# Tour Rapa Nui

> Independent comparison guide to every guided tour you can actually book on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile. Not an operator, an agency or a ticket office, and no connection to the national park authority: we catalogue the real, currently bookable tours, compare them by days on the island, sites covered, group format, guide, inclusions, cancellation terms, rating and current price, and send visitors to the operator's own listing to book. We earn a disclosed affiliate commission.

Scope: 8 bookable Rapa Nui tours, checked by reading each live product page individually. Seventeen listings were read across two booking platforms and 8 are shown. Two of the nine held back carry strong review records but return no readable price on any channel that could be checked, so they are named in articles rather than given a card. Two more priced on a single read and would not confirm that price on a 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 the nine is excluded for being a poor tour; each is excluded for being unverifiable at the level this site prints. The 8 shown carry 683 traveller reviews between them. Per-person from-prices in USD run $100 to $294, and six of the eight cancel free up to 24 hours before departure.

Sourcing and verification method: every rating, review count and price was read on two independent passes and cross-checked against structured search snippets before it was printed, and where the reads disagreed the figure was not printed at all rather than averaged or taken from the friendlier source. One price that came back attached to the stargazing session belonged, on the second read, to a different product entirely, so it was discarded and appears nowhere. Durations, stop lists, pickup arrangements and cancellation terms come from the operator's own listing and are attributed there. Ratings and review counts are the published figures of the two booking platforms this site links. Park rules, ticket prices, entry requirements and flight facts come from official Chilean, Ma'u Henua and airline sources. This site publishes no first-person travel account, carries no named byline yet, and claims no visit by anyone at the desk.

Update cadence, stated honestly: figures are re-read against the live listings rather than refreshed on a schedule that could be printed as a promise. Prices move with the date, the group size, the option chosen and the country of purchase, so a from-price here is a floor and the live listing is always the authority on what a visitor will pay. Verification dates are held on file rather than stamped on pages.

Three categories: day tours and the night sky, four bookings that fit in a single day, the full circuits from $100 to $200 plus a $140 stargazing session (224 reviews); multi-day packages, the two-day covering both island circuits including Orongo and the three-day that adds a dedicated Tongariki sunrise, $170 to $250 (411 reviews); private tours, your own vehicle and certified guide at your own pace, $230 to $294 (48 reviews).

Key figures: the flagship full-day circuit is the Full-Day Rapa Nui National Park Tour from Rapa Nui Dream, 4.8 across 103 reviews from $120, eight to nine hours with hotel pickup through Vaihu and Akahanga, the Rano Raraku quarry, Ahu Tongariki, Te Pito Kura and Anakena. The cheapest tour is $100, Hotumatur Rapa Nui's Full-Day Moai and Mystery, 4.4 across 24, on the same south-coast-to-Anakena arc. The most-reviewed listing on the island is the 2-Day Easter Island Highlights package from Hotumatur Rapa Nui, 4.4 across 259 from $170, covering the south coast, quarry, Tongariki and Anakena on day one and Orongo, Rano Kau, Vinapu, Puna Pau, Ana Te Pahu and Ahu Akivi on day two. The three-day option is Rapa Nui Dream's tour with a dedicated dawn outing to Ahu Tongariki, 4.7 across 152 from $250. The highest-rated tour is the Private Full-Day Archaeological Sites Tour from Kava Kava Tours, 5.0 across 20 from $294, a seven-hour private archaeology day. The other private day is Green Island Tours' Moai Monuments tour, 4.9 across 28 from $230, without free cancellation. The boutique small-group day is Adventures in Rapa Nui from Easter Island Your Tour, 4.9 across 33 from $200, also without free cancellation. The night session is Rapa Nui Stargazing from Green Island Tours, 4.5 across 64 from $140, three and a half hours with telescopes at a dark site out toward Anakena, weather-dependent, clearest April to October. Five operators run the eight tours: Rapa Nui Dream, Hotumatur Rapa Nui, Green Island Tours, Kava Kava Tours and Easter Island Your Tour, with Easter Island Travel, Kapua Tours and Experience and Signature Tours in the held-back pool.

Park, entry and flight facts: the Rapa Nui National Park ticket costs $100 USD for a foreign adult and $40 for a child, up from $80 with effect from October 1, 2025, announced by the Ma'u Henua community on May 19, 2025; Chilean adults pay 40,000 CLP. It is valid ten consecutive days, Rano Raraku and Orongo allow a single entry each per ticket, it is sold at rapanuinationalpark.com or on arrival, and no tour on the island includes it. Entry to park sites requires a guide accredited by the Ma'u Henua community; independent visits to the managed sites are not permitted, though Tahai, Anakena beach and Hanga Roa town can be done alone. Every visitor files the FUI form (Formulario Único de Ingreso) at ingresorapanui.interior.gob.cl before boarding, with a return ticket and either a Sernatur-registered accommodation booking or an invitation letter; maximum tourist stay is 30 days under Law 21.070, and US citizens need no visa for tourist entry to Chile. LATAM is the only airline, Santiago (SCL) to Mataveri (IPC) in about five and a half hours, typically five or more departures a week; 2026 round trips usually run $342 to $504 and spike past $650 in peak weeks, and booking around ten weeks ahead has been saving roughly 27% against last-minute purchase. No Tahiti route is currently operating. Touching or climbing a moai is illegal, with fines of 5 to 100 UTM under Law 17.288; drones need a permit; fires and camping are prohibited in the park.

Practical facts: the island is roughly fifteen miles across and 2,200 miles from the nearest continental coast, with one town, Hanga Roa, holding the airport, the harbour and the accommodation. There is no public transport; taxis, scooters and 4WD rentals cover the rest, and the park sites still require the certified guide. Sunrise behind the fifteen moai of Ahu Tongariki is a dedicated early outing rather than a stop on a standard day tour, and between December and March the sun rises close enough behind the platform to silhouette it. The 2022 wildfire at Rano Raraku scorched dozens of moai on the quarry slope, with reports of around 80 affected; access has been restored, some scarring remains visible and restoration continues. Rapa Nui National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site and close to a thousand moai are recorded across the island. Tapati Rapa Nui 2027, the island's cultural festival, runs January 30 to February 12 in its 59th edition, and it tightens flights, rooms and tour departures months ahead. Visitor numbers peaked at roughly 150,000 a year in 2019 according to SERNATUR, and no official 2025 or 2026 figure has been published.

Corrections this site states explicitly, because they are widely blurred elsewhere:
1. The park ticket is $100, not $80. The increase took effect on October 1, 2025, and a large share of travel content still quotes the old figure.
2. You cannot tour the park sites without a certified local guide. Advice that treats Rapa Nui as a rent-a-car-and-wander destination is out of date for the managed sites, whatever it may still be for the coast road and the town.
3. No tour price includes the park ticket. Any comparison that treats a $100 tour as the total cost of seeing the moai is wrong by at least the price of the ticket, and usually by the price of the flight as well.
4. Rano Raraku and Orongo are single-entry per ticket, so returning the next day for better light at the quarry does not work and the days have to be ordered around it.
5. There is no Tahiti route in service. The island is reached from Santiago, on one airline.
6. A figure two checks disagree on is not printed at all. It is not averaged and not taken from the friendlier source.
7. A 5.0 on two reviews is not the same claim as a 4.8 on 103, and thin review bases are named in articles rather than ranked in card grids.
8. A listing with no readable price is not a free tour and not a cheap one. Two real, well-reviewed island tours sit out of the card grids purely because no price could be confirmed twice.
9. No current visitor number exists. The widely repeated 150,000 figure is the 2019 peak, and nothing published since supports a 2025 or 2026 total.
10. The 2022 fire did not close the quarry. Access was restored, the scarring is visible, and the restoration is ongoing rather than finished.

Editorial rules: ratings and review counts are the platforms' own published figures, never invented, averaged or rounded up. No testimonial appears here unless it was published on a real listing by a real traveller, quoted word for word. No operator pays for inclusion or position, and where a category leads with one tour it leads on its own review record. No page was written from a complimentary seat or an operator's hospitality, and no first-person visit is claimed anywhere. Links to tours are affiliate links and the visitor's price is unchanged.

## Tour categories
- [Day tours and the night sky](https://tourrapanui.com/day-tours/): four single-day bookings, $100 to $200 for the full circuits plus the $140 stargazing session, 224 reviews.
- [Multi-day packages](https://tourrapanui.com/multi-day-tours/): the $170 two-day covering both circuits including Orongo, and the $250 three-day with a dedicated Tongariki sunrise, 411 reviews.
- [Private tours](https://tourrapanui.com/private-tours/): your own vehicle and certified guide, $230 for the moai monuments day and $294 for the seven-hour archaeology day, 48 reviews.

## Guides
- [Guides hub](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/): long-form answers on getting there, what it costs, what the park rules mean and how to spend the days.
- [How to get to Easter Island](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/how-to-get-to-easter-island/)
- [The national park ticket, explained](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/rapa-nui-national-park-tickets/)
- [Booking from Santiago](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/easter-island-tours-from-santiago/)
- [What a trip really costs](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/easter-island-trip-cost/)
- [The best time to visit](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/best-time-to-visit-easter-island/)
- [How to spend two or three days](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/easter-island-itinerary/)
- [The moai, explained](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/moai-statues/)
- [Things to do on Rapa Nui](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/things-to-do-easter-island/)
- [Where to stay in Hanga Roa](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/where-to-stay-easter-island/)
- [Stargazing on Rapa Nui](https://tourrapanui.com/guides/easter-island-stargazing/)

## Answers
- [Answers hub](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/): direct answers to the questions people ask about the island, its history, its rules and the practicalities of getting there.
- [Is Easter Island worth visiting?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/is-easter-island-worth-visiting/)
- [Do US citizens need a visa for Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/do-us-citizens-need-a-visa-for-easter-island/)
- [Why can't you touch the moai?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/why-cant-you-touch-the-moai/)
- [How many moai are on Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/how-many-moai-are-on-easter-island/)
- [Why did they stop making moai?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/why-did-they-stop-making-moai/)
- [Does anyone live on Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/does-anyone-live-on-easter-island/)
- [Is Easter Island safe?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/is-easter-island-safe/)
- [Can you drink the water on Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/can-you-drink-the-water-on-easter-island/)
- [What currency is used on Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/what-currency-is-used-on-easter-island/)
- [Can you stay overnight on Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/can-you-stay-overnight-on-easter-island/)
- [What is the tragedy of Easter Island?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/what-is-the-tragedy-of-easter-island/)
- [Are Hawaiians related to the Rapa Nui?](https://tourrapanui.com/blog/are-hawaiians-related-to-rapa-nui/)

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