Round-Trip Airport Transfer in Cairo or Giza

I would not recommend. We booked airport transfer to our hotel from the airport to have the security that we would get to the hotel safe and not have to deal with the extra haggling. Otherwise I would have just gotten a normal taxi/uber. Once we landed I had to message the first driver multiple times where his location was since he was not where he said he would be/not with a name sign which he said he would have in prior communication. Once we were able to find him, we got on his hot/trash filled car. He proceeded to say that he has this “free” tourist spot he wanted us to go to tonight. We explained that we are not interested and that we have other things scheduled for tonight. He proceeded to say oh no it’s quick you must. We said no, thank you specifically we just want to go to the hotel, we do not have time. We then proceeded to drive to what we thought was our hotel. Little did we know he proceeded to take us to the “free” tourists trap despite us saying NO very clearly MULTIPLE TIMES. He stopped in front of this place with all our bags in the car and wanted us to get out for “5 minutes” and see.. we were not interested in leaving all of our luggage with a random driver to this “5 minute free tourist site”. We said “no, you need to take us to the hotel” 4 times by this point! Luckily, we never got out of the car and he ended up finally taking us to the hotel but completely missing the point of a private airport transfer for $100 total transfer when an uber was $12 each way and we probably would have gotten very similar service/safety. Would not recommend that driver. Our second driver going to the airport from the hotel was fine. He did his job/we felt safe but we will never forget how disappointed and unsafe we felt with the first driver for completely going against our specific wishes. Unfortunate.

Our driver for all tours was Magdy He is an extremely polite young man who is not strong in English yet excels in all other areas. For four days he took us to all places, airport to our meeting, spots, ATMs restaurants, we needed to go. The traffic and aggressive drivers in Egypt or hard to get used to, but Magdy is an excellent driver who will make you feel comfortable riding with him. I highly recommend this young man if you are able to get him as your personal driver having him drive for us magnified our time while we were there.

My driver Shady was there waiting on me when I got there which was a very positive start to my trip. He was very polite and courteous and would highly recommend to others.