CAIRO BUS HUB
Cairo has no single bus station: Go Bus, Super Jet and Blue Bus depart from Tahrir, Ramses, Torgoman, Nasr City, Almaza and the New Cairo malls — the terminal printed on your ticket matters more than the brand.
Go Bus, the market leader, boards at Tahrir (Abdel Moneim Riad, by the Maspero mall), Ramses by the main station, Nasr City, plus 6th of October and the Madinaty/Rehab malls for the satellite cities. Super Jet adds Torgoman, Almaza and even Cairo Airport to the list. The terminals are thirty to ninety minutes apart in Cairo traffic, so the operator matters less than the pin on the map: a cheap fare from the wrong terminal is a fifty-pound Uber and a missed departure. Book in the operator’s app, screenshot the map, and arrive forty minutes early.
Alexandria is the workhorse — departures around the clock, about three hours for 240–340 EGP. The Red Sea corridor is the second spine: Hurghada in five to six hours ($7–16), Marsa Alam and the resorts beyond, with Go Bus First Class and Super Jet Deluxe worth the upgrade on the long legs. Sinai runs — Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, Taba — leave at night, with passport checks en route; keep your documents on your body, not in the hold. South, Luxor and Aswan are served by overnight coaches, though the sleeper train from Ramses usually beats them. The Siwa oasis run is the marathon: nine to ten hours overnight from the western terminals.
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Build every Cairo bus leg backwards from the terminal: choose the departure point nearest your hotel first, the operator second. For Sinai, take the 23:00 Go Bus from Tahrir, sleep through the checkpoints, and wake to the Gulf of Aqaba — the night coach is Egypt’s best-value “hotel”.
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