The Suriname price index: what things cost, dated and sourced

Short answer: Suriname is cheap to eat in, moderate to sleep in, and expensive to get into and out into the interior. The table below is every price we have read at its source this summer, with the date, converted at the De Surinaamsche Bank selling rate of the day this page was built: USD 1 = SRD 38.02, EUR 1 = SRD 43.99 on 2 September 2026. Prices in Surinamese dollars move fast; the date beside each one is part of the fact.

The index

SwitiTours is owned by the owner of this site; its prices are listed because they are published and dated, on the same terms as every other row, and the relationship is stated so you can weigh it.

What the index says

Eating is the bargain. A full Creole plate at a well-known eetcafé is USD 6–13, and the dish every visitor should eat, pom, sits in that range. Roti and warung food in Blauwgrond are in the same class, though those places do not publish menus we can quote.

Connectivity is cheap and awkward. Fifteen gigabytes for a month is about USD 21, but every operator prices in SRD and the apps' foreign-card acceptance is unconfirmed, so the practical cost includes having local cash first. See SIM cards and eSIM.

Getting in has a fixed cost that older pages understate. The Entry Fee is USD 58 all-in per entry since May 2024; the USD 25 figure still on the airport's own site is the 2022 rate. See do you need a visa.

The interior is where the money goes. Three days at a river lodge costs more than a week of city meals, transfers and SIM combined. That is the single decision that sets your budget; the full breakdown is in how much does a week in Suriname cost.

What is not in the index yet

We do not print a price we cannot date and source. That currently excludes: a bottle of Parbo beer and a plate of roti (the figures circulating online are from 2019–2020, and we will not present them as current); an airport taxi fare (no official tariff exists); a Leonsberg boat crossing (no published tariff); hotel rack rates (none of the hotels in our database publishes one on its own site); museum admission fees; a litre of fuel; a bus fare (NVB publishes none). Each will be added the day a source publishes it, and readers who can point us at one are the fastest way to get it in: contact.

Conversions use the DSB selling rate of 2 September 2026 (USD 38.02, EUR 43.99) and are rounded. This index is re-read monthly; the date on each row is the date the source was read.