The Luxor Pass: two tiers, five days, sold in person

The tiers

Those prices are corroborated across five independent sources, and the Seti I and Nefertari line is corroborated across six, including Wikipedia’s own article on the tomb of Nefertari.

For the full list of what each tier covers, check when you buy. The tier difference above is the key one.

The exchange rate, and the date on it

The pass is priced in dollars and the tickets are priced in Egyptian pounds, so no comparison is possible without a rate. Three services — XE, currency.me.uk and Investing.com — read between 49.9 and 50.3 EGP per US dollar on 16–17 August 2026. Round it to about 50 EGP to the dollar and every sum below is arithmetic you can redo yourself.

Two warnings on that number. It is a mid-market rate, which is not the rate a traveller changing cash receives. And it is a rate from a specific pair of days in August 2026, not a constant — if you are reading this later, check the current rate.

Rate used

50 EGP = US$1

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16–17 Aug 2026

Rate type

Mid-market

The break-even, worked out loud

Here is every ticket covered on this site, for one foreign adult, converted at that rate.

Every ticket named on this site, bought individually, comes to about US$132. The Premium pass is US$250. So if the two valleys are what you came to Luxor for, the Premium pass costs roughly twice what buying the tickets costs, and it has to find about US$118 of value in the rest of Luxor over five days to draw level.

The Standard pass at US$130 is a different shape of question. It does not add Seti I or Nefertari, and those two are EGP 2,000 and EGP 2,500 — about US$90 of that US$132 total. Take them out and the rest of the list is about US$42. So the Standard pass needs to find roughly US$88 elsewhere in Luxor inside five consecutive days.

Where you buy it: in person, at two sales points

In person only. It cannot be bought online. There are two sales points: the sales office at Karnak Temple, to the left of the main ticket office, and the Valley of the Kings visitor centre.

One of the two places to buy the pass is the site the pass is most often bought for, so you can decide at the valley itself — but only after you have got yourself across the river, which is its own exercise and is on getting to the West Bank. If your Luxor days are the other way around, Karnak is on the East Bank and closer to most hotels.

Bring your passport, or a photocopy of the photo page, and a passport-sized photograph. For the student rate, bring a student ID as well. Sources split on whether one or two of each are required, so bring two of each — no source penalises you for having a spare, and one wasted photocopy is cheaper than a second trip across the river.

Who it is probably for

Five consecutive days is the hard edge. A pass that expires on day five is worth nothing on day six, and a visitor doing Luxor in two days would use two of the five days. The people for whom this obviously works are the ones staying most of a week and visiting something ticketed nearly every day, including Seti I — which on its own is EGP 2,000, about US$40, and is the biggest single item the Premium tier absorbs.

It is less suited to day-trippers, and to anyone whose plan is the Valley of the Kings and not much else. For them the EGP 750 ticket and one or two add-ons is the cheaper day by a wide margin, and the arithmetic for that is on what the ticket includes and what the day costs. If the one add-on is Tutankhamun’s tomb, that whole day is EGP 1,450, about US$29.

Whether you buy the pass or the tickets, the payment method is the same story: entry tickets in Luxor have been card-only since June 2023, and cash is still what you need for the tram and the smaller sites — paying by card.

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