Dispatch № 010, 8 September 2026
Explora Patagonia
The road that outlasts the flight.
- Door to door
- 27 h 36
- As searched from London
- Searched for
- 20 October
- Tuesday 20 October 2026
- Fare as found
- €39,126
- Sampled on 8 September 2026; €33,795 of it the jet, an estimate from the house rate; charter desks quoted nearer €20,000
- The last leg
- By road
- 4 h 21
No airline sells a business seat from Santiago to Punta Arenas, so the search turned that leg into a private jet.
The line we searched: Air France from Heathrow through Paris to Santiago, then a chartered Global 5000 south to Punta Arenas, then four hours and twenty-one minutes of gravel with the towers ahead the whole way.
Twenty-seven hours and thirty-six minutes, door to lodge, and the drive lasts longer than the flight before it.
The place
Explora's lodge stands on the shore of Lake Pehoé inside Torres del Paine National Park, facing the granite of the Paine massif. Days are built around guided walks and rides from the door.
From Punta Arenas the lodge is a long drive north, around four to five hours.
When to go
- January: in season
- February: in season
- March: in season
- April: in season
- May: out of season
- June: out of season
- July: out of season
- August: out of season
- September: out of season
- October: in season
- November: in season
- December: in season
The southern spring and summer, October to April
Make it yours
Or open the search exactly as we ran it, from London.
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