Take plenty of water. We went around 11am and it was hot. A lot of the animals weren’t out. Overall we still enjoyed it
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Downtown Aquarium, Houston
- Space Center Houston
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Kemah Boardwalk
- Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Get one-time admission to your choice of 5 attractions.
- Children's Museum Houston
- Houston Zoo
Excludes
- Food and drinks
- Transport to and from attractions
Itinerary
General admission includes access to all exhibits, shows, and presentations in the center, plus tram tours to the NASA Johnson Space Center Astronaut Training Facility and Rocket Park.
General admission (not valid for Zoo Lights)
General Admission to Aquarium Adventure Exhibit (rides and games not included); rides may be temporarily unavailable
General Admission
All-Day Ride Pass (Stingray, Boardwalk Beast, and Iron Eagle not included)
General admission. To enter the museum, your group must be accompanied by a child.
ALL ACCESS ticket, including same-day admission to the Collection Galleries as well as most Special Exhibitions
Language Offered
Additional Info
Cancellation Policy
Reviews
If your coming from another city like Dallas or Austin, make sure you leave with plenty of time the traffic is horrible in Houston. The museum, zoo, and aquarium are relatively near each other which is nice. You do get a lot from the pass compared to if you bought tickets for each individual event. Some of the places may have difficulty, we had to talk to 3 different people at the museum to actually get in with the mobile ticket.
I had the pleasure of booking the Houston City Pass this past weekend for a family trip and boy, did we have a good time. It was nice to save lots of extra money on attractions and not having to stand in long lines. Although we visited 3 out of the 5 attractions we paid for, I am still very much satisfied with my purchase. The only thing I would revise next time is our length of stay. Often times, we assume we can make it to several attractions within a short time span not factoring in the weather and traffic conditions, the hours of operation, nor the length of time we spend at each one. I am a person of pace, so if you are like me, please plan to arrange more time so you can enjoy all of the festivities Houston have to offer.. I definitely plan on coming back visit the Space Center on Houston..
Visited the Houston Science Museum. There is so much to experience for all ages! The CityPASS covers general admission but you still have to stand in line for a ticket. Special exhibits are extra price. As a bird enthusiast, seeing the Audubon drawings and reading each story that accompanied them was just fascinating. I also paid to watch the planetarium show. It’s 20 minutes long but was worth it! Senior discount applies!
Some activities within the venues aren’t included so be prepared to pay a little extra. The pass helps save if you have time to visit at least 4 different locations
The Houston City Pass was very useful. We did not have to wait in any lines. We visited the Houston Zoo, The Children's Museum, and the Houston Aquarium
your tickets run out after a day, I do not recommend this service. I bought these tickets yesterday to use today and when I went to check they said used already??? I didint even touch them??? And I spent over 200$ on these tickets.
Lines too long and attractions are distant from one another. Have you pay extra fee to see sharks at aquarium when it should be included with the city passes.
It was great but to make sure to check the times for some of the attractions ahead of time. We were not able to do everything we wanted to.
Good overall value, but some of the museums were not worth it. The Downtown Aquarium took all of 40 minutes to go through. The Museum of Fine Arts was mostly paintings- after 2 hours had enough. It does encompass 3 buildings so alot to see. Did Enjoy Houston Space Center.
The hours for each venue. The rain put a damper on our experience. The food at the Aquarium was excellent!!!
I am waiting for my refund. This was never issued right and didn't work causing me to order another one through city pass itself. At first customer service was no help hopefully get my refund for 5 people.
Worth the investment. Good value for seeing attractions. Easy to sign up. Customer service was helpful too.
This would be an excellent experience in Spring or fall not in the mid of summer. We chose to visit Natural Science Musuem, Fine Art Museum, Aquarium, Space Center and Kamak Board walk. The museums and aquarium were just OK but not the other out door activity-requiring activities. I highly recommend the fina art museum and aquarium
We are overseas visitors and didn't have a lot of time. The pass made it easy for us to see some great highlights and having the tickets in advance saved us time! Excellent package!
Easy, convenient and works offline so you don’t even have to worry even if there’s no wifi to connect to 😊
Short visit in Houston. In two days, we were able to visit 4 museums. We would've liked to visit the National Museum of Art also, but we were unable to find parking. The most we liked was the Museum of Science which we visited t days in a row. Chase, our min-pin Chiwawa service pop, fell in love with the zebras in the Zoo.
I have probably written more in my San Antonio CityPass review - just written - so please do look at that too! This is great value. You get 5 sights - NASA, the Zoo, Natural History Museum (excellent), Museum of Fine Arts and the Aquarium, definitely for about 50% of the prices they would be if you buy the tickets on the day. Yes parking is extra, also the rides at the Aquarium, but they would be too if you bought only tickets on the day. At the Zoo we could go straight to the entry gate with the QR code on the PDF emailed to us by the Pass people - otherwise you had to show that at the entry kiosk. No mobile phone was ever needed. It was easy to use and very economical.
It is very easy and we save money with this pass, got to visit several attractions and had a great time with the family
We really enjoyed our Houston trip and the city pass made it very affordable! We are able to visit 5 places for the price of 2.
We really liked and enjoyed the Houston zoo, Aquarium we were all disappointed with, very small not much to see and parking lot was the most expensive of all the places we visited, the Houston space center was another place we were excited about and loved it,and last of the places we visited was the Kemah boardwalk nice place and very fun for all the family, city pass was very worth buying, thanks my family had a lot of fun!
Zoo- free parking. Lovely zoo, lots of animals Aquarium- pay for parking, I can’t believe this place is still open. Literally took us 20 minutes to walk through. One lion at the end. After we came out we went back to the ticket booth and asked if we missed a floor, sadly no. NASA- pay for parking. Great experience. Spent about 4 hours there. Did not pay for the tram to Mission Control. Tip, First thing you do when you get there is book a tram for astronaut training. Museum- did not go as it was $30 US to park. Really? Wasn’t going to pay that. What a rip off. Keenan boardwalk- pay for parking. Great rides. We went twice as the first day we went it was a ghost town due to bad weather, went the next day and was livelier. Was it a good value, yes. But keep in mind all the parking fees.
Zoo, and both museums were great 3 day adventures. Stay at hotel zaza for convience and comfort and food
The zoo didn't have any animals out and there was no employees working. The aquarium was a real disappointment. The amount of aquatic life was minimal at best. The space center was actually interesting.
Seeing the dinasours at the museum of natural science and the Zoltan machine really brought memories to life
It was wonderful to go to these places, if you have straight days to enjoy the city pass it's a very nice choice.
Good for admissions but nothing else is included. No food or drinks included, even though it stated food and drinks included. The ferris wheel ride was closed most of the day. Downtown Aquarium
The city pass is supposed to be good for several days. My wife and daughter bought and used two of the entries yesterday. Today, the passes are showing as expired even though it is advertised that they have several days to use all the entries. Horrible experience! No one answered the customer service line when they called to get it straightened out. Lousy deal. Will not use again.
Good value for what you get...but a small heads up...skip the aquarium. It is lame and literally took us about 30 minutes to go through the whole thing. I'd have been real upset had I paid full price for it.
We have great time, except for some issues with the hotel security. Someone broken our truck early in the morning so we had to return to our house early because we can close properly the truck bad experience
I love all the things the city pass offers. But I bought it yesterday and used it at NASA and today I cannot find the tickets anymore, the app doesn't have my tickets anymore. glad I saved them yesterday. But I feel like they should be available until expiration.
It was my first time purchasing the CityPass. It was the best idea ever, we had so much fun. I’m looking forward to purchase the pass again soon
This is a very economical pass and it was very easy to get into the attractions. It is only for general admission to the places so we paid extra for the amusement park at the aquarium and the exhibit at the natural science center. We were only able to do 4 out of the 5 places because the weather was 100 degrees everyday we were here so we didn’t make it to the boardwalk. Highly recommend this pass though.
Very good deal. Took my oldest son and we were able to see quite a few things in a short amount of time
It was worth the money spent and my kids had a blast. Wish we would've been in Houston longer so we could've done more stuff but it was well worth it for the limited time we were in town
Very smooth and trouble free experience with having the city pass. Would surely recommend this pass to all those who are looking to visit Houston famous tourist spots with family and friends.
It was the best decision we have made before coming to Houston. It is worth it compared to buying tickets individually. Our best visits were Houston space center ( need full day to enjoy evey bitbof it) and museum of nature and science. We did the aquarium one but nothing special. The kemah visit was not bad, there was not that much rides but it is okay for couple hours but nothing special as well. I highly recommend the pass if you ever decide to come and visit Houston.
We went to the Children's Museum, Houston Space Center, Houston Zoo, Houston Aquarium - getting into each place was easy with CityPass (we only chose to "upgrade" at the zoo). CityPass definitely did as it advertised and all 5 of us were able to get into each attraction without issue. Definitely worth the money spent (or we'd have spent MUCH MORE purchasing tickets at each attraction separately).
This was a great deal I was able to see all of the great things in Houston the zoo the aquarium the space center
Absolutely worth it, so affordable and you are able to see so much. Houston is beautiful with plenty to see, museum was a little on the busy side but for the most part we weren't fighting any crowds this weekend!
Me and my young adult children enjoyed the city pass. We got more than our monies worth. Be sure to have great walking shoes if you intend on going to the zoo and museum.
VIATOR is a rip off because they are a 3rd party booking engine and support the vendors. Customer service is in another country and you cannot get to customer service to get a refund on something they double booked . They take zero responsibility but yet take your money. Better to book with the vendor directly . There is no transportation included on the city pass snd the boardwalk is free to attend so not sure why the e trance is an option on the pass . It also cost extra money for the exhibitions or experience . Unless you are staying 5 days or more thd pass is not a good value in my opinion
Well the exhibits were nice the value was not quite there. What they don't tell you is what's not included. This pass is general admission only. After spending over 222 for two adults and two kids, calculated we only spent roughly $120 total had we just bought the same tickets that we had access to. If you want to do anything at the aquarium including ride the train you must buy separate tickets. However for $24 you can buy an unlimited pass for everything. At the museum, the general admission seems to be a decent value however, again when you do the math and what you have access to it's really not quite there. Highly suggest pre-purchasing the tickets and finding the coupon codes.no value
Unfortunately we didn’t get to see all 5 places. I was under the impression we had a few days to see all 5 places. I ended up only seeing two places due to the time constraints that we didn’t know we had. I think we only had 24 hours or so to see all the museums.
This was definitely worth purchasing. We went to the Space Center, Downtown Aquarium, Natural Science Museum and the Zoo. We have a membership to our local zoo, but would have still be charged half of the admission, so this got us in free.
Enjoyed NASA the most. It has expanded since our last visit and it was interesting to see the upgrades.
I passed a Goodtime and my tickets ok I did not have problems in the places No lunes Just pass The place liked more was the museum fine arts
The aquarium and the space museum were wonderful the zoo was nice also The pass was easy to use and overall I had a great time in Houston
Customer service at each events and shows were very coordinated and were handled with great courtesy! Thanks a lot!
This pass was a great valuable for our family of five! We hit 5 different attractions in 3 days! So much fun!
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