What Happened to Our Cairo Excursion Booking

There were three excursions offered by Princess for Port Said…all that went into Cairo for the day and return to the ship:
1) The Pyramids at Giza, lunch at the Pyramid hotel, the Sphinx, and the Cairo Museum.
2) The Pyramids at Giza, lunch at the Pyramid hotel, and the Step Pyramid (the oldest one…from 2780 BC!).
3) The Step Pyramid and a 4-wheel drive trip to the Red Pyramid.

We were booked on #3 since we had seen everything in and around Cairo before except for the Red Pyramid.

When we returned from the Luxor trip on Monday, I was ready to cancel the Cairo trip. The bus ride to Luxor was a pain, and I was not sure it was worth doing a similar experience on Thursday to see things that I have mostly seen before…albeit 20 years ago.

However, the cancelation day for these trips was 4/12, so this would have been a fight if I had wanted to cancel and get a credit back. And, after hearing the lecture this morning, where they said the drive to Cairo was more like 2-1/2 hours each way, I was accepting that I’d do our existing Cairo trip.

Late afternoon, Kathleen said she had heard that our excursion was cancelled due to too few people signed up for it. I guess it makes sense that this choice did not appeal to a large segment of our ship’s demographic makeup.

When this happens, Princess offers people with cancelled tours to rebook something else, even though the bookings have been closed out.

Our choice is that Kathleen will do tour #1, and I’ll choose not to go into Cairo. While she has seen all of the items before, when we went before we had 3 small children along, and the King Tut items were not in the Cairo Museum, but on tour elsewhere in the world. Kathleen knows lots of other passengers, so it is not a big deal for me not to go on the excursion with her. I was ready to do the existing tour, but I’m choosing not to rebook this new tour. I’ll do something simple in Port Said.