Our third mistake - We should have brought our own lunch One look at the bus tour line and the sign which said '75 minute wait from here' and we decided neither our stomachs nor our bladders were up to the challenge - better to get a bite to eat and wait for the line to die down a bit. Dante's seven levels of hell have nothing on these lines. Have you ever been to Disneyland - or Universal Studios? Have you seen the queueing systems they have - where you wind around and around, up and down, as if in some devil's nightmare of a conga line. This was something we did not want to miss out on. It was still before midday and the Kennedy Space Center doesn't close until 7 pm but - hey - why take a chance. We had done our research and knew we had to join a bus tour (included in our general admission ticket) to get to the Apollo/Saturn V Center, so as soon as the rocket garden talk was over we headed straight to the bus tour departure point. The thing we wanted to do most however was see the Race to the Moon exhibit with its Saturn V rocket. Once inside the visitor complex we got to relax and enjoy the moment for a few brief minutes during a guided tour of the Rocket Garden. Our second mistake - We failed to go straight to the Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour Saturn V Rocket model showing what it was like on the inside. To be fair this only took a few minutes but we were beginning to see a pattern. With our admission tickets in hand we progressed to the next line - the one where you go through a metal detector (at least I think that is what it was) and get your bag searched. It didn't seem a big thing at the time but this turned out to be a major mistake. We should have booked the tour when we first decided to go to the Space Center months ago. It turned out the tour did run on this particular Monday but all the time slots were full. David thought he saw something on the website suggesting they only ran from Wednesday to Sunday. Why did we choose the ticket window? We wanted to do a Cape Canaveral Early Space tour and we weren't sure they ran on Mondays.
#Kennedy space center windows
At least the manned ticket windows had only one line. Of course there is the added complication that if you are anything like us you will ALWAYS pick the slow queue. The self-service lines didn't look like they were moving much faster than ours but you never know. If you haven't purchased your tickets on line try one of the self-service machines opposite the ticket windows. If you buy your tickets before you arrive it costs exactly the same as buying them at the ticket window but you get to skip the line. 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.
#Kennedy space center free
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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