From Cairo: Half-Day Tour to the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx

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From Cairo: Half-Day Tour to the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx

★ 4.6(3,680 Reviews)

• Site ticket for the plateau included
• Hotel pickup included
• Tour guide in German specified
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before

from 35 €

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Five to six hours from Cairo, for €35 near the lower end of the category

This day begins with pickup at your hotel in Cairo, which is included in OceanAir Travel's price. From there, you head to the Giza Plateau: the three pyramids, the Great Sphinx, and the viewpoints in between, as a group tour lasting five to six hours. A guide leads live on site, not via recording, and German is among the specified languages alongside English, French, Italian, and Spanish. It is not booked privately or as a small group, but you get onto the site without queuing.

From €35 per person, the entry price is at the lower end. In a field of 126 comparable offers from Cairo, ranging from €14 to €4,262, this ranks 9th, among the cheapest seven percent of the entire group. What this price covers and what else comes up during the day is covered in the next section.

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The site ticket is included; lunch is an add-on, as with only nine of the 126 offers

In OceanAir Travel's price, the site ticket for the Giza Plateau is explicitly included, as is hotel pickup; nothing more is due at the ticket counter. Officially, that is 700 Egyptian pounds, around €11 at the exchange rate of September 3, 2026, an amount the provider covers for you.

Not included is the interior of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, an explicit exclusion that 36 of the 126 offers in this category also state rather than remain silent about: if you want to go inside, you pay an additional 1,000 Egyptian pounds on site, around €16, card only. Lunch is treated by the provider as a separate add-on, neither included nor excluded; in the entire category, only nine of the 126 offers do the same, while most others commit to one side or the other. Tipping is customary in Egypt and is not a surcharge for a special service.

4.6 out of 3,758 reviews: the third broadest experience base in the category

The rating of 4.6 is based on 3,758 reviews, and this number is the real measure, not the height of the rating alone: few voices behind a high rating say little, but thousands say a lot. Measured by the number of reviews, this tour ranks 3rd out of 126 in its category, while 63 of the 126 offers cannot show a reliable rating at all.

This combination is remarkable for this tour: a place among the cheapest seven percent and at the same time one of the three best-documented review values in the entire group rarely meet in the same offer.

Between June and August, highs reach 35 degrees

Monthly values for Cairo show a clear gradient: in January and February, highs are still at 19 to 20 degrees, from April they exceed 28 degrees, and from June to August they consistently reach 35 degrees, with lows of 22 to 24 degrees even at night. September and October, with 33 and 30 degrees, are still well above winter levels; only from November do values drop below 25 degrees again.

On the site itself there is hardly any shade, and this tour spends five to six hours at a stretch outdoors. If you book in the summer months, it is better to plan this length for the cooler hours of the day; from November to February, the same duration makes much less difference due to the lower highs.

Ticket office, no cash, no private vehicles on site

The official website lists opening hours from 08:00 to 16:00; an older document from 2020, however, listed 07:00 to 17:00, so the information is contradictory. In any case, the ticket office closes one hour before the site itself.

Payment there is by card only, no cash, which also applies to the additional fee for the Great Pyramid of Khufu if you decide to go in. Since 2025, vehicles on this tour are no longer allowed to drive all the way onto the plateau; you cover the last stretch on the electric shuttle, which is included in the site ticket and stops at Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, the Panorama Point, and the Sphinx.

For a budget half-day with a broad base of experience, not for privacy

This tour works if a short morning or afternoon on the plateau is enough for you and a well-documented rating matters more than the lowest price in the entire category: At €35 and 3,758 reviews, you get both at once – a combination that is rare in this group.

It does not work if you use a wheelchair, as the operator classifies it as unsuitable, nor if you want to travel privately or in a small group, because it is booked exclusively as a regular group tour. If you would rather see Saqqara and Memphis on the same day, you will find that in “From Cairo: Tour to the Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Saqqara and Memphis” from €62 and 4.7 out of 3,587 reviews, though at eight hours instead of five to six.

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From Cairo: Half-Day Tour to the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx

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