chicko1983
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With the filming of Jurassic World beginning yesterday, it got me thinking: if it were real, how much would it cost to visit Jurassic park and whether I would be willing to pay it?
Given that the company running it would need to recoupe their research costs, infrastructure costs and running costs would be astronomical, I imagine a ticket would be sort of $200,000 per child and $500,000 per adult.
It costs about $20m to go to the international space station for 20 days and virgin galactic are aiming for tickets on their flights to be about $200,000 for about 8mins of weightlessness. So maybe, visiting Jurassic world would cost even more, maybe $500,000 per day (I'd imagine you'd want to stay longer than a day)?
In terms of what you get: helicopter flight to/from the island, jeep ride in open plains to see the big sauropods and duckbills, a railed jeep ride past some enclosures for stegosaurus and triceratops (like in the first movie but nothing goes wrong and you might not see anything), observation decks to see T. Rex raptors and spinosaurus (I am assuming for safety you wouldn't be able to see then from closer than 50m away), and a bird cage for the flying ones. The park is completely safe, but you would not be able to touch any dinosaurs.
So how much would/could you pay to visit? I would save my arse off and be willing to pay $500,000 for a trip during my retirement, but for me it would be worth it.
Given that the company running it would need to recoupe their research costs, infrastructure costs and running costs would be astronomical, I imagine a ticket would be sort of $200,000 per child and $500,000 per adult.
It costs about $20m to go to the international space station for 20 days and virgin galactic are aiming for tickets on their flights to be about $200,000 for about 8mins of weightlessness. So maybe, visiting Jurassic world would cost even more, maybe $500,000 per day (I'd imagine you'd want to stay longer than a day)?
In terms of what you get: helicopter flight to/from the island, jeep ride in open plains to see the big sauropods and duckbills, a railed jeep ride past some enclosures for stegosaurus and triceratops (like in the first movie but nothing goes wrong and you might not see anything), observation decks to see T. Rex raptors and spinosaurus (I am assuming for safety you wouldn't be able to see then from closer than 50m away), and a bird cage for the flying ones. The park is completely safe, but you would not be able to touch any dinosaurs.
So how much would/could you pay to visit? I would save my arse off and be willing to pay $500,000 for a trip during my retirement, but for me it would be worth it.
