Twenty minutes in a line to buy tickets may not seem like much time and it wasn't too bad at the time but read on. Being over 55 we qualified for seniors' discounts, so if you aren't a baby boomer you can expect to pay a bit more. Twenty minutes later we made it to the ticket window and handed over what later proved to be the extortionate amount of USD 100 (AUD 138.68 - exchange rate updated as at June 2022) for two tickets. Since we are in the States I'm going to go with the American vernacular rather than the expression we use in Australia.) By 11 we had parked our car, walked a few hundred meters to the ticket entrance and come face to face with our first line. We arrived at the visitor complex about 10.45 a.m. Our first mistake - Don't buy your tickets at the gate! Buy them online before you visit, or better yet buy them online from Viator and get free cancellation up to 24 hours in advance! Tips for visiting Kennedy Space Center and not making the same mistakes we did. It may have been Spring Break but I am not sure. It was Monday, 26 March 2018 - a totally ordinary Monday. Far from re-living a great memory, we spent a day of frustration and disappointment, AND we had the privilege of paying a lot of money for it.įirst let me say that today was not Easter or Christmas, nor was it any other national holiday. I have blogged before about why you shouldn't go back to places and, sitting in the living room of our hotel room now writing this, I can't for the life of me figure out why we didn't take our own advice. Short answer - no! Long answer - read on. Seeing the same rocket today was a big mistake. Seeing it 20 years ago was nothing short of awesome. The Saturn V remains the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. They had a real Saturn V rocket left over from the Apollo moon landing program. We first went there 20 years ago and loved it. Today David and I made the mistake of visiting Kennedy Space Center, at Cape Canaveral in Florida. If your answer is no, then don't even think about visiting. Is Kennedy Space Center worth it? Do you enjoy paying a lot of money to stand in line all day? If your answer is yes, then Kennedy Space Center is for you.
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