Luxor can be described in two words - "The capital of the turmoil." In general, security here is in the very, perhaps, low level. Those tourists who come to say "incomplete tickets" should be aware that the guides often can disappoint them during their excursions around the city.
And to visit the temples, it is best to choose tours for the so-called "state programs". There, guides are legal representatives, although they sometimes spend the excursions are also very intrusive and of course, as much as possible orders. Here you can apply the golden rule - try to give a small amount of tip literally at the very beginning of the excursion.
If you are planning to stay in Luxor for a while, then it will be wiser to reserve accommodation in advance in order to avoid any difficulties with speculators offering housing immediately at train stations and bus station.
Since tourism has already for a long time in Luxor is the main source of income, respectively, many local residents have already thoroughly studied the art of deception and extortion of money. Here often use the main classic tricks of the type of reception "Help Translate Text!"
So they usually attract buyers to the store. In exactly the same technique, it may be - "Help send a letter to a friend to your country," and you will immediately show an envelope with the address - this is again one way to take you shop.
During a visit to alabaster factory, you should be aware that most of the alabaster is being imported as such and in fact there is hardly what is mined at all. And the bulk of other stones, for example, as nephritis is generally imported from China, or from India.
If you want to contact someone for help, then it is worth asking her not at the taxi driver, and not at the cab driver, but at a simple local resident. Then else - the papyrus museum, though it sounds very entertaining, but it is just just a papyrus store. And there you will find both high-quality samples, so in principle and cheap fakes.
Be particularly attentive with sellers in the market, especially those selling scarves. They can use them in order to hide the movement of the hands and simply to rob you. At least at least one person per day complains of them into the police.
Then very often you can handle the dialogue - "I say I work here at the hotel, and I have already seen you here for breakfast." As a rule, the conversation begins and as a result you want to convince you to visit either a store or a restaurant, for which this person, the so-called consumator, then can get a reward.
Here are such scammers to you best to ignore. If you feel that you want to somehow fool - let's say to help bring you a baggage somewhere, to spend you, or at all ask for donations to repair a destroyed house - let them understand that you will not give any money. It is not necessary to come across them "fairy tales", just leave them with a confident kind, so that they understand that you definitely refuse them.
Women who travel alone must be very careful in Luxor, especially in search of cheap housing. Very often there are complaints of harassment, and they make them after such women in hotels offer complimentary drinks.
Also, very many tourists complain that there are very aggressive and manipulators in Luxor. If you do not want to make some conversations during your purchases, it is more logical to simply ignore any attempts to tie with you a conversation.
In stores and in the markets, you will very much help the phrase on the Arabic "No Hassle", which translates very simply as "no, thank you." Thus, you will avoid unwanted and obsessive attention. If you want to show politeness, then it will be more appropriate "Laa Shukran", which is translated as "no, thank you."
In any case, it is best to be polite because people are usually appreciated. If you are sad, then you will also be roughly rude to you and try to deceive again. Well, in the event that you can not get rid of the annoying sellers in any ways, you just threaten them that call the police.