Eight real tours run this island: full-day circuits past the quarry where the moai were born, two- and three-day packages that climb to Orongo's crater rim, private days set to your own pace, a dawn vigil at Tongariki, and a night session under the clearest southern sky most people will ever see. The flight from Santiago takes five and a half hours; this page makes sure the days after it are spent right.
683 traveller reviews across the 8 tours, from $100 per person, most with free cancellation.
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A guided full day covering the headline sites runs $100 to $200 per person. The most-booked package on the island is a $170 two-day tour that covers both circuits; three days with a Tongariki sunrise runs $250, and private full days run $230 to $294 for the archaeology at your own pace. Two costs ride on top of any tour: the LATAM flight from Santiago, and the Rapa Nui National Park ticket, now $100 for foreign adults and valid ten days. The park requires a certified local guide at its sites, so a tour is not an upsell here; it is how the island is visited.
The first fork is not which sites, it is how many days you have. One full day covers the famous circuit if that is all the flight schedule gives you. Two or three days see the island properly, Orongo and the sunrise included. And a private guide turns the same sites into your own itinerary. Each page below compares its options side by side.
Three bookings carry most of the traffic here, and they answer three different trips. The full-day circuit is the flagship: 4.8 across 103 reviews for eight to nine hours through the quarry, Tongariki and Anakena. The two-day highlights package is the island's most-reviewed listing at 259 reviews, and the honest minimum to see everything. And the three-day adds the one thing photographs cannot fake: sunrise behind the fifteen moai of Tongariki.
8 to 9 hours · Rapa Nui Dream
The classic circuit done properly: the toppled ahu of the south coast, the quarry at Rano Raraku where hundreds of moai still lie half-carved in the slope, the fifteen giants of Tongariki, and a swim at Anakena to end it. Eight to nine hours with a certified local guide and hotel pickup. If you book one tour on the island, this is the one.
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2 days · Hotumatur Rapa Nui
The most-booked package on the island, and the honest minimum to see it all: day one runs the south coast, the quarry, Tongariki and Anakena; day two climbs to Orongo on the crater rim of Rano Kau, then Vinapu, the Puna Pau topknot quarry, the Ana Te Pahu caves and Ahu Akivi. Two full days, one booking, certified guide throughout.
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3 days · Rapa Nui Dream
Three days that add the thing photographs cannot fake: standing at Tongariki in the dark while the sun comes up behind fifteen moai. The full southern, northern and eastern circuits across two full days, plus the dedicated dawn outing. The unhurried version of Rapa Nui, from the operator with the island's strongest full-day record.
Check Price & Availability →Great 1 day tour of Easter Island with all the main attractions included! The guide Andrej was fantastic. The trip did not feel rushed, there was adequate explanation, and overall was a lovely experience.
I highly recommend Rapa Nui Dream as the company to do any and all tours on the island with! Our guide David was super informative and taught us a lot including personal stories of living and growing up on the island. The sights we saw covered all the highlights on that part of the island.
Dream is a great company! The guides are great and the 2.5 day is the perfect amount to see everything on the island without feeling rushed
Well organized tour with lots of information about the Moai and Rapa Nui. Guides all three mornings were right on time, kept me informed the day before of meeting times and provided contact information.
This is a great way to see Rapa Nui and learn about it's history and culture. Our guide Tongariki (Tonga) was top notch. He knew the history and culture. They took us to the sites and really explained how the moais were made and how the people lived.
Isa was an amazing guide and really helped us to understand the iland and it's history as well as the people living on it. We can highly recommend this tour to see all the main sites
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Two experiences here exist nowhere else in the world. At dawn, the sun comes up out of the Pacific directly behind the fifteen moai of Ahu Tongariki, and between December and March it rises close enough to their shoulders that the whole platform turns to silhouette. And after dark, an island 2,200 miles from the nearest city lights turns its sky into what astronomers travel for: the Southern Cross, both Magellanic Clouds, and a Milky Way core the northern hemisphere never sees at that altitude.
3 days · Rapa Nui Dream
Three days that add the thing photographs cannot fake: standing at Tongariki in the dark while the sun comes up behind fifteen moai. The full southern, northern and eastern circuits across two full days, plus the dedicated dawn outing. The unhurried version of Rapa Nui, from the operator with the island's strongest full-day record.
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3.5 hours · Green Island Tours
Rapa Nui sits 2,200 miles from the nearest city, and the night sky shows it. An evening astronomy session with telescopes: the Southern Cross, the Magellanic Clouds, and a sky the northern hemisphere never sees, from a dark site out toward Anakena. Weather-dependent by nature; dress warm, the wind comes off the open Pacific.
Check Price & Availability →The tour spread runs $100 to $294 per person, and the ends are different products: one is a seat in a small-group van for a day, the other is a private vehicle and guide working only for your party. What moves the price is days on the island, group size, and whether a sunrise outing rides in the package. These are the current from-prices on the live listings.
| What you are booking | From | What that buys |
|---|---|---|
| Full-day circuit | $100 to $200 per person | Eight to nine hours through the south coast, the Rano Raraku quarry, Ahu Tongariki and Anakena Beach with a certified guide and hotel pickup. The $100 ticket is the budget seat; the $200 boutique version runs smaller groups with longer stops. |
| Multi-day package | $170 to $250 per person | The island done properly. Two days cover both circuits including Orongo on the crater rim of Rano Kau; three days add a dedicated sunrise at Tongariki. Per day, the $170 two-day tour is the best arithmetic on the island. |
| Private full day | $230 to $294 per person | Your own vehicle, a certified guide working only for your group, and the pace you set. The $294 archaeology day holds a straight five-star record across every review it has ever received. |
| Night sky session | $140 per person | Three and a half hours with telescopes at a dark site out toward Anakena: the southern constellations explained, weather permitting, with hotel drop-off after. Clearest skies run April to October. |
| On top of any tour | $100 park ticket | Every foreign adult pays the Rapa Nui National Park entrance once per stay: $100, valid ten consecutive days, bought online or on arrival. Rano Raraku and Orongo accept one entry each per ticket, which is worth planning around. Tours do not include it. |
The island is a triangle roughly fifteen miles across, with one town on it. Almost everything worth seeing sits along two arcs, which is why the tours divide the way they do: a southern-and-eastern circuit for the quarry and the great platforms, and a southwestern climb for the crater and the birdman village.
Three pieces of paperwork stand between you and the moai, and none of them is hard if you know the order: a LATAM seat, the park ticket, and Chile's island entry form. Book the flight first; everything else follows it.
| The flight | LATAM is the only airline, Santiago to Mataveri in about five and a half hours, typically five or more times a week. Round trips run $342 to $504 in normal weeks and spike past $650 in peak season. Book around ten weeks ahead; the route is thin and it punishes waiting. |
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| The park ticket | $100 per foreign adult ($40 for children), valid ten consecutive days, one entry each at Rano Raraku and Orongo. Buy it online at the official park site or on arrival. No tour includes it, and no guide can talk you past a missing one. |
| The entry form | Chile requires the FUI form from every visitor before boarding, filled online in a few minutes: passport, return ticket, and either a registered accommodation booking or an invitation. Tourist stays cap at 30 days. |
| When to book tours | December through March is high season and Tapati (Jan 30 to Feb 12, 2027) is its peak; tours and rooms go first, flights follow. Most tours here cancel free up to 24 hours out, so booking when you book the flight costs nothing. |
| Getting around otherwise | No public transport exists. Taxis run about $20 to $30 to the far sites, scooters rent for $35 to $50 a day, 4WDs for $60 to $115. Fine for beaches and sunsets; the park sites themselves still require the certified guide. |
Fares, hours and policies above are read from the official and live sources; exact times for your date are confirmed when you book.
Occasions are what these bookings actually are. A first visit with limited days wants the flagship full-day circuit. A trip built around the photograph wants the three-day with its Tongariki dawn. Families and small groups do the arithmetic and land on a private day, where the van waits out a toddler meltdown without twelve strangers checking their watches. And the couple who already walked the quarry wants the night session: telescopes, the Magellanic Clouds, and a guide pointing out a sky neither of you has ever seen. The hubs compare each lane honestly.
From $100 for a full-day group circuit to $294 for a private archaeology day. The middle of the market: $120 to $200 for full days depending on group size, $170 for the two-day package that covers both circuits, $250 for three days with a Tongariki sunrise, and $140 for the stargazing session. Add the $100 national park ticket, which no tour includes, and the LATAM flight. Prices move with the date, so the live listing is always the authority; every card on this site opens it.
No. The Rapa Nui National Park ticket is personal and bought separately: $100 for foreign adults, $40 for children, valid ten consecutive days, one entry each at Rano Raraku and Orongo. Buy it online at the official park site or at the airport counter on arrival, and carry it on tour days; it is checked at the major sites.
Not at the park sites. The national park, which contains nearly all the moai, requires entry with a certified local guide accredited by the Ma'u Henua community; that is the standing rule, checked at the sites. What you can do independently is real but limited: Tahai at sunset, Anakena's beach, the coast road, Hanga Roa itself. For the quarry, Tongariki, Orongo and the platforms, a guided tour is how it is done.
Two full days of touring see every major site without rushing: one for the south coast, quarry, Tongariki and Anakena, one for Orongo, Rano Kau and the western sites. Three days add the sunrise and breathing room, which is what most people wish they had budgeted. One day is workable if the flights force it: the full-day circuit covers the headline sites, and you spend your remaining hours on the walkable Tahai and Hanga Roa.
Ahead, for two stacking reasons: departures are genuinely finite on an island of one town, and December through March fills them weeks out, Tapati furthest of all. Most tours here cancel free up to 24 hours before, so booking when you book flights is a free option, not a commitment. Walking up in Hanga Roa works in shoulder season, but you inherit whatever seats are left.
It is the single most repeated answer in the reviews. The sun comes up out of the open Pacific behind fifteen moai, and from December to March it rises close enough behind the platform that the statues go to full silhouette. The dedicated dawn outing on the three-day tour exists for it. Bring a layer; the wind before sunrise is real.
On the tours listed here, yes: the operators run bilingual Spanish-English guides, many of them Rapa Nui islanders, and reviewers name them constantly. The guide requirement is also the island's quiet advantage: the person explaining the quarry grew up with it, and the certification that lets them work in the park comes from the community that owns the story.
Sun cover and a wind layer at the same time: the island is subtropical but exposed, and the platforms have no shade. Closed shoes for the volcanic ground, water, swimwear for the Anakena stop on full days, cash or card for lunch in high season, and the park ticket itself. For the sunrise and stargazing outings, add real warmth; the wind off the open ocean drops the feel of the temperature fast.
The longer answers, written out properly: what the trip really costs, how the one airline works, and what the park's rules mean for your days.
One airline flies here. How the LATAM route works, what it costs, and how to book it without overpaying.
$100 since October 2025, valid ten days, single entry at the two headline sites. The rules most sites get wrong.
Flight, park ticket, rooms, food and tours added up honestly: budget, mid-range and comfort numbers for 2026.
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