Egypt rewards very different trips depending on who is going. Start from the shape that fits.
Egypt trip styles, and which one fits you
Egypt trip styles matter more than budget. The same two weeks can be a very good trip or a very tiring one, and the difference is usually pace. A route built for a first-timer will frustrate someone returning, and a schedule that suits a couple will break a family with young children.
So the itineraries below are grouped by how people travel rather than by what they cost. First trips lean on the headline sites and keep the days manageable. Family routes cut the temple hours and add the sea. Couples get the quieter boats and the slower mornings.
Pick the group that sounds like you, then change it. These Egypt trip styles are a starting shape, not a fixed product, and most people end up somewhere between two of them.
22Egypt honeymoons and trips for couples
Slower routes, better boats, and time built in to do nothing.
1Egypt with kids
Egypt with kids works in half-days: temples in the morning, a pool or the sea after. Six days of ruins is too many.
1A Nile cruise and Red Sea week
The Nile first, then Hurghada or Marsa Alam. A common shape of Egypt trip across Europe.
1Egypt adventure holidays
Desert camping, diving and long days away from the coach circuit.
1Tailor-made Egypt
Built around your dates rather than ours.
Or start from how long you have
Official sources
Entry rules, opening hours, security advice and exchange rates all move. Check them at the source, not here.
- Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ↗The ministry lists which tombs and temples currently open.
- UK FCDO travel advice for Egypt ↗It updates continuously, and most UK travel insurance follows it.