Hot Air Balloon Rides Worldwide

The honest answer is that it depends on where you fly, and the gap is wider than most people expect. A flight over Luxor typically costs €79. The same hour in the basket over Serengeti & Tarangire costs €544 — about 7 times more, for an experience that from inside the basket is remarkably similar.

Below is every part of our catalogue with at least 4 flights, 219 in total, ordered from the cheapest to the most expensive. Most are places; a few are a type of flight within a place, like the premium cabins. The figure we show is the typical price — the median — because an average would be dragged upwards by the private charters, and the cheapest flight in a destination is rarely the one you end up taking.

Three things move a price inside the same destination, and none of them is the balloon. How many people share the basket is the big one: a private flight for two costs several times a shared one, which is why the top of the range is so far from the middle almost everywhere. What is included comes next — hotel pickup, breakfast, the champagne landing, a flight certificate — and when you go last: high season and public holidays cost more, and in some places the whole fleet stops for months.

Prices are what the operators reported to our providers, not live quotes: check the final figure on the booking page before you pay. Open a destination to see every flight, what it includes and which days it actually takes off.