Maureen04

I am suprised that virtually every review of Memphis Tours is so positive. I recently returned from a 10 trip to Egypt where we used Memphis exclusively because of all the glowing reviews on this site and others. I would say our experience was mixed. They were on time each time and their stafr were very friendly. However, there were problems with communication.. For example we could never get clear answers as to how long each portion of a tour would take. We had a full day tour booked to Luxor with a scheduled flight back to Sharm at 8:00 p.m. But the guided tour portion of the trip was to end at 2:30 p.m. What did they thnk we were going to do from 2:30 to 7:00 p.m.? That was a long time to be hanging around in the heat with no where to go! On all of our tours lunch was included. It was always a buffet. One of teh buffets was really good, the rest were very poor, some of the food hardly edible and one of the restaurants was fiilthy. Given that Memphis is one of the most expensive companies offering these tours, I expected soemthing better. We had three different tour guides on three different tours. Two were excellent and very knowledgable. The third was awful. He could hardly speak English and he spent very little time explaining what we were seeing. It would have been better and a lot cheaper to have just taken a guide book with me. I have used private guides before. Memphis was not up to the standard I have experienced in the past especcially given the price.