Days · Cairo
Cairo in 3 days
Mornings at the big sights, middays indoors, evenings in the bazaar; the last day ends with the bags already in the car.
Days
3
Plan status
draft
Walking
1km
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Your constraints
Day 1 — Egyptian Museum at opening, Khan el-Khalili at dusk
No plan fits these constraints.
Conflict: Visit cairo-citadel ∩ Visit el-fishawy-cafe. Loosen: Visit cairo-citadel?
Minimal conflict: Visit cairo-citadel ∩ Visit el-fishawy-cafe
After: Hotel or AC café 13:00–16:30 between the museum and the Khan.
Day 2 — Pyramids at opening, lunch at the plateau edge
- 07:00–07:45Ride-hailing car to Giza
- 07:45–11:15Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx
- 11:15–11:23Walk to the plateau edge
- 11:23–12:13Lunch near the Giza plateau
What this plan gives up
- L1Taxi EGP 250 (Ride-hailing car to Giza) — saves walking and transfers.
Why this route?
DFL 1.3 = PFL 0.8 + OFL 0.5 · walk 800 m (0.5 mi)0.5 mi (800 m) · steps ↑0 ↓0
P_late 0.0% (fast path: safe) · margin p90 n/a · relax L1 · yield 14 · option value 0
trace: generated 4 · rejected none · frontier 1 · seed 834121223 · solver 0.2.0 · confidence medium
After: Back to the hotel by 15:00 to avoid the worst traffic; Grand Egyptian Museum is a separate half-day.
Day 3 — Coptic Cairo, car to the airport at 15:00
leave byLeave Hanging Church and Coptic Cairo by 13:50 to keep the 15:00 boarding.Leave Hanging Church and Coptic Cairo by 1:50 PM to keep the 3:00 PM boarding.
80 min of buffer left.
- 09:30–10:00Car to Coptic Cairo
- 10:00–11:45Hanging Church and Coptic Cairo
- 11:45–12:15Car back to the hotel for the bags
- 12:15–15:00Buffer / wander near Hotel pickup (bags) → CAI
- 15:00–16:00Car to the airport at 15:00hard
What this plan gives up
- L1Taxi EGP 180 (Car to Coptic Cairo) — protects: Car to the airport at 15:00.Taxi EGP 180 (Car to Coptic Cairo) — protects: Car to the airport at 3:00 PM.
- L1Taxi EGP 180 (Car back to the hotel for the bags) — protects: Car to the airport at 15:00.Taxi EGP 180 (Car back to the hotel for the bags) — protects: Car to the airport at 3:00 PM.
Why this route?
DFL 1.5 = PFL 0.5 + OFL 1 · walk 500 m (0.3 mi)0.3 mi (500 m) · steps ↑0 ↓0
P_late 0.0% (100 Monte Carlo runs) · margin p90 80′ · relax L1 · yield 5 · option value 0
Deadline: boarding 15:00 → latest arrival 14:50, slack 26′
trace: generated 2 · rejected none · frontier 1 · seed 834121223 · solver 0.2.0 · confidence medium
After: Airport: allow 3.5 hours before an international departure; traffic is unpredictable.