Choose the depth of review you need
We are a planning desk, not a ticket agency. The plans below describe what level of analysis and documentation you receive in return for your itinerary submission. None of them include us purchasing tickets on your behalf — all pass and ticket purchases go through the official channels, which we specify in detail.
Quick Check
For visitors with a simple itinerary: up to three sites in a single city, no multi-day passes under consideration.
- Up to 3 sites reviewed
- Single-city itineraries only
- Current gate prices quoted
- Pass vs single-ticket verdict
- Email reply, no PDF report
- Response within 48 hours
Full Itinerary Review
For individuals and couples planning a multi-city Egypt trip where pass choices genuinely affect the budget.
- Unlimited sites across all regions
- Multi-city itineraries (Cairo + Luxor + Aswan)
- Break-even calculation for every applicable pass
- Student / resident / group discount check
- Photography permit requirements itemised
- Practical notes: opening hours, collection points, cash vs card
- PDF summary you can carry on the trip
- One follow-up question answered
- Response within 24 hours
Group & Operator
For families of five or more, tour operators, travel agencies and school groups planning repeated or complex Egypt itineraries.
- All Full Review inclusions
- Per-person cost breakdown for group sizes 5–50
- Family entry rates and child prices calculated
- Group-booking and block-access options flagged
- Two follow-up questions answered
- Rate-change alert for 60 days after purchase
- Priority response — within 12 hours
- Operator standing account available (monthly billing)
Plans side by side
The table below shows every feature across the three service tiers so the choice is clear before you submit. If you have a specific requirement not listed here, ask us at the contact page and we will tell you which plan covers it.
| Feature | Quick Check | Full Review | Group & Operator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites reviewed | Up to 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Multi-city (Cairo + Luxor + Aswan) | — | Yes | Yes |
| Break-even calculation per pass | Summary | Full | Full |
| Student / ISIC discount check | — | Yes | Yes |
| Resident rate eligibility check | — | Yes | Yes |
| Photography permit itemisation | — | Yes | Yes |
| Practical logistics notes | — | Yes | Yes |
| PDF summary | — | Yes | Yes |
| Per-person cost for groups | — | — | Yes |
| Family / child rate calculation | — | — | Yes |
| Rate-change alert (days) | — | — | 60 days |
| Follow-up questions | — | 1 | 2 |
| Response time | 48 hours | 24 hours | 12 hours |
| Price | Free | USD 12 / person | USD 45 / group |
The process from submission to recommendation
Every plan follows the same process. The difference between tiers is in how much we analyse and what documentation we provide at the end.
You submit your itinerary
Use the contact form to send us the sites you plan to visit, the cities you will be in, your travel dates and the number of people in your group. If you hold an ISIC card, have Egyptian residency or are travelling with children under twelve, mention that too — it affects which rates apply to your trip. The more specific your list, the more accurate the recommendation. If your plans are still vague, the Quick Check is designed for exactly that — a short list and a simple question.
We run the comparison
We take your site list and run it through the current pricing database, which is verified monthly and re-checked for each incoming enquiry. For a Full Itinerary Review, this means applying the current gate price for each site on your list, totalling it, then comparing that total against each applicable pass (Cairo Pass, Luxor Pass standard and premium, Giza combo where relevant, GEM timed entry where applicable) at its current price. We factor in any discounts you qualify for and the pass collection logistics that affect whether a pass is practically achievable given your dates. The break-even point for each pass option is shown explicitly.
We send the recommendation
For a Quick Check, you receive a concise email with the verdict and the price differential. For a Full Itinerary Review, you receive a structured email plus a PDF summary organised by city and day. The PDF includes: the recommended ticket or pass option with the justification, the total expected entry cost with and without the recommendation, the practical steps to purchase each ticket (where, when, what documentation), and any site-specific notes on closures, payment methods or quotas that affect your specific dates. For the Group & Operator plan, the output also includes a per-person cost breakdown and family-rate details if applicable.
You purchase through official channels
We tell you exactly where to buy each pass or ticket — which Ministry office, which on-site cashier, which days the purchase point is open, and whether you can pay by card or need cash. We note which items must be purchased in advance and which can be bought on the day. We do not buy tickets on your behalf, add any markup or take commission from any operator. The money you pay for a pass goes directly to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities at the listed rate. Our fee covers the analysis and documentation, not the tickets.
Before you choose a plan
A Quick Check is a free tier covering up to three sites in a single city. You submit your site list and travel dates, and we reply with the cheapest ticket combination for your specific itinerary based on current verified prices. There is no written PDF report — you receive a direct email answer with the relevant numbers and a verdict on whether a pass applies. If your itinerary grows beyond three sites or spans multiple cities, we will let you know at that point and offer the Full Itinerary Review. The Quick Check is designed for visitors who are still in the early planning stage and need a quick sanity check on one or two pass options before committing to a detailed itinerary.
We aim for under twenty-four hours during the October through March high season, when the volume of enquiries is highest and our team operates at full availability. In the April through September shoulder and low season, most replies go out within twelve hours. Complex itineraries that span multiple cities with multiple pass options under consideration — for example, a combined Cairo, Luxor and Aswan trip with questions about the premium Luxor Pass and Aswan single-site costs — can take up to forty-eight hours because the cross-city break-even comparison requires more data assembly. We notify you on receipt of your enquiry with an estimated reply time, and we do not send a rushed answer to meet a deadline if it means the numbers are unverified.
No. We are a planning and comparison desk, not a ticket agency or a travel service provider in the regulatory sense. We tell you what to buy, where to buy it, what it costs, what documentation to bring and what practical conditions apply at the purchase point. The actual purchase is made by you through the official Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities channels or directly at the site cashier. This arrangement is not a limitation — it is the reason our recommendation is independent. If we were also selling passes we would have a financial incentive to recommend the most expensive one. We do not, so we do not.
We verify prices against official Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities publications, posted on-site rate cards (confirmed by our team members or by direct contact with site ticketing offices) and, where available, the Ministry's official booking portals. Our full database is reviewed at the end of each calendar month; individual site prices are re-checked in real time whenever we receive an enquiry for that site. We mark every price with its verification date. We distinguish between confirmed prices and provisional figures — a rate that has not been verified in the past thirty days is flagged as provisional in our replies. Egyptian entry fees for foreign visitors have changed frequently in recent years, and we treat any figure older than a few weeks as requiring re-confirmation before we put it in a formal recommendation.
Payment is by bank transfer or card through a payment link we send with the first response to your itinerary submission. We do not require payment before reviewing your enquiry — the Quick Check is free, and for paid plans, we confirm the scope and give you a quote based on your specific itinerary before any payment is requested. Group and Operator accounts with monthly billing are available for tour operators and travel agencies submitting multiple itineraries per month; contact us to discuss the arrangement. We do not accept PayPal at this time.
Egypt's entry fee rates for foreign visitors have changed six times in the past four years. We cannot guarantee the prices we quote today will be the prices in effect on your travel date if that date is several months away. What we do: in every Full Review and Group plan recommendation, we note which figures we are confident are stable and which are at risk of revision based on the recent rate-change history of that particular site. We also specify the official source to check immediately before you purchase — typically the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities website or the relevant site's official booking page — so you can confirm the number on the day. For the Group and Operator plan, the sixty-day rate-change alert covers exactly this scenario: if a rate changes in the two months after your review, we notify you immediately so you can update your client communications and budgets. See the visitor budgeting guide for practical advice on building a conservative buffer into your entry cost estimates.
The Full Itinerary Review is designed for individual travellers and covers a single traveller's itinerary. If you are a tour operator or travel agency preparing entry cost estimates for clients you are guiding commercially, the Group and Operator plan is the appropriate tier. It includes the per-person cost breakdown for group sizes up to fifty, the family rate calculations that affect tours with mixed-age groups, the group-booking options at certain sites, and the rate-change alert that protects you from quoting a client a price that has since been revised. Tour operators on the monthly standing-account arrangement can submit multiple itineraries per month under a single subscription. Contact us through the contact page with your operating profile and monthly enquiry volume and we will structure a standing account to fit.
What to include in your itinerary
The quality of a recommendation depends directly on the specificity of the itinerary you send us. A note that says "I'm going to Egypt for two weeks and want to see the pyramids" gives us very little to work with. A note that says "Cairo 3 nights, Luxor 4 nights, Aswan 2 nights, planning to visit Egyptian Museum, Giza plateau and GEM in Cairo, Valley of the Kings (2–3 tombs), Karnak, Hatshepsut and Medinat Habu in Luxor, Philae and Nubian Museum in Aswan; two adults, one student with ISIC" gives us everything we need.
The more of the following you can include, the better: the sites you definitely plan to visit, the sites you are considering but not certain about, your travel dates for each city, the number of adults and children and their ages, whether anyone holds an ISIC card or has Egyptian residency, and whether photography permits matter to you. If you are a tour operator, also include the typical group size and whether you have existing relationships with licensed Egyptian tour operators for group-booking access.
If you are unsure about any of this, start with a Quick Check — it is free and will clarify what additional information would be useful. See the all passes page for a reference on which sites fall under which pass, and the visitor budgeting guide for help estimating your overall entry budget before you submit an itinerary.
Still deciding on your itinerary?
Browse our pass route guides for pre-built itinerary structures by trip length — one day in Cairo, three days in Luxor, a week covering both — with the recommended pass option pre-calculated for each. These are starting points, not substitutes for a personalised review, but they give you a realistic sense of what a typical trip costs in entry fees before you plan the rest of your budget.
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