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Paraguay tour packages or an independent trip
A package is not expensive or cheap on its own: it charges you for solving things, and some of those things you can solve yourself in five minutes. Here are our own prices side by side, so you can do the arithmetic before you decide.
The short answer
A package is worth it when the route involves a border, a fixed park schedule or a hotel night. When all you need is to get from one point to another, a standalone transfer costs less and you are not paying for anything you will not use. The numbers below come from our published service pages, and every one of them is per vehicle rather than per person.
| The most complete package | Iguazu Falls in 2 days: USD 897 for up to 3 passengers, with a 4-star hotel and breakfast included |
| The cheapest package | Asunción city tour, one afternoon: USD 147 for up to 3 passengers |
| The most requested standalone transfer | Asunción to Ciudad del Este, 327 km: USD 347 one way |
| What no package includes | Park entrance fees, meals, drinks and travel insurance |
| When to build it yourself | When you already know where you are going, stay more than three days and will repeat the same leg |
| When not to | When you have a single free day and the route crosses an international border |
What you are actually buying with a package
A Paraguay tour package is not a volume discount. It is someone taking three things off your hands: the coordination between the moving parts of the trip, the driver time while you are not in the vehicle, and the risk of something slipping out of place halfway through. All three have a price, and the arithmetic changes depending on how much they are worth for your particular itinerary.
Coordination is the cheapest item of the three and the one people pay for most often without noticing. Booking a hotel in Foz and a transfer back is two forms and ten minutes. An agency charging for that is selling you the ten minutes, not the hotel.
Driver time is the expensive item, and almost nobody adds it up. On a point-to-point transfer the vehicle drops you off and leaves. On a tour, the vehicle and the driver stay with you all day, waiting while you walk the falls or the ruins. That is eight, ten or fourteen hours of a professional and a vehicle dedicated to a single group, and it is why a full-day tour costs what it costs.
Risk is the third. An international border, a park gate that closes to new visitors at 4 PM and a five-hour drive back in the dark are three places where a hastily assembled itinerary breaks. A package does not remove the risk, but it puts somebody other than you in charge of it.
What each piece costs on its own
Every price is per vehicle rather than per person, and every one is published on our own service pages. Any package-versus-standalone comparison can be built from this table.
| Service | What it covers | Price from |
|---|---|---|
| Iguazu Falls in 1 day | 17 to 18 h door to door, Brazilian side, driver waiting all day | USD 697 up to 3 pax |
| Iguazu Falls in 2 days | The same tour, plus a 4-star hotel and buffet breakfast | USD 897 up to 3 pax |
| Jesuit Missions | Trinidad and Jesús de Tavarangüé, with a bilingual guide and entrance fees included | USD 797 up to 3 pax |
| Asunción city tour | About 5 h with a bilingual driver-guide | USD 147 up to 3 pax |
| Panoramic flight over Asunción | A short flight over the city, the bay and the river | USD 297 total, up to 3 pax |
| Private driver at your disposal | Up to 8 hours across Greater Asunción, unlimited stops | USD 197 per day |
| Transfer Asunción to Ciudad del Este | 327 km, door to door, no waiting time | USD 347 one way |
On the tours, each additional passenger costs USD 69 on the two full-day tours, USD 97 on the two-day tour and USD 49 on the city tour, up to each vehicle limit. The sedan and the Hyundai H1 minivan cost the same on the private driver day rate.
What the package solves and what it overcharges for
The list on the left is what you could not buy separately for the same money. The one on the right is where a package charges you for something you would do yourself.
What it genuinely solves
- The driver and vehicle sitting there waiting for you, which simply do not exist on a standalone transfer
- The border crossing with the vehicle and driver paperwork in order, which is what stalls most improvised itineraries
- A closed price agreed before departure, unaffected by traffic, bridge queues or your own delays
- The fit between the park opening hours and the road times, which is the detail most itineraries get wrong
- A single party responsible when something slips, instead of three suppliers pointing at each other
What it overcharges for
- The hotel booking, which takes you ten minutes and costs you the same either way
- Park and museum entrance fees, which are usually paid at the gate and left out of the package anyway
- Meals, which rarely make it in and, when they do, dictate where you eat
- Legs you will not use, when the package comes with a fixed itinerary larger than your actual time
- The margin on top of what you were going to book regardless, when the package is a transfer under another name
The working rule: pay for driver time and for the border, do not pay for the hotel booking.
The arithmetic, using our own prices
The clearest case is Iguazu, because we publish both a tour and a transfer along the same route. The two are not the same product, and that is exactly what makes the comparison useful.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Round-trip transfer Asunción to Foz | Two 340 km legs. The vehicle drops you off and leaves; the return is a separate agreed service | USD 707 |
| 1-day Iguazu Falls tour | The same drive, plus the driver and vehicle waiting for you at the park all day | USD 697 |
| 2-day Iguazu Falls tour | The same again, with a 4-star hotel, breakfast and a second day of driver | USD 897 |
The one-day tour costs USD 10 less than the round-trip transfer and still includes the driver waiting all day. That is not a typo: the transfer is sold as two independent legs, and the tour as one closed day. If your plan is to see the falls and come back the same day, the tour is the cheaper of the two.
The jump from the one-day tour to the two-day tour is USD 200, and that is where you can see what a package charges for a hotel: inside those USD 200 are the night in a 4-star hotel on the Ciudad del Este side, the buffet breakfast and a full second day of driver and vehicle. Booking the hotel yourself and hiring two separate transfers almost never lands below that, because the second day of driver still has to be paid for.
How to build the trip yourself
If the arithmetic says build it yourself, this is the order that works. Five steps, and the third one is what most people leave until last when it should come first.
- 1
Lock the border dates first
If the trip crosses into Brazil or Argentina, the crossing day dictates everything else. A valid passport and a visa depending on nationality: that is confirmed with the consulate, not with us.
- 2
Book the hotel yourself
This is where an intermediary adds the least. You pay the same and you pick the room you want.
- 3
Add up driver time before anything else
Ask how many hours the vehicle will be parked waiting for you. If the answer is over three, a full-day tour is almost always cheaper than stringing standalone transfers together.
- 4
Book the long legs at a closed price
Asunción to Ciudad del Este, Encarnación, Foz do Iguaçu or Puerto Iguazú all have a published per-vehicle price on our long-distance transfers page, fuel and tolls included.
- 5
Keep the loose day covered
A day with no fixed plan inside Asunción is solved with a private driver in Asunción at USD 197 for up to 8 hours, with unlimited stops across Greater Asunción.
The long routes, with distances and prices
These are the kilometres and times measured on the trips we run every week, not straight-line distances. The price is the sedan for up to three passengers, per vehicle.
| Route from Asunción | Distance and time | One way · Round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Ciudad del Este | 327 km · 4 h 30 min to 5 h | USD 347 · USD 539 |
| Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil) | 340 km · 5 to 6 h including the border | USD 417 · USD 707 |
| Puerto Iguazú (Argentina) | 350 km · 5 h 30 min to 6 h 30 min, two borders | USD 447 · USD 763 |
| Encarnación | 370 km · 5 to 5 h 30 min | USD 417 · USD 707 |
| Formosa (Argentina) | 190 km · 2 h 30 min to 3 h including the border | USD 147 · USD 252 |
The Hyundai H1 minivan for up to seven passengers and the Mercedes Sprinter for groups of 8 to 14 have their own price on each route. A round trip booked together costs less than two separate legs.
When a package pays off and when not to hire us
The part almost no agency page writes. There are itineraries where a package is money thrown away, and there are cases where the best advice we can give you is not to hire us at all.
A package pays off if
- You have a single free day and want to see the falls: it is the only way to go and return the same day without driving
- The route crosses a border and you would rather not deal with vehicle paperwork
- There are three or more of you: the price is per vehicle, so it divides well
- You want the Jesuit ruins with a guide and entrance fees settled in one payment
- You are here for work and need to get through a full day of meetings without depending on an app
Do not hire us if
- You need one leg only and travel alone: the scheduled bus to Ciudad del Este takes about 5 h and costs far less per person
- You are staying in Asunción with one or two outings a day: ride-hailing apps cover that, and a driver day rate only pays off from three stops onwards
- You want the Argentinian side of the falls: we do not run tours there, only the transfer to Puerto Iguazú
- You are after flights, travel insurance or a package with airfare included: we are not a travel agency and we sell none of that
- Your date is tomorrow and the route has a border: it can often be done, but 48 hours is what leaves everything properly planned
What no package includes
These are the items left out of every service we run, and the ones worth adding up before you compare two quotes. Third-party figures come with their source and date, because we are not the ones who set them.
- Iguazu National Park entrance fee. According to the park’s own figures in early 2026, R$ 131 for foreigners and R$ 118 for Mercosur nationals, paid at the gate. The park opens at 9 AM Monday to Friday and 8:30 AM on weekends, last entry is 4 PM and you can stay inside until 5:30 PM. Confirm the current fee on the park’s official site before travelling.
- Jesuit ruins entrance fee. A single ticket covers Trinidad, Jesús de Tavarangüé and San Cosme y Damián, is valid for 72 hours and costs Gs 40,000 for foreigners and Gs 25,000 for Paraguayans, according to the site’s own figures. The ruins are open from 7 AM to 7 PM. On our Jesuit Missions tour that ticket is already included, which is the exception among our tours.
- Meals and drinks. Never included, on any tour. Lunch on the Iguazu day and dinner at the hotel are on you.
- Travel insurance. We neither sell it nor broker it.
- Optional activities. The boat ride, the helicopter flight over the falls, the Parque das Aves and the evening light show at Trinidad are all bought on site.
- Airfare and accommodation outside the 2-day tour. The only service of ours with a hotel inside it is the two-day Iguazu tour.
How booking works and what it locks in
Every service we run is booked with a 30% deposit, which locks the date and the vehicle. You can pay by card, bank transfer, digital wallet or crypto, and the balance is paid when the service ends. Tour cancellations are free up to 24 hours beforehand.
Forty-eight hours ahead is the comfortable window, especially if you need a minivan, a driver who speaks English or Portuguese, or a date with a border crossing. Shorter notice often works, and it is worth asking anyway.
What the deposit locks in is the vehicle and the driver for that date, not a promotional rate about to expire. We do not work with prices that climb if you take your time answering: the number we quote is the one published on each service page, and it is the same one you are reading here.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us on WhatsApp before choosing between a package and building the trip themselves.
Is a Paraguay tour package worth it?
It is worth it when the route involves a border, a park schedule or a hotel night, and when the driver will spend hours waiting for you. It is not worth it when all you need is to get from one point to another: a standalone transfer, from USD 347 to Ciudad del Este, handles that for less.
How much is the most complete package you run?
The two-day Iguazu Falls tour, at USD 897 for up to three passengers, with a 4-star hotel on the Ciudad del Este side, buffet breakfast, and a private vehicle and driver on both days. Each additional passenger is USD 97, up to seven.
Is the price per person or per vehicle?
Per vehicle, on every service we run. The USD 697 for the one-day Iguazu tour is the same whether one, two or three people travel. That is why the arithmetic shifts so much with group size.
Is it cheaper to book a transfer and go on my own?
For Iguazu, no. The round-trip transfer between Asunción and Foz do Iguaçu is USD 707 and the one-day tour is USD 697, with the driver waiting all day included. The standalone transfer makes sense when you are staying over in Foz and coming back another day.
Is the park entrance fee included?
No, on neither Iguazu tour. According to the park’s figures in early 2026 it is R$ 131 for foreigners and R$ 118 for Mercosur nationals, paid at the gate. The one exception among our tours is the Jesuit Missions, where the entrance fees are inside the price.
Do you sell flights or travel insurance?
No. We are not a travel agency: we run private transfers, private tours and private flights inside Paraguay. Commercial airfare, insurance and accommodation outside the two-day tour are yours to book.
Will you book the hotel for me?
Only on the two-day Iguazu tour, where the 4-star hotel night is already part of the price. On every other service we do not broker accommodation, and it is fair to say why: you book it at the same price and pick the room you want.
How many people fit?
Sedan up to 3 passengers, Hyundai H1 minivan up to 7 and Mercedes Sprinter for 8 to 14, the last one quoted separately. On the tours, the price for up to three passengers is the same in the sedan or the minivan.
What if I only have one free day in Asunción?
The Asunción city tour covers it in about 5 hours for USD 147 up to three passengers, with a bilingual driver-guide. If the day is errands rather than sightseeing, a private driver at your disposal is USD 197 for up to 8 hours with unlimited stops.
How far in advance should I book?
Forty-eight hours is the comfortable window, especially with a border, a minivan or a language request involved. Shorter notice often works, so it is worth asking on WhatsApp anyway.
How do I pay, and can I cancel?
With a 30% deposit to hold the date, by card, transfer, digital wallet or crypto, and the balance when the service ends. Tour cancellations are free up to 24 hours beforehand.
Do you go to the Argentinian side of the falls?
We drive to Puerto Iguazú as a transfer, at USD 447 one way, but we do not run a guided tour on the Argentinian side. That side needs a full day of its own and a second border crossing.
Do I need a passport for the falls?
Yes: the tour enters Brazilian territory over the Friendship Bridge. A valid passport is mandatory and the visa depends on your nationality, which is confirmed with the Brazilian consulate rather than with us.
Send us the itinerary and we will send back both numbers
Tell us how many days you have, how many of you there are and what you want to see. We come back with the closed price for the package and for the standalone transfers, using the same numbers published on these pages, so you decide with the arithmetic in front of you.
Prices are per vehicle in US dollars, as published on the service pages cited. Entrance fees, meals and insurance are never included.