I travelled solo most of my Egypt trip, as a women, last march. I had no issues anywhere. I even took the microbus, which don't have an official map let's say, took it at night and I had nice ''service'' (the driver told me where to get off, as I asked him), help and a few quick stares haha.
Get yourself 4g data arriving at the airport, then you can take an Uber. Just good luck finding the uber throught the mass of taxi drivers that are going to try to get you their services. (My friend went and picked me up, but those drivers didnt believe me at first haha).
I took GoBus from Cairo to Hurghada, Hurghada to Louxor, Louxor to Cairo. It's worth paying the ''high class'', but arrive early as people will take wherever seats. Only minor issue was the young man tried to charge me 5$ for putting my luggage in the bus, but a nice man from Koweit told me that it was a scam, so I didn't and nothing happened.
One friend took the night train, which she enjoyed her ride, not the nice bed cabin one, just nice seat, and it seemed like a similar experience has mine, in night bus, exept maybe the many stop for security checkpoints, but they are not that long, not even a minute each.
Uber doesn't work in Louxor, so you have to negociate prices. Sadly, alot of people want to sell you something or take you somewhere, so I was really septical sometimes to trust the locals for informations... But, I did couchsurfing in Hurghada and Louxor, and my host helped me get around easily. In Louxor, I paid a man 150EGP to drive me to the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queen and Hatchepsout. Then every extra place/temple would have been 50EGP more. But gave him 200EGP just because he waited for us everywhere, and was nice. Don't rent a bike for those, you will get hot so quickly and loose time. I took the ferry with my host the first time to get to the West bank, then 2 times alone, 1 at 22pm, nothing to say, stares but that's it. 1 EGP for locals, 5 EGP a way for foreigners.
I always had nice Uber drivers, I felt really safe, and they made sure I was at the good adress, one even called my Airbnb to help me get in at night. I took the metro with egyptian friends first, from Maadi to Tahir. Then an other day I took it alone from Maadi to Orabi station, went in the women only section, no issues at all. Then I walked to the Egyptian museum alone in the evening, sun was out, then walked more around in Tahir square alone, still at night. Never felt unsafe. You get some stares, no harm in that. I got a few free candies from many nice store owner. Don't be afraid for your security (theres police everywhere anyways haha), be kind, dress modestly.
I will be putting video of my experience as a solo female in Egypt, backpacking, attending egyptian weddings and visiting the country, even went clubbing twice lmao. My username on YT is MlleLaurieann for the french speaker reading this.
