Omar & Ahmed the drivers were brilliant, very experienced and kept things as smooth as possible. They did communicate as much as possible if you interacted with them. Cairo traffic is crazy, worse than India and they navigated so well so we weren't delayed. A 1.30am start - take jumper/scarf etc and breakfast box with you. They don't leave the mini bus so so can leave stuff on there. Take toilet roll - select your service stops some are free others not, 50 Egyptian to use. You go through 5 police check points where you are put in a queue before carrying on your journey, one of these held us for 40mins so it is a 7hr journey in and less on the way back. Not the companies fault. I travelled with 3 Italians and 4 Danish, we bonded as the day progressed once we had all had a little sleep. Cairo museum is fantastic, not enough time there but more time through this company then some. The only thing i would say is our tour guide (who has to keep us moving to fit everything is) kept saying you can come back for photos - get them there and then! otherwise your free time you are running around trying to find the right room etc. She's moving as soon as she finishes talking and always asks you to come closer and listen but if i didn't take the pics as i did whilst listening to her i would of never of had what i wanted. She was also very disappointed with a few of us that chose not to do the Nile trip - it's optional. I knew i was already doing the Nile at Luxor 2 days later (Same company) so that was the one i wanted to do. I would say some of her knowledge was limited to Nana on the Luxor trip who filled in the gaps on questions i had. Sultans Palace Perfumes was good, some lovely smells, nice tea. I did actually want the pure perfumes to bring home so I bought 2x 100ml and 1x 50ml. I paid £70 (negotiated from what started as £40 each for the 100ml and £30 for the 50ml) i was happy and they got their sale, worth every penny i paid and they wrap well for travel, just ask for paper to write the scent labels if buying a few. Lunch at the restaurant was great. Pyramids were great, everything you imagine, don't waste time going into the great pyramid, dark cold nothing to see i was told, spend the time in the sun enjoying the surroundings. If you look down to see the Sphinx below look to your right further into the rock/dirt and you will see more where the workers area was - i didn't have time to venture into this and was gutted as the locals say it's brilliant. We lost the Danish at the start of the pyramids so we lost a lot of time standing around - this meant we suffered again at the Sphinx - only 15 mins to explore and pics - i ran around everywhere but actually was quite annoyed at this as it was more important than the pyramids for me. So overall fabulous long day, advice is ensure your group keep up otherwise you all suffer with less free time to wonder and less time at the Sphinx. If you have any back problems or Oedema with legs you will need to have cushion of something as some parts of the roads are rough and you are sat for a 7hr journey so every opportunity to move around, do it. If you have a couple of weeks Hurghada than maybe split it up or fly - 50min flight i believe. I was only there for 6nights and had much to pack in. I did keep some of my breakfast box for teatime on the journey home as its late when you get back.