VIP 4-Hour Islamic Cairo Private Tour & Al-Azhar, Khan Al-Khalili

Cairo with Ehab

Ehab is an eccellent guide. He is sympatic, his english is good and I could ask everything. Also the driver Peter is nice.

Extra ordinary experience

The driver Mr. Emad and my tour guide, Mr. Ehad was exceptional. I had a wonderful experience around cairo city. Would definitely recommend them.

Cairo trip

Bishop was our tour guide amazing experience explained everything well, got us the best deals in the bazaar

The guide did his best in the situation

I chose this tour because in the description it was all about the mosques, so I thought that 4 hours visiting the oldest and most impressive mosques was exactly the way I wanted to spend my day. Now don’t get me wrong, if you like shopping maybe that’s exactly what you prefer to do, I chose the tour to avoid shopping and to see the mosques only. When in the car the guide mentioned we would be visiting a few mosques and then we will go to the old market where I could shop, I mentioned that I wasn’t sure I would have the energy for that after the mosques... Said and done, the driver took us to the old city where it turned out the first thing we did is basically went to the old city to shop. So they took us to shop first, I guess, while we had energy to do that. Again if that’s what you want, sure go for it. I voted for not recommending the tour to my friends, simply because my friends, like me, don’t do shopping tours The day we went for a tour turned out to be not the best one, due to the security increase in all the mosques so we weren’t allowed in, the soldiers turned us away. Which was a good thing anyway, because half an hour after that, our guide showed us the news about crowd protests erupting exactly where we’ve been turned down by the security guards On the positive side, we did manage to go to one of the mosques and that was a great experience. Bisho the guide did the best he could, shared all the stories and made us feel safe. Having said that i can’t get rid of the feeling that the company could have predicted and foreseen the situation. After all, these are locals and know what’s happening and how dangerous the situation is, knowing that we wouldn’t be able to visit the places we wanted to see, knowing that we could be endangered just walking around, one could think that the most responsible thing to do would be to explain the dangers to us and to cancel the tour at the early stage. We were lucky not to end up in the middle of unpredictable crowd protests, I’m not sure that’s the most desirable experience once wants to have, when travelling with children/family

Islamic Cairo

Brilliant day touring Al Azhar Mosque and the Old Islamic Cairo town with my very knowledgeable guide Bishoo, Managed to do some shopping as well for the family!

Islamic Cairo Tour

We had a great time in Islamic Cairo with our guide Ahmed and our driver Asem. Ahmed was very friendly and told us a lot about the history and architecture of the sights. We visited all the stops on the itinerary and even had an extra stop at the bathhouse. We had all the time we needed to look around and take pictures. Definitely a great tour to explore Islamic Cairo in a few hours.

Misrepresentation and deceptive pricing

Let me first say that the guide Mohammed did a very good job of explaining historic significance of places he took and appeared to have good knowledge. This was about the only thing that was good about this tour. We saw a number of Islamic Cairo tours but chose this one because this was the only tour we could find that promised that we will see a thousand-year old Islamic University (Al-Azhar) and offered free pick up from all hotels in Cairo and Giza. We bought a ticket with pick up at Barron Hotel in Cairo that included pre-paid entry fees at all attractions. Here are the problems we had. 1. We ended up at TOLIP hotel near by rather than Barron. We called the tour operator the day before and asked to change the pick up. He wanted USD 20.00 more to change the pick, saying that it was close to the airport. Well, both hotels were in Cairo and they are 5.7 KM (3.6 Miles) apart according to Google Maps. We ended up arranging our own transport to Baron hotel to be picked up for the tour. 2. Primary reason for booking this tour over others for Islamic Cairo was to see Al-Azhar university that only they premised to show. Other operators were honest and upfront in telling us that they will show us Al-Azhar Mosque that was once Al-Azhar university but the current Al-Azhar university was closed to public. Viator contacted their local operator just before we bought the ticket to verify that we will indeed see the university and they confirmed. The guide tried to seek admission to the university but we were denied by the guard at the entrance. This was outright deception in advertising by them. 3. There was no entry fee at any of the Mosques the guide took us into and we only entered Mosques. Selling a higher priced ticket option with entry fees included when there were no entry fees was another deception. Based on this experience, we feel ripped off and cheated and can not recommend this or any other tour by this operator, Hisham Egypt to anyone.

Had a great time!

Had a great tour with my guide Abla and my driver Mohamed. I was travelling solo as a female and they made me feel safe. Abla's knowledge was enlightening for a first timer in Egypt like me ...will definitely book her again the next time I come. Thanks Abla and Mohamed!

Wonderful experience

Abla Saif and driver Mohamed Desouky were wonderful and very accommodating! I had the best day with them.

What a fun day

Had a great experience, the guide was very knowledgeable about the surrounding mosques and market. It was so fun wondering around the market making deals!!

Great Experience

Had a really great time visiting the mosques in islamic cairo, our guide had a great knowledge of the history in that area. We also got to finish up some last minute shopping in the market which he patiently waited for us.

Private tour by Islamic Cairo

Good option for a nice and private tour. Very flexible too. The guide Hamdy was kind and is a good guide.

Islamic Cairo

Abla is a guide who has a lot of Passion with my kids and she liked her job , she showed us castle and the mosque then the market and Azhar mosque , she was happy to share her knowledge , the tours last almost 4 hours and we learned much with Abla

Good experience

Recommend this guided tour, our guide was Abla Saif, looked after us and made a lot of nice pictures. Gave the overview, some interesting historic facts. The guide knows all the routes. Worth doing!

City tour or Coptic & Islamic Cairo

Great interesting tour seen so much. Guides ehab & hesham are very knowledgeable of history as well as the area as well as being helpful. Highly recommend this 1/2 day tour.

Worth it!

This was my first day in Cairo and I needed to get a bit of a feel for the place and history. This tour really helped put everything in context. Rania, my guide, was really great, very knowledgable and basically taught me the history of Egypt Just some recommendations: 1. On Sunday markets are closed which was a shame. 2. I booked through trip advisor and the tour was stated to be 8-hour and a number of things were listed that we would do. I don’t think we followed that and it wasn’t 8 hour. It wasn’t a problem, we did a lot including Ibn Tulun, Amr Ibn El Aas and walked round Khan El Khalili, but would recommend calling ahead to find out exactly what you do or the company to update the listing. 3. Next time I would do a combined tour of Coptic and Islamic Cairo to get a full picture! This company does that too I believe!

Great tour, Rania was a great tour...

<p>Great tour, Rania was a great tour guide - very informative and engaging</p>

Brilliant tour the guide was very...

<p>Brilliant tour the guide was very informative, loved this tour my self, recommend it to every one visiting Cairo, specially those who are interested in Islamic architecture and Islamic history, its full off history brilliant tour</p>

Immer wieder gerne!

Kurz und knackig: Unsere Tour mit Yassir war nett und er weiß sehr viel. Sein Einblick in das Wissen ist nicht nur akademischer Natur sondern eben auch der Blick eines Ägypters. Auf einen individuellen Wunsch von uns wurde eingegangen. Empfehlenswert !

Ottima escursione.

Hesham ci è venuto a prendere e ci ha portato al museo egizio dove ci aspettava una bravissina guida egittologa, che parla benissimo l'italiano. La visita è stata molto interessante e ben spiegata, con passione direi. Dopo la visita Hesham e Monalisa ci hanno anche aiutato con altre nostre curiosità. Per concludere, consigliato!!!!

Excellente Visite du caire islamique et copte

Nous avons fait la visite du Caire Copte et Islamique, avec Ehab notre guide et notre chauffeur Karam. Très bonnes visite guidée, nous avons apprit plein de choses sur l'histoire de la ville. Ils nous ont donné de bons conseils, aussi de bonnes adresses pour des pâtisseries égyptiennes. Et Karam nous a déposé au Kan El Kallili après la visite.