Tickets & Tours - Port Arthur Historic Site

Tickets & Tours

Your site entry ticket gives you two consecutive days to explore and enjoy Port Arthur Historic Site’s many sites, tours and activities including:

entry to the Port Arthur Gallery, which includes interactive exhibits and displays that tell the story of the Port Arthur Historic Site and its people,
a 40-minute, guided Introductory Walking Tour,
25-minute Harbour Cruise.
access to more than 30 historic buildings, ruins, restored houses, heritage gardens and walking trails.

A courtesy shuttle service is also available for people with restricted mobility (available between 10:30am and 3:30pm each day, with an extended service offered during summer).

To better plan your visit, we invite you to watch this short video:

Site Entry Ticket Prices

The proceeds from your admission fee contribute to the ongoing conservation, interpretation and development of the Port Arthur Historic Sites.

Adult $40
Child $18
Concession $30

All ticket purchases are subject to our Conditions of Ticket Purchase and Entry.

Ticket of Leave (2 year pass)

Upgrade your site entry by adding a Ticket of Leave pass that will allow you to return to Port Arthur Historic Site and Cascades Female Factory as many times as you like, for two years from the date of purchase. Using your Ticket of Leave will include all activities normally included in the general site entry.

Single Ticket of Leave $20
Family Ticket of Leave $40

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Escape From Port Arthur Tour

Escape from Port Arthur tour

Introducing the Escape from Port Arthur tour, a walking true crime adventure novel. You'll meet cunning and criminal characters, some clever, some courageous and some without hope.

Adult - $15 Child - $5 Concession - $10 Family - $35

Daily at 11:00am

Some stories should never be forgotten

Isle of the Dead cemetery tour

The final resting place for over 1,000 convicts, soldiers and free settlers

Adult $25

12:20pm; 1:00pm; 1:40pm & 2:20pm daily

Do you believe in ghosts?

Port Arthur Ghost Tour

Stories of unexplained occurrences told by the light of a lantern

Adult $30

Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings (except Christmas Day)

After Dark Package

Two-course dinner package at 1830 Restaurant and Bar combined with a ghost tour

Adult - $90

variable - phone to enquire 1800 659 101

Coercion and Corruption in a Convict Settlement

Prison & Power

A performance showcasing life for both convicts and guards in the 1800s, set in the Separate Prison at Port Arthur Historic Site

Adult $30
Concession/Child $15
Family $75

5:00 - 6:30pm Friday and Saturday

Prison & Power

A performance showcasing life for both convicts and guards in the 1800s, set in the Separate Prison at Port Arthur Historic Site

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Escape from Port Arthur tour

Introducing the Escape from Port Arthur tour, a walking true crime adventure novel. You'll meet cunning and criminal characters, some clever, some courageous and some without hope.