Valley of the Kings ticket prices, every one of them

Foreign adult

EGP 750

Includes

3 tombs

Dearest add-on

EGP 2,000

The grid

Everything a foreign visitor can be asked to pay on the West Bank’s two ticketed valleys, in one table. Read the note column before the price column.

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. The general-entry row is the one figure here published on the Ministry’s live website as well as on that list; the rest are on the printed list and corroborated by seven independent guides. Prices in Egypt are revised, and a page that promises you these will hold is promising something it cannot.

What the general ticket buys, and what it does not

The rule worth repeating: a separately ticketed tomb does not consume one of your three. Pay EGP 220 at KV9 and you have four tombs for EGP 970 in total. The full argument is on what the ticket actually includes, and the add-on people ask about first has its own page — Tutankhamun’s tomb at EGP 700.

Students, and the condition nobody confirms

The student rate is half the adult rate on every ticket except Seti I, which has no student rate at all. One source states the eligibility condition — a valid student ID and an age not exceeding 24 — and we could not corroborate it anywhere else. It is stated here as a thing to check, not as a rule. Carry the ID either way.

The tram, and the thing that reads like a scam

EGP 20 per person for the round trip, about three minutes each way, from the visitor centre up towards the tombs. It is officially optional. Some visitors report site staff pressing them to buy a ticket anyway, and that is worth knowing in advance, because being pushed towards a EGP 20 purchase feels like something worse than it is. Twenty pounds is twenty pounds. Decide on the walk or the ride for your own reasons, and carry the cash for it because the tram is not the card window.

How far it is from the visitor centre to the tombs on foot is a question we cannot answer. No source states it in metres or in minutes, and a three-minute tram ride is not a distance. Rather than convert one into the other and hope, this site gives you neither.

The prices this page refuses to carry

An honest price list is partly a list of the prices it will not print. These are the ones other pages will give you and we will not.

• A taxi fare from Luxor to the valley, or a half-day or full-day hire rate. The four 2026 sources we checked disagree with one another by a factor of five for the same full day. That is not a range, it is an absence of information. Fares are negotiated in advance and never metered — agree the figure before the door shuts. More on getting to the West Bank.
• A tuk-tuk fare. Four targeted searches found no usable figure in any currency. We have nothing, so we say nothing.
• What water costs at the site café. Three sources call it inflated. None of them agrees on a number, and none of them says whether the café takes a card.
• A camera permit. The personal photography permit has been abolished, including for DSLR, and the Ministry’s printed list carries no camera line at all. There is no fee to quote. The rules that do apply are on photography in the tombs.
• Entry prices in circulation that are not EGP 750. Several rank well and all of them are contradicted by the Ministry’s own site. If a page and the Ministry disagree about the price of the ticket, the Ministry wins.

Paying, and what to have in your pocket

Entry is card only, and has been 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. What that does not mean is that cash is useless in Egypt — it is the opposite of useless twenty metres away, at the tram, and at the smaller West Bank sites that still take nothing else. Both halves of that are on paying by card.

If you are stacking several Luxor sites into a few days, the other way to pay is the Luxor Pass, which is priced in dollars rather than pounds and sold only in person. Whether it breaks even, and why its prices are on shakier ground than the ones above, is on the Luxor Pass page.

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