Affiliate disclosure

The arrangement, in plain terms

Valley of the Kings Tickets takes part in the GetYourGuide affiliate programme. Every tour link and booking panel here carries a partner id, and if you book after clicking one, GetYourGuide pays me a percentage of the tour price. You pay exactly what you would pay going to GetYourGuide directly. Nothing is added to your bill and no discount is withheld if you go around me.

That commission is the only money this site makes. There are no sponsored placements and no paid listings. No operator has paid to appear, and no operator has seen a page before it published. I do not run or crew any of the six tours listed — who writes this site sets out what I actually do for a living and why it has to be stated.

The part that costs me money to write

Here is the whole conflict in one sentence: the cheapest correct answer on this site earns me nothing.

General entry to the Valley of the Kings is EGP 750 for a foreign adult and it admits you to three tombs of your choice. You buy it at the window with a card. If you can reach the window, you do not need me, you do not need a tour, and I am not paid a thing. That is written on the front page of this site, it is written again on the page about what the ticket covers, and it is the single most-read thing here.

The same applies to the tomb everyone comes for. Tutankhamun is EGP 700 at the window, which at roughly 50 EGP to the dollar, read on 16–17 August 2026, is about US$14. One of the products listed here sells access to that tomb at US$95. It is not a scam and this site has never called it one: its page says it includes a guide, fast-track entry and the visitor centre, and those cost money to provide. But the difference between the two numbers is guiding and convenience rather than the ticket, and the reviews hub says exactly that, next to the fact that the product carries three ratings and one written review. The page that would earn me the most is the page I am most sceptical about. If you want to know whether to trust anything else here, start there.

What the commission does not do

It does not set the order of the list. The six tours on every tour listed open with the cheapest guided day and close with the product that charges the most for the least, which is the opposite of ordering by what pays best.

It does not flatter the ratings. Every score on this site is printed with the number of reviews behind it, every time, including the 4.9 that rests on 74 reviews and the 4.4 that rests on 3 ratings. A commission would be far easier to earn by writing the score and stopping. The reviews also print the complaints, including the reviewer who says the tombs on her tour were chosen for her, and the one who says he would hire a driver and pay for entry himself next time.

It does not claim that a tour includes your tickets. No page here asserts what any product covers beyond the product’s own inclusions list, because that list is the only place the answer exists and it changes per product. The nearest thing this site has to a booking rule is: read that list, then read the ticket prices, and check whether you are about to pay for the same thing twice.

And it does not touch the pages that sell nothing at all. When to come, what to bring, why cash will not work at the window, how long three tombs actually take: none of it earns anything, and it is most of the site.

The test I hold myself to is simple. If a page would read differently were there no commission, the page is wrong. If you find one that fails it, tell me at [email protected].