Private Tour: Alexandria Day Trip from Cairo

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Location: Cairo, Egypt

Duration: 11 hours (approx.)

Tour Code: 3124CAI14

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52 reviews of Private Tour: Alexandria Day Trip from Cairo

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Reviewed by Agnieszka P, Norway, April 2010

Nice city, and Pompeii's Pillar was kind of cool, but this isn't worth the 3-hour drive. Also, although the advantage of a private tour is that you can spend your time how you want, our guide still pressured us to be fast at each of the sites so that we could get them all done. She got kind of irritated that we took an hour at Pompeii's Pillar, because she had allocated us about 15 minutes for it. That's not nearly enough time, though, unless you're doing a quick walk-through and not taking pictures. Finally, just skip the Alexandria Library. Nothing to see there.

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Reviewed by Anonymous, April 2009

The driver and the guide were excellent. The best. The only problem were the main office not answering the phone in the afternoon and the guy that was supposed to call us back to let us know the time did not until we called your international office with complaint. This cost us 418.00 EGP extra because we had to call you from the Hotel's phone. They did not answer their emergency number either.

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Reviewed by Anonymous, September 2008

A long day but not a lot to see to be honest. Transportation and guide were excellent however.

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Reviewed by Renee Q, October 2011

Very disappointing to say the least. Our driver was doing 150km on the five lane motorway and on spotting a traffic jam ahead, reversed down the motorway, shortcutted over a bridge that was still under construction and then drove into oncoming traffic. If that wasn't bad enough on the way back to Cairo in the afternoon our guide layed down in the back of the mini bus, took off his shoes and went to sleep, while our driver was nodding off. We found the experience terrifying to say the least. The guide although informative, advised us that as we were Australian it was necessary to 'tell us that it was important to tip accordingly and that $10 euro was not the equivalent to $10 Australian Dollars. We felt completely stupid.

We also did your Lake Como tour and could not stop raving about how exceptional it was.

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Reviewed by Anonymous, May 2010

A long drive, with really not much at the destination. Half an hour in a catacomb, half an hour at Pompey's pillar, an hour at the library, then back to Cairo. The library was not at all what I expected - I can see modern buildings almost anywhere.

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Reviewed by Anonymous, March 2010

It was disappointing. the only good thing was the library, but it looks exactly like a modern library. the exhibitions inside the library are the only thing worth going for. the food at Alexandria was absolutely terrible! we didn't even eat the food. yet again money wasted by having it included in my package. tour guide tried to provide more information but unfortunately i still wasn't satisfied. the catacombs were also a good thing see. once again, i think A day trip to Alexandria can be better accomplished on your own.

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Reviewed by Anonymous, January 2008

Not that much to see so it is probably not worth the 3 hour drive.

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