Private Tours in Sharm El Sheikh

What does “private” actually mean here?

Under the word private, this page holds quite different things. Transfers and city drives run on a car and driver and start at €7 or €8. Guided day trips are sold by the clock: Saint Catherine’s Monastery is listed at 10 hours, Mount Sinai with a night climb at 14, Cairo by plane at 12. Boats and yachts are priced per group, not per person.

Before comparing anything, read the unit under the price. The Tiran speedboat is from €249 for a group of up to six and takes two hours; the four-hour yacht is from €500 for up to eight; the full-day catamaran over €1,000 for up to ten. Divide by the number of people you really are – a couple and a party of eight end up at very different figures.

Families with small children gain most from the transfers and the Old Market drive, where you pick the start time yourself. Couples will look at the desert dinner (four hours) and the photoshoot of one to two and a half hours. If you get seasick, consider the two-hour speedboat rather than a seven-hour cruise: less time on the water.

Not every listing here carries private in its title, so check the title and the unit. And where a card has only one or two reviews, a 5.0 says little yet – compare the number of reviews as well.