Port Vila Zipline: Pickup and Times
Zipline Port Vila pickup: transfers at 8:00 AM or 1:00 PM from 29 pickup points, the 35-minute drive to Mele, the self-drive start times and how the cruise day works.
The Port Vila zipline collects you in town: on Vanuatu Jungle Zipline’s tour you choose your pickup point from 29 locations at checkout, transfers leave at 8:00 AM and 1:00 PM, and a 4WD drives you 35 minutes up to the summit above Mele Bay. The whole tour takes about 3.5 hours door to door, with drop-off at the point where you were collected. It costs US$94.81 per adult with the transfer in the price (checked November 2026).
The two transfers
The calendar sells two transfer times, 8:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Not every date has both: on 9 December 2026 it showed the 1:00 PM transfer only, while 27 November 2026 and 15 January 2027 had both. Pick your date in the calendar to see which are open.
The tour runs like this: the transfer from your pickup point, a 35-minute drive in a 4WD Toyota Landcruiser up to the summit of Mele Bay, the harness and safety briefing at the reception centre, the ziplines, the Skybridge and Summit Gardens, then the drive back. Door to door it puts the tour at about 3.5 hours.
Where you are collected
GetYourGuide shows the 29 pickup points on a map and asks you to choose one at checkout. The pickup notes add:
- At a resort, wait in the lobby or reception for your driver, who wears a zipline T-shirt.
- At Nambawan Cafe on the seafront, wait at the zipline’s signs and arrive 10 minutes before the 8am or 1pm departure.
- If the driver is more than 15 minutes late, the notes say to call the operator.
Vanuatu Jungle Zipline’s own pickup list (its website, checked November 2026) names stops in Port Vila town, on Erakor Lagoon, at the airport, along the Mele road and at Mele, plus the bottom of Summit hill on Devil’s Point Road. The same page says the order of collection changes every day with the bookings, so it cannot give an exact time for each stop.
Where to stay for the zipline sets town, Erakor Lagoon, Mele and Pango side by side.
Driving yourself
The pickup notes say the zipline starts at The Summit at 9:00 and 1:45pm for anyone who drives there. The operator also sells a separate Vanuatu Jungle Zipline - Self Drive Option: you meet the team at the bottom of Summit Hill and book the 4WD ride up with them, at 08:45, 10:00 or 13:30, from US$96.73 per adult (checked November 2026). That is the same price as its zipline with transfers, so a car saves you nothing on the ticket.
From a cruise ship
Cruise passengers contact the operator to book a transfer. The pickup notes say the team picks up at the terminal or meets at Nambawan Cafe, and that on some cruise ship days the pickup at the port is at 10am. Nothing on the tour promises to get you back to the ship: ask your cruise line what its own shore excursions guarantee, tell the operator your all-aboard time and leave a margin.
After the zipline
Drop-off is at your pickup point. One reviewer of the operator’s Skybridge ticket, which also includes a transfer, wrote on 26 December 2025 of a “long wait (over an hour) before getting a lift back”. If your day after the zipline is tight, the morning transfer leaves the most room.
Collected in Port Vila
Vanuatu Jungle Zipline: choose your pickup point at checkout, transfers at 8:00 AM or 1:00 PM, about 3.5 hours door to door.
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