Cambodia Visa Cost for Families and Children: A US Parent's Guide

Why the family visa bill is simpler than you think

Most US parents pricing a Cambodia trip expect the visa cost to come with the usual family-travel asterisks: a discounted child rate, a free-under-two exemption, maybe a capped family bundle. Cambodia has none of that. Every traveler pays the same flat price, so the family visa bill is just one number multiplied by the number of people in your group. That makes it easier to budget than almost any other line on the trip — there is no fine print to decode and no age-band table to cross-reference. If you are still mapping out the basics of the Cambodia visa for US citizens, start with our pillar guide and come back here for the family math.

The flip side is that the per-head price applies to everyone, including the baby. A six-month-old on her first flight costs exactly the same as her parents: $80 USD for a Tourist eVisa, plus $5 USD for her e-Arrival Card. There is no traveler too young to need their own visa, and no shared application that folds the kids onto a parent's document. Once you accept that the price is per person with no exceptions, the math falls out in seconds.

This guide does the multiplication for you: the per-traveler price, the exact family-of-four total, where the e-Arrival fee lands on top, and the costs US parents wrongly expect to pay but never do. When you are ready, you can apply for the whole family in one session and pay once at a single checkout. If you are still working out whether the kids even need a visa, our guide on whether children need a Cambodia visa answers that first.

The per-traveler price — kids cost the same as adults

Here is the foundation every family budget rests on: the Cambodia eVisa is priced per traveler, and the price does not change with age. A Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in for an adult, $80 USD all-in for a teenager, $80 USD all-in for a toddler, and $80 USD all-in for a newborn. There is no child discount, no infant rate, and no "two adults, kids free" promotion. The fee is the fee, for everyone.

That $80 is the same complete, all-in figure an adult pays. For each child it covers the eVisa from submission through approval, a 30-day single-entry stay valid for 3 months from issue, approval in 3 business days, delivery as a printable PDF by email, and free resubmission if Cambodian Immigration flags a correction on the photo or passport scan. Nothing is added at checkout per child — the price you are quoted per traveler is the price that lands on your card.

If anyone in your family is traveling for business rather than tourism, that traveler's eVisa is the Business type at $90 USD all-in — a $10 difference per person, and the only Cambodia eVisa that can be extended from inside the country. For most families the answer is four Tourist eVisas, but a working parent traveling alongside the family on business might mix one Business eVisa with three Tourist ones. Our Cambodia visa cost guide for Americans lays out the full per-type pricing if you need to compare.

Because the price is flat per person, the family total is pure multiplication. Two adults and one child is three times $80. Two adults and three children is five times $80. There are no breakpoints where the per-head price drops, no caps at a maximum family size, and no sibling discount on the second or third child. The number of travelers times the per-traveler price is the whole visa bill, full stop.

The family-of-four math, worked out

Let us put real numbers on the most common US family shape: two parents and two children, all on Tourist eVisas, all arriving by air. This is the worked example that answers the question most parents are actually asking when they search for the family cost.

Start with the visas. Four travelers at $80 USD each is $320 USD for the eVisas. Then add the e-Arrival Card, which every air arrival files separately at $5 USD per traveler: four cards at $5 each is $20 USD. Add those together and a family of four is $340 USD all-in to be fully cleared into Cambodia — visa plus arrival declaration, with nothing else owed at the border.

The pattern is obvious once it is laid out: every traveler adds $85 to the all-in total on a Tourist eVisa — $80 for the visa and $5 for the e-Arrival Card. That single per-head figure is all the arithmetic you need to size any family. Six people is six times $85, or $510 USD. There is no point hunting for a bulk rate, because none exists; the linear scaling is the whole story.

The reason every child is full price is structural: Cambodia issues one eVisa per passport, and the system reads each traveler as an individual record. There is no family or group eVisa to discount in the first place. If you want to see how the per-traveler rule plays out at the application stage — including the single-session workflow that lets you do the whole family at once — our guide on how US families apply for children walks through the mechanics.

The e-Arrival Card adds $5 per child on top

The visa is only part of the family entry cost. Every air arrival into Cambodia — including every child — files a separate e-Arrival Card, the arrival declaration the country requires before you land. Like the visa, there is no family card and no child exemption: a family of four files four e-Arrival Cards, each at $5 USD per traveler, verified through us. That is the $20 line in the family-of-four math above.

The e-Arrival Card is genuinely separate from the visa. It has its own 14 fields per traveler, captures the bigger arrival picture the visa skips — flight details, where the family is staying, the customs and health declaration — and it has a strict timing window: it must be submitted within 7 days before your flight. You cannot file it months ahead with the visa, so it is a second, later task in the family budget timeline rather than a same-day add-on.

Each child's e-Arrival Card has to match that child's eVisa and passport exactly — same name, same passport number, same date of birth — or the family can get held up at the kiosk. Because the cost is a flat $5 per traveler with no discount, the e-Arrival math is the same simple multiplication as the visa: travelers times five. When your flights are booked and your approved eVisas are in hand, you can get the whole family's e-Arrival Cards sorted in one pass.

The family costs US parents wrongly expect to pay

A lot of the anxiety around family visa budgeting comes from costs people assume are coming but that Cambodia never charges. Clearing these off the list keeps your budget honest and stops you from padding it with phantom fees. For a family on eVisas, the all-in per-traveler figure is the whole visa-and-arrival cost — nothing below is added.

• No rush, weekend, or same-day surcharge. There is one flat price per traveler and one 3-business-day timeline. You cannot pay more to go faster, and you are never charged extra for applying close to your travel date.
• No per-child paperwork fee. A child's application costs the same flat $80 as an adult's — there is no separate "minor processing" charge layered on top of the visa fee.
• No proof-of-funds or per-person bank requirement. Cambodia does not ask the family to show a minimum balance, payslips, or savings for the eVisa, so there is no financial threshold to budget around.
• No return-flight or onward-ticket cost tied to the visa. The eVisa application does not require proof of departure, so you are not forced to book and pay for flights before you can apply.
• No hotel-booking fee for the application. The form asks for an intended address, but a hotel name and city is enough — you are not made to prepay nights to satisfy the visa.
• No mandatory travel-insurance purchase. Insurance is sensible for any family heading abroad, but Cambodia does not require it for the eVisa, so it is your choice, not a forced line item.

The all-in per-traveler price is also not a stripped-down permit. For each $80 Tourist eVisa your family gets the approved visa delivered as a printable PDF by email, a 3-business-day turnaround, free resubmission if Immigration flags a photo or passport correction, and US-timezone support if anything goes sideways before you fly. To see how these costs fit into the wider trip budget — flights, accommodation, daily spend — our broader Cambodia visa cost guide for US travelers puts the visa line in context.

How to budget and pay for the family in one go

Because the cost is per traveler with no discounts, the smart move is to budget the whole family as a single line and pay it in a single transaction. You do not run four separate checkouts — you complete each traveler's application back-to-back in one session, and the family total is charged once to one card, billed in USD. That means no currency math, no risk of one child's application being left half-paid, and one set of approval PDFs landing in one inbox.

Set the family budget at the per-head all-in figure times the number of travelers, and you will be exactly right: $85 per person on a Tourist eVisa covers both the visa and the e-Arrival Card. For a family of four that is $340, for a family of five $425. Earmark that as a single fixed cost and you never have to revisit it — there is no rush tier to tempt you into spending more and no surprise add-on to plan for. To slot that fixed line into the bigger picture, our guide to a full Cambodia trip budget for US travelers shows where the visa sits next to flights, hotels, and daily spend.

One real budgeting trap is the passport, not the visa. Every child needs at least 6 months of validity on their US passport from your date of entry, and children's US passports run on a 5-year cycle — so a passport issued when your child was two is invalid by the time they are seven. A renewal is not a same-week fix and can add a real cost and a multi-week wait to the trip if you catch it late. For the full document picture for under-18s, including the consent-letter question for solo-parent travel, see our guide to the Cambodia eVisa documents US families need for minors.

Before you start the family session, make sure your card is cleared for international online payments — a declined card means nothing in the batch starts, and you do not want to restart a four-traveler session. Gather all the passports and photos first so the only thing left at checkout is the single payment that covers everyone at once.

Putting the family visa budget together

Pull it together and the family visa cost is the cleanest line on the whole trip. Every traveler is $80 USD for a Tourist eVisa, kids and adults alike, plus $5 USD each for the e-Arrival Card — $85 all-in per person, multiplied by the number of people in your group. A family of four is $340 USD, a family of five $425 USD, all approved in 3 business days and delivered as printable PDFs to one inbox, paid once at a single checkout.

Two reminders before you lock the budget. First, check every child's passport expiry today — children's US passports run on a 5-year cycle and need 6 months of validity from your entry date, and a late renewal can add cost and weeks you did not plan for. Second, remember Phnom Penh now flies through Techo International Airport (KTI), which replaced the old airport in September 2025, so each child's e-Arrival Card should reflect the airport you actually land at.

Next steps for US families: confirm each child needs a visa, set your budget at $85 all-in per traveler, then apply online for the whole family when every passport and photo is in hand. The per-traveler cost guide and the family application walkthrough are the best companion reads if you want the full picture before you pay.