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Our guided day
Pickup in Puerto Natales
- Length15 hours
- GuideEnglish, Spanish
- CancelUp to 24 hours
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Base Torres hike tour prices, from the guided van to the bus
Base of the Towers day hike from Puerto Natales
★ 4.8 · 878 written reviews
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Base Torres day cost for your group
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- Our guided day15 hours, pickup · starts at, per person $99
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View - Trekking day14 hours, pickup · starts at, per person $95
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View - Small group14 hours, up to 12 · starts at, per person $109
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View - Trek with transferPoles, crampons · starts at, per person $150
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GetYourGuide's starting prices, converted at the ECB reference rate; exact pricing appears when you book.
The guided days to the foot of the towers compared by price, length and group, plus the park pass, the shuttle and the bus fares you would pay on your own.
Editorial team, baseofthetowershike.com · Updated November 12, 2026 · Takes 7 min
Essentials
- Our dayThe 15-hour guided day from Puerto Natales starts from $99, with pickup.
- Other guided daysComparable Base Torres days start from $95 to $150.
- Park passA foreign adult pays CLP 32,400 for a daily pass to the national park.1
- ShuttleThe park bulletin gives CLP 5,000 per leg for the Laguna Amarga shuttle, paid in cash.2
- CancellingFree cancellation runs until 24 hours before the start.
What a Base Torres hike tour costs from Puerto Natales
A Base Torres hike tour is one of the longer days you can book in Patagonia, and the price reflects that. The day on offer here starts from $99 for 15 hours door to door, with collection from where you sleep in Puerto Natales and a guide working in English and Spanish. For that money you get the van ride into Torres del Paine and back, and a guide for the whole walk to the lagoon below the towers.
The itinerary splits the day plainly: 2 hours on the road at each end and 8 hours inside the park, where the listing names a photo stop, the guided walk and the hike itself. Pickup falls between 6:15 and 6:45 and you are back in town around 21:00 to 21:30, so the price buys a very full day rather than a short outing.
The listing carries 878 reviews, and in its breakdown the guide scores 4.9, the vans 4.8 and value 4.7. That is a large body of opinion behind a single trail, and the value score is the figure to watch on a price page, because it comes from people who paid the full fare and then walked the whole distance for it.
Side by side
Base Torres day prices compared
| Day | Length | From | What stands out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our guided day | 15 hours | $99 | Pickup, English and Spanish |
| Trekking day | 14 hours | $95 | Long break at the top |
| Small group | 14 hours | $109 | Up to 12 walkers |
| Trek with guide | 14 hours | $105 | Halfway snack stop |
| Trekking excursion | 12 hours | $125 | Up to 15 walkers |
| With transfer | 9 hours | $150 | Poles and crampons |
All are from-prices, not quotes; each moves with the date and the size of your booking.
Other guided Base Torres days, side by side
Several operators sell a Torres del Paine base hike tour on the same trail from Puerto Natales, and their starting prices sit close together. A Base of the Towers trekking day of 14 hours starts from $95, a small-group day capped at 12 walkers starts from $109, and a 14-hour trek with a guide starts from $105. The spread is small, so group size and the guide matter more than a few dollars.
At the top of the range sits a 9-hour listing with transfer from $150, which names trekking poles and ice crampons among its highlights for days when they are needed. A full-day trekking excursion capped at 15 people, which also climbs to the main lookout, starts from $125. These cost more and have far fewer reviews behind them.
All of these are from-prices, the lowest the listing shows across its dates, so what you finally pay moves with the date and with how many of you book. The fair way to compare is to open each listing on your chosen date and read what it names: pickup, the guide languages, the group cap, and the cancellation window, which is 24 hours on our day.
How tested each day is
Reviews behind each Base Torres day
- Our day878
- Trekking day204
- Small group196
- Trekking excursion34
- Trek with guide8
Review counts as each listing shows them.
The national park pass is a separate cost
Every visitor needs a pass to enter Torres del Paine, and CONAF, the park authority, prices it in Chilean pesos. A daily pass costs a foreign adult CLP 32,400, a foreign visitor aged 13 to 17 pays CLP 16,600, and children up to 12 enter free.1 Passes valid for 2 days or longer cost CLP 48,500, which only matters if you sleep in the park.1
The listing for our day does not name the park pass among its inclusions, so plan to buy it yourself unless your confirmation says otherwise. Another Base Torres listing tells you to show your park QR code at the ranger station at the Laguna Amarga gate, and a park sightseeing day sends you to pasesparques.cl for the ticket. That is the normal arrangement on these days.
CONAF asks you to buy the pass at least 24 hours before you enter, on its pasesparques.cl site.3 Las Torres Patagonia, which runs the Base Torres sector, adds that the purchase is online only, that credit cards are accepted, and that there is no internet at the park entrance, so keep the pass on your phone as a screenshot or on paper.7 Buying it the evening before is the safe habit.
Your budget
Which Base Torres option suits your wallet
Match the way you travel with the option that gives you most for it.
If I want a guide at the lowest price
A guided day
Guided Base Torres days start from $95 to $109.
If I want a smaller group
The small-group day
It caps the group at 12 and starts from $109.
If I own no poles or crampons
The transfer day
Its listing names poles and crampons when needed, from $150.
If I am fit and on a tight budget
Bus and shuttle
Bus fares started from CLP 15,000 one way on the October 2025 sheet; check the current fare.5
If I travel with a child under 13
Check the trail first
Children up to 12 enter free, but CONAF advises against the climb for young children.1,6
Good choices
Pick the Base Torres day that fits you
Small group
Small-group trek
A capped group on the trail
- Length14 hours
- GroupUp to 12
- Break40 minutes at the top
Gear included
Trek with transfer
Gear for cold days included
- Listed9 hours
- GearPoles, crampons
- CancelUp to 24 hours
Small costs on the trail, in pesos
The trail itself is free to walk. Las Torres Patagonia charges no entrance fee for its reserve, which is where the Base Torres trailhead sits.8,9 What you may pay for is food and drink at the Chileno refuge, about halfway up, where a dining room and a cafeteria sell everything from ready meals to salads.4
Lunch is not listed as part of our day, so either carry it from Puerto Natales or budget for the cafeteria. There is no ATM at the Welcome Center; cards work, but the card system runs on satellite internet that can drop out in bad weather, so bring some cash.10 Chilean pesos and US dollars are both accepted in cash in the reserve.11
Small notes cover a coffee or a snack on the way, and they are the backup if the card reader goes quiet in a storm. Keep the cash in a dry bag. A wet wad of pesos at the bottom of a pack is a small but familiar disappointment at the refuge counter after a rain shower on the climb.
Money through the day
Where your pesos go on hike day
The day before
Buy the park pass
CONAF sells passes online and asks for at least 24 hours of notice.3
At booking
Reserve, pay later
Book with no payment today; the free cancellation window closes 24 hours before.
Early morning
Pickup in Natales
Collection from your lodging falls between 6:15 and 6:45.
Halfway up
Chileno refuge
The refuge cafeteria sells food and drinks if you did not pack lunch.4
Evening
Back in town
You are dropped in Puerto Natales around 21:00 to 21:30.
The cost of the same day on your own
Doing the hike without a tour means paying for each leg yourself. Bus-Sur, among the companies serving the park, has a morning departure at 7:00 and a noon one at 12:00 in its September-to-April timetable, and its October 2025 sheet listed fares from CLP 15,000 one way and CLP 28,000 return.12,5 Check the current fare before you plan around it.
From the Laguna Amarga gate a shuttle carries walkers to the Welcome Center near the trailhead, for CLP 5,000 a head in each direction, payable in cash only, according to the park bulletin for this season.2 Add the daily park pass of CLP 32,400 for a foreign adult, and you have the full fixed cost of an independent day before any food.1
Set against a guided Puerto Natales Base of the Towers day hike from $99, the do-it-yourself route saves some money but asks more of your timing. Heading home, you catch the bus at the Laguna Amarga gate at 15:00 or at 20:15, arriving in town at 16:30 or 21:30, so a slow descent can leave you waiting for the late bus.13 Our page on going guided or alone walks through that timetable.
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Hiking to the base of the towers from Puerto Natales
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Money checklist
Before you pay for the day
Book3
- Compare the from-price with what each listing names
- Note the free cancellation window of your booking
- Arrange the travel and medical insurance our day requires
Buy ahead3
- The CONAF park pass on pasesparques.cl, a day early
- A screenshot or printout of the pass QR code
- Bus tickets online if you go without a tour
Carry3
- Pesos in small notes for the shuttle and the refuge
- A card for larger purchases
- A dry bag for cash and documents
Price per head for a solo walker, a couple or a group
Guided Base Torres days are priced per person, so a couple pays double and a group of 4 pays the from-price 4 times over. The calculator on this page does that sum for each listing on the date you choose, which is the quickest way to see what your own party will spend before you open the booking page.
An independent day scales the same way for the bus, the shuttle and the park pass, since all are per-person charges.2,1 The one cost that changes the picture for groups is a car. A rental shared by a group spreads the fuel and the hire across more people, but CONAF notes that nobody sells fuel inside the park or in the country around it, so fill the tank in Puerto Natales.14
Children change the sums too. A foreign child up to 12 enters the park free, and a teenager pays the reduced pass.1 The harder question for a family is whether the trail suits the child at all, and the park bulletin advises against the climb for young children.6 Our difficulty page looks at that in detail.
Is the cheapest Base Torres day the right one
Price is only one line in the comparison. Our day carries 878 reviews averaging 4.8, the trekking experience from $95 has 204, and the small-group day from $109 has 196 with a guide score of 4.9. Those are well-tested choices within a few dollars of each other, and any of them gets you to the same lagoon by the same path, so the decision rests on the details of each day rather than on the headline price.
A dearer day can buy you something specific rather than something better. The small-group day caps the group at 12, which some walkers value on a narrow mountain path, and the $150 listing includes poles and crampons if conditions call for them. If you own neither, the gear alone can justify the higher price in a cold month.
One clause deserves a careful read before you pay. The small-group day states that it is weather-dependent and that no refund is given if conditions stop the trek once it has started. Our day notes that it can change or be cancelled for unsafe weather and that travel and medical insurance is required. Read the cancellation terms of whichever day you choose with the same care as the price.
FAQ
Quick answers to quick questions.
How much is a Base Torres hike tour from Puerto Natales?
From $99 for our day.
The 15-hour guided day with pickup starts there; other guided days start from $95 to $150.
Is the park entrance included in the price?
The listing does not say so.
Plan to buy the CONAF pass yourself at pasesparques.cl, at least 24 hours before your visit.3
How much is the Torres del Paine park pass?
CLP 32,400 for a foreign adult.
That is the daily pass; visitors aged 13 to 17 pay CLP 16,600 and children up to 12 enter free.1
Is lunch included on the guided day?
It is not listed.
Carry food from Puerto Natales or buy it at the Chileno refuge cafeteria on the way up.4
Can I pay by card in the park?
Yes, but carry cash too.
Card payments run on satellite internet that can fail in bad weather, and there is no ATM at the Welcome Center.10
How much does the shuttle to the trailhead cost?
CLP 5,000 each way.
The Laguna Amarga shuttle to the Welcome Center is cash only, according to the park bulletin.2
Can I cancel the guided day?
Yes, up to 24 hours before.
Our day offers free cancellation up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund.
Sources
- CONAF, Torres del Paine National Park administration (parquetorresdelpaine.cl) · Tarifas y horarios 2026 ↩
- CONAF, Torres del Paine National Park administration (parquetorresdelpaine.cl) · Newsletter 2026-2027 season (PDF, English version) ↩
- CONAF, Torres del Paine National Park administration (parquetorresdelpaine.cl) · Sistemas de reservas ↩
- Las Torres Patagonia (operator of the Base Torres sector, own blog) · Discover Torres del Paine's Chileno Sector ↩
- Bus-Sur (bus operator, own timetable sheet, PDF) · Torres del Paine timetable and fares, October 2025 ↩
- CONAF, Torres del Paine National Park administration (parquetorresdelpaine.cl) · Newsletter 2026-2027 season (PDF, English version) ↩
- Las Torres Patagonia (operator of the Base Torres sector, own help center) · admission pass ↩
- Las Torres Patagonia (operator of the Base Torres sector, own help center) · entrance fee for las torres patagonia natural and cultural reserve ↩
- Las Torres Patagonia (operator of the Base Torres sector, own help center) · time to base torres ↩
- Las Torres Patagonia (operator of the Base Torres sector, own help center) · atm ↩
- Las Torres Patagonia (operator of the Base Torres sector, own help center) · payment methods ↩
- Bus-Sur (bus operator, own timetable) · Bus-Sur ↩
- Bus-Sur (bus operator, own timetable) · Bus-Sur ↩
- CONAF, Chile National Forest Corporation (conaf.cl) · Parque Nacional Torres del Paine ↩
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