Official ticket, booked in your name
Pick your Machu Picchu date, any day through September 2027
Choose the route, the day and the entry hour. We buy the Ministry ticket in your name and email it to you. From $62 per adult.
Travelling in the next 30 days and your date is sold out? Last minute Machu Picchu tickets: the 2-Day Tour from Cusco →
A day from Cusco, line by line
The classic day: a car from your Cusco hotel to Ollantaytambo station, the morning train to Aguas Calientes, the bus up, Circuit 2A at 9 AM, the bus down and the afternoon train back. Prices per adult, with the train fares Inca Rail listed for Friday 15 January 2027.
- Entrance, Circuit 2A: $65.10: Card fee included. Child 3–17: $40.95. Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu Mountain: $81.90. Every route in the ticket prices guide.
- Car, Cusco hotel to Ollantaytambo station: $55: Private, about 2 hours, and $55 again for the way back. The station transfer.
- Train out: about $85: The Voyager at 06:40 from Ollantaytambo, arriving 08:01: $75 public fare, $85 added to your ticket with us.
- Bus up and down: $34: Round trip from Aguas Calientes to the gate. It is $24 at the Consettur office in town, with the queue; $34 booked with us, sent by email before you travel.
- Guide: $40: Optional since September 2026, private and in English, added at checkout. Do you need a guide?
- Train back: about $97: The Voyager at 14:30 to Ollantaytambo: $87 public fare, $97 with us. The 19:00 was $76 ($86 with us), at the cost of arriving in Cusco later.
The 2-Day Tour: the same trip in one price
The 2-Day Tour costs $397 for one traveler, $386 per person for two, $383 for three, $381 for four and $380 from five. It includes the Circuit 2 entrance (2A or 2B), the train, the buses, a guide, our staff at the in-person registration in Aguas Calientes and the transport from your Cusco hotel. You book your own hotel for the night in Aguas Calientes. Adding Huayna Picchu or Machu Picchu Mountain costs $78 and one more night.
Against the $431 of the day booked piece by piece, it is the lower price for the same pieces. It is also the way in when the online tickets for your date are gone: it uses the daily quota the Ministry sells only in person. What it does not let you choose is the entry time, which the Ministry assigns.
The train: the line that changes the total
For 15 January 2027, The Voyager from Ollantaytambo cost $67 to $76 one way depending on the departure, and $75 to $87 from Cusco with the bus included. Back, $66 to $87 to Ollantaytambo and $75 to $98 to Cusco. The 360° and The Prime add a panoramic car or a dining car at a higher fare, The First Class serves a three-course meal at $318 to $356, and the Hiram Bingham is the luxury train. Fares, classes and timetables are in the train guide; in Mi Tour you pick the exact departure with the fare of the day.
How to spend less
- Walk up instead of the bus: The stone staircase from Aguas Calientes takes 1.5 to 2 hours and about 500 m of climbing, and costs nothing.
- Skip the guide: It is no longer mandatory. On a first visit it is worth it: the site has almost no signs.
- Discounted entrances: Students and children pay less; so do Peruvians and the Andean Community.
- The Hidroeléctrica road: Six hours by road from Cusco and 10 km on foot along the tracks: $60 round trip with us, $50 to $80 in shared vans. It saves the train and costs time: a full day each way. Hour by hour in the Hidroeléctrica route.
What is not in these numbers
Flights from Lima to Cusco run from about $40 one way on the low-cost carriers to $100 and more close to the date or in June to August (Lima to Machu Picchu). Hotels in Cusco and Aguas Calientes, meals and tips depend on your choices, and we do not sell them, so we give no number for them.
Circuit 2A Classic
The iconic postcard photo of Machu Picchu
How much does a Machu Picchu day trip from Cusco cost?
About $431 per person booked piece by piece with us (entrance $65.10, car to and from Ollantaytambo, train both ways, bus and guide), or about $391 without the guide. Flights, hotels and meals are extra.
Is the 2-Day Tour cheaper than booking everything separately?
For the same pieces, yes: $397 for one traveler and $380 per person from five, against about $431 booked separately. The hotel night in Aguas Calientes is not included, and the Ministry assigns the entry time.
What is the most expensive part of a Machu Picchu trip?
After the flights, the train: about $85 to $97 each way in standard class with us, and several hundred dollars on the luxury trains.
What is the cheapest way to get to Machu Picchu?
The Hidroeléctrica road: $60 round trip with us or $50 to $80 in shared vans, plus 10 km on foot along the tracks. It takes three days instead of one.
Do I pay a card fee?
Our prices already include the 5% card fee. Paying with PayPal costs 9.5% instead, and the total is shown before you pay.
Book the entrance, then add the rest
Live availability for all 11 circuits. After paying, the train, the bus and the transfers are added to your itinerary in Mi Tour and paid together.