How much would you pay to visit a real Jurassic Park?

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SwiftDeath said:
Eh but with space they are seriously limiting it to a certain number of flights and a certain number of seats so the supply is super limited and the pricing works

For this island people aren't going to believe that only 10 people can go to the island every month so the park would have a severe problem if they tried to artificially limit supply

I think it'd be crazy if the price of the ticket per person was more than $2000
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Research, infrastructure and running costs would all have to be recouped. Cloning and keeping a dinosaur is more expensive than flying as high as virgin galactic will.

Hence the ticket price is so high.

If you want to talk supply and demand, there would be enormous demand. If you still want to talk about the economics of it, think about the break even price for each ticket given their enormous costs.
 
I would pay a shit ton.

My ultimate goal is to go to space though. (Maybe some day commercial space flight will be affordable for the average person.)
 
I'd abandon my career and focus all of my efforts on gaining employment at the park. I don't care if I have to scrub toilets.
 
Yeah, no. 0 on this. Why would I pay them money to go see some man eating dinosaurs. Sure not all of them are, but the ones that do are enough.
 
I agreed with the chaos-theory guy in the film that it was unethical.

But in reality, I love Dinosaurs way to much to would want to have missed it. I would have given a lot.. but the lines for something like this would be insane. I am thinking 2-3 years wait time at least. I can't picture it being less than that. Any new tourist attraction is a mess in the beginning, and something like a real jurassic park would take a very very long time to equalize.

At the same time you would hope that they would sell their technology to other zoos. for research purposes and such. before you know it, a raptor here and a t-rex there. boom baby. repopulating the dinopopulation.
 
It's obvious that the park as envisioned in the first film was built to operate on a low volume, high price model. I mean, look at the evidence:

The main characters are transported to the island by helicopter. But we know that there's also a ferry on a dock, so perhaps they would get regular visitors across by the ferry instead. There's no bottleneck there.

The remote-controlled land rovers meant to carry the visitors from pen to pen are pretty darn small for people-carrying purposes. You can only fit about 5 people inside each one (2 in front, 3 in the back). Plus, the roads built for the park are only single lanes. The land rovers would have to go single file. Look at the T-Rex or Dilophosaurus exhibits. You'd only be able to fit about 5 or 6 land rovers single file in good viewing range of the exhibit pens. That's about 30 people max who'd get to watch each viewing or "show."

Plus, each land rover comes equipped with special night vision goggles and flashlights for every visitor. Even if they're not great quality, that's still a crapload of money to invest in a single paying customer. But Hammond said they spared no expense, so they probably are great quality. There's no way you could pull this off with a large volume of people.

Hammond may have had good intentions, but it's obvious that he didn't build the park with large masses of visitors in mind. My guess is they'd have to charge the equivalent of four or five DisneyWorld visits.
 
Delta Assault said:
It's obvious that the park as envisioned in the first film was built to operate on a low volume, high price model. I mean, look at the evidence:

The main characters are transported to the island by helicopter. But we know that there's also a ferry on a dock, so perhaps they would get regular visitors across by the ferry instead. There's no bottleneck there.

The remote-controlled land rovers meant to carry the visitors from pen to pen are pretty darn small for people-carrying purposes. You can only fit about 5 people inside each one (2 in front, 3 in the back). Plus, the roads built for the park are only single lanes. The land rovers would have to go single file. Look at the T-Rex or Dilophosaurus exhibits. You'd only be able to fit about 5 or 6 land rovers single file in good viewing range of the exhibit pens. There's about 30 people max who'd get to watch each viewing or "show."

Plus, each land rover comes equipped with special night vision goggles and flashlights for every visitor. Even if they're not great quality, that's still a crapload of money to invest in a single paying customer. There's no way you could pull this off with a large volume of people.

Hammond may have had good intentions, but it's obvious that he didn't build the park with large masses of visitors in mind. My guess is they'd have to charge the equivalent of four or five DisneyWorld visits.
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I imagine the park itself would be a money loss but between the various research and medical patents, merchandising, loaning out of the dinosaurs to zoos, university and government labs access, exclusive events, education opportunities the could probably afford to keep the price lower than people expect while making a profit on it. Certainly the cost would be higher than your local zoo or disney visit but not 500k.
 
Realistically? I'd pay up to $5000 for a weekend. Once in a lifetime experience.

That said, now uh, there are going to be DINOSAURS, on this dinosaur tour. Right?
 
chicko1983 said:
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.
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You do realize that there were dinosaurs that could fly and dinosaurs that could swim? I doubt they would be isolated to the island.
 
Nothing because I saw the damn movie.

As soon as I went to the park all of the Dinosaurs would go crazy and start killing all the humans.
 
Sneaky Gato said:
I imagine the park itself would be a money loss but between the various research and medical patents, merchandising, loaning out of the dinosaurs to zoos, university and government labs access, exclusive events, education opportunities the could probably afford to keep the price lower than people expect while making a profit on it. Certainly the cost would be higher than your local zoo or disney visit but not 500k.
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I agree with this--if they only way you're making your money back is by park fees, you're completely failing to understand the value of your patents and IP.

I think we'd end up with a situation where the Jurassic Park in the first movie was a high-end destination vacation resort--a little pricier than a nice cruise, but not so expensive Joe Average couldn't go--and then there'd be mini-parks like they were trying to pull off in the second movie, with just a couple of dinosaurs in the middle of the city sort of thing for much cheaper.

Then patents, merchandise, pet dinos designed to live just long enough, whatever else. It'd be easy to make money back, and the parks would be advertising, essentially.
 
I'd pay whatever they want, but you guys thinking something like this would run 500 THOUSAND dollars per person for a weekend have no grasp of economics. If something like this were real and viable the costs associated with it after it's up and running wouldn't even come close to what Virgin has to go through to put a civilian into OUTER SPACE for 10 minutes.

I could see it being moderately expensive, like say a family of 4 package being in the neighborhood of 12-15K for an all-inclusive stay, 3 days 2 nights. But the wait-times would be astronomical.

I'd pay that even if they didn't have any "dangerous" dinosaurs. Like if all they had was smaller omnivores and some larger herbivores (triceratops, stegasaurus, etc), it'd still be worth the money to me.
 
In hindsight, it does seem dumb that they'd recreate extremely dangerous dinosaurs like velociraptors when they could just wow visitors with larger, harmless Brachiosaurs instead.

With the raptors, all the visitors would've seen would have been a torn up, bloodless sling.
 
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