About this site, and who writes it

What I am not

I do not run, own, sell or take bookings for any tour listed on this site. I have no arrangement with the operators behind the six products here, none of them has seen a page before it went up, and none of them can pay to appear or to be moved up a list. I guide in the same valley they work, which is where the knowledge comes from.

I am also not the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, or any part of the ticketing system. Where an answer belongs to one of them, this site quotes and names them instead of putting their authority behind my voice. The entry prices here are the Ministry’s own published figures, and the newest official price list that exists is dated November 2024, so they are current published rates rather than a promise about next month.

Why a whole site about one line on a ticket

Because the arithmetic is easiest to work out before you are standing at the window with a queue behind you, and by then you are deciding in a hurry with a card in your hand.

• The ticket. EGP 750 for a foreign adult, EGP 375 for a student, three tombs of your choice. That is the page this site is built on.
• The three you have heard of. Tutankhamun is EGP 700 on top, Seti I is EGP 2,000 with no student rate, Ramses V and VI are EGP 220. Buying one does not use up one of your three. Every published figure is on the price grid.
• The total, if you want all of it. EGP 750 + EGP 700 + EGP 2,000 + EGP 220 = EGP 3,670, which is 4.89 times the headline price. The working is on what a day in the valley costs.
• The one that is not even here. Nefertari is in the Valley of the Queens, on a different ticket, roughly two kilometres away. No Valley of the Kings ticket of any price admits you to her tomb. Her tomb has its own page.

None of that is secret. It is simply useful to know it before you pay, and a wrong assumption at that window costs a person their morning as often as it costs them money.

How the pages are sourced

Three principles guide every page.

• The source travels with the claim. Prices and opening hours come from the Ministry. Tomb measurements and decoration come from the Theban Mapping Project and the scholarly articles. The cashless rule comes from the announcement that introduced it in June 2023. Where a page tells you something, it tells you who said so.
• Anything unofficial is labelled unofficial. There is no official list of which tombs are open. The guides who track it agree on ten, and this site presents it that way. Same with the Luxor Pass, which has no official page anywhere.
• Some details are best confirmed locally, and the list below sets them out.

What to confirm before you go

The details below vary between sources or are not published, so they are best confirmed locally on the day.

• Any taxi fare, or a half-day or full-day car hire rate. Reported 2026 prices for the same full day vary by a factor of five. Fares here are negotiated in advance and never metered. Agree the price before you get in.
• Any tuk-tuk fare on the West Bank. Ask locally for the current rate.
• Where the ferry lands on the East Bank. One 2025 forum thread says the landing has moved, so check it locally on the day; the crossing page sticks to what is settled. What it can give you is the fare band and the fact that there is no timetable.
• The Luxor bridge’s distance from town, its length, or the year it opened. These are best confirmed locally.
• The walking distance from the visitor centre to the tombs. The tram ride takes about three minutes.
• Any temperature inside the valley or inside a tomb. Travellers describe conditions in general terms. The 41.4 °C figures on the timing page are Luxor ambient means and are labelled as such every time they appear.
• Whether Nefertari’s tomb is open today. The last hard evidence is a closure with no reopening announced, dated 5 September 2025, and first-hand reports from 2026 have not settled it either way. Ask at the Valley of the Queens ticket office.
• Whether the Standard Luxor Pass covers Tutankhamun. Details vary between sources. What is solid is that the Premium tier is the one that adds Seti I and Nefertari, and the pass page stops there.
• Any camera permit price. The personal permit has been abolished entirely, DSLRs included. The figure still quoted online comes from 2016 material and is out of date.
• Whether photography is banned inside Tutankhamun’s tomb or Seti I’s specifically. Recent sources vary, so the photography page gives the general rule; check on the day.
• A last-entry time, or any seasonal variation in the closing hour. The Ministry publishes 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily, with no weekly closing day.
• A fixed count of open tombs. Sources say eight, ten and twelve. In practice, usually eight to ten are open on the standard ticket and the list changes, which is why that page ends by telling you to read the board at the entrance.
• The price of water at the café on site, or whether it takes cards. Visitors report the prices are high. Bring a bottle; you cannot take it into a tomb anyway, which is on what to bring.
• Where Tutankhamun’s golden mask and sarcophagus are today. His page covers what is confirmed: that he is there, on display, in a climate-controlled case.
• What any tour includes beyond its own inclusions list. Each product’s own inclusions list is the place to check, which is why every review page sends you to the booking panel to read it.

Checking these points before you go saves time at the window.

How this site makes money

Affiliate commission from GetYourGuide, and nothing else. If you book a tour through a link here they pay me a percentage and you pay exactly what you would have paid going to them directly. Nobody pays to be listed. The full arrangement, including how it works when you buy at the ticket window instead, is set out on the affiliate disclosure.

Corrections

If something here is wrong I would rather have the correction than be right. Email [email protected] with a source if you have one, or use the contact page. Prices, ratings and review counts move; the Ministry’s published list is the one dated November 2024 until it is replaced.

Where to start: what the ticket admits you to for the argument, choosing your three tombs for the decision you will actually make at the board, and the tour reviews for every score printed with the number of reviews behind it.