Getting There · Puerto Williams
The airstrip is Guardiamarina Zañartu, code WPU, a short ride from town. DAP flies in from Punta Arenas each morning, Monday to Saturday in season, with a 10 kg hold limit; Silversea’s Fly Cruise guests come straight from Santiago on its charter.
Put in your landing and the time your ship sails. We’ll hold them against the ride and a buffer; your documents set the real time.
Fly into Guardiamarina Zañartu Airport (WPU). On DAP from Punta Arenas you leave at 8:00 and land mid-morning, by our reading of DAP’s timetable and the tourism board’s flight time; on Silversea’s charter from Santiago you land between noon and 1 pm and ride about 10 minutes to its hotel.
No taxi fare is published for the airstrip. Silversea includes airport transfers with its flight package, and two lodges list a free shuttle.
The weather is the risk. DAP says flights can be cancelled for it, and there’s no Sunday flight on its schedule, so a missed day can cost two.
Booking.com lists airport taxis you can book ahead. Check the pickup point, the price and the cancellation terms before you book.
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Each line’s own wording, read October 18, 2026 — ship lists change, so check yours.
| Line | What it sells here | Ships and dates we found | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silversea | Expedition round trips | Silver Wind; e.g. November 7 to 25, 2026, Day 1 sailing 21:00 | silversea.com WI261107018 |
| Silversea | One-way to King George Island | Silver Wind; e.g. November 25 to December 4, 2026 | silversea.com WI261125009 |
| Silversea | Ending here | Silver Cloud from King George Island, arriving 22:00 on January 7, 2027 | silversea.com E4261230009 |
| Silversea | Antarctica Fly Cruise | Charter from Santiago, a night at The Cormorant at 55 South, then DAP to King George Island; Puerto Williams for voyages from 2026, per the line; confirm the routing. Earliest we found: Silver Endeavour, October 20 to 26, 2026 | silversea.com, EV261020006 |
| HX | Not confirmed | A third-party schedule shows an HX ship in late October 2026; HX’s own pages didn’t confirm it | Unconfirmed |
DAP flies Fly Cruise guests from Puerto Williams to King George Island on a BAe 146 or Avro RJ, per Silversea. When that flight goes depends on the weather at both ends, so keep the day free and your phone on.
Fares and dates are on Booking.com. Land the day before, not the morning you sail.
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No taxi or bus fare is published for the airstrip, so there’s nothing to calculate for the ride into town. These rows are the Beagle Channel crossings for anyone coming from Ushuaia instead.
| Ushuaia to Puerto Williams, speedboat and minibus: from US$160 plus the US$10 port fee, per person (Civitatis) | — |
| Puerto Williams back to Ushuaia: from US$162.63 per person (Civitatis) | — |
One way, all in US dollars, as Civitatis lists them, read October 18, 2026. They’re a booking site’s “from” prices, not an operator’s tariff, and the US$170 row is the US$160 fare plus the US$10 port fee the listing excludes.
Fly Cruise guests don’t pay for anything here: the charter and the transfer are part of the programme, per Silversea. If you’re crossing from Ushuaia, you also clear the Chile-Argentina border, so allow time for it.
Put your ship’s sailing time in the “Ship departs” box: Silversea lists 21:00 for Silver Wind on Day 1. No boarding cut-off is published, so the rows below are the ride and a buffer, not a line’s rule.
DAP’s 8:00 departure clears all three on paper. A weather cancellation doesn’t — the next DAP flight is the next day at the earliest, and none is scheduled on Sundays. Fly in the day before.
We ranked six places to sleep in Puerto Williams, from three small hotels in town to a lodge by the airstrip. Tell us the flight and the voyage, and we’ll pick the night that fits.
Silver Cloud is listed arriving at 22:00 on January 7, 2027; DAP’s flight back to Punta Arenas leaves at 9:45, Monday to Saturday in season. Enter your flight and when you expect to be ashore.
There are no partner links inside this planner. It’s built only from what Silversea, DAP, Chile’s tourism board and the named hotel listings publish, plus our own map estimates. The crossing fares are a booking site’s, in US dollars.
DAP allows 10 kg in the hold and 5 kg in the cabin on every Puerto Williams fare, per its own route page. Excess is CLP 2,000 a kilo (DAP prints $2.000), paid at the counter. Be at the counter 90 minutes before; it closes 45 minutes before departure.
Expedition gear can be hard to fit into 10 kg. Check whether your Silversea package flies you on its own charter, and what that allows, before you pack.
US citizens on tourist passports need no visa for 90 days or less, per travel.state.gov. Bring Chilean pesos: Chile’s tourism board says not every business here takes cards. For the pier and the lines, see our Puerto Williams cruise guide.
One night in Puerto Williams takes the weather risk off sail day. Fly Cruise guests get it built in at The Cormorant, per Silversea; on a round trip, book it yourself, or ask whether your package includes it.
Three of our six sit in town, within about 150 m of our town-centre point. Lakutaia is by the airstrip, and two lodges are a few kilometres out on the Navarino road.
Our top six, with the straight-line distance from Puerto Williams airstrip to each. All six are on the hotels page.
What each of our six, or its listing, says about getting from the airstrip to the door. No hotel site we could read prices a ride; two listings describe a free shuttle.
Guardiamarina Zañartu Airport, code WPU, on the edge of town. Silversea puts the ride to its hotel at about 10 minutes.
Monday to Saturday from November to March, leaving Punta Arenas at 8:00, per DAP. In October it flies Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
10 kg in the hold plus 5 kg in the cabin on every DAP fare to Puerto Williams, with excess charged per kilo.
No taxi fare is published that we could find. Silversea’s flight package includes transfers, and Lakutaia and Errante list a free shuttle on Expedia.
About 1 hour 15 minutes to 1.5 hours; Chile’s tourism board gives both figures.
A direct charter from Santiago lands between noon and 1 pm, guests spend the night at The Cormorant at 55 South, and DAP flies them to King George Island to board, per Silversea. That’s the line’s plan for voyages from 2026 — confirm the routing and the hotel night in your documents.
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