Tours with camel rides

The ride as a program item at the edge of the site, not as transportation

A camel ride at the pyramids is a program item at the edge of the site. It is not transportation between the Great Pyramid of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. If you imagine riding a camel from one pyramid to the next, you are mistaken: you cover the actual distance on foot or by vehicle, and the ride is an additional, separate component.

14 of the 252 verified offers around the pyramids fall into this group, just under 6 percent of the total inventory. You are in the right place if the ride itself is meant to be part of the program and not just a side note in the list of inclusions of another tour type. If you actually just want to go to the pyramids and the Sphinx and don't care about the ride, you'd better look in another group of this inventory: Here, the ride is the actual reason for booking, not an extra.

Why €41 is not what everyone ends up paying

The 14 offers in this group start at €12 and go up to €86, with a median of €41. The largest cluster sits between €25 and €50, where seven of the fourteen offers are found; only two cost under €25, and five are between €50 and €100. What the bare number conceals is the site entry fee to the pyramids. Of the 14 offers, 4 explicitly state it is included, 4 explicitly exclude it, 2 offer it as an add-on, and 4 providers say nothing about it. With a median price of €41, the official site entry of around €11 already makes up a quarter of the amount, and in this group that quarter is split among four almost equally sized camps rather than a single one. Two offers at the same price can therefore end up costing different amounts, depending on which of the four camps the offer falls into, and the camp with missing information is as large as each of the other three.

A rating you can almost always rely on

13 of the 14 offers in this group carry a rating with at least ten votes, of which 11 are at 4.5 or above. That is the highest proportion of reliably rated offers among the groups of this facet evaluated so far. Not a single offer is unrated, one is only thinly documented with fewer than ten votes, and two are below 4.0. In contrast, there is no offer between 4.0 and 4.4: the group hardly knows a middle ground, only well-documented and poorly rated offers side by side. For the order on this page, this means that you can rely on the rating for thirteen of fourteen offers, and only for the one thinly documented offer should you look more closely before placing it alongside the eleven well-documented ones.

Determine the duration and price of the ride in advance, then decide based on pickup and language

Within this group, it is less the price that separates offers than the question of what is booked around the ride. The total duration of the offers ranges from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4 hours, and the actual ride is only one part of the program. Determine the duration and price of this part before mounting, because that is exactly what is often renegotiated at the saddle, regardless of what the booked tour costs overall. Hotel pickup is included in almost all offers, with 13 out of 14, and only one lists it as an add-on. A German-speaking guide is indicated for 10 of the 14 offers; for the remaining four, the language of the guide remains open. If you prefer to ride a quad through the same desert instead of a camel, you will find the other way over the same dunes with the quad tours and their 12 offers: a separate group with its own pace, not a substitute for the ride.

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Pyramids of Giza: Quad Desert Safari and Optional Camel Ride

The best-documented offer in this group. Dates, availability, and the latest version of the inclusions are with the provider; this page reflects the catalog status.

from 34 €

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