Rates since 1 June 2026
The national park administration publishes one rate table for Los Glaciares. It applies to the southern zone with the Perito Moreno Glacier and to the northern zone around El Chaltén alike.
| General rate, including foreign visitors | ARS 50,000 per person and day |
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| Argentine residents | ARS 25,000 |
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| Residents of Santa Cruz province | ARS 8,000 |
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| Students with a valid student card or enrolment certificate | ARS 15,000 |
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| Children up to and including 6 years | Free |
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Also exempt: Argentine retirees and pensioners with a DNI, people with a valid disability certificate (CUD or equivalent), local residents, school groups and Malvinas war veterans. For the student rate the page asks for a valid student card or enrolment certificate; it does not say whether documents from abroad are accepted, so expect to be asked at the gate.
Source: argentina.gob.ar, Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Tarifas, values valid from 1 June 2026, checked 10 October 2026.
Card, cash or online
How you can pay depends on the part of the park. At the southern entrances, which cover the road to the Perito Moreno Glacier and the port of Punta Bandera, the park accepts Visa and Mastercard credit cards, debit cards and cash in Argentine pesos, or you buy online beforehand. In the northern zone around El Chaltén it is different: there the ticket is sold only online, through the website or a QR code on site, and only by card. Cash is not accepted there.
Online sales run through ventaweb.apn.gob.ar, the park administration’s ticket shop. A ticket bought there before the day saves you a queue at the gate and any question about the card reader. Older blog posts still describe paying in cash on the bus; that is out of date for the southern zone.
Second day, Flexipass and annual pass
The rate is per day, so a second visit costs again. The resolution behind the June 2026 rates adds three ways to pay less, as Infobae reported on 15 May 2026:
- A second day at half the rate if you return within 72 hours of your first entry. Los Glaciares is one of the parks where this applies.
- The Flexipass gives three days for the price of two, or seven days for the price of three and a half, to be used in one national park within six months.
- The annual pass costs the equivalent of five days in your rate category, covers all national parks for twelve months and is sold only online.
The discounts cannot be combined unless stated otherwise. For most visitors on a single glacier day none of this matters; it pays off if you also hike around El Chaltén, which is part of the same park.
Source: Infobae, 15 May 2026. The official rate page mentions the passes but gives no amounts for them.
What the tour listings say about the ticket
Patagonia Dreams sends you to the official park website to buy it. Info de Ushuaia says you can buy it online or at the gate, but its listing still quotes the rate that applied before June 2026. Bross Travel expects you to pay at the entrance. On the Say Hueque tour, the host confirms on the product page that the ticket is extra. The Tolkeyen listing says little, and one of its reviewers reports high extra costs on the day for the park and the boat.
There is no catch here: the ticket is a government fee paid per person, and all the glacier tours we list keep it out of their prices. What differs from tour to tour is how much help you get with it.
The boat comes on top as well
The optional boat ride below the ice face is a second extra on most glacier days and is paid separately from the park ticket. The short boat ride is described in detail on our sister site’s Safari Náutico page, and the longer boat trips, minitrekking and Big Ice are compared there too.
