21 Mar 2023
Tour was good, hard to understand the guide. Not so much a problem but definitely makes it hard to understand some of the information about the pyramids at times. What we didn’t like was when we were around the sphinx, he called over a “friend” who scammed us. He got the guy to take pictures of us in front of the sphinx, then the guy tried to get money from us. We didn’t have any Egyptian pounds on us as we didn’t plan on paying another guy to take pics for us.. so I gave him the 10$ Canadian I had in my wallet. He saw the 15$ Great Britain pounds in there as he made sure we were tipping him well, and asked for that too. We felt like we had to give him everything in my wallet to get him to leave us alone. The pics were weird and we didn’t keep 99.9% of them. There was a random couple in every pic standing right beside us that completely took away from them, and we feel scammed from the whole thing. The tour itself was decent though and he didn’t mind skipping certain things like, part of the tour brings you to a jewelry shop (no thank you), and a papyrus paper place (already did that) so that was nice to skip. We really just wanted to see the pyramids. Be prepared though, if you aren’t aware, you have to drive quite far between each pyramid and will be in the car for better part of the day. Also, be aware that the washroom facilities you stop at along the way don’t have toilet paper most of the time and you have to tip a guy standing outside each one for “cleaning and Kleenex to dry your hands”.. overall we are happy but feel like they should never have asked that guy to take our pictures. Really took away from the experience