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Egypt Excursions Online
Cairo Tower Tour with Hotel Pickup and Drop-Off
4.1 (28) · from $66.65
For Cairo Tower tickets I found two options on GetYourGuide: a $66.65 private tour with hotel pickup, rated 4.13 from 28 reviews, and a $25.99 sunset tour with a Nile dinner cruise, rated 3.35 from 31 reviews. The tower is 187 m tall, according to Wikipedia. I’d go for the hour before sunset, and the clearest months are May to October.
| Tour | From | Rating | Length | Free cancellation | Book |
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| Cairo Tower Tour with Hotel Pickup and Drop-Off | $66.65 | ★ 4.1 (28) | 4 hours | Yes | Check availability |
| Sunset Cairo Tower Tour With Nile River Dinner Cruise | $25.99 | ★ 3.4 (31) | 5 hours | Yes | Check availability |
No standalone Cairo Tower tickets are sold through this page. Both products are tours that visit the tower, so these Cairo Tower tickets come bundled, and each one says something different about entry, so read the inclusions below before you book. The figures here come from Wikidata, Wikipedia and Open-Meteo.
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Location | Gezira Island in the Nile, close to downtown Cairo, per Wikipedia |
| Deck | A circular observation deck with a revolving restaurant, per Wikipedia |
| Address | Kasr Al Nile, Zamalek, Cairo Governorate (per Google Maps) |
| Opening hours | 9 AM to 11 PM every day (per Google Maps) |
| Time to allow | 4 hours for the private tour, 5 hours for the sunset tour with dinner cruise, per the listings |
Its partially open lattice-work design is intended to evoke a pharaonic lotus plant, an iconic symbol of Ancient Egypt.
If your search is for Cairo Tower observation deck tickets, the product to look at is the Cairo Tower Tour with Hotel Pickup and Drop-Off from Egypt Excursions Online. It costs $66.65 and is listed as a private group tour of 4 hours. This is a tour that includes the tower, not a bare ticket, so you also pay for the transfer and the guide. It has the higher rating of the two at 4.13 from 28 reviews.
The inclusions are hotel pickup and drop-off, an Egyptologist guide, soft drinks and water, and the Cairo Tower entry ticket, but the listing marks the entry ticket and the private transfer as applying only if selected. That wording matters: pick the option with tickets before you pay. Tips, a felucca ride and a camel or horse ride are listed as optional. The description says you climb through the 16 floors and finish with panoramic views of Cairo and Giza. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before, and the language is English.
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My pick: My pick for a first visit: a private guide, hotel pickup and tower entry for $66.65, as long as you select the option with the ticket.
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The prices for Cairo Tower tickets on this page span $25.99 to $66.65, and the gap comes from what is included, not from the view. The cheaper figure belongs to the sunset tour with the Nile dinner cruise. Its listing has three options: a shared tour and a private tour that both leave entry tickets out, and a private tour with the tower and cruise tickets included. The $25.99 headline price matches the budget end, so I’d treat it as the no-ticket option and expect the all-inclusive private version to cost more.
That leaves the $66.65 tour as the one with the clearest line about entry, with the caveat above. A reviewer of that tour wrote the guide let them take their time and take lots of photos, which fits a visit that is mostly about the view.
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Prices are the lowest per-person prices on GetYourGuide when I last checked; the final price depends on the date, time slot and age.
Putting the two listings side by side shows why Cairo Tower tickets are easy to misread. The private tour includes a guide, transfers (if selected), drinks and the entry ticket (if selected). The sunset tour includes hotel pickup in an air-conditioned vehicle, a local guide, a buffet dinner, live entertainment with belly dancing and folklore, and service charges and taxes. Its tower entry is included only for the applicable option. Drinks and personal expenses are not included.
The sunset itinerary runs 30 minutes by car, about 1.5 hours at the tower, 2 hours on the dinner cruise and 30 minutes back. That is a long evening, so I’d keep it for a night when you have nothing else planned.
The revolving restaurant is part of the tower itself, and Wikipedia says the tower is crowned by the observation deck and the restaurant. I could not find a menu, prices or a booking page I could cite, so I won’t quote any. The dinner in the sunset product is a different thing: it is a buffet served on a Nile River cruise after the tower visit, with live entertainment, not a meal at the top.
That tour is Sunset Cairo Tower Tour With Nile River Dinner Cruise from Egypt Excursions Online, $25.99, rated 3.35 from 31 reviews. The rating is the lowest on this page, so I’d read the recent reviews first. One reviewer wrote that the view at night was amazing. I’d pick these tickets for the Cairo Tower if you want a tower view and a dinner on the water in a single evening.
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My pick: Dinner with a view, but the dinner is on a Nile cruise, not at the tower. Check which option includes entry.
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Before you pay for Cairo Tower tickets, know what you are climbing: the tower is 187 m (614 ft) tall, according to Wikipedia. It was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, and the tallest in North Africa for 21 years until 1982. The sunset listing also gives 187 meters. I could not find a cited height for the observation deck itself, so I leave out a horizon figure rather than guess. The listing says the climb passes 16 floors, which matches Wikidata.
Cairo Tower tickets cost $66.65 on the private tour and $25.99 on the sunset tour, and neither number is a walk-up entry fee. For that I’d check the official site, where I did not find a current price. The honest summary is that on this page you pay for a tour, and the tower entry is part of it for some options only.
With tickets for the Cairo Tower sold only inside tours, booking Cairo Tower tickets online here means choosing a date and an option. Both listings offer free cancellation up to 24 hours before, so reserving costs little. The private tour starts with hotel pickup in Cairo or Giza, and the sunset tour offers three pickup locations and three drop-off locations. I found no timed-entry slot for the deck alone, so there is no skip-the-line ticket to sell you.
Reviews of the tower itself and of the tickets for the Cairo Tower tours tell different stories. Google Maps rates the Cairo Tower 4.3 from 30,645 reviews, which is a solid sign for the visit itself. The tours are different. The private tour has 4.13 from 28 reviews and the sunset tour has 3.35 from 31 reviews, and those figures are low enough that I’d read the listing carefully. One reviewer wrote “The view from the top is absolutely breathtaking” (GetYourGuide reviewer). Most praise on the private tour is for the guides.
Is the Cairo Tower closed at any point? Google Maps lists 9 AM to 11 PM every day, with no closed day. That can change for holidays, so check the official site before a special trip. I have no cited source for a current closure, so I add nothing beyond that. Cancelling a tour is free up to 24 hours ahead, which protects your Cairo Tower tickets if plans shift.
To buy Cairo Tower tickets through this page, pick between the two tours above. For entry alone, I would not rely on a listing: the official site is the place to confirm a price and current rules. Tipping, a felucca ride and a camel or horse ride are optional extras on the private tour, so budget for those separately.
Visitors who buy Cairo Tower tickets in Egypt are heading for a tower that stands on Gezira Island in the Nile, near the centre of the city. Built between 1956 and 1961 and designed by Naoum Shebib, it is sometimes considered Egypt’s second most famous landmark after the Pyramids of Giza, per Wikipedia. The design evokes a lotus plant, a pharaonic symbol. A restoration between 2006 and 2009 cost about 15 million pounds and added an emergency staircase and a visitor elevator.
Timing matters more than the price of Cairo Tower tickets here. June is the clearest month at the tower with 1 percent average cloud cover, and July follows at 2 percent, per Open-Meteo. February is the cloudiest at 45 percent, then January at 42. The latest sunset is 19:58 in June and the earliest is 16:57 in December. I’d arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, which suits the sunset tour, since the tower stop is about 1.5 hours.
| Month | Sunset (Cairo time) | Cloud cover | Sunshine a day | Rainy days |
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| Jan | 17:17 | 42% | 9.3 h | 1 |
| Feb | 17:43 | 45% | 8.8 h | 0 |
| Mar | 18:03 | 29% | 10.7 h | 1 |
| Apr | 18:22 | 26% | 11 h | 0 |
| May | 19:41 | 19% | 12.4 h | 2 |
| Junclearest | 19:58 | 1% | 13.7 h | 0 |
| Julclearest | 19:57 | 2% | 13.6 h | 0 |
| Augclearest | 19:36 | 4% | 12.2 h | 0 |
| Sep | 19:00 | 6% | 11.7 h | 0 |
| Oct | 18:24 | 7% | 10.7 h | 0 |
| Nov | 16:59 | 30% | 9.6 h | 1 |
| Dec | 16:57 | 28% | 9.5 h | 0 |
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Sunset and cloud cover for the same dates in 2025 at the deck (Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5), 2025); sunset moves by about a minute between years.
The private tour’s listing promises panoramic views of Cairo and Giza, and the sunset listing mentions the city and the Nile. I can’t cite how far the Giza pyramids are visible from the deck, so I make no claim about them. What I can compute is the straight-line distance to each landmark from the tower.
The nearest are the 6 October Bridge at 0.58 km (0.36 mi), Talaat Harb Square at 1.38 km (0.86 mi) and Tahrir Square at 1.13 km (0.70 mi). Abdeen Palace Museum is 2.24 km (1.39 mi) away, Khan el-Khalili 3.66 km (2.27 mi), Saladin Citadel 3.94 km (2.45 mi) and Al-Azhar Park 4.01 km (2.49 mi). The Giza Necropolis is 11.72 km (7.28 mi) away, which is a drive, not a view to count on.
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Yes. The tower is crowned by a circular observation deck and a revolving restaurant, according to Wikipedia. Google Maps lists opening hours of 9 AM to 11 PM every day. On GetYourGuide I found two tours that include the tower, a $66.65 private tour and a $25.99 sunset tour with a Nile dinner cruise, so check which option includes entry.
I found no standalone ticket on GetYourGuide. The private hotel-pickup tour is $66.65 and lists the entry ticket as included only if selected. The sunset tour with a Nile dinner cruise starts at $25.99, but its shared and private no-ticket options leave tower entry to be bought at the venue. Check the official site for the walk-up price.
The tower is 187 m (614 ft) tall, per Wikipedia. It was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years, until 1998. It was built between 1956 and 1961 and designed by Naoum Shebib. I could not confirm the exact height of the observation deck from a high-authority source, so I do not quote one.
For the main sights, three days is workable. The Giza Necropolis is about 11.7 km from the tower, Khan el-Khalili about 3.7 km and Saladin Citadel about 3.9 km. The sunset tour takes 5 hours and the private tower tour takes 4 hours, so the tower fits into one afternoon or evening.
Google Maps lists 9 AM to 11 PM every day for the Cairo Tower. Opening times can change for holidays and maintenance, so check the official site before you go. If you book a tour, the operator handles timing, and both tours I list allow cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Yes. Wikipedia says the tower is crowned by a revolving restaurant. None of the tours I list book a table there. The sunset tour includes a buffet dinner, but it is served on a Nile cruise after the tower visit, not at the top.