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

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

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

• 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

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.

Putting the family visa budget together

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.