After more than 30 years since the nuclear power plant explosion, visiting Chernobyl is safer than ever before. The radiation dose you receive during one day inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is equal to a natural radiation level. That dose is 300 times less than you’d receive from an X-ray scanning your entire body at the hospital! To put it into in numbers, you’ll get 3-4 µSv of gamma rays, which is an absolutely harmless radiation dose. A regular airplane flight will most likely give you more radiation than one day in Chernobyl could.
Chernobyl NPP Tour $149 Pripyat Tour $149 Chernobyl HBO series Tour $180 Chernobyl 1 day tour $150 Chernobyl 2 day tour $200 Chernobyl 3 day tour $250 Chernobyl 4 day tour $300 Chernobyl 5 day tour $350 Chernobyl 6 day tour $400Since 2015, our head office has been located in the United Kingdom and our second office in Kyiv, Ukraine. In Ukraine, we a have full infrastructure to support each tourist.
Getting to Chernobyl is easy nowadays. All you need to do is arrive in Kyiv, and that’s it. The rest is in our hands. Contact our managers for detailed information regarding transport and addresses.
An all-inclusive Chernobyl tour means that our company provides you with all the necessary services: private transport from/to the airport in a comfortable car, hotel accommodation, additional guided tours, etc. With us, you are all set.
Chernobyl tours are held in English-, and local languages. We speak English fluently, so you will not have any issues understanding us. Additionally we are able to provide you with a translator for your language.
It depends on your preferences. Every season has special charm and leaves you with a different impression of the Chernobyl Zone. In spring, when everything is in blossom but without leaves, guests of the ghost town can see its buildings and take unique photos. In summer, the Zone is green and Pripyat looks like a real “jungle town” showing you the might of nature. In autumn, the Zone is a bit dull and dark, creating heartfelt emotions for tourists and contributing to the tense, spooky ambience. And the Zone’s winter season exposes the real atmosphere of abandoned places for everyone and gives you the chance to see local wildlife, like wolves and warthogs.
Tours to Chernobyl are not more dangerous than trips to any other place on the planet. The level of radiation is high only in certain areas. They are absent in the routes of tourist groups, or guests spend safe periods nearby them. To make sure that you will come back home healthy and happy, our specialists organize dosimeter control sessions twice a day. For a trip, you’ll get a respirator and a Geiger-Muller dosimeter for free.
Yes, and that’s an excellent choice. A 3-hour tour around the plant is in-depth and informative as it is the only atomic power station in the world that’s not being used. You can visit the Chernobyl plant together with a group. In case of an individual tour, you will be able to see the plant for an additional payment (159 euros for a minimum of 2 persons).
No, you don’t need respirators or gas masks to spend time in Chernobyl, Pripyat, and the neighborhood. However, we can provide you with a respirator on request for free when entering Chernobyl, so you feel completely comfortable.
The dose of radiation you will get from one day spent in Chernobyl is equal to a natural radiation level in any other place around the world, or one hour spent in commercial plane flight. You’ll get approximately 3-4 µSv of gamma rays. This dose is totally harmless. For comparison, most nuclear power plants in other countries have their safety level for workers at 50-100 µSv per day.
You can pay for the entire tour while booking (with a credit card or Paypal), make a prepayment of 25% of the total price and pay the rest with cash or by card on the tour day, or you can pay the whole price in cash right inside the tour bus. No booking commissions or tour canceling fees will be taken. In you have paid for the tour in advance, we’ll give you a 100% refund if you cancel a minimum of 48 hours before the tour begins. Payments are available in UAH, GBP, or USD.
Yes, you are allowed to take photos and shoot videos during the trip. The only areas with photo and video limitation restrictions are the power plant itself, from a spot closer than 200m and the security checkpoints. You can take pictures and videos on the special observation platform at a safe distance from the 4th power plant reactor (Shelter Structure). Amateur and professional camera tripods are also allowed in the Chernobyl Zone, so you can take your equipment. UAV drones can be launched there for additional payment, too (except in restricted places). Please contact our client support department for additional info.
Only persons that are 18 year or older can visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This is a legal requirement.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is an area of special control. In most cases, you are allowed to use personal cars (and busses) inside the Zone with correct permit. Unfortunately, all open vehicles like motorbikes and bicycles are forbidden. If you plan to visit the Zone by personal car, please contact us.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone hotels have a level of comfort equivalent to that of two-star hotels in Europe, however we have to admit, that hotels in Kiev are more comfortable and modern.
We can arrange you a room in any hotel in Kiev (as per your wish) or we can provide you with an option to rent comfortable new apartments close to the Metro station.
Our company can also arrange you a special transfer from the airport, from the apartments or from/to any point in the city.
We would be also glad to organize your breakfast, dinner or supper with catering service or order from any restaurant you choose.
All inquiries are accepted from our tourists and we are ready to assist you with your best memorable stay!
To enter the Zone through the security checkpoints, you`ll need either a valid passport or ID card. The most important thing is to take with you the same document you mentioned when booking the tour. If your passport number has changed since you registered for your tour, please notify us at least one week before the trip. Otherwise, you won’t be able to enter the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Residents of the following countries entering Ukraine for 90 days or less don’t need a visa: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea (South), Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Vatican, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan.
If your country is not on the list, a tourist visa to Ukraine is not difficult to get. You’ll receive an invitation automatically after booking a room in any hotel in Kyiv. In any other case, please, contact us. We’ll be happy to help you with the invitation document to get a visa.
More info: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/consular-affairs/entry-and-stay-foreigners-ukraine
Tour cancelation is possible only in emergency cases (like weather conditions physically blocking access to the Zone, accidents, or official state actions making it impossible, etc.).
Every visitor is obliged to keep up with a dress-code: long-sleeved clothes and closed-toe footwear (you can’t enter the Zone in shorts, flip flops, etc.). Our company also recommends choosing old clothes that can easily be washed or thrown away if needed: be ready for adventures!
Chernobyl city is located approximately 136km from Kyiv, Ukraine. It takes around 2 hours to drive to Chernobyl from Kiev.
The Chernobyl power station is situated at the settlement of Pripyat, 21km northwest of the city of Chernobyl and 156km north of Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the 4th reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in the city of Pripyat in the north of Ukraine.
Chernobyl is a Ukrainian word for mugwort, a common name for an herbaceous plant. There’s an alternative etymology that Chernobyl was named after a combination of words chornyi and byllia, which literally mean “black grass” or “black stalks”.
Chernobyl nuclear power plant tours have become a popular tourist destination due to the apocalyptic looks of the area and the atmosphere of silence.
Pripyat has become extremely popular tourist destination, and many choose to book tours to Pripyat to see the town with their own eyes.
We have created a special tour for visitors called “HBO Chernobyl” with the locations from the movie.
The one-day trip gives you the opportunity to immerse into the exact same area where the most dreadful disaster took place. The radiation background is still excessively high in some places, but we offer you a safe route through this dire Zone, together with necessary protection equipment.
The two-day trip to the Chernobyl Zone opens for you the door to this unique place. In this short time, you will get not only the tour around Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Pripyat town, but also the exclusive experience to spend the night in an empty town. This is definitely the deepest dive into the history of the drastic disaster.
The three-day program includes a huge amount of sites to visit. Professional guides will explain the reasons and chronology of events that were happening during the most dreadful nuclear disaster in the world’s history. The real-based stories told by the guide will give you the shivers, so tragic they are. You will relieve the events of that dreadful night of explosion together with the ex-residents of Pripyat town.
This four-day trip makes it easier for you to get permission to enter the Extinction Zone, because we take care of official confirmations. Besides, we provide you will all the necessary protection. It is vital while traveling these, since the complete decay of the last radioactive element in the contaminated areas (plutonium-239) to the state of natural material will occur in 26486, or 24,500 years after the explosion.
Nothing is better than planning a five-day trip to the Chernobyl Zone! We offer you the opportunity to learn the most important facts about the night of the tragedy, alongside fascinating myths and legends about the place. Following the stories of your guides, you will have the chance to wander around the ghost towns of Chernobyl and Pripyat. Don’t miss out on the occasion to hang around the streets and locations from the world-renowned series!
This six-day trip to the Chernobyl Zone will open the Zone to you with top-secret information from our guides. During these six days, you will get the opportunity to explore the ghost towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl by yourself and it is not a secret that the Exclusion Zone has a lot of fascinating places.
