Affiliate disclosure

The short version: some links here earn us a commission, you pay the same either way, and no operator pays to be featured.

Which links are affiliate links

Every "Check availability" button, and every in-text link that opens a tour's listing, points to GetYourGuide or Viator and carries our partner tag. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a share of the commission it already earns from the operator. Your price is identical to the price you would see going straight to that listing, because our cut comes out of the platform's margin and is never added to your booking.

Those two platforms are the only affiliate relationships on this site. There are no hotel links, no flight links, no display advertising, no sponsored posts and no paid reviews. Nothing on this page or any other earns us money from an operator, a hotel, an airline, the national park or the island itself. If a third network is ever added, this page and the footer disclosure will name it before the first link goes live, not after.

What it does not change

• Inclusion. Every tour that clears the tests, a real guided experience on Rapa Nui with an operator, a published itinerary and a certified guide, genuinely bookable right now by an individual on a live product page, with figures that survive being read twice, is here. Seventeen listings were read and 8 are shown. Two of the nine held back carry strong review records but show no readable price on any channel we can check, so they are named in articles rather than carded. Two priced on a single read and would not confirm it on the second. Five rest on review bases under fifteen, one of them a $1,043 four-day package with three reviews and no free cancellation. None of them is held back for being bad, only for being unverifiable at the level this site prints.
• Ordering. No operator can buy a position and none has been offered one. Where a category leads with one tour, it leads on its own record, a rule you can check yourself against the numbers on the cards. That is why the flagship full day at 4.8 across 103 reviews leads the day tours, the two-day package with the island's largest review base leads the packages, and the 4.9-rated moai monuments day, the more-reviewed of the two private options, leads the private lane, rather than any one of them leading everything.
• What we say about them. The two-day package is the most-booked tour on the island and it rates 4.4, not 4.9, and the card says 4.4. Two of the eight tours here do not offer free cancellation, and their cards say that too. The $100 park ticket is not included in any tour price on this island, which is stated on the homepage, on every hub and in the guides rather than in small print. And the parts of Rapa Nui that cost nothing, sunset at Tahai, the beach at Anakena, the harbour and streets of Hanga Roa, get their say wherever they are the better answer. None of that helps a booking along, and all of it stays.
• What we leave out. This site lists guided tours you can reserve a seat on, so hotels, flights, car and scooter rentals, restaurants and the park ticket itself are off-scope as products, and they are covered as research rather than sold. A listing whose price or rating could not be confirmed on two independent reads does not get a card either, and that rule has already cost this site a price it would happily have printed: one figure attached to the stargazing session turned out on the second read to belong to a different product, so it was discarded.
• Things we earn nothing from. The Rapa Nui National Park ticket is sold by the park, at its own site, and we take no share of the $100. The FUI entry form is filed with the Chilean government at its own portal and pays us nothing. The flight from Santiago pays us nothing; we hold no airline relationship. Tahai at sunset costs nothing and always will. All of them still get their say wherever they beat a paid booking.

Ratings, review counts and prices

Every rating and review count on this site is the platform's own published number, read off the live listing, read a second time on an independent pass, and cross-checked against structured search snippets before it was printed. Nothing is averaged across platforms, rounded up or invented, and where the reads disagreed the figure was left off the page rather than smoothed over. The 8 tours carry 683 traveller reviews between them, and that total is the sum of the real per-listing counts. The strongest record in the lineup is 5.0 across 20 reviews on the private archaeology day, and the largest is 259 reviews on the two-day highlights package.

Prices are handled the same way and come with a bigger caveat. What you see is a current per-person from-price in USD, the cheapest option on that tour at the time it was read. The lineup runs $100 to $294: full days from $100 to $200, packages from $170 to $250, private days from $230 to $294, and the night-sky session at $140. Rates move with the date, the group size, the option you pick and the country you book from, so the live listing is always the authority on what you will actually be charged. A price that reads differently in two places usually means the platform is showing you a localised currency, not that the rate changed. On-island costs are a separate matter and not ours to quote as tour prices: taxis to the far sites, scooter and 4WD rental and meals in Hanga Roa are set by the businesses that provide them.

The same rule covers policies and park facts. Durations, pickup arrangements, stop lists and cancellation terms are the operator's own words from its own listing, not a house average. Six of the eight tours here cancel free up to 24 hours before departure and two do not, and if that ever changes on a listing, the card changes with it. The park ticket price, the certified-guide requirement and the entry form come from official sources, which is why this site prints $100 rather than the $80 that circulated before October 1, 2025.

If you would rather not use our links

Search the operator's name on GetYourGuide or Viator directly, or find the operator's own website and book there. Rapa Nui Dream, Hotumatur Rapa Nui, Easter Island Your Tour, Green Island Tours, Kava Kava Tours, Easter Island Travel, Kapua Tours & Experience and Signature Tours all sell their own departures. We would genuinely rather you spent your days on the island with one of them. The category pages, the cost arithmetic, the FAQ and the guides work exactly as well as research whether or not you ever click a booking link.

Questions about any of this: email us. How the listings are checked in the first place is on the about page.