Komodo National Park Entrance Fee & Ticket Bundles

Figures match the official PNBP table on this page (Regulation PP No. 36/2024). Excludes the boat/tour price — see current boat options on Komodo Luxury.

36/2024. The only other official charge is a small ranger or guide fee shared across your group. A ticket bundle simply means your tour operator pre-arranges both of these with your cruise so you are not handling paperwork at the harbor on departure morning. The park authority sets and revises these official rates, so the reliable approach is to have the current numbers confirmed in writing with your booking rather than relying on figures found on old blog posts.

This page is the rate card: what the park charges, what is bundled into the ticket and what a ticket bundle sold by an operator actually contains. Two neighbouring pages answer the questions that follow from it — what each line on the bill means in practice, and what a whole trip costs once boats, food and transfers are added. If your question is only about a single day out of Labuan Bajo, the day-trip cost comparison is the narrower page.

This page explains what the two official charges cover, how bundles work, who qualifies for which rate category, and the questions that separate a transparent quote from a vague one. It is written for travelers who want the paperwork handled before they arrive in Labuan Bajo.

What Does the Komodo Entrance Fee Actually Cover?

Komodo National Park, established in 1980 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991, charges under PP No. 36/2024: one entrance rate per person per visit, with the ranger charge collected inside it. There is no separate line for each activity.

That is the complete official structure. Diving, snorkeling and basic trekking do not carry their own park-issued permit fee — they are already inside the one entrance ticket. Both rates step up at weekends and on public holidays: a foreign visitor pays USD 40 on a regular day and USD 50 on a weekend or public holiday, an Indonesian citizen USD 20 and USD 25. It is worth checking which side of that line your dates fall on.

Why Do Quoted Fees Vary Between Sources?

Fee schedules in Komodo National Park have been revised several times in recent years, and proposals, pilot schemes and postponements have all made headlines, so search results routinely mix superseded numbers with current ones. A figure that was accurate for one season can be wrong the next.

The second source of confusion is scope: some websites quote only the base entrance component, while a real visiting day also includes the ranger fee for trekking landings. Comparing a bare entry figure with the full total makes one source look artificially cheap. A bundled quote removes the ambiguity by listing everything for your exact itinerary.

How Do Ticket Bundles Work?

When you book a tour with fees bundled, the operator collects the fee total with your trip payment, prepares the permits and ranger assignment for your landing times, and hands you a single itinerary in which park costs appear as their own transparent line. On arrival, your crew presents the paperwork at the ranger stations while you start the walk.

Bundling matters most on tight itineraries, because ticketing queues at busy landing sites consume exactly the morning hours that dragons are most active and Padar light is best. Every cruise format Komodo Luxury arranges can include the bundle — from the 2D1N overnight boat itinerary to a full Komodo tour from Bali flight and cruise package where flights, cruise and park fees sit in one document.

Who Pays Which Rate?

The park’s fee schedule distinguishes visitor categories — international visitors, domestic visitors and children — and international rates are set higher than domestic ones, a standard structure across Indonesian national parks. Identity documents determine the category, so carry your passport details accurately in the booking.

Because categories and amounts are revised by the authority, deals that promise to sidestep official fees are a warning sign, not a saving. Legitimate operators pay the published rates and show them; the money supports ranger operations and conservation in a park whose wild Komodo dragon population is estimated at over three thousand animals.

What Should a Transparent Quote Show?

A trustworthy quote answers four questions without being asked: which fee components are included and at what current amounts, which visitor category has been applied to each traveler, whether the amounts are guaranteed or subject to authority revision before your travel date, and what happens if the authority changes rates between booking and arrival.

The last point is the practical one — when official rates change after booking, honest operators pass through the difference at cost, in either direction, with the authority’s announcement as reference. Budget-focused travelers can see how fee planning fits a low-cost trip on our budget Komodo island tour packages page.

Do You Pay Fees Once or Every Day?

Most components in the park’s structure are charged per day of activity, so a two-day cruise with landings on both days generally accumulates two days of the relevant fees, while a single day trip pays one. Multi-day liveaboards therefore carry a larger fee line than day tours — not because anything is added, but because the same daily stack repeats.

This is also why itinerary design affects the fee total: a route with one trekking site and one snorkeling day stacks differently from a route that lands at every station. Your operator can show the fee consequences of each draft itinerary before you choose.

A worked example makes the rate concrete: a solo traveler and each member of a party of five pay the same USD 40 for a regular day, because the fee is charged per person and the ranger share sits inside it. This is why joining a shared open trip rather than a private one-person charter can meaningfully lower your per-person total on the boat line specifically; the park entrance rate itself never changes with group size.

Where Can You Verify Current Official Rates?

The authoritative sources are the park authority’s official channels and the ticketing counters in Labuan Bajo, and any serious operator will happily share the current official schedule alongside their quote. Treat that cross-check as normal practice, not distrust.

Komodo Luxury confirms the applicable rates at booking and again shortly before travel, because a fee change announced between those two moments is exactly the kind of surprise the bundle exists to absorb. You travel with the paperwork settled and the numbers already reconciled.

Do Children Pay Full Price?

The official PP No. 36/2024 fee schedule does not publish a separate reduced child ticket category for Komodo National Park — the USD 40 (USD 50 at weekends and on public holidays) international rate and the USD 20 on a regular day and USD 25 at weekends and on public holidaysdomestic rate are set per visitor, without a published age-based discount tier. Some operators absorb a small child allowance into their own package price rather than the park fee itself, so always ask your operator directly whether a child rate applies to the tour price (not the park ticket) for your specific dates, and get the exact figure confirmed in writing before you travel.

Camera and Drone Fees: What’s Actually Charged?

Handheld cameras and phones carry no separate park fee — photography is part of the sightseeing already covered by the entrance ticket. Drones are a different matter: flying inside the park requires prior permission from the park authority, is restricted around wildlife and trekking areas, and is not something a ranger can approve on the spot at the jetty. If a drone shot matters to your trip, raise it with your operator during booking, not on the morning of your trek, since approval (where it applies) needs lead time and is handled outside the standard ticket bundle.

Hidden Fees to Watch For

The official structure has exactly two components — the entrance ticket and the ranger fee — so anything billed beyond those two should be explained, not assumed. Three patterns are worth watching for on a Komodo quote:

• A vague “park tax” line with no PP 36/2024 reference. Ask which of the two official components it maps to.
• Per-activity charges for snorkeling or basic trekking. These are already inside the flat entrance ticket, not separate park-issued fees — a quote that itemizes snorkeling as its own park charge is describing the operator’s own pricing, not an official one.
• Cash-only “conservation” collections at the jetty with no receipt. Legitimate conservation and dock components are folded into the official e-ticket system since the SiOra rollout, not collected loose at the dock.

None of this means every add-on is dishonest — operators are entitled to charge for their own boat, crew and gear — the point is that official park charges and the operator’s service price are two different lines, and a transparent quote keeps them visibly separate.

What Could Change in 2027?

Indonesia’s national park fee schedules are periodically reviewed, and Komodo’s has been revised and re-revised before, including proposals that were announced and later withdrawn. Nothing beyond the current PP No. 36/2024 structure and the SiOra booking requirement is confirmed for 2027 as of this August 2026 update. If you are planning a trip more than a few months out, treat the figures on this page as the current baseline and have your operator reconfirm the exact rate for your travel dates closer to departure, since that is standard practice even for last-minute bookings.

Last updated: 29 August 2026.