Every guide Quick4Pass maintains, organised by region and linked to the section that holds the full text. All of it is open to read with no account and no paywall. The base leans toward the Cairo-to-Aswan corridor, the route most readers travel, with Alexandria and the Sinai monastic sites covered more lightly. Each guide carries the date it was last maintained and the initials of the volunteer who walked it.
If a place you want is missing, write in — every request is read and queued, and about half of the queue gets written within a year. We cannot promise to cover everything, because we are a small volunteer group and we only write about places we have walked ourselves. But the queue is a real queue, not a wish-list we ignore.
The largest part of the base — the Cairo museums, the Giza plateau, the Saqqara and Dahshur necropoles, Coptic and Islamic Cairo, the Citadel, the Khan and the Nile-side strip. Maintained each season.
The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir, the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, the Coptic Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art and the smaller collections — each with the ticket breakdown, the room worth your hour and the side door.
The Giza pyramids and Sphinx, the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, the Serapeum, the Dahshur Bent and Red pyramids, Memphis — with a half-day plan combining Saqqara and Dahshur from Cairo.
The Hanging Church, Ben Ezra, the Coptic walking quarter, the Citadel of Saladin, Sultan Hassan, Al-Muizz Street and the Khan el-Khalili after dark with realistic haggle ranges.
Mahmoud's main beat. The Theban temples on the east bank, the Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatshepsut, Medinet Habu, the Ramesseum, plus the Luxor museums and the east-bank logistics.
Karnak with the Hypostyle Hall, the Sacred Lake, the open-air museum and the talatat reconstruction; Luxor Temple morning and evening; the Avenue of Sphinxes; the Luxor and Mummification museums.
The general ticket and what it includes, the Seti I supplement (worth it), Nefertari (photography rules tightened April 2026), Tutankhamun (skippable), Ramses VI, and the SCA tomb-rotation cycle.
Deir el-Bahari, Medinet Habu with the Sea Peoples relief, the Ramesseum, the Colossi of Memnon, Deir el-Medina, the Tombs of the Nobles cluster.
The far-southern beat. Aswan as a city, the temples reached by boat, the High Dam, Abu Simbel by convoy and by flight, the Nubian Museum, and the river-side cruise-stop temples at Edfu, Esna and Kom Ombo.
Philae (morning visit recommended over the evening show), Elephantine Island, Kitchener's Island, the Nubian Museum — one of the strongest guides in the base — the unfinished obelisk, the High Dam.
Both temples at Abu Simbel, the 04:00 convoy versus the flight, the equinox solar alignment (22 Oct and 22 Feb, sells out three months ahead), and the Lake Nasser cruise stops.
The river-side temples every Nile cruise stops at, all reachable independently by train and taxi if you are not on a cruise. Edfu is the most intact; Kom Ombo the best at sunset.
Dina's regional beat. Alexandria with the Bibliotheca and the Greco-Roman Museum, the catacombs and the Roman amphitheatre, plus the Sinai monastic sites and the practical district files.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and its embedded museums, the Greco-Roman Museum (reopened 2023), the catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa, Pompey's Pillar, the Roman amphitheatre, Fort Qaitbey and the Bahari fish evening.
Saint Catherine's Monastery with the icon collection, the Mount Sinai overnight climb, Dahab and Sharm as base towns, and the Ras Mohammed snorkelling guide.
The practical pre-trip basics — visa, SIM, money, taxis, dress code, water — and the month-by-month weather, crowds and closures. Re-checked twice a year.
Quick4Pass runs on a published maintenance cycle, and the cycle is the same internally as it is here — we do not hold a fresher tier of guides for anyone, because there is no paid tier to hold anything back from. Busy Cairo and Luxor guides are re-walked each season; mid-traffic regional guides twice a year; quieter specialist guides once a year. When the Supreme Council of Antiquities changes a ticket price or a tomb-rotation schedule, the affected guides are updated within a week and the change is logged where readers can see it.
| Section | Guides | Last maintained | How often |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum Guides | 22 | April 2026 | Each season (Cairo) / twice a year (regional) |
| Open-Air Guides | 38 | March 2026 | Each season (Cairo/Giza) / twice a year (south) |
| Trip Builders | 12 | April 2026 | Twice a year |
| District Files | 17 | February 2026 | Once a year |
| Arrival Basics | 1 master | April 2026 | Twice a year |
| Season Window | 1 master | March 2026 | Twice a year |
| Family Mode | 10 | March 2026 | Once a year |
Guides maintained less than ninety days ago are current; the rest are fresh until their next scheduled walk. Anything readers flag in between is checked and corrected within a working week. The whole point of the cycle is that an unattended free base becomes a stale archive within eighteen months, and a stale archive that looks current is worse than no guide at all. The cycle is what keeps Quick4Pass honest about its own freshness.
Each guide represents a visit by a volunteer who bought an ordinary ticket and walked the place, a confirming second visit a few weeks later where the photograph is taken, a check by Yara against the running register of opening hours and prices, and a plain-language edit by Dina before it goes live. Nothing is sponsored, nothing is comped, and the verdict is whatever the volunteer actually found. The effort per guide is roughly eight to twelve volunteer-hours across the two visits, the check and the edit — which is why a small group keeps a careful 124-guide base rather than a sprawling thousand-guide one. We would rather cover thirty-five places well than three hundred badly.
The shape of every guide is deliberately identical — opening hours and ticket breakdown, then the verdict, then the side door, then the maintenance date and the volunteer's initials. A guide you read on a phone at the museum gate needs to be predictable; you should never hunt through it for the ticket price. The prose is kept plain and short because the job is to answer, in under a minute, the few questions you actually have between the taxi and the ticket booth — not to write travel literature.
The phrase appears on every page of this base, and it is worth being concrete about what it involves, because it is the single thing that separates Quick4Pass from the affiliate-driven pages that crowd the search results. When a volunteer maintains a guide, they buy a normal adult ticket at the gate, queue like everyone else, and spend the full recommended time inside. They carry a small notebook and a phone, time the visit, and write down the things the official signage leaves out — where the queues form, which desk sells the camera permit fastest, which room rewards the time and which one most people skip without missing anything, where the shade is, where the toilets are, and what the place actually costs once the supplements are added up. None of it can be done from a desk.
The second visit, a few weeks later, is the confirming one. The volunteer returns on a different day and at a different time, checks that the first visit's notes still hold, and takes the single photograph that runs with the guide. The two-visit rule exists because Egyptian sites change — a tomb closes for conservation, a ticket price moves, an entrance is rerouted around building works — and a single visit can capture a temporary state as if it were permanent. Two visits, spaced apart, catch most of that. The photograph is taken on the second visit specifically so that what you see in the guide is what you will see when you arrive, not a stock image of a different season.
A commercial travel site is rewarded for volume — more pages mean more search traffic mean more advertising or affiliate income. Quick4Pass has no such incentive, and the absence of it shows in the size of the base. We cover thirty-five places carefully rather than three hundred badly, because the careful coverage is the entire value. A guide that has been walked twice, checked against the fact register and kept current through the maintenance cycle is worth more to a traveller than fifty guides scraped from press releases and never verified. The 124-guide ceiling is roughly what a small group of unpaid volunteers can keep genuinely current, and we would rather hold that line than dilute it.
This also shapes what we choose to cover. We write about the places along the Cairo-to-Aswan corridor that most readers actually travel, plus Alexandria and the Sinai monastic sites, because those are the places our volunteers can reach often enough to keep the guides fresh. We do not write about places we cannot maintain on the cycle, however interesting, because a guide we cannot keep current is a guide we cannot stand behind. When a reader asks for somewhere new, it goes into the queue, and it gets written only when a volunteer can commit to walking it twice and maintaining it — not before.
Each guide follows the same shape, on purpose, so you can find what you need fast. It opens with the practical line — opening hours and the ticket breakdown in Egyptian pounds, including the supplements and the student rate. Then the verdict: what is worth the time inside, what is worth the supplement, what is honestly skippable. Then the side door — the one practical trick that saves a queue or an hour. Then the meta line at the foot: the date the guide was last maintained, the date of the next scheduled walk, and the initials of the volunteer who wrote it. If a correction has come in since the last walk, it sits at the top with the date and, where the reader agreed, their name.
The shape is deliberately boring, because a guide you read at the museum gate on a phone needs to be predictable. You should never have to hunt through a guide for the ticket price or the opening hours — they are always in the same place. The prose is kept plain and short for the same reason. We are not trying to write travel literature; there are better writers doing that. We are trying to answer, in under a minute, the few questions you actually have between the taxi and the ticket booth.
No account, no paywall, no advertising. Start with the section that matches your trip, or write in if the place you want is not yet covered.
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