The ticket admits you to three tombs, and you choose which three

What the general ticket is

Entry is EGP 750 for a foreign adult and EGP 375 for a foreign student — the figures the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities publishes on its own site. Egyptian nationals pay EGP 60, or EGP 30 as a student. Those four numbers are official. Seven independent guides quote the same EGP 750, which is as close to settled as a price in Egypt gets.

One condition on the student rate comes from a single source and we have not been able to corroborate it: a valid student ID, and an age that does not exceed 24. Treat that as something to have ready at the window rather than a rule this site guarantees. The gate is open 6:00 AM – 5:00 PM daily. There is no weekly closing day and it is open on Fridays.

Three of your choice, from whatever is open that day

You are not allocated three tombs and you do not queue for a fixed circuit. You walk to a tomb entrance, hand over the ticket, and it is marked. After the third one it is spent. This has been the arrangement since at least 2022 and it is the best-corroborated fact in everything we checked — nine independent sources describe it the same way.

What the ticket cannot tell you is which tombs are in the set. Nobody publishes that list. Usually eight to ten are open, the set changes for conservation work, and there is no schedule anywhere for when. The ten that the 2026 guides name, and the reason you should still read the board at the entrance, are on which tombs are open. If you would rather arrive with three already chosen, which three to pick works through the ones with something specific to look at.

The four tickets sold on top

Four tombs sit outside the general ticket entirely. Each has its own price and its own window, and all four figures appear on the Ministry’s printed list as well as in seven independent guides.

Seti I is the only ticket in the valley with no student discount: the student column is the adult column. Why it costs what it costs, and whether it is the right EGP 2,000 to spend, is on the Seti I page. The one people ask about before any of the others is Tutankhamun’s tomb, which is in this valley and is not on this ticket.

Adding it up, with the working shown

Here is the number that follows from all of the above, for one foreign adult who wants the general ticket and all three of the famous tombs.

Nobody has to spend it. Most people should not. But it is the difference between the number you read before you flew and the number on the card reader, and it is worth deciding in advance rather than at the counter with a queue behind you. The same sum with the tram, the transport and the tour options folded in is on what a day at the valley costs.

What the ticket does not touch at all

• The tram. EGP 20 per person, round trip, for a ride of about three minutes from the visitor centre up towards the tombs. It is officially optional.
• The Valley of the Queens. A different site about 2 km away with its own entry ticket at EGP 220. No Valley of the Kings ticket at any price admits you, which matters most to people looking for Nefertari — see the Nefertari page.
• The West Valley. Ay’s tomb, WV23, is EGP 200 and a separate drive from the main valley.
• Food and water inside a tomb. You may not take either in. Bring a bottle and drink before you go down — what to bring has the rest.

How you pay for it

By card. Cash has not been accepted for entry tickets here since June 2023, when an official announcement named the Valley of the Kings among nine Luxor sites where cash payments were suspended in full. Visa and Mastercard work at the window. Carry some cash anyway, because the tram is EGP 20 and several smaller West Bank sites are still cash only. The detail is on paying by card.

The newest official price document that exists is the Ministry’s printed list dated 5 November 2024. No 2025 or 2026 replacement could be found, so everything here is a current published rate rather than a rate anybody guarantees for the day you arrive. Every figure on this page, in one grid with the Valley of the Queens beside it, is on the full ticket price list.

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