23 Oct 2024
We had an amazing driver and tour guide. We came in Alexandria port on a cruise ship, and so we had a pretty tight itinerary. The logistics could be better as far as explaining the pick up location, we had to ask several people at 6 am in an Arabic speaking country where to find our tour ( you had to leave the main pick up area walk across a bridge and go outside of a gate (sign out with police) and then wait there), but eventually got it sorted out. Then I had to call a couple times and finally a co-worker of our driver got us set up. Unfortunately no one in our party spoke Arabic and the driver very little English, but he was very sweet and a safe driver, and we have google Fi phones so we used google translate when needed. He got us to and from Cairo like a professional driver, even in Cairo was quick to get us to and from sites, it felt like being in a GTA game, but our driver had a grace with navigating everything. We picked up our guide in Cairo (there was a bit of delay with this), where as others I think with this tour company had their guide drive with them from Alexandria. Our guide was hilarious (spoke excellent English), and very informative and able to cater to what our specific party was interested in seeing for the private tour. Our driver was receptive to me telling him to get us back quickly and safely to our port ( in the end they held up the ship for all the tour buses). I would recommend for these tours having some tenacity and google translate and a phone that works internationally, after that its a amazing adventure waiting for you.