This post was originally published on 15 Sept 2025 but completely rewritten and Last updated: 16 June 2026
If you would like to arrange exclusive access to places such as the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, the Osirion, or the Sekhmet Chapel solely for yourself, your family, or your own group, the cost is approx €3,000 for one or two people with an extra per-person fee added for each person after the first two.
If you’re not yet familiar with what a private visit entails, read the full explanation of such a visit to the Great Pyramid of Giza here first:
👉 Private Access to the Great Pyramid of Giza
If the experience interests you but the cost of a fully private arrangement feels out of reach, keep reading.
Why these visits cost what they do
Arranging private access to sacred or restricted sites in Egypt is not a ticketing exercise. It involves permissions, security coordination, timing negotiations with authorities, and often weeks of back-and-forth with the clients before a date is confirmed. When one traveller or couple carries all of that cost alone, the figure reflects everything it took to make it happen.
How sharing changes that
I maintain offline calendars for selected special access visits and, where I can, I match travellers whose dates and interests align — so the experience remains small and personal, but the cost is divided between compatible people rather than carried by one party alone.
For a small group the same quality of experience can bring the per-person cost way down.
A recent shared opening of the Osirion at Abydos brought together 8 travellers — each paid €500. Another shared visit to the Great Pyramid saw 11 people paying just €350 per person. Quite a saving for high-end access experiences that few will ever know the thrill of.
What this service involves — and who it is for
Coordinating permissions, dates, logistics, and compatible travellers takes considerable time. For that reason, I now offer this coordination exclusively to travellers who are booking their Egypt journey through me.
This is not a restriction for its own sake — it is what makes the matching possible at all.
If you book individual days in Cairo through separate guides or different operators, your schedule is fixed from the moment you confirm. If I am organising your time in Cairo, I can move days around as a group takes shape — so instead of choosing one date and hoping others land on the same one, you have a window of days within which a match can actually be made.
The same applies in Luxor. A typical three-day programme might take you to the West Bank, to Abydos and Dendera, and to Karnak and Luxor Temple. If a shared access visit to the Osirion becomes possible on any one of those days, I can reorganise your sequence of tours around it. You do not lose a day — you gain the special access within the days you already have.
That kind of flexibility only exists when I am holding the whole itinerary. It would be extremely difficult to retrofit a private visit around a schedule someone else has already fixed — and over the last year I have seen many who gave me specific dates for private visits miss out because their schedules could not be moved.
The earlier we begin planning, the more likely it is that something suitable can be arranged and there are many other closed doors that I can take you through.
Are You Interested? Could you be the lucky ones?
Tell me your dates, how many are travelling, and which sites interest you most.
Last updated on 17/06/2026 by Marie Vaughan