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

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🎬CREDITS:
VIDEO EDITOR » Hà Nhật Linh

FOR EGYPT SERIES:
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY » Nguyễn Tân Khải
CAMERA OPERATOR » Nguyễn Minh Đức
PRODUCER » Liz Peterson
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR » Huỳnh Hà My
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS » Khoi Chung & Huỳnh Nhi

[RALIF.ISMAIL]

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.

[captbe]

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.

[TravelBudgetHub]

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.

[zezotv]

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 )❤

[BlueSky-qswp]

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.

[MaverickLee]

"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).

[margodphd]

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.

[mattatta]

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

[sandracasillas]

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.

[Crazyfreak]

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.

[orlovacz]

I visited egypt one time. I paid for a taxi which should have taken me directly to the pyramids. First he took me to a papyrus shop where they tried to sell me ridiculously expensive papyrus pictures, and after that he took me to a tourist office is a slum, where they literally closed the door behind me and didn't let me out until I bought a very expensive tourguide. In the end, the taxi guy asked for a tip. I will never go back.

[annehaight]

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.

[craigfry]

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.

[ginchen]

So much for the much lauded Arab hospitality. Egypt was on my bucket list, but my friend and her son went a few years ago, prior to the pandemic, and told me to NOT go to Egypt ever. They were with a group of other tourists, paid a lot of money, only to be harassed and disrespected at every corner. The tour operator apologized, and said they would hold off on any further tour offering, because of the complaints they got from tour groups. So after watching this video and listening to your story, I guess I will be watching documentaries about Egypt and place any plans to go to the country on hold. Thanks for posting.

[ericjc]

I stayed in Egypt for 2 weeks back in 2017 with a host family. I think if it wasn’t for the host family, I wouldn’t have had a great experience, but being with them made it one of the most memorable and enjoyable experiences of my life.

[qutntyu]

This might not be that interesting but I've been to Egypt with my friends this summer and after 5th day I started feeling very emotionaly unstable. We were treated as walking ATMs and people inflated prices to us all the time.
Nevertheless, we decided to go outside at night on our 6th day (we will be leaving to Serbia on 7th) and we wanted to buy drinks from a local store. The shopkeeper was the first man that showed dignity and honesty towards us and did not buff the prices up. My mind was blown because until that point noone treated us as equal human beings. And don't get me wrong I'm not a stone but that perticual gesture (acting normal) had such impact on me that I started crying. I thanked him so much for being honest and he was also very touched for me explaining why I am crying and even gifted me a small present from his shop. I could not belive how much I could miss the honor and dignity that a man SHOULD posses. If it was me to be asked tommorow - that man saved his country in my eyes.
Hurghada - shop right after the new marina fish market.

[designhappens]

I remember the day I left Cairo as one of the happiest days of my life. When I got home, I even threw away every little souvenir I had bought in Egypt, in order to get rid of the "bad energy" that I had experienced.

[surfer]

One of those places that not only the government is awful, but also the people are the exact same way.

[yinq]

The other thing about Egypt is I experienced more scams there than in any other country 😅 the “pyramid access is closed but I can show you another entrance” trick, the “do you want to come to a local wedding in a rural town as a guest” trick, every scam in the book, to the point where I no longer wanted to talk to anyone or even make eye contact. Tourists are viewed as cash cows, there’s really no integrity when it comes to interacting with tourists. For anyone visiting Egypt, I recommend a full service tour, so you minimize local interaction and chance of getting scammed.

[alex_smallet]

I visited Egypt twice about 20 years ago. Never again. They beg for money EVERYWHERE. Guy in a toilet worked as a toilet paper dispenser and asked for tips, a local jumped into a picture I was taking and then demanded tips for his face in my picture, a guy shook my hand on the street and did not release it for a few minutes demanding I go inside and buy something from his shop, at the pyramids young men offered post cards as a “present” and then demanded money, our group was going through souvenir shops as through a flock of attacking birds, children are taught to ask for money, heck at some place we were surrounded by a group of children offering hashish. Bus drivers decided to have fun on a mountain road and were overturning each over. Not to mention the fact that every time I came back with food poisoning. Egypt is a great place, but its population is uncivilized.