Tour to the West Bank in Luxor

My wonderful boyfriend and I spent 2 days in Luxor and booked a half-day tour for each day with Memphis Tours.
On the first morning, Memphis Tours picked us up from our hotel in Luxor to discover the West bank of Luxor. We visited the magnificent Valley of the Kings as our first stop. Then we moved on to enjoy the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut built by Queen Hatshepsut herself, the only woman who reigned ancient Egypt. On the second day, we discovered the east bank of Luxor and visited the Karnak Temples, dedicated to the God Amon, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu.
Then we went to Luxor Temple and enjoyed visiting the Obelisk of Ramses II whose other pair stands in Paris! Our guide, egyptologist Abdelaal Wannan's knowledge was truly impressive. He explained in great detail the history of ancient Egypt and the sites we visited. Abdelaal had a vast knowledge and passion about ancient Egyptian culture, history and religion. He made the tour very interesting and treated us like family. He was very attentive and informative and answered all our questions (his English was excellent). The profesionalism of both Abdelaal and the driver was outstanding and highly recommended. I must mention that Abdelaal has talent for taking really great photos if you want your photo taken in the amazing temples!

Right from the start of our research, Memphis provided professional service. We emailed Fatima our wish list and she suggested package options which we then adapted to suit or personal needs.
1) Half day West Bank tour ~ Sayed our guide was humerous and informative. He let us have as long or as short a time at each venue and was very knowledgable
2) Full day in Cairo, Ruby in Luxor accompanied us to check-in and got us emergency exit seats for our flight to Cairo, he also checked us in for the return flight, saving us time later on. Tarek was awaiting us in arrivals and took us to our driver and guide. We had an amazing day in Cairo, we chose to drop the souk from the suggested itinery and returned to Luxor earlier than planned, we still fitted in the Pyramids, Sphinx, Coptic Churches & Cairo Museum. Traffic in Cairo is HORRENDOUS but our driver was Excellent.
With a private guide you are not forced to visit carpet factories/gold centres etc. as happens with other operators group excursions.
We were protected from hawkers & hassle and all or tickets etc. were sorted for us.
We were very impressed with Memphis and will definitely use them again when we return to Egypt and highly recommend them.

 Thanks very much to our great guide Sayed Selim during our Nile cruise. He told us lot interesting stories during the visits to different temples, and arranged our trip in a way that we could see everything while not getting too stressful. Thanks to the additional free day-hotel, so that we can have a rest in Luxor before heading back to Cairo after the cruise. If one day we go back to Egypt, will definitely contact Memphis again!

 I'm actually writing this review really late as we travelled in 2010 (but TA wouldn't let me go abck that far!), but I was trying to find the website for a friend going to Egypt this year and noticed the tripadvisor link so thought I should submit a review.

 Had a fantastic time in Egypt, the guides knew so much and we were safe the whole time and fealt safe, our drivers and guides were great, what a lovely country, I wish I was there right now
Special thank's to Shaimaa Baheeg for making it extra special