Nefertari’s tomb is not in the Valley of the Kings

Q: Is Nefertari’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings?

No. It is QV66 , in the Valley of the Queens, about 2 km away and separately ticketed. No Valley of the Kings ticket at any price admits you to it.

Read this first: Nefertari’s tomb is QV66, and it is in 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 to it. Not the EGP 750 general ticket, not any of the four add-on tombs, not all of them together. On top of the Queens entry ticket, Nefertari’s tomb is published at EGP 2,500 on the Ministry’s printed list. And we cannot confirm whether it is currently open. That last sentence is the one that matters most and it is explained below.

Tomb numberQV66

Which valleyQueens, not Kings

Distance apartAbout 2 km

Queens entryEGP 220

Nefertari, publishedEGP 2,500

Currently openUnconfirmed

The premise, corrected

“How much does it cost to enter Nefertari’s tomb?” is one of the most asked questions about the Valley of the Kings, and it has a wrong assumption inside it. Nefertari was a queen, and she is buried in the Valley of the Queens. The two valleys are roughly 2 km apart on the same West Bank, they are separately ticketed, and there is no combined ticket between them on the Ministry’s list.

This is not a technicality about naming. It is a different gate, a different price and a different journey, and someone who buys the EGP 750 Valley of the Kings ticket expecting to reach Nefertari with it has bought the wrong thing. What the EGP 750 does cover is on what the ticket includes.

What it would cost, if it is open

Ticket	Adult	Student	Note
Valley of the Queens, general entry	EGP 220	EGP 110	A different site
Nefertari, QV66	EGP 2,500	—	On top of the Queens entry ticket
Both, one adult	EGP 2,720	—	If the tomb is open

EGP 2,500 is the figure on the Ministry’s printed price list dated 5 November 2024, which is the newest official price document that exists. The official list carries no student rate for QV66, and no traveller we found reports paying one, so this page does not print one. The Valley of the Kings side of the West Bank, by comparison, is on the full price list.

Whether it is open: the honest answer

We do not know, and we are not going to guess.

There is no first-hand report from 2026 in either direction. Not one that says a visitor went in, and not one that says a visitor was turned away. There is no official page listing which Valley of the Queens tombs are accessible on a given day, in the same way that there is no official list for the Valley of the Kings. What exists is a published price and a silence around it.

So: the status of QV66 is unconfirmed. Ask at the Valley of the Queens ticket office on the day. That is not a fob-off, it is the only reliable method anyone has, and it is the same method that works for the Kings — where the only way to know today’s open list is to read the board at the entrance.

Why this page will not just tell you

A page that says “yes, open” sends somebody 2 km for a closed gate. A page that says “no, closed” talks somebody out of a tomb they might have walked straight into. Both versions are in circulation and neither is sourced. The cost of the honest answer is that you have to ask somebody; the cost of the confident one is a wasted morning or a missed tomb.

Planning around a tomb you cannot confirm

Do not build the day around it. Put the Valley of the Kings first, where the EGP 750 ticket and its EGP 220 to EGP 2,000 add-ons are all published and corroborated, and treat Nefertari as an upgrade you find out about on the day.
The Queens entry ticket stands on its own. EGP 220 admits you to the Valley of the Queens whatever QV66’s status is. Whether that is worth the trip if Nefertari is shut is a judgement this site has no sourced material to make for you.
The Premium Luxor Pass is the tier that includes Nefertari. Six sources agree, including Wikipedia’s own article on the tomb. That tells you which tier, not whether the door is open — see the Luxor Pass page, which also explains why the pass prices are on softer ground than the ticket prices.
Card, and the heat. Entry tickets in Luxor have been card-only since June 2023, and mean daily maximums run to 41.4 °C in July, so an early start matters more than a plan does — when to visit.

What I would do

If Nefertari is the reason you came to Luxor, ask at the Valley of the Queens ticket office on your first morning rather than on the day you had pencilled in. If it is open you can rearrange around it; if it is not, you have found out at the start of the trip rather than at the end. Nobody I know books this one in advance, because there is nothing to book it through.

The tomb people most often confuse this one with is Tutankhamun’s, which really is in the Valley of the Kings, really is separately ticketed, and costs EGP 700 — the Tutankhamun page has that one.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to enter Nefertari’s tomb?

The published figure on the Ministry’s printed list is EGP 2,500, on top of the Valley of the Queens general entry ticket at EGP 220. The official list carries no student rate for QV66. Whether the tomb is currently open is not something we can confirm.

Is Nefertari’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings?

No. It is QV66, in the Valley of the Queens, about 2 km away and separately ticketed. No Valley of the Kings ticket at any price admits you to it.

Is Nefertari’s tomb open?

We cannot confirm it either way. There is no first-hand report from 2026 saying a visitor got in and none saying a visitor was turned away, and no official page lists which Valley of the Queens tombs are accessible. Ask at the Valley of the Queens ticket office on the day.

Can I see Nefertari’s tomb with a Luxor Pass?

The Premium tier is the one that includes Nefertari — six sources agree on that, including Wikipedia’s article on the tomb. The pass is sold in person only and there is no official Ministry page for it. Which tier covers the tomb is a separate question from whether the tomb is open.