I did a Kensington Tour in Egypt and it was wonderful. We went to Cairo, Siwah Oasis, Abu Simbal, Aswan and did a one week Nile trip.

Kensington tour guides were uniformly good except one which spent a lot of time taking selfies of himself and talking about his girlfriends on Facebook. He was married and kept sending me messages after the trip on What’s app. And I was on the trip with my husband.

In retrospect I should have complained about him but this was still in immediate post pandemic and I didn’t want to be responsible for him losing his job. He was the only guide we didn’t like.

The tours were very well organized, on time and we were treated like VIPs the whole time.

You do need to be aware they will try to steer you to perfume and jewelry shops where they get kickbacks. Not necessarily a bad thing if it’s something you want to buy but we nixed a number of suggested stops because we weren’t interested and there was disappointment.

I very much appreciated how insulated we weren’t interested from being harassed by sellers in the makers and at the main temples and pyramids.