What we cover
Twelve services across five airports and ten intercity routes. All carry the same fixed-price commitment — the number we quote is the number you pay.
| Service | Route / coverage | Typical price (USD) | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairo airport transfer | CAI → Central Cairo / Nasr City / Heliopolis | from $28 | 30–55 min |
| Hurghada airport transfer | HRG → Hurghada / El Gouna / Soma Bay | from $18 | 15–35 min |
| Luxor airport transfer | LXR → Luxor / East & West Bank hotels | from $16 | 10–25 min |
| Sharm el-Sheikh transfer | SSH → Naama Bay / Sharm resorts | from $20 | 15–30 min |
| VIP fast-track arrivals | Cairo International (CAI) | from $55/person | Saves 40–60 min |
| Fast-track departures | Cairo International (CAI) | from $45/person | Priority check-in |
| Meet & greet | All 5 airports | from $20 | Arrivals hall |
| Intercity Cairo–Alex | Cairo → Alexandria (all districts) | from $65 | 2 h 30 min |
| Intercity Hurghada–Luxor | HRG ↔ Luxor (one-way or return) | from $75 | 3 h 30 min |
| Group minibus | All airports and intercity routes | from $55 | As per route |
| Hourly chauffeur | Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Sharm | from $30/hr | 2 hr minimum |
| Corporate account | Egypt-wide, recurring | Monthly billing | Priority dispatch |
Prices in USD. EGP equivalents provided on request and locked at the exchange rate on the day of confirmation. All prices include the driver, vehicle, fuel, flight tracking and standard waiting time.
Cairo airport transfer
The most-booked route in Egypt. Cairo International Airport (CAI) handles over fifteen million passengers a year across two main terminals. Getting from the kerb to a Cairo hotel without a pre-booked car is one of the more reliably stressful ways to start a trip.
SwiftGate covers Terminal 1 (international long-haul), Terminal 2 (Egyptian airlines and regional carriers) and Terminal 3 (Cairo Festival City area). Your driver monitors the flight in real time — not from a fixed departure time, but from the live flight data — and adjusts the pick-up if the aircraft lands early or late. The quoted price covers reasonable waiting time, so a thirty-minute delay doesn't become a thirty-minute surcharge.
Destinations covered from Cairo Airport: central Cairo (Downtown, Zamalek, Garden City, Maadi), Nasr City, Heliopolis, New Cairo, 6th of October, Giza (including the Pyramids district), and the outskirts to Ain Sokhna and Ismailia on request. Distance and travel time vary significantly with Cairo traffic — the drive from Terminal 2 to a Zamalek hotel runs between thirty and seventy minutes depending on time of day, and we quote accordingly.
Sedan vehicles seat up to three passengers with standard luggage. For four or more passengers, or for groups with oversized luggage, we assign a minivan — same fixed-price model, larger vehicle. Child seats are available on request at no additional cost. See the fleet page for vehicle specifications, or check the airports page for terminal-by-terminal notes on Cairo International. For pricing, the pricing page has route-specific figures in both USD and EGP.
Hurghada airport transfer
Hurghada International Airport (HRG) receives a high volume of charter and direct flights from Europe and the Gulf — often arriving in bulk at peak season, with several wide-bodies on stand simultaneously. Kerbside queues for unofficial taxis outside HRG arrivals are a known issue at peak charter times.
SwiftGate covers transfers from Hurghada Airport to all major Red Sea resort destinations: Hurghada city centre, El Gouna, Sahl Hasheesh, Makadi Bay, Soma Bay and Safaga. El Gouna is approximately twenty-five kilometres north of the airport and takes around twenty minutes in light traffic. Soma Bay and Safaga, further south, run thirty to forty-five minutes.
For resort guests, the difference between pre-booked and kerbside at HRG is particularly pronounced at night and during peak-arrival windows when multiple charters land within the same hour. A named driver with a sign waiting in arrivals takes two minutes to find. A fair-priced taxi in a crowded kerb at midnight takes considerably longer.
Hurghada to Luxor — a route many Red Sea visitors want to add as a day or overnight trip — is also available as an intercity car, described below. The distance is roughly three hundred kilometres and takes three and a half hours by road. For a group, the door-to-door minibus from Hurghada Airport to a Luxor hotel is often the most efficient and lowest-cost option. See intercity routes for details and pricing. Request a quote for any Hurghada route.
Luxor airport transfer
Luxor International Airport (LXR) is compact compared to Cairo, but the taxi situation outside is characteristically unpredictable. Pre-booking removes the uncertainty entirely at one of Egypt's highest-value tourist destinations.
Luxor is the entry point for the Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple, the Temple of Luxor, and the string of archaeological sites on both the East and West Banks. A significant share of passengers arriving at LXR are connecting with Nile cruises, meaning they have a specific embarkation point and a tight schedule — not the right moment to be negotiating with a driver outside arrivals.
SwiftGate covers Luxor Airport to all East Bank hotels (Sofitel Winter Palace, Steigenberger Nile Palace, Mercure Karnak, and the guesthouses and smaller properties around the corniche), West Bank villages and temples (reaching the West Bank ferry crossing point for those going to the Valley of the Kings or staying in Gezira), and the cruise ship dock. We also cover one-way transfers from Luxor to Aswan for passengers continuing south by road rather than river.
The drive from Luxor Airport to the central corniche hotels is typically ten to twenty minutes. West Bank destinations require crossing the Nile and run slightly longer — typically twenty to thirty minutes from the terminal. Prices start from $16 for a solo sedan; group rates for Nile cruise passengers with multiple bags are available on request. For Luxor-specific airport details and terminal notes, see the airports guide.
Luxor is also a connection point for intercity transfers heading south to Aswan or west to Hurghada. If you're building a multi-leg Egypt itinerary, contact the operations team and we'll quote the full sequence as a single package rather than leg by leg.
Sharm el-Sheikh transfer
Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport (SSH) serves Naama Bay, Sharm el-Sheikh city, and the resort strip running south toward Ras Mohamed. Transfers from SSH are short in distance but can be complicated by the unofficial taxi infrastructure outside arrivals.
SwiftGate covers SSH arrivals to all major resort areas: Naama Bay (the main strip, five to fifteen minutes depending on which part), the hotels at Hadaba and Sharks Bay, the larger resort complexes at Nabq Bay further north, and the southern properties heading toward Ras Mohamed National Park. For divers arriving to access the Straits of Tiran or the Gulf of Aqaba reefs, we can quote directly to specific dive centres or liveaboard embarkation points.
Sharm is one of the airports where fast-track is not currently available through SwiftGate — arrivals processing is faster here than at Cairo, and the time saving is less pronounced. What the pre-booked transfer provides is a fixed price and a waiting driver, which at Sharm at midnight in July (peak European charter season) is the main thing travellers actually want.
One-way prices from SSH start from $20 for a central Naama Bay hotel. Nabq Bay and the northern strip properties are a longer run and priced accordingly — typically $28 to $35 depending on the specific property. Family bookings with two adults and children needing a child seat should note that seats are available on request, allocated at the time of booking and included in the quoted price. See the fleet for vehicle options, or request a quote with your SSH flight details.
Fast-track arrivals — Cairo International
At Cairo International Airport, the arrival process can cost a first-time visitor forty minutes to an hour — visa on arrival, passport control, baggage reclaim. Fast-track cuts that to ten to fifteen minutes. It is the most time-efficient add-on SwiftGate offers.
The fast-track arrivals service works like this: a SwiftGate representative meets you inside the terminal, often at the gate or the immigration corridor entrance, and escorts you through the expedited processing channels. At Cairo, this means the visa-on-arrival desk (if you require a visa), the priority passport control lane, and the baggage reclaim area where your luggage is tracked and brought to a collection point ahead of the general queue.
The representative speaks English and handles all the processing formalities. You don't need to know the procedures, fill in additional paperwork or find the right counter — they do it while you walk alongside them. At the end, they hand you to your waiting transfer driver at the kerb. If you've booked a Cairo transfer at the same time, the two services integrate cleanly — your driver is held with the fast-track waiting time built in, so there's no gap between leaving the terminal and getting in the car.
Fast-track arrivals is available for individuals and groups. For a family of four or a corporate group, the time saving is multiplied — each person going through standard channels adds to the queue, whereas fast-track handles the group together. The service is priced per person from $55, with group rates available for four or more travellers arriving together. Combination pricing with a Cairo airport transfer is available on the pricing page.
Fast-track at Cairo International requires advance booking — it cannot be arranged at the airport on arrival. Book at least 48 hours before departure to allow the representative assignment to be confirmed. For bookings under 48 hours, contact the operations team directly and we'll advise on availability. Full details and booking notes are on the dedicated fast-track page.
Fast-track departures
Departing from Cairo International is a different process from arriving, and the queue points are different — check-in, security screening, and the departure gate area. Fast-track departures handles the landside portion, from arrival at the terminal to the gate.
A representative meets you at the terminal drop-off point and escorts you through priority check-in (where available with the operating airline), security screening using the fast-lane channels, and immigration outbound. At Cairo Terminal 1, this can reduce the standard landside process from forty-five minutes to under fifteen, particularly on days when multiple wide-bodies are departing within the same window.
Fast-track departures is most in demand from business travellers on tight same-day schedules — arriving in Cairo in the morning, handling a meeting, and returning to the airport in the afternoon — and from families with young children for whom the departure queue is the most stressful part of the journey. It is priced from $45 per person, with the same group-rate structure as fast-track arrivals.
Pairing the departure fast-track with a transfer to the airport gives you a door-to-gate service: your driver collects you from the hotel at the right time for the flight, and the representative handles everything from the terminal drop-off. Combination pricing is on the pricing page. For bookings, use the contact form or email the operations desk with your departure flight number and hotel address.
Meet and greet
Available at all five airports. A named driver waiting in arrivals with a sign, help with luggage, and a calm handover — without the fast-track escort airside.
Meet and greet is the standard arrivals package — included with every SwiftGate airport transfer — where the driver is positioned in the public arrivals hall with a sign showing the passenger's name. This sounds simple, and it is, but the execution determines whether a tired traveller walks out and immediately knows where to go or spends ten minutes scanning for their name among a crowd of drivers.
SwiftGate's meet-and-greet standard requires the driver to be in position at least thirty minutes before the scheduled landing time, with the sign visible and the driver's phone available in case the passenger calls. All drivers hold the real-time flight status for their assigned booking, so they're aware of delays without waiting for the passenger to arrive and explain. The driver assists with luggage from the arrivals hall to the vehicle, which is parked in the designated transfer bay rather than circling the terminal.
For passengers arriving at Cairo who want the airside escort through immigration and baggage — rather than just the sign in arrivals — that's the fast-track service. Meet and greet is the ground-floor version: you clear immigration and customs, you come out, and the driver is there. For most airports other than Cairo, where the arrivals process is shorter, meet and greet is the right-sized service.
It's available at Cairo International, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan and Sharm el-Sheikh. Pricing for standalone meet and greet (without a transfer) starts from $20. Combined with an airport transfer it's included in the transfer price — there's no separate line item. For groups, the driver handles the coordination of multiple passengers from the same flight. Send the booking details and we'll confirm the driver assignment ahead of travel. See the meet-and-greet page for full details.
Cairo to Alexandria
The desert highway from Cairo to Alexandria — roughly 225 kilometres via the Alexandria Desert Road — is one of Egypt's most-used intercity routes. Door-to-door by private car runs two and a half to three hours depending on the departure point in Cairo and the destination in Alexandria.
SwiftGate covers Cairo to all Alexandria districts — Smoha, Miami, Sidi Gaber, Montazah, Stanley, Agami and the Corniche hotels — as well as the reverse direction for passengers flying out of Cairo who have been visiting the Mediterranean coast. For Cairo-side departures, we can connect the intercity car with an airport transfer at either end: collect from CAI on arrival, transfer to Alexandria, and return to CAI for the departure flight, all under one booking.
The route operates in both sedan (up to three passengers) and minivan (four to eight passengers) configurations. One-way pricing starts from $65 for a sedan. For groups of five or more, the per-person cost of the minivan is typically lower than individual fares on any alternative. The driver operates on the same flight-tracking model as airport transfers — if you're connecting from a delayed inbound at Cairo, the intercity departure adjusts to the actual landing time.
Business travellers doing the Cairo–Alexandria route regularly may want to look at the corporate account option, which provides priority dispatch and consolidated monthly invoicing for recurring intercity bookings. All details on the intercity cars page.
Hurghada to Luxor — intercity
A three-and-a-half hour road journey through the Eastern Desert, connecting the Red Sea coast with Egypt's richest concentration of ancient sites. Popular with travellers adding a Luxor day trip to a Hurghada beach stay, and with passengers who are flying into HRG but want to start in Luxor.
The Hurghada–Luxor road crosses the Eastern Desert via the Safaga–Qena road, a well-maintained route that passes through dramatically sparse desert landscape before dropping into the Nile Valley. Distance is approximately 290 kilometres. In a sedan or minivan the journey takes three to three and a half hours at a comfortable pace.
SwiftGate runs this route both ways — HRG to Luxor and Luxor to HRG — with the driver collecting from the hotel or airport at the agreed time and dropping directly at the destination in the other city. There are no rest stops required in the quote (though the driver will pause at appropriate points on long routes if the passenger wants), and the road is fully tarmaced throughout.
One-way pricing starts from $75 for a sedan. The minibus rate for a group of six is $130 one-way, which works out to roughly $22 per person — competitive with the group-booking rates on any alternative ground transport. For tour groups transferring between Red Sea and Nile itinerary legs, this is typically the most efficient option: a private vehicle on a fixed schedule is easier to coordinate than rail or shared transport when the group has a departure time at Hurghada Airport to hit.
The same route is available as a day-trip return if a Hurghada-based traveller wants to visit Karnak Temple and the Luxor Museum and return to their Red Sea hotel in the evening. A full-day return transfer with several hours in Luxor is priced from $140 for a sedan. Contact us with the travel dates and party size and we'll quote the full package.
Group minibus transfers
For parties of five or more passengers, a minibus is typically the right vehicle — more cost-effective per person than multiple sedans, and operationally simpler for the group. SwiftGate operates minibuses on all airport routes and all intercity connections.
The standard minibus holds eight passengers with standard luggage. The large minibus holds twelve passengers. Both are air-conditioned, serviced to the same standard as the sedan fleet, and driven by vetted drivers who have specifically cleared the vehicle inspection for larger vehicles. Child seats can be fitted in minibuses as in sedans — specify the number and type (infant, child, booster) at booking and they'll be installed before the vehicle collects.
Group transfers at airports work the same way as solo transfers: the driver monitors the inbound flight, is in position at arrivals before landing, and holds a sign with the group leader's name. For large groups arriving from charter flights — eight to twelve passengers from the same booking — the driver coordinates the luggage collection point so the group doesn't need to organise the transfer from baggage reclaim independently.
Pricing for the minibus is a flat vehicle rate, not a per-person rate. From Cairo Airport to central Cairo, a minibus starts from $55 for the vehicle — making it cheaper per person than individual sedan bookings for a group of five or more. Intercity minibus rates follow the same logic: Cairo to Alexandria by twelve-seat minibus from $90. For groups larger than twelve, or for event transfers involving multiple vehicles, contact the operations team for a custom quote. Details on group pricing and vehicle options.
Child seat programme
Child and infant seats available at all airports on all routes, included in the transfer price. Request at booking — no surcharge, no "check availability on the day."
Family travel with young children through Egyptian airports is one of the scenarios where the difference between a pre-booked transfer and a kerbside taxi is sharpest. At a kerbside, you're negotiating a price while managing luggage and a tired child, and the question of whether the car has a child seat typically gets answered with "no, but it's fine." That's not fine — and it's one of the reasons SwiftGate built a dedicated child-seat inventory.
We hold infant seats (rear-facing, for children up to 13 kg or approximately 15 months), child seats (forward-facing, for children 9–18 kg), and booster seats (for children 15–36 kg or approximately four to ten years). At booking, specify the number and type of seats needed and the ages and approximate weights of the children — the operations team will assign the correct seat specification and confirm it on the booking confirmation.
Seats are pre-installed in the vehicle before collection, not handed over in a bag for the passenger to fit themselves. The driver has been briefed on the seat installation and can assist with the fitting at collection. For families with multiple children across different age groups, we'll specify which seat types are fitted to which seating positions in the vehicle so the parent can plan the loading.
There is no extra charge for child seats. The seat is included in the fixed transfer price — the only cost is the transfer itself. For large families requiring a minibus rather than a sedan, the same child-seat inventory is available across minibus seating positions. Specify the requirement at booking via the contact form or by email. The fleet page shows which vehicles support which seat configurations.
Corporate account
For companies, travel management firms and tour operators who need recurring Egypt ground transport on a structured billing arrangement. Priority dispatch, consolidated monthly invoicing and a single operations contact.
The SwiftGate corporate account is built around the specific needs of organisations that book transfers regularly rather than one at a time. The key differences from standard individual booking: bookings are made by a central coordinator (travel manager, EA, operations admin) rather than by each traveller individually; invoices are consolidated monthly by cost centre or project code; and corporate accounts carry a priority dispatch tier — in the event of simultaneous demand peaks, corporate-account bookings are served first from the driver pool.
Account setup takes forty-eight hours. Reem Tawil handles new corporate accounts and will walk through the billing structure, the booking interface and the dispatch-priority arrangements during the onboarding call. Most corporate clients have a named operations contact at SwiftGate — typically Reem or a member of the dispatch team — who can be reached directly by phone or email rather than through the general booking flow.
Current corporate clients include a Cairo-based oil services group, two European tour operators with Egypt programmes, and several embassies and international organisations with recurring VIP transfer requirements. Monthly volumes range from ten to eighty transfers per account. For an initial conversation, email [email protected] with "corporate account" in the subject, or see the dedicated corporate page. Pricing information is on the pricing page.
Hourly chauffeur
A vetted, English-speaking driver and vehicle at your disposal by the hour — for sightseeing, multi-stop business days, or when you need ground transport that waits rather than drops off.
The hourly chauffeur service is booked for a minimum of two hours and works differently from a standard transfer: the vehicle and driver stay with you for the duration, and you direct the itinerary. Popular uses include: a Cairo day covering the Egyptian Museum, the Citadel and Khan el-Khalili without the dead time of re-booking cars between stops; a Luxor half-day covering both East Bank temples and a West Bank ferry crossing; a business day in Cairo with multiple meeting addresses in different districts.
All drivers on the hourly service carry a working phone with maps and speak usable English. They're not tour guides — they drive to where you direct them, wait, and take you to the next address. For travellers who want a guide as well as a driver, we can recommend licensed Egyptologist-guides separately. The driver focuses on the vehicle.
Pricing starts from $30 per hour in Cairo, with the same rate applying in Hurghada and Luxor. Sharm el-Sheikh hourly rate is $28 per hour. The two-hour minimum is billed at the start of the booking. Hours beyond the minimum are billed in one-hour increments at the same rate, confirmed at the end of the booking. For full-day bookings (eight hours), a flat daily rate is available — typically $180 in Cairo — which represents a saving on the hourly rate. To book, contact the team with your dates, city, and approximate itinerary.
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