No. A consultant writes you a day-by-day plan with hotels, guides, transfers and a full price, and you can change it as many times as you like. A 30% deposit is the first money that changes hands, and only once you say the itinerary is right.

Yes. The tourist corridor — Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and the Nile — receives millions of international visitors a year and is managed by a dedicated tourist police force. The areas named in travel advisories, such as North Sinai, are nowhere near any itinerary we operate.

Private by default — your party, your guide, your vehicle, your pace. We run small group departures too, capped at twelve, and they are labelled as such on the tour. There are no shopping stops on either.

Entrance fees, transfers, guides, taxes and internal flights sit inside the number we send you. What sits outside it is named in writing: international flights, your visa, tips, and anything you order yourself. Nothing is added at the temple gate.

30% confirms the booking — 50% over Christmas, New Year and Easter. The balance is due two days before arrival, or in cash when you land. Bank transfer, a secure card link, PayPal and cash on arrival are all accepted.

Every one of them. Add a day in Alexandria, swap a museum for a felucca, start on a Thursday, stretch it to the Red Sea — the itineraries here are starting points, and the person who writes yours also briefs the guide who runs it.

Under-twos travel free, under-sixes pay 30% and under-twelves 50% of the adult tour cost when sharing the parents' room. Because the tour is private, a day can be shortened or a rest morning added without asking anyone else.

Charges run from 15% at 61 days or more down to 100% inside 14 days, with higher bands over Christmas, New Year and Easter. If a government or airline issues a do-not-travel warning we refund the tour or hold it as a credit. The full table is on the terms page.