City Museum St Louis tickets include a huge, hidden fee on the official site. Find the one simple way to pay up to $7.70 less for your entry.
Reduced entrance fee for the City Museum, St Louis
The City Museum in St Louis is an entertainingly unconventional museum, made for climbing around and sliding through. It’s as much a giant adventure playground as a museum.
However, before you book tickets for the City Museum in St Louis, you should be aware that there’s a way of reducing the entrance fee.
How much do City Museum tickets cost?
Book via the City Museum’s official site, and the ticketing page initially says that tickets cost $20.
However, by the time you’re ready to check out, an $8 convenience fee and $1.94 in tax have been added to the price.
This means a single general admission ticket to the City Museum in St Louis costs $29.94.
Getting cheaper tickets for the City Museum, St Louis
The City Museum in St Louis, however, is one of many attractions in North America where it’s a little bit cheaper to book through a third party.
I checked City Museum ticket prices with tours and experiences site GetYourGuide.
For the same time and date, the ticket cost $22.24.
Tickets without the booking fee
That’s substantially cheaper, largely because the spurious ‘convenience fee’ isn’t applied.
Usually, I’d suggest booking through the official site, but given the same thing is being sold for less on a third party site, you may as well go for the cheaper deal.
How to save money on City Museum tickets
Cards on the table: If you book through this GetYourGuide link, I will earn a small commission. Of course, I’d prefer you to do that.
You could, of course, search for the third party ticketing companies. It’ll be the same price for you, it’s just that the kindly travel journalist who saved you money on the tickets doesn’t get anything for his caring, thoughtful advice…
Either way, you’ll be paying less for your City Museum tickets than you would do going through the official site.
Discounted prices on North American attractions
It’s worth remembering this advice when booking other attractions in North America. Many add booking or processing fees and taxes to the advertised price later in the booking process, even though they really shouldn’t.
This isn’t the case for all attractions, but I’ve discovered going via Viator or GetYourGuide to be cheaper on several occasions.
In New York, this applies to Summit One Vanderbilt and the Empire State Building. In Toronto, it applies to Casa Loma, the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
