Hot Air Balloon Trips in Egypt

Commercial ballooning in Egypt happens in one place: Luxor, over the west bank, at dawn. Aswan does not fly. Cairo does not fly. What changes between the 42 trips listed here is everything around that hour in the air: whether you buy the flight more or less on its own, add the Valley of the Kings on the ground afterwards, or fold the whole thing into a Nile cruise that sails on to Aswan.

That price spread deserves a warning, because it is the single thing most likely to mislead you here. The cheapest seat on this page and the one buried inside a four-day cruise are in the same basket, at the same hour, on the same morning. Nobody is flying higher or longer for a thousand euros. What separates the two figures is the boat, the hotel nights, the Egyptologist and the transfers bolted on either side of a flight that lasts about forty minutes either way. If the balloon is what you came to Egypt for, the cheap end of this list is not a reduced version of it. If you want the temples explained by someone who knows them, that is a real thing to pay for, but pay for it knowingly.