Is a visa needed for an american to vacation in egypt for 11 days?? If so, where can one be obtained?

Yes. At the airport once you arrive for $15. USD

CC is absolutely right and don't let anyone convince you that you need a visa in advance. When I was planning my trip I kept getting ads from visa services offering to get me a visa for up to $100 plus the cost of photos. It is a complete waste of time and money. It takes just a few minutes to get it at the Cairo airport as it only costs $15 and you don't need photos. Just walk up to the desk, give them $15 and they will put a stamp in your passport. Piece of cake. And of course, and you will do this BEFORE going thru passport control.

Thanks again CC, and you too PM

If you are USA you can obtain Egyptian Visa from any airports without no problem

TravelerB, which airports would those be? Is the cost still just $15? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

I'm sorry TravelerB, somehow I was reading that as if you can get a visa from a US airport. Upon re-reading I see you meant get it at Egyptian airports. Please excuse my blonde/senior moment.

The visas are at airport-If you leave-like we went to Jordan for 4 nights you need to get again. Also-where you get Visas is before passport control-it looks like a bank. My husband kept arguing with me-thats NOT IT. It is it-looks like a bank.Fast easy-I tucked the exact $ in my travel pouch so I was ready. Chris

I read everyones replies to this before I went and arrived at the airport and was still stumped at where to buy the visas. In case you are wondering, like I was, you buy the vias from the currency exchange booths. Chris... we were confused too.

Miss Green-It was confusing. My husband argued with me the 2nd time we went to it. Good thing one of us does the research-or else we would be walking around in circles. Sorry I missed you at the Cairo Marriott-Chris

Chris... I changed my US Dollars to Egyptian pounds at the currency exchange.... if the man behind the desk hadn't asked me if i wanted to buy a visa, I would of walked away and gone to look for a booth that said "Visa's".

Debbie - is this something new? Even when I went to Egypt 3 years ago, I seem to recall there were separate booths for visas.

We bought from the Visa booth in August. It didn't seem confusing at all. Oh oh, maybe we did something wrong?

I don't remember a dedicated visa booth for both times that I visited Egypt. When I arrived to cairo international airport by plane in May 2010, I went to the money exchange booth and bought a visa there. When I crossed the borders from Jordan into Tabo, Egypt in November 2010, I was directed to a money exchange desk to buy a visa. There was no sign at/near the desk to indicate that that was where one can buy a visa.