🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
United Arab Emirates leads on food and getting around. Egypt leads on value for money, the sea and nature.
A normal day costs about $175 in United Arab Emirates and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates🇪🇬 Egypt
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, DecBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $175A normal day$75
- 7h to DubaiNonstop from London5h 15m to Cairo
- GoodBeaches and seaVery good
- Very goodCities and cultureVery good
- Very goodFoodGood
- Not the drawNature and hikingGood
- Not the drawValue for moneyExceptional
- Very goodEasy to get aroundGood
- Metro in Dubai, taxis everywhere else, a car for the mountainsGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- June to September, when outdoors stops being an optionWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇦🇪 Choose United Arab Emirates if
you want guaranteed winter sun, very short flights from Europe and Asia, and a city that works like clockwork.
🇪🇬 Choose Egypt if
you want the oldest thing on this list, a river trip through it, and Red Sea diving, at prices nowhere in Europe matches.
Full United Arab Emirates guide →Full Egypt guide →
And what the world thinks
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates leads by 3 votes.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.