Egypt Travel Nightmare!! Why I’ll Never Go Back!!

i was just there last month. i didn't believe when youtubers say "don't go to egypt" but after my visit, i fully believe it 200%. Pyramids are nice but honestly, it's really not worth the scams and harrasments.

Worked at the US Embassy in Cairo for 2 years. I had a diplomatic passport (Vienna Convention…”you can’t look in my bags”) and STILL dealt with the same crap. Cairo has a near zero percent repeat tourism rate for a reason.

I stayed in Egypt for only 3 nights and couldn’t wait to leave. I went bc I am fascinated with ancient history, but the museum was heartbreaking, everything was kept in bad condition, the hotel would have us go trough X-ray every time, and the way they treat animals is so sad. I am never going back

Was planning a two week trip worth several thousand $$$ with the wife and kid and parents. No more. Going to Italy instead.

I just came back from Egypt a month ago and I have been to many countries before and this was by far our worst experience as a tourist. It’s not tourist friendly at all. Everyone tries to take advantage of you. This is the one country I can say I will never go back. Very chaotic, my husband and I couldn’t wait to leave the country. Our final straw was airport employees asking for money in every corner of the airport.

My dad studied in Cairo in the 1960s and swears they were the best of his life. In 2015 he went again and was so disappointed in everything.

I went to Egypt five months ago. At the airport, the police stopped me for three hours, searching through my bags for cameras or drones. When I was leaving the country, they stopped me again for two hours, and a policeman took me to a private room and asked for money to let me catch my flight. It was a horrible experience. People are not smiling or friendly unless they get tips, taxi drivers will rip you off, and there's dust and rubbish everywhere. Expect anything to happen to you.

As an Egyptian citizen i should advice all foreign people don't come to Egypt lone you must know arab friend or Egyptian friend to help you and don't make you get scammed by a bad persons and government is shit (sorry to all people but this is the truth )❤

I agree. If you step out of an expensive chain resort, you will get harassed, scammed, robbed, yelled at, pushed, groped...or worse. Never, ever again.

Fun fact, it's illegal in Egypt to criticize the government

As an Arab who's been there i can tell you %80 of those situations are pure power trip. They love to flaunt any little position of power they get, it's not just the system it's the people.

Yep, got robbed by a policeman that marched me to an ATM. Told me to get money and paid $150 US to not get arrested. I was with an organised tour group and moved away from the crowd by 4 metres and that's when I got clipped. Just the absolute worst country.

My friends were there. A young couple with their two little children. Airports staff went through their stuff and stole valuable from them, poor hospitality.

Egypt has changed so much. My parents went there twice in the 1990s and found the place safe and welcoming. Tourists were treated well, and everywhere they went, people were polite and curious. The Egyptian military accompanied the tour groups as protection (and for more nefarious reasons, I'm sure, but they were impeccably courteous). My mother never felt unsafe or disrespected. But these days it's an absolute catastrophe. Chaos, corruption, crime.

My Experience in Egypt: I went there with 2 friends. We are all muslim and 2 male + 1 female When we arrived some airport employee came to us and checked us (none of us spoke arabic). They spoke arabic in a very aggressive way. Eventually they took our Camera and my 2nd mobile phone. They said I couldnt have it back until we leave the country. It was exactly, how our friend here described. I also had to pay like 100€. At the hotel, we were checked AGAIN and had to w8 about 4-5 hours, just to get to our room! Our rooms was not like it was advertised. Toiletts were disgusting, dirty and dusty beehh. In the streets, many people harassed us, trying to sell us anything and tried to scam us. All the products were soo expensive for us, not for the locals. One after another wanted us to go in their shops, some guys even tried to force us in. When my friend went alone down an alley, he went into a shop and didn't buy anything (because of shitty good). Upon reunification, there was all of sudden a child following us, bringing cops and he told that my friend tried to rape him !! From this hearsay he was arrested and we fought 2 days to death to get him out ! We HAD to give money to officers big sums, which they gladly took from us without doing anything !! If it was not for our embassy (of Ger), he would have rotten there !! And the hell trip wasn't over then. People were following us, harassed our feminime friend by the THOUSANDS because they thought she is a woman, she wants to have sex with all the arabs there. They even touched at in uncomfortable spots. It didn't feel safe. And whats worse, there is in restaurants and shops different pricing for tourists and locals. When we ate at an restaurant, we ordered for like 15€ food, and we had to pay like 50€. When we asked for the menu, it was an entirely different one with higher pricing. When he threatened us with police, we just payed and left. After all this, I wasn't interested anymore to get a taxi to see the pyramides, I didn't wanted to check out any more any culture, other cities or what so ever. We were all physically, emotionally and financially exhausted and totally disppointed by everything what was connected to egypt. In the end we spend more than 2000€ in that shitty country for a trip of 8 days !! All kinds of experiences we made were just negative. Harassments, taking our money and assets, lying and cheating us, stealing and so on. You can't imagine just how these people are !! The final 2 days we just stayed at our hotel. This tour made me hate this country, its authorities, its people (majority was unfriendly and sex-obsessed-men), its culture, its cities (overcrowded, dirty and garbage piled up everywere), its landscape, basically EVERYTHING !! They treated us like enemies !! I feel sorry for people who go there and have a bad time there !! Thank god we made it out of there ALIVE

"It's a nightmare" Could not summarize my experience in Egypt any better than that. I actually never felt this way after visiting any country before, everybody lies, cheats, manipulates, threatens and rob you in broad day light. If you don't take all these warnings and still want to go there because you THINK you are a traveller.. then be warned, the moment you leave the airport or trainstation, you are going to get robbed, cheated, scammed etc. The taxi drivers will quote you a price and then change the meter half way through the ride and will go crazy if you question it and threaten to drop you off in middle of nowhere (which is worse than it sounds as you are like a steak in a tank of piranhas if you are not with locals you can trust - baring in mind you can not trust ANYBODY). Can't even enjoy the historical places because everybody harasses/threatens you. Worst experience of my life. I should have stayed at home and watched egyptian landmarks on YouTube, would have been 1 trillion times better, enjoyable, educational (and safer).

If anyone watches sailing zatara, when they went landed in Egypt on their catamaran, they had multiple authorities trying to shake them down for money and then began discussing confiscating their million dollar boat. They made the quick decision they would leave the country. Which the did at night to get outside the country limits. That entire country is corrupt AF and dangerous. It is off of MY bucket list.

I will say it endlessly and I’m so happy to see this video because Egypt was easily the worst place I’ve ever visited in my life.

I was hesitating to go to Egypt for vacation. After watching this, I'm definitely not going. I'm going to Greece 😅