How we check facts
Where the facts come from
Nothing in this guide is written from memory or guesswork. Each fact traces back to a public source with a name. Official and government sites, plus the operators’ own sites, are the first place the guide looks. When those are silent, it turns to booking agents, then Wikivoyage, then Wikipedia, and last of all news reports.
A fact goes on file with four things attached: the link to its page, the exact words quoted from that page, the date it was read, and the date it should be looked at again. The quoted line is then searched for on the live page to confirm it is really there. Guide pages draw on this file and on nothing else.
| Source | Facts | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 325 | |
| Wikivoyage | 321 | |
| Google Maps | 244 | |
| Egypt Tours Plus | 137 | |
| egymonuments.gov.eg | 117 | |
| Luxor and Aswan Travel | 103 | |
| Classic Holidays | 44 | |
| Egypt Day Tours | 41 | |
| And 180 more sources | 1258 | – |
- Facts on file: 2590
- Checked against their source: 2511
- Last check: October 2026
- Tour links opened and checked before linking: 15 (checked October 2026)
- Places to eat and drink checked on Google Maps: 35 (checked October 2026)
- Attractions checked on Google Maps: 22 (checked October 2026)
- Driving times from OpenRouteService routes: 5 (valid for 12 months)
- Places to stay with a booking link checked in a browser: 29 (checked October 2026)
- Data refresh: every 2 to 3 months
One fact, from source to page
A line on a source page is copied word for word, saved with its link and dates, confirmed on the live page, and only then written into a guide page, with a small number beside it pointing back to the source. Below is a real entry from this site’s file, shown the way it is kept:
| Fact | The Sonesta cruise visits the Horus Temple in Edfu at 06:30 on day 3 and sails for Luxor at 08:15. |
|---|---|
| Source | Sonesta Star Goddess Cruise Ship Cruise Itinerary |
| Line quoted from the source | 06:30 Visit Horus Temple in Edfu ... 08:15 Sail to Luxor |
| Last read on the source | |
| Due for a re-check |
Keeping facts fresh
Once every two to three months, each live site has its data refreshed. A refresh takes a batch of facts and compares them with their source pages as they stand that day. The ones most likely to have drifted go first: the oldest, and anything about prices, fees, timetables or the months a place opens. The same pass tests the source links, the tour pages and the places to stay.
If a source has stopped showing a fact, that fact gets a flag instead of vanishing without notice. It is then corrected from the source, moved to a sounder source, or removed from the page.
| Kind of fact | Valid for | Facts | Next re-check due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prices and fees | 6 months | 371 | April 2027 |
| Timetables | 6 months | 108 | April 2027 |
| Opening hours | 12 months | 101 | October 2027 |
| Seasons and opening months | 12 months | 82 | October 2027 |
| Rules | 12 months | 327 | October 2027 |
| Counts | 12 months | 113 | October 2027 |
| Driving times and distances (routing data) | 12 months | 5 | October 2027 |
| Exchange rate (for the US dollar amounts) | 2 months | 1 | December 2026 |
| Other facts | 12 months | 958 | October 2027 |
| Places and distances | No set date | 280 | – |
| Google Maps details of places to eat | 6 to 12 months | 137 | April 2027 |
| Google Maps details of attractions | 6 to 24 months | 107 | April 2027 |
Conflicting sources and gaps
When two sources give different figures for the same thing, the page shows both ends as a range and names each source. A detail no source can back stays off the page.
Tours, food, sights and stays
Tours start from each booking site’s own list for Luxor. Before a tour gets a link, its page is opened to confirm that the title names the place and that nothing on it says the tour can’t be booked. A tour page that no longer exists never gets a link. The booking site shown first is whichever had the most Luxor tours when this site was planned; the rest follow a set order.
Restaurants, cafés and sights come from Google Maps listings across Luxor’s main areas, and each was opened in a browser and looked over before appearing. The sources table gives the count and the month. Places to eat are sorted by area, then by the names people search for, then by the Maps search order. Sights are sorted by area and by search interest. Rating never decides the order. Ratings and opening hours are Google’s, and every rating carries the date it was read. Entry fees, how long to allow and notes for children appear only when a source says so, and anything Maps shows as closed is left off. No listing is paid for.
Driving times and distances come from OpenRouteService, built on OpenStreetMap data and ignoring traffic. Each is filed as a fact with its route as the source and stays good for a year, as the re-check table shows. Itineraries are plans assembled from these sources, not accounts of a journey.
Stays are the ones people look up by name, most looked up first. Price, what’s included and who each suits come from named sources shown on its card. No stay carries a booking link for now: one is added only once its booking page passes a check and the booking site signs off on this site’s partner account.
Writing and review
Anthropic’s Claude, an AI model, writes the guide pages, working only from the facts on file. Automatic checks then run on every page. The publisher reviews each page before it is published and again once it is live, and fixes whatever turns up.
Photos are real pictures from Wikimedia Commons and Pexels. None is generated by AI; the logo and favicon are the only exceptions. Credits sit on the image credits page.
Latest changes
- · Food and drink: Added a photo of Om Ali; dish cards without a photo no longer show an empty box
- · Luxor: First written
- · 3-night Nile cruise: First written
- · About this guide: First written
- · Affiliate disclosure: First written
Each guide page also closes with a dated history of its own edits.
Spot a mistake?
Use the contact page. Point us to the page and the exact fact, and if you know where the correct version is published, include that link.
Page history · last changed 23 October 2026
- First written