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Originally Posted by not_terry
Can someone tell me when you see prices for Egytians and onother price for foreigners - where do you come if you have a resident permit - do you still pay foreigners prices
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Usually it is hotels that have different prices for residents. By residents they mean people with a residents visa in their passport. You get a residents visa with your work, marrying an Egyptian or registering your property if the land has already been registered. The Sharm/Hurghada ferry also advertises two different prices. I am treated as a tourist even though I live here and I own property here. Also travelling between Hurghada and Luxor and Hurghada and Cairo I have to go in the convoy if in a private vehicle. The hotels are cheap booking on the UK great late deal websites.
Also in the hospitals it all depends on the visa in your passport. You will be working so will have a residents visa. Egypt Air used to be the same but now with their online booking I get cheap flights if booked in advance.
As for the shops, even the shops closest to my house where they know I live next door will still try to rip me off because to them I will always be a foreigner.