09 Days Egypt Classic Tour Cairo＆Luxor-Aswan Nile Cruise

My husband and I had a pretty good experience with Khaled. For all the parts we enjoyed, overall he is a good communicator. Easy to talk with and responds fast on WhatsApp with good English. We asked him lots of questions for months before visiting Egypt and he was patient with all of them. He welcomed us in Cairo and took us to Alexandria for a day trip and a cruise from Aswan to Luxor over 4-6 days. His knowledge of Egyptian history is very extensive. We asked him tons of questions at every site we visited and he always had a response to every place. We talked about many things from ancient to modern Egyptian history to world politics and relations. He always had nice cars for us everyday for private transport between sites which made it more comfortable. He got all of our site tickets, so we didn't have to worry about any of that, which was very nice! We saw lots of large tour buses every day and it was nice to be just us with our guide for a more private, personal experience. We were able to move faster or stay longer to enjoy a place more - more flexibility. Khaled invited us into his family’s home in Luxor and we got to share a meal with his wife, son, and mother which was a very nice experience. He can truly provide more of a local experience not only with his family but taking you around the streets, which is unique and a large tour group cannot provide this. The worst part for us was the hotels Khaled picked for us to stay. They were not nice and he sent us pictures before but the actual places were worse. I assume he picked places he got a better rate to profit more, like a random apartment above a restaurant in Luxor with an empty kitchen, dirty floors, & bad internet connection. He never provided a breakdown of the costs for everything on our trip (which I asked for several times), so I don't know how much the rooms or experiences actually cost versus what we paid Khaled. 2/3 of our hotels had twin beds instead of a queen or king and when my husband asked Khaled about it he said that men in Egypt don’t like to sleep in the same room as their wives because they talk too much and we didn’t request it… what a horrible thing to say. He works with Americans and should obviously know or ask if he’s booking for us. He would also make weird comments complaining about other tour guides, people he worked with or negative comments about women, which wasn’t appropriate. He also stayed out late one night and didn’t pick us up until 1pm the next day so it wasted a whole morning not sightseeing and waiting for him, which sucked. Overall, Khaled is a nice option as a private tour guide and transport but book your own hotels and flights.

My wife and I spent over a week with Khaled in multiple cities in Egypt including a Nile Cruise. The experience was amazing. My wife and I love history and we had a lot of questions for Khaled and he answered all of them with very good explaining the context of every situation for us to have a clear understanding. He made sure we got comfortable transportation, hotels and timing in the sites we visited to avoid the crowds. We felt very well treated and well taken care of. We definitely would work with him again in the future. We are really glad we left all the planning and the coordination hustle in his hands so my wife and I just enjoyed the true Egypt experience. Thanks a lot Khaled!

Amazing trip! very fun, interesting and knowledgable. I had a really great experience and will definitely travel with Mr. Khaled again. ( at a different location of course!) Egypt always interested me, and always will. Mr Khaled has added value and made me more interested now!

This man is such a kind and i never forget this man and trip also such a memorable trip and Guide,you are always in my heart.

I travelled a lot... I travelled to countries much poorer than Egypt, but never ever had such a disaster! We, 3 adult ladies with 4 kids bought a 9 day tour in Egypt from Khaled Abbas’s from Egypt_tours. We paid over 1000$ per person including same 1000$ payment per kid for 4 days of actual all day touring in Cairo and Luxor. Other 5 days in Hurgada tours were not included, only hotel. When we bought the tour everything was discussed. We discussed that we are 3 separate families and we need 3 separate rooms. In the contract it was specified that lunches and breakfasts were included plus some dinners. When we arrived, right away Khaled start telling us how he made specially for us special upgrade on everything. Special upgrade on tours, special upgrade on restaurants, on pick up cars and basically everything like we did not pay for it…. It’s specially for us because we are so special. He start telling us that it about friendship, he does not care about money and so on… The first night started ok but problems already started!!! He picked us up and checked in a good hotel indeed with view on pyramids. Our flights were late, so we put kids to sleep and went to sleep ourselves at 3 in the morning. But!!! There was still a construction going on the roof 3 in the morning with a dozen of bare feet works dumping gigantic bags of cement on the roof making entire 3-store hotel shake. Meanwhile, Khaled told us to make sure we keep our kids quiet because people are sleeping!!! My friend went downstairs to complain. She complained, they promised her right away they will stop construction. In the next 20 mins nothing changed, she went again…. 15 mins later she realized nothing will stop and she had to go upstairs to yell at those workers herself to make them stop! Next day, he told us we need to exchange money and pay in Egyptian, not dollars. We asked him to take us to bank, he said no. He will do it himself. He mentioned us that bank will screw is, because unofficial rate is 55 on black market, bank one is 31. He fixed us to exchange all money we will need to pay for diving - it was over 1600$ for Egyptian at the rate of 31. He exchanged on black market for 55, gave us 31. Then later in Hurgada another guide told us if we pay in Egyptian the rate will be 55 Egyptian per dollar!!! Meaning on 1600$ we would lose 77% of value!!!! And guess what - in Egypt you don't even need Egyptian money!!!!! You can pay everywhere in dollars! But more about this later... Day 2 he also start telling us stories about him fostering 13 kids… it was so creepy, so weird. 13 kids from 13 different moms and it is not sexual… some kind of nonsense. He says: people think it is sexual, it is not sexual... why do we need to know that? Also he complained to us about other clients he had who left their kids and went to have sex somewhere or whatever... And a bunch of other stories about terrible clients he had before... Then he also gave us another tour guide to do a tour in Cairo. She was a disaster. He told us something about her sad life story and whatever like we are supposed to feel bad. A disaster. Because of her the experience in the museum was insanely boring and then we missed Christian churches! we had 15 mins to look at 3 churches! ALso Khaled allegedly told her we are not hungry! So stingy with lunches and breakfasts - it was impossible to handle psychologically to constantly remind and beg for food that we actually fully paid for! I won't even go to the nonsense excuse he told us about British vs American English meaning of dinner... lunch... supper... whatever. Time management was so poor, we would not be able to have time to do lunch anyways because we stood by the Egyptian museum entrance for 2 hours not moving at all listening to entire Egyptian mythology no one understood anyways. After we complained about him not providing us promised and included in price lunches he started lying to us blaming the tour guide he hired. The tour guide got mad at him and made him apologize to us. It took hours of bad vibes just from figuring out who are to blame for us not getting fed. Then he almost made us pay for the 3rd day tour in Cairo!!!! That actually was supposed to be included! Additional 65-95$ per person. He told us it was not included! He did a trick of moving days around... moving last day in Cairo to now because flight got moved from morning to night. After a long fight he said money does not matter to him and as a hero he led a tour for us for free as he presented it. To be honest to Khaled's work - he is a terrible organizer and a liar, but a great talented tour guide. His tours were actually pretty good, timely, well organized and clear. I have to give him credit on it. Also, Khaled told us some nonsense about firing the driver with who we had no problem.... He was telling us that driver was not professional for a long time - we did not want to know... we did not care... why do we need this information? Also, Khaled complained to another driver that we fought with him and the driver made angry comments at us in English!!!!!! So that we know that Khaled turned around and complained about us to absolutely everybody... maybe told some nonsense. And we just asked for what we paid for. It was super unpleasant. Then when we arrived in Luxor he checked us in an illegal apartment in two small rooms with dusty beds with no sheets!!!!!!! We had to use a dusty never washed smelly blanket not to freeze at night with no sheets. As a matter of fact he also told us he had "a lot of fun" with ladies in those beds.... On top of it, we are 3 different families. I would understand if he would put us in the same AIRBNB but with separate rooms for each or something, but with stupid design of the apartment we had to break into 5 people in one and 2 people in a 1 bdr apartment. And all of it considering 1 shower for 5 people with open shower with barely any water pressure and no hot water at all! And no doors! All bathroom was so wet one of the kids being taking shower after 3 other people being tired fell down and hurt his elbow! Plus the next day we wanted to go on a tour 4 in the morning and the hotel was closed!!! We could not figure out how to leave hotel for 20 mins. Our guide for the tour was waiting for us forever. Then we found the key to open the hotel to get out. We had to fight again complaining about this terrible experience. So to make up for the terrible experience Khaled returned us money for the hotel in Egyptian pounds (remember that he took payment in dollars, exchanged in black market at 55 pounds per dollar and returned us back in Egyptian pounds payment for the hotel at 31 pound per dollar). Also to make up for the trouble he promised us to pay for lunches and breakfasts for our 4 day stay in Hurgada..... and here it was another lie.... In Hurgada everything was ok until the guide sold us the tour for 20$ per person called “city tour” that includes a show with light dinner and some city tour… ok. We were excited for the show. Then a car picked us up and dropped us off by Marina where we walked around ourselves, then the car picked us up and took us to a mall….. I am asking- when is the show? What is this? The guy who was with us start lying that we already missed the show and so on… then another guy said it was cancelled, then it turned out the show does not exist!!!! Does not exist! It is closed forever and the guide allegedly found out only 30 mins before… and he yelled at us for not understanding that he will not give refund. As soon as the payment for diving conversation came up - surprise surprise, we need to pay only in dollars or in Egyptian pound at a rate of 55 pound per dollar losing 77% of value!!!!!!! and we exchanged 1600$ with Khaled!!!!!!! Khaled strongly recommended us to exchange money with him to pay for diving. This is where I lost it completely! Only after another round of yelling and arguing, Khaled agreed to exchange money back to us to dollars, so we don't lose value. For all of you to get a perspective instead of paying let's day 1000$ for diving, we would have paid 1774$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello Hello scaming tourists.... Moving on.... Then many lunches were included with the dives we paid for separately. We had to basically beg the tour guide to feed us or refund us money for the lunches/ breakfasts that Khaled promised... At one point for the last day of tour he was 30 mins late saying that he got something for the kids.... and it was just our lunches that we were owed by Khaled! It is not a surprise! Not a present! Not anything special... Also, by the end of the days we got tired of those cheap ass breakfasts and lunches and ate where we wanted. We asked for refund for whatever included lunches/ breakfasts were worth but obviously never got anything back... Overall, on top of terrible lies we experienced from Khaled and fighting for what we paid for, it become extremely annoying to deal with moody angry Egyptians every day. One time they call you queen and assure you of a special upgrade every day, another time they complain about you in Arabic right in front of you, yell at you, make you beg for water and lunch that is included… absolutely everyone all around ask for tips… all the time. Quality of everything they do is subpar. You buy video from Balloon trip- it is bad… you buy diving videos- it is bad. You buy camel tour with pictures- pictures are bad, they cut off your head or camel from the picture or put a stone on top to do some visual whatever magic- looks bad. Catcalling and aggressive selling practices increasingly became more and more annoying every hour. At some point you feel like snapping at every Egyptian saying hello to you. I would definitely not recommend anyone to take Khaled tours to travel with children to Egypt. Do not ever travel to Egypt as solo woman or a group of women either due to constant misogyny and disrespect. You will be lied to, mistreated, you will have to yell and argue, you will be cheated on constantly and at the same time he will make you feel like you are a bad person for breaking a friendship......

We, three adult ladies with four kids, made the grave mistake of purchasing a 9-day tour in Egypt from the utterly incompetent Khaled Abbas of Egypt_tours. We foolishly handed over more than $1000 per person, including an outrageous $1000 payment per child, expecting a memorable experience. Little did we know that our hard-earned money would be squandered on a tour filled with deceit, incompetence, and utter disrespect. From the moment we arrived, Khaled began his charade, boasting about how he had specially upgraded everything for us. Upgraded tours, upgraded restaurants, upgraded transportation - as if we were a bunch of fools who hadn't paid for these services in the first place! He had the audacity to claim that it was all because we were "special" and that he didn't care about money. What a load of rubbish! The very first night, our hopes of a pleasant stay were shattered. Despite our late flights and exhausted children, we were subjected to the incessant noise of construction work on the hotel roof at 3 in the morning. Bags of cement were being dumped with such force that the entire three-storey hotel shook. And what did Khaled have to say about it? He had the nerve to tell us to keep our kids quiet because people were trying to sleep! One of us had to take matters into her own hands, confronting the workers herself to make them stop. Unbelievable! But the surprises didn't end there. Khaled insisted that we exchange our money into Egyptian currency and pay in cash instead of dollars. When we asked to be taken to a bank, he arrogantly refused, claiming that he would handle the exchange himself. And what a rip-off it turned out to be! He exchanged our money at an abysmal rate of 31 Egyptian pounds per dollar, even though the black market rate was 55. We later found out that if we had paid in Egyptian pounds, we would have lost a staggering 43% of our money's value. What a scam! And let's not forget the so-called tour guides. One of them, assigned to us for a day in Cairo, was an absolute disaster. Incompetent and clueless, she ruined our visit to the museum and caused us to miss out on other important sights and even lunch. All the while, Khaled fed us some sob story about her sad life, as if it was supposed to make up for her complete lack of professionalism. As if that wasn't enough, Khaled had the audacity to try and charge us extra for a tour in Cairo that was supposed to be included in the package. An additional $65 to $95 per person, just to rub salt in the wound. It was a blatant attempt to squeeze more money out of us, and we were not having it. When we reached Luxor, the accommodations were a nightmare. We were checked into an illegal apartment with two cramped rooms, dusty beds, and no sheets. And to top it off, the shower didn't even work! We were left to endure cold showers or no showers at all. The next morning, when we needed to leave for an early tour, we found ourselves locked inside the closed hotel, wasting precious time while our tour guide waited for us. It was a complete and utter mess. Even in Hurghada, where things seemed to be going relatively smoothly, we were hit with another scam. The guide sold us a tour called the "city tour" for $20 per person, promising a show with a light dinner and a city tour. But what did we get? A walk around a marina and a visit to a mall. The show? Non-existent! And when we confronted the guide, he had the nerve to yell at us and refuse to give us a refund. Outrageous! But perhaps the most infuriating part of it all was the unprofessional and disrespectful behavior we encountered throughout the tour. The dive masters, supposedly experts in their field, showed a complete disregard for the fragile coral reefs, dragging their students across them and encouraging them to touch and disturb the marine life for the sake of a photo. They lost their temper, demeaned their students, and even had the audacity to make inappropriate comments towards me. And as if that wasn't enough, the guides had the gall to lecture us on how to raise our kids, as if they knew better than us. To sum it up, dealing with the moody, angry Egyptians on a daily basis became unbearable. One moment they would treat us like royalty, promising special upgrades and showering us with compliments, and the next they would complain about us in Arabic, yell at us, and make us feel like beggars for basic necessities. Everywhere we turned, someone was asking for tips, and the quality of the services provided was abysmal. From videos to photos, everything we purchased turned out to be utter garbage. And let's not forget the incessant catcalling and aggressive selling tactics that made us want to snap at every Egyptian who dared to say hello. In conclusion, I strongly advise against traveling to Egypt with children, or as a solo woman or group of women. The rampant misogyny and disrespect we encountered throughout the tour were appalling. And as for Khaled Abbas and his so-called tour services, save yourself the trouble and steer clear. Trust me, you'll thank me later.

We had an exceptional experience. Khaled went out of his way to show us everything on our list and was right beside us the whole way. We gave him a few challenging requests. He worked around the holidays and seasonal challenges to deliver all we asked. We’re very pleased with him. Khaled is a knowledgeable, experienced professional. I would highly recommend him to guide you through this experience.

Khaled Abbass has all the amazing attributes One expects from a well educated & knowledgeable Guide. He is very Professional, a signature marker is his disciplined dress-code, that signals recognition amongst the many Street Traders; Guides; Officials; etc etc.. That impressionable appearance served as a "Priority Golden Key" into opening many areas, and allowing us to experience unique opportunities swiftly, by bypassing the lengthy queues. Khaled is constantly on high alert in regards to an individual's personal safety, which transcends into a "VIP" status as we travel from place to place. Equally so - when One is separated from his watchful eye - he soon locates you, and brings you back safely in line within the next stage of the journey.. He readily takes into consideration an individual traveler's needs and/or difficulties, and is flexible enough to adjust itineraries, so as to allow the traveler a more personal experience of places...or quirky wants! Happily acts as a mediator between Bazaar & Store owners - wheeling & dealing prices that in the end provides all concerned with a satisfied achievable sale to purchasing result. Can just as quickly and swiftly sweep persisting trades folk away with an unarguable fierceness. He follows the governing protocol set in place by Authorities to the letter - that unfailing boundary that although Professional, and warranted, tends to apply a stoic mentality. One can only respect the philosophy behind the outward appearance. He strives to constantly improve how Egypt is seen by others - but equally so, does not shy away from its inner reality - or the places that truly validate Egypt, in as the Home of what real Life within depicts.. The Discoveries within are always ongoing - and will remain remarkable - however the opportunity to experience Life among the Hub of its People is the greatest unique honour ever to be shared with... 'Light' aka Lise

Absolutely amazing trip!!! Khaled was extremely knowledgeable. Transportation and entrance to each location felt seem less. He went above and beyond to ensure our group needs were met the entire time. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!! Thank you, Khaled!

The trip started off meeting Khaled at Cairo International airport and he gave a brief and good insight into Egyptian customs and traditions so I knew what was normal in Egyptian culture. The trip was a very memorable trip with my family as the tours were very informative and interesting accounting for Khaled’s vast amount of knowledge in Egyptology as he was able to answer every question. Allowing Khaled to book the domestic flights, Nile Cruise, transportation, entrance fees made this trip so much more easier as I did not have to carry the stress in carrying out this trip. The experience at the Nile Cruise ship is one I will never forget and is the best experience I had in the entire 50 years of my life and I was glad I could share this with my family with no stress with how to get to places, who to rely on and how I will get there. I highly recommend to book Khaled because he will make the whole Egyptian experience stress-free and hassle-free knowing anyone and everyone.