SaluteScoutPhiladelphia Zoo Military Discount — Sources and Search Audit
The official pages confirm a flat $5 General Admission discount for active-duty military, veterans and their guests, with advance online ID.me verification. Nine target-relevant result bodies were readable; the Meta AI-generated result is excluded from counts.
Google sample and official page bodies checked September 25, 2026; published September 25, 2026. No purchase or eligibility verification was performed.
The top-ten audit separates readable policy pages from generated content
The exact query was philadelphia zoo military discount, searched September 25, 2026 in the signed-in Chrome with hl=en, gl=us, and pws=0. The bare Google results page displayed nine organic results. Google Web view (udm=14) displayed ten; the first nine URLs matched in the same order, and the official Accessibility page was rank ten. Ads, AI Overview, videos and People also ask were excluded.
Ranks 1-7 and 9-10 were opened and read. Rank 5 first returned a Cloudflare 403 challenge; a second open displayed its body, so the readable page is classified as third-party evidence. Rank 8 was readable but is explicitly a Meta AI-generated summary; its four cells stay Unknown and it is excluded from counts. No search snippet is used to fill page-body fields. The Zendesk article's relative update label is not counted as an offer date.
| Rank and result | Military percentage | Base / limits | Claim route | Offer-valid date | Opened-body note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Special Offers - Philadelphia Zoo | No | Yes | Yes | No | Readable official Special Offers page. It states $5 off General Admission for active-duty military and veterans and their guests; advance online reservation and ID.me verification are required. No guest-count limit or offer end date is stated. |
| 2. Do you offer a military discount? - Philadelphia Zoo Help Center | No | Yes | Yes | No | Readable official Zoo help article. It confirms $5 off General Admission for active-duty military, veterans and their guests via ID.me and advance online reservation; the whole party must enter together, valid military/veteran ID is required, and the Zoo says it cannot refund the discount after purchase. The page shows a relative article-update label, not an offer-validity date. |
| 3. Guest Code of Conduct - Philadelphia Zoo | No | Yes | Yes | No | Readable official page with a Discounted Admission for Veterans section: $5 off General Admission for active-duty military, veterans and their guests; advance online reservation and ID.me verification are required. No offer end date or guest count is stated. |
| 4. Plan Your Visit - Philadelphia Zoo | No | No | Yes | No | Readable official page. It directs visitors to special admission offers for active-duty military and veterans and links to Special Offers, but does not state the military amount, base, eligibility details or offer dates on this page body. |
| 5. Philadelphia Zoo Military & Veteran Discounts - WorthEPenny | No | Yes | Yes | No | Readable third-party page after a second open; the first open displayed a Cloudflare 403 challenge. It claims $5 off General Admission for active-duty military, veterans and guests and ID.me verification. The same page gives inconsistent redemption routes, including online-only and mobile-app/participating-retail claims; these are not used as official instructions. |
| 6. Philadelphia Zoo official Instagram Veterans Day post | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Readable official Zoo post dated November 7, 2023. For Saturday, November 11, 2023, active-duty military and veterans received free admission; their guests could receive $5 off with a valid government-issued military or veteran ID. The post says to get tickets through the link in bio. This is a past one-day event. |
| 7. Membership - Philadelphia Zoo | No | No | No | No | Readable official Membership page. It lists paid membership plans and member benefits, including guest-ticket/event and shop/dining benefits; it does not describe those membership benefits as a military discount. |
| 8. Military Discount Philadelphia Zoo - Facebook fb-answers | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | The body is explicitly a Meta AI-generated summary and mixes unsupported claims and other zoos' offers. It is not an independently sourced Philadelphia Zoo policy page; all four audit cells are Unknown and it is excluded from counts. |
| 9. Philadelphia Zoo Discounts & Deals - WorthEPenny | No | No | Yes | No | Readable third-party coupon page. It includes a Q&A claiming a $5 military code through ID.me, but does not state the military ticket base, guest limit or offer period. Its general coupon percentages are not military rates and are excluded from that column. |
| 10. Accessibility at the Zoo - Philadelphia Zoo | No | No | No | No | Readable official Accessibility page. It describes accessibility and accommodation information but does not state a military admission rate, eligibility, claim route or offer dates. |
Among nine readable, target-relevant page bodies, 0/9 state a military percentage, 5/9 state a military-offer base or limit, 7/9 give a military-related route, and 1/9 gives a military-offer date. The one dated page is the official November 11, 2023 Instagram event. The $5 amount is a flat discount, not a percentage. Counts are limited to this sample; the generated-summary row is excluded, and an Unknown cell is not counted as No.
Official terms, historical event and third-party claims stay separate
| Opened source | Observed body | Scope boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Official Special Offers | $5 off General Admission for active-duty military and veterans and their guests; advance online reservation and ID.me verification. | No guest-count cap or offer end date stated. |
| Official Help Center answer | Adds whole-party entry, valid military/veteran ID, no refund after purchase, and purchase through the linked route. | Its relative article-update label is not an offer start or end date. |
| Official Guest Code of Conduct | Repeats the $5 General Admission offer and advance-online/ID.me route. | No offer end date stated. |
| Official Plan Your Visit | Directs military visitors to Special Offers without repeating its terms. | The offer details come from the linked offer page, not this page body. |
| Official November 2023 Instagram post | Veterans Day event: free eligible military admission and $5 off for guests with valid government-issued ID. | Post date and event date are shown separately; this is historical. |
| Official Membership page | Lists member benefits but does not classify them as military offers. | Member benefits remain outside the military-discount row. |
| WorthEPenny military page | Third-party repeats $5 claim and has inconsistent redemption-route wording. | Not used in place of official instructions. |
| WorthEPenny coupon page | Third-party Q&A repeats a $5 code claim; generic coupon rates are not military rates. | No official confirmation is inferred from the coupon page. |
| Facebook fb-answers Meta AI | Generated summary contains unsupported or mismatched claims. | Excluded from the readable-body counts and offer findings. |
| Official Accessibility page | Readable accommodation page with no military-offer terms. | Not treated as a zoo-wide denial. |
Official terms were checked September 25, 2026. That is the review date, not the discount's start or expiration date. The official pages do not state a guest-count cap or offer end date; those remain unknown. No percent discount, ticket total or savings estimate has been calculated.