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 and is also exactly why that sentence has to exist. A site written by a competitor, reviewing his rivals, would be worth nothing to you.

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 the thing nobody tells you until 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. That is a premise correction rather than an answer.

None of that is secret. It is simply nobody’s job to say it before you pay, and a wrong assumption at that window costs a person their morning as often as it costs them money.

How I decide what goes on a page

Three rules, in this order, and the third is the one that makes the first two worth anything.

• 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 says so in those words rather than dressing their list up as a roster. Same with the Luxor Pass, which has no official page anywhere.
• The not-knowing is content. Where the sources disagree badly enough that no honest number exists, this site prints the absence and not a guess. The list below is what that policy looks like when it is written down.

What this site could not verify

Everything below was looked for and not found, or found in versions that contradict each other so completely that no figure survives. None of it appears as fact anywhere on this site, and none of it appears here as a number either, because a number attached to an apology is still a number somebody will act on. If you see any of it stated confidently somewhere else, ask that page where it came from.

• Any taxi fare, or a half-day or full-day car hire rate. The 2026 sources checked disagree with each other by a factor of five for the same full day, which is not a range, it is an absence of information. Fares here are negotiated in advance and never metered. Agree the price before you get in.
• Any tuk-tuk fare on the West Bank. Nothing usable was found in any currency, so nothing numeric is written.
• Where the ferry lands on the East Bank. One 2025 forum thread says the landing has moved; nothing corroborates it. Directions to the wrong dock would strand you, so the crossing page gives none. 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. Every figure in circulation traces to a forum post about twenty years old or to stock-photo captions.
• The walking distance from the visitor centre to the tombs. No source states it in metres or in minutes. A three-minute tram ride is not a distance, and this site will not turn it into one.
• Any temperature inside the valley or inside a tomb. Only qualitative traveller reports exist. 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 there is no 2026 first-hand report in either direction. Ask at the Valley of the Queens ticket office.
• Whether the Standard Luxor Pass covers Tutankhamun. The sources contradict each other and one contradicts itself on its own page. 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 one figure still quoted online traces to 2016 material republished with a fresh date.
• Whether photography is banned inside Tutankhamun’s tomb or Seti I’s specifically. Unsettled, and recent sources go both ways, so the photography page writes the general rule and carves out neither tomb in either direction.
• A last-entry time, or any seasonal variation in the closing hour. Every version in circulation is either a single self-hedged source or is contradicted by the Ministry. What the Ministry publishes is 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily, with no weekly closing day, and that is all this site publishes.
• A fixed count of open tombs. Sources say eight, ten and twelve. The honest version is that 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. Three sources call the prices inflated and none of them says what they are. 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. The source that confirms his mummy is still in his tomb does not say, so neither does this site. His page tells you what is verified — that he is there, on display, in a climate-controlled case — and then stops.
• What any tour includes beyond its own inclusions list. A product title is not an inclusions list. Nothing on this site claims that a tour price covers your entry unless the product says so in its own words, which is why every review page sends you to the booking panel to read it.

That list is longer than most travel sites’ entire fact-checking policy, and it is the part of this page I would keep if I had to delete the rest.

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 uncomfortable half of that arrangement — that the advice on this site sends most readers to a ticket window where I earn nothing at all — 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.