End of the World Train Tickets & Prices (2026): What You'll Really Pay

How have the fares changed?

Fares go up at least every season. Over the ten months to October 2026, the Tourist adult fare rose about 33%, from ARS 60,000 in December 2025 to ARS 80,000.

What the pattern means for your booking:

• The operator’s own terms set out three seasons. High runs 1 October to 31 March, or until Holy Week (Semana Santa) if that comes first. Low runs from 1 April (or Holy Week) to 30 June. Mid runs 1 July to 30 September. Easter 2027 is on 28 March, so high-season fares could stop a few days before 31 March 2027.
• Prices have gone up at each season change, and once in the middle of a season too (December 2025 to January 2026). Inflation, not only seasonal demand, is behind the rises. Don’t expect April 2027 fares to fall back to ARS 65,000: past “low season” fares have still been higher in pesos than the high season before them.
• Changing a date to another season costs you the fare difference, paid at the box office. Locking in a fare early helps only if you travel within the same season.

Watch for stale prices. Many agency pages still show old fares. excursionesenushuaia.com’s 2026 train page still says tickets start at AR$ 65,000, while Salum Travel lists ARS 88,000 for adults (and ARS 250,000 Premium) for October 2026–March 2027, against the official ARS 80,000. Treat the official table as the only source of truth.

What does each class include?

Tourist class gets you the same 7 km route, heated coaches and audio guide as everyone else. Premium adds priority boarding, a meal with drinks, souvenirs and an included photo, for an extra ARS 170,000 per adult.

Premium details come from the operator’s service descriptions and its official listing on travel platforms. VIP and Charter details come from the official service pages. The operator doesn’t publish VIP or Charter prices.

Is Premium class worth it?

For most people, no. Premium costs about three times the Tourist fare (US$162 against US$52). The extra US$110 or so buys a meal somewhere between a snack and a light lunch, with drinks, plus priority boarding, a photo you would otherwise pay for, and souvenirs. The scenery is the same.

Premium makes sense if:

• It’s a special occasion, or you’d be paying for a café lunch anyway and like the idea of eating on the train.
• It’s a cold, wet day and you want a table, a hot drink and a comfortable seat.
• You hate queues. Priority boarding is real, and several travellers on Tripadvisor say skipping the line was the best part.

Skip it if you’re on a budget, travelling with small children (a free 0–3 infant gets no meal), or doing a combo tour where you’ll eat lunch afterwards anyway.

Our pick is Tourist class. Put the ARS 170,000 saved per person toward a Beagle Channel boat trip or a guided park tour instead.

Do I need to pay the national park entrance fee for the train?

Yes. The ticket doesn’t include it, and you can’t board without it. Most of the line runs inside the park, so the national parks administration (APN) requires every passenger to have a valid park ticket, even if you never leave the platform.

Park fees from 1 June 2026 (Resolución 132/2026)

Free entry: children aged 0–6 inclusive, Argentine retirees and pensioners with an Argentine DNI, people with a disability (CUD, or an equivalent valid certificate from their home country), local residents, Malvinas veterans and guides. Children aged 7 and up pay the full rate for their category; APN lists no separate child fare.

Second-day discount: a second visit within 72 hours costs 50% less. At Tierra del Fuego this applies only to tickets bought on the web. For two days, buying online (ARS 40,000 + 20,000 = ARS 60,000) beats the 3-day Flexipass (ARS 80,000). For three days, the Flexipass is cheaper.

What the price rise means: in summer 2025–26 the general fee was frozen at ARS 30,000 (and ARS 9,000 for Argentines). The June 2026 increase raised it by a third for foreigners and doubled it for Argentine residents. Older blogs and some tour listings still quote ARS 30,000, so budget for ARS 40,000.

Conflicting sources: APN’s tariff page lists a provincial-resident rate of ARS 8,000, while the local outlet Actualidad TDF (2 June 2026) reported that Tierra del Fuego residents “continúan exentos”. If you’re a provincial resident, check with the park before you go.

Our park tickets and entrance fee page covers opening hours and what the park ticket does and does not include.

How to buy the national park ticket, step by step

The easiest way is online at ventaweb.apn.gob.ar before your train day. The train company says you can also buy it at the box office on the day of your trip.

1. Go to ventaweb.apn.gob.ar (the official APN sales site) and choose Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego.
2. Pick your visit date and visitor category (General for foreigners). Tick the two-day promotional option if you’ll come back within 72 hours.
3. Enter the details for each visitor. Tickets are in your name and tied to your passport or DNI number.
4. Pay by credit or debit card.
5. Save the confirmation and bring the passport or ID you registered. Staff check it, and the address on that document decides your fare category.

Can you pay at the gate or the station? Yes. APN’s FAQ says that while most parks take cash pesos only, Tierra del Fuego accepts credit and debit cards. A Tripadvisor reviewer paid ARS 40,000 per person at the train station by card in August 2026. Some tour listings still say “cash only, no cards”. They’re out of date, but carrying enough pesos is a sensible backup. There’s no ATM at the train station.

Where to buy: official site, resellers or a combo tour?

Buy direct for a train-only trip. It’s the cheapest option, with the clearest rules and the full range of departures. Use a combo tour if you want transport and a guided visit to the rest of the park.

Reseller prices are the listings’ “from” prices at the time of writing (October 2026). They change constantly and depend on dates and options.

Is it cheaper to buy direct? Usually, yes. At the 30 September exchange rate the official Tourist fare works out to about US$52, against $54 for the operator’s own listing on Viator. A Viator customer wrote in January 2025 that booking there “cost me $28 more per person than if I had just bought directly from the website”. Resellers make sense only if the official site shows a slot as sold out (agencies sometimes hold seats) or you want free 24-hour cancellation instead of the official 5% fee.

Read combo listings carefully:

• “Optional train” usually means the train ticket is not in the headline price. The train-optional park tour cost $58 without the train and $124 with it for one adult on 8 October 2026.
• Combos use the train one way. You ride out to Estación Parque Nacional and your minibus and guide meet you there. That works in your favour: you get the train and the best of the park without backtracking.
• The park fee is almost never included, even in “all-in” tours. Add about US$26 per adult. The one exception on this site is the all-inclusive option of the Small-Group National Park Tour, which bundles the train ticket and the park entry.

What about cruise shore excursions?

Independent shore excursions that meet you at Ushuaia’s port with train tickets included start at about US$165 on Viator, such as the End of the World Shore Excursion with train, rated 4.96 from 25 reviews but non-refundable once booked. Cheaper “cruiser” tours, such as a Civitatis option at US$120, often leave out the train ticket and the park fee. We haven’t checked prices for excursions sold by the cruise lines themselves. Compare them against these numbers, and check the return-to-ship guarantee before you choose an independent tour. Our shore excursions page compares the port-timed park tours.

Want the train and the park without arranging the transport? See our park and train tours with hotel pickup.

What will the whole trip cost?

A foreign adult doing it yourself in Tourist class pays roughly ARS 140,000 (≈ US$92) all in. A family of two adults and two school-age children pays about ARS 420,000 (≈ US$274).

Assumptions: fares valid 1 October 2026–March 2027; foreign visitors (General park rate); a taxi round trip from central Ushuaia to the station, about 8 km each way. The taxi estimate uses Ushuaia’s day tariff in force since January 2026 (ARS 2,100 flag fall + ARS 110 per 100 m) and comes to about ARS 10,900 each way, before waiting time or night and weekend rates. ARS 1,540 = US$1.

What the numbers mean:

• The park fee adds about 50% to a solo Tourist ticket. It’s the most underestimated cost.
• A combo tour costs a couple roughly US$200 more than doing it yourself. For that you get hotel pickup, a guide, and stops at Lapataia Bay, Lake Acigami and the end of Route 3, which the train alone doesn’t reach. If you only want the train, do it yourself. If you want to see the park properly, the combo is good value.
• Children make the train cheap and the park expensive. A child’s train ticket is half the adult fare, but from age 7 the same child pays the full ARS 40,000 park fee.

How do I book End of the World Train tickets?

Book on trendelfindelmundo.com.ar. Choose the date, a departure slot (9:30, 12:00 or 15:00), class, currency (ARS or USD) and passengers, then pay by card, Mercado Pago, PayPal or PIX.

Payment methods (official):

• Online: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Mercado Pago, PayPal and PIX (the last three online only).
• Box office: cash in ARS, USD, EUR or BRL, or Visa, Mastercard or Amex.
• The booking widget lets you pay in AR$ or USD.

Key booking rules:

• You book a time slot, not a specific train. Within your slot you may be put on any train, with departures every 15 minutes. On 1 October 2026 the booking widget also offered a 13:15 slot. The timetable is in our End of the World Train guide.
• Check in 45 minutes before departure to swap your voucher for a printed ticket. If you haven’t checked in by 10 minutes before departure, your seats can go to the waitlist.
• Add infants (0–3) to the booking, even though they ride free.
• Discounts for disabled travellers (CUD) and Tierra del Fuego residents are not available in the normal checkout. Apply through the official benefits form (solicitud de beneficio) or by emailing info@trendelfindelmundo.com.ar. If you buy at full price online, the difference isn’t refunded.
• No refunds for choosing the wrong fare category (retiree, resident, CUD, child, infant). Staff may ask for a DNI, passport or certificate.
• There’s no ticket office in town. You can buy online or at the station. Email and WhatsApp support runs daily from 8:30 to 17:00.

Should foreigners pay in ARS or USD, by card or cash?

Pay by card in ARS, or in USD if the checkout price is lower, and compare the two first. In 2026 a foreign card gets close to the official rate, and Argentina’s 30% card surcharge doesn’t apply to you.

• The 30% “dólar tarjeta” surcharge is for Argentine residents only. It is an income-tax prepayment (percepción) on Argentines’ foreign-currency card spending, which is why the “dólar tarjeta” was quoted at about ARS 2,002 on 30 September 2026. A foreign-issued card paying a peso price in Argentina is not charged it.
• Foreign cards and the “tourist MEP rate”: since November 2022, under BCRA Comunicación “A” 7630, card operators “podrán acceder a la cotización del dólar MEP” for foreign tourists’ card spending (La Nación), and Visa joined Mastercard and Cabal on 15 December 2022 (El Economista). After the BCRA lifted most currency controls from 14 April 2025, the official rate (ARS 1,540) and MEP (about ARS 1,544 on 30 September 2026) are almost identical, so the old card-versus-cash advantage has all but gone. Your own bank’s foreign transaction fee is now the main extra cost.
• ARS or USD on the official site? We couldn’t confirm the exact USD price the checkout shows. Toggle both currencies and compare: if the USD price is more than about ARS 80,000 ÷ 1,540 = US$52 for a Tourist adult, pay in pesos with a no-foreign-fee card.
• Cash in dollars at the box office is accepted, but the station sets its own exchange rate, which we haven’t verified. Ask before you pay.
• Travellers from Brazil: PIX is accepted online. That’s handy, but compare its rate with your card’s.

Do tickets sell out, and when should I book?

Yes, in summer and during Argentine school holidays. Book online one to four weeks ahead for December–February and July. In low season you can often buy at the box office on the day.

• The official FAQ says booking ahead is necessary, “especially in high season”. Buying at the box office depends on what’s left that day.
• Viator says its listing of the official ticket is “on average… booked 28 days in advance” and marks it “likely to sell out”.
• One Tripadvisor reviewer said their tour guide found them seats when tickets were sold out online. Agencies sometimes have seats when the website shows none.
• If it’s sold out: try the box office early in the morning, ask to join the waitlist (no-shows lose their seats 10 minutes before departure), check other slots, or book a combo tour that includes a ticket.
• Best departure for value: the 9:30 train. It’s usually quieter, leaves the whole day for the park afterwards, and on Premium it includes breakfast.

Can I get a refund?

You get a refund minus a 5% admin fee if you cancel at least 24 hours before. Inside 24 hours you get nothing back. Date changes are allowed with at least 24 hours’ notice.

• Cancellation: at least 24 h before, you’re refunded minus 5%. Within 24 h it counts as a no-show and there’s no refund. Late claims aren’t accepted.
• Date change: request it at least 24 h ahead. It depends on availability and the fare in force on the new date. Changing to a different season means paying the fare difference at the box office on the day.
• How to request: in writing, to comercial@trendelfindelmundo.com.ar, giving the booking holder’s full name, the booking number and the reason. Refunds go back to the original payment method.
• Weather: the train runs 365 days a year and is cancelled only when extreme weather makes it unsafe. The official policy doesn’t spell out what happens to your ticket when the operator cancels, so ask for a refund or a new date in writing straight away. Some tour operators, such as Nomades, promise a 100% refund if weather stops the trip.
• The park ticket is separate. When the train was cancelled for weather, a Tripadvisor reviewer had to buy a new park ticket, and the operator replied that “la entrada al Parque Nacional… es independiente al servicio del Tren”. If the forecast looks bad, buy your park ticket on the day, not days ahead.
• Winter note: in winter the operator recommends staying on for the full round trip, because the trails near Estación Parque Nacional may be closed.

Money-saving tips and common booking mistakes

The biggest savings come from choosing Tourist over Premium, buying direct, and planning the park fee and transport.

Save money:

• Choose Tourist over Premium. That saves ARS 170,000 (≈ US$110) per adult.
• Buy direct. Resellers charge roughly US$2–28 more per person for the same seat.
• Travel with young children. Under-4s ride free and under-7s enter the park free.
• Planning two park days? Buy both online. The second day costs half (ARS 20,000) if it’s within 72 hours, and this discount is web-only at this park.
• Use the return ticket. Every ticket is a round trip. Ride out, walk the trails near Estación Parque Nacional, and come back on the 16:00 return train if there’s room. That saves the cost of a ride back from the park.
• Share a taxi. At about ARS 10,900 each way, a taxi split four ways costs less than most shuttles. There’s free parking at the station if you’ve rented a car.
• Low season (April to June) can mean shorter queues and easier availability, but because of inflation, don’t count on the peso price being lower than the previous high season.

Avoid these mistakes:

• Forgetting the park fee, or budgeting the outdated ARS 30,000.
• Booking a “park tour with optional train” and assuming the train is included.
• Choosing a disability or resident fare in the general checkout, or choosing the wrong category. Neither gets refunded.
• Turning up less than 45 minutes before departure and losing your seats to the waitlist.
• Leaving your passport at the hotel. Park tickets are in your name.
• Counting on a station ATM. There isn’t one.
• Buying a non-refundable reseller combo in a season when weather cancellations are common.

Frequently asked questions

How much is the End of the World Train in 2026?

From 1 October 2026 to March 2027: Tourist ARS 80,000 per adult (about US$52), ARS 40,000 per child aged 4–12, free under 4. Premium costs ARS 250,000 per adult (about US$162).

How much was the End of the World Train before October 2026?

From July to September 2026: Tourist ARS 70,000 and Premium ARS 217,000. From January to June 2026: Tourist ARS 65,000 and Premium ARS 185,000.

Is the national park entrance included in the train ticket?

No. It’s compulsory and separate: ARS 40,000 for foreigners, ARS 18,000 for Argentine residents, free for children up to 6.

Is the End of the World Train ticket one way or return?

Every official ticket is a round trip. Combo tours usually use it one way and continue by minibus.

Do foreigners pay more for the End of the World Train?

Not for the train: fares are the same for everyone. For the park, yes: ARS 40,000 against ARS 18,000 for Argentine residents.

Can I buy End of the World Train tickets at the station?

Yes, at the box office, depending on that day’s availability. It takes cash (ARS, USD, EUR, BRL) and cards.

Is Premium class worth it?

Only for a special treat or a cold day. It costs three times as much for the same view, adding a meal, drinks, priority boarding and a photo.

How much does VIP class cost?

The price isn’t published. Ask comercial@trendelfindelmundo.com.ar. VIP is the presidential coach for up to 8 people, with a three-course meal.

What’s the End of the World Train cancellation policy?

A refund minus 5% up to 24 hours before departure, nothing after. Date changes need at least 24 hours’ notice.

Is it cheaper on Viator or GetYourGuide?

Usually not. The official site is generally cheapest for the same ticket.

How much is a combo tour with the train and the national park?

About US$115–$210 per adult with the train ticket included, plus the US$26 park fee.

Can I pay the park fee by card?

Yes. Tierra del Fuego accepts credit and debit cards online and on site, but bring some pesos as a backup.

Planning the rest of your trip? Read how to get from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, how to get from Ushuaia into the park in our getting there guide, or see the full End of the World Train guide.

Prices last checked 1 October 2026. Official sources: trendelfindelmundo.com.ar (fares, FAQs, cancellation policy); argentina.gob.ar/parquesnacionales/tarifas and ventaweb.apn.gob.ar (park fees and tickets); Banco de la Nación Argentina (exchange rate).