Easy walk from Marriott Mena house to pyramids of Egypt

Demonstration of how quickly, safely, and easily you can walk from the Marriott Mena house to the Egyptian pyramids.

[@danielsutter7528]

This video helped us. For reference walking back solo it took me 7 minutes from the base of the pyramid to breakfast at the hotel restaurant. Going to the pyramids, walk with confidence, don’t engage other than a quick hello followed by “La shukran” and walk straight up the street or sidewalk or anywhere…just look like you know where you’re going…walk like a local. Don’t listen to any street peddler, they will try and turn you off the Main Street to negotiate a ride or another way in. Straight to the guard and walk past with a smile. The first “gate” with the guard and the umbrella on the right side of the road is just a checkpoint…..just walk right past….past that point the hagglers drop off considerably. The road will climb to the left and the ticket office will come into view…as you would expect…a large ticket office with several lines, they take credit cards and the fee this morning was 280 pounds for non Egyptians ….written on the board…must of been a recent price increase. Buy your ticket and scan the WR code on the turnstile and walk in. Now you’re on the grounds and can roam freely. The hotel staff, the drivers all say you “can’t walk” and that you’ll be hassled….I wouldn’t necessarily turn left out of the hotel since there is a pretty big security check point there that keeps out the riff raff. But from the hotel towards the pyramids is fine and as the video shows about a 2.5 min walk through the street peddlers past the next checkpoint. I did a loop through the pyramids left the hotel at 8:50am and was back at the hotel 9:30 while my family was showering in the morning. Update: we entered through this gate and exited by the Sphinx. Easy to do, and totally walkable, even at mid day. Not much harassing on the way down, and it’s mostly downhill towards the sphinx. At the exit point there is a KFC/Pizza Hut with AC and a good place to grab an Uber from.

[@traveldavid2709]

Interesting, the hotel staff told us it was fine to walk. We actually stopped and talked to some of the vendors and bought a really cool piece of papyrus from one of them. They are trying to make a living but seemed harmless.

[@golden_icon]

I was originally going with a tour guide but since my flight was delayed, I am miss the tour. So i decided just to go on my own so this definitely helps.

[@traveldavid2709]

@@golden_icon I hate that you missed the tour but glad this helped!

[@fariyarahman7887]

Hi are there two ticket counters just like the two entrances or do people can only buy the ticket at the sphinx?

[@danielsutter7528]

@@fariyarahman7887 there are two ticket counters. One by the Marriott entrance past the security checkpoint up the hill.

[@kylebeske8041]

Let me know when your giving away a trip for a couple to join you on one of your journey’s! Thanks for creating this channel. “I’m fat I need to walk” LOL

[@traveldavid2709]

Hah…no giveaways but people are always welcome to tag along.

[@adeelrahman]

Hahahahaha 😂

[@michaeldesilvio221]

Avoid the odoriferous touts.