What Entry Actually Costs

€5 adult in high season, €4 the rest of the year, children €2, official parking free. No tour includes it — and one listing quotes double.

Updated September 2026

The rates

Published, as of September 2026:

High season — 15 June to 15 October

  • Adults €5.00
  • Pensioners €4.00 (proof required)
  • Students €4.00 (proof required)
  • Children 4–10 €2.00
  • Children 0–3 free
  • Groups of 20+ €4.00 each

Low season — the rest of the year

  • Adults €4.00
  • Pensioners and students €3.00
  • Children 4–10 €2.00
  • Children 0–3 free
  • Groups of 20+ €3.00 each

Parking at the official car park is free. Private car parks near the entrance charge around €5 for the day, and some local restaurants offer free parking to diners.

Prices change. Ours carry a date for that reason — check the site’s own current rate before you travel rather than trusting any page, including this one.

No tour includes it

Every trip on this shelf leaves the gate fee to you. That is standard for a ticketed natural site with capacity limits, and it is not a mark against any operator.

But one listing on this shelf tells you the fee is €8 for one person — roughly double the published adult rate.

We are not calling that dishonest. Listings go stale, prices change, and a figure written in one season can survive into another. The useful thing is simply that you now know the official number, so a request for more at the gate is a question you can ask rather than a surprise you absorb.

What that makes the real cost

With a car: the fee, plus fuel. Park free, walk in. That is a full day out on the Costa Blanca for the price of a coffee.

On a coach: the trip price, plus the fee at the gate. Which is still cheap, and buys you the transfer and usually the Guadalest valley alongside.

Compare on that basis rather than on the headline — the comparison is on the main page.

The part that costs nothing but matters more

The timed slot. In busy season the site admits visitors in turns with a capacity cap: when your turn ends you leave so the next group can enter.

That does more to shape your day than any price on this page. An August visit is a scheduled one; a May or October visit is the unhurried afternoon in the photographs. If you can choose, choose the season over the ticket type.

Getting there

15 km from Benidorm, 3 km from Callosa d’en Sarrià, and no public transport worth planning around. With a car it is a short inland drive; without one, a coach trip is the practical answer, usually paired with Guadalest because the falls alone do not fill a day.

The gate is cheap — the transfer is the product

Getting There From the Coast

15 km inland, no useful bus. These are the trips that solve it, usually with Guadalest attached.

From Alicante/Benidorm: Guadalest & Algar Waterfalls Tour

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The most-booked Algar trip pairs the waterfalls with the Guadalest valley — 4.7/5 from 1,548 verified guests, from about $49, with transfers from Benidorm or Alicante. Entry to the falls is paid at the gate and costs €4–5. Free cancellation.

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