SaluteScoutSan Antonio Zoo Military Discount — Sources and Search Audit
The official FAQ lists $5 off Standard Admission for active duty, retired, veteran, National Guard, and Reserve members; show valid Military ID at entry. Plan Your Visit separately lists Military admission as low as $8 and does not explain how that amount relates to $5. Dated family events remain separate.
Google sample and official page bodies checked September 25, 2026; published September 25, 2026. No purchase or eligibility verification was performed.
Google sample and page-reading method
The query was searched September 25, 2026, in the signed-in Chrome at https://www.google.com/search?q=san+antonio+zoo+military+discount&hl=en&gl=us&pws=0. The bare page displayed eight organic results. Google Web view with udm=14 displayed ten; the first eight URLs matched in the same order. The ninth and tenth results are marked as supplements. Ads, AI Overview, videos, and People also ask were excluded.
Rows marked readable come from page bodies opened directly. A blocked page is Unknown, not No. The first official Military Discounts page exposed section headings only; its details are not filled from a search result or from another Zoo page.
Ten-result page-body audit
| Rank and result | Military percentage | Base and limits | Claim route | Offer or event date | Opened-body note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Official Military Discounts page | Unknown from the opened body. | Unknown. The direct text read showed only the Military Child Day and Zoo Salutes section headings. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Chrome returned Cloudflare 403 twice. Direct text retrieval exposed headings only; no summary is used. |
| 2. Official Plan Your Visit | No percentage is stated; the Military ticket card says 'as low as $8.00.' | The page does not state the basis or date conditions for the $8.00 starting price, or how it relates to the $5 FAQ discount. | A general Buy Tickets link appears on the page, but no military verification instructions are stated there. | No date appears beside the $8.00 figure. | Opened and read. The $8 figure is kept separate from the FAQ's $5 amount. |
| 3. Official Zoo Salutes page | States 50% off Any Day Tickets for up to four immediate family members; the service member's admission was free. | Active duty, retired, veteran, National Guard, and reserve members; up to four immediate family tickets. | Purchase via event link and show Military ID at the gate. | November 2024 only; ended. | Opened and read. Historical event terms are not treated as a standing offer. |
| 4. Official FAQs | No percentage; $5 off the Standard Admission Ticket. | Active duty, retired, veteran, National Guard, and reserve members. No quantity cap is stated. | Purchase through the linked Zoo ticket portal and show valid Military ID at entry. | No offer-valid date is stated in the FAQ. | Opened and read. This is the clearest official statement of the $5 Standard Admission offer. |
| 5. GOVX San Antonio Zoo listing | The opened body displays no amount or percentage. | One-visit General Admission ticket; eligible groups include active duty, reservists, veterans, and military family members. These are GOVX terms. | GOVX page prompts the visitor to sign up for GOVX; it is not the Zoo's own listed ticket route. | GOVX says tickets are valid through December 31, 2026. This is ticket validity, not a sale-period end date. | Opened and read, including the Details section. No ticket price is visible in the opened body. |
| 6. Military.com San Antonio Zoo page | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Two Chrome opens returned ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR; direct fetch returned 502. No title or snippet is used. |
| 7. Official Zoo Salutes November 2026 calendar result | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Unknown. | Chrome and direct text retrieval returned 403 twice. The date embedded in the URL is not used as page-body evidence. |
| 8. Official Zoo Salutes presented by USAA | States 50% off Any Day Tickets for up to four immediate family members; the service member's admission was free. | Active duty, retired, veteran, National Guard, and reserve members; up to four immediate family tickets. | Purchase through the event link and show Military ID at the gate. | November 1-30, 2025; ended. | Opened and read. This is a dated event, not a standing discount. |
| 9. San Antonio Zoo Facebook post | States 50% off Any Day Admission for additional family tickets; the eligible military children received free admission. | Children of active duty, retired, and veteran members, National Guard, and reserves. Up to four additional family tickets; no child age range appears in the post. | Online advance purchase; military parent or adult shows valid Military ID on arrival. | The post says April 6-19, 2026; ended. Its date differs from the official Zoo event page. | Opened and read. The post date is April 3, 2026; that is not the offer period. |
| 10. Official Month of the Military Child event (web-view supplement) | States 50% off Any Day Admission for up to four additional family admissions; eligible military children were free. | Military children ages 3-11; up to four additional family tickets per child. | Online tickets; military parent or adult shows valid Military ID. The event page says the offer cannot be combined with other offers. | April 6-30, 2026; ended. The page separately says the $5 military offer is year-round. | Opened and read. This is a dated event program, not the $5 admission discount. |
Among five fully readable, target-relevant original result bodies, 2/5 state a military-specific percentage, 4/5 state a military ticket or event base/eligibility limit, 4/5 describe a military-related claim route, and 2/5 state a dated military offer or event period. The two percentages are dated family-event offers, not the year-round $5 Standard Admission amount. The Military Discounts page exposed headings only, Military.com and the November 2026 event result remained unreadable, and both web-view supplements are excluded from counts. GOVX ticket-validity dates and social-post publication dates are not counted as offer-period dates. These counts are limited to this sample.
Official terms, third-party listings, and date boundaries
| Opened source | What its body states | Scope boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Official FAQ | $5 off the Standard Admission Ticket for active duty, retired, veteran, National Guard, and reserve members; valid Military ID at entry. | The FAQ does not state a quantity cap or offer expiration date. |
| Official Plan Your Visit | Displays Military admission as low as $8.00. | The page does not explain the $8 starting price's dates or relation to the FAQ's $5 discount. |
| Official Month of the Military Child event page | Lists the April 2026 event as free military child admission ages 3-11, up to four family tickets at 50%, and separately states a $5 discount year-round. | The event ended April 30, 2026. The year-round statement is tied to that page's text; no separate expiration date is stated. |
| Official Zoo Facebook post | Describes free child entry and up to four additional family tickets at 50% off for April 6-19, 2026. | The Facebook period differs from the official event page's April 6-30 period; both are historical. |
| Official Zoo Salutes 2024 page | Free member admission and up to four immediate family Any Day Tickets at 50% off during November 2024. | Historical event terms; no standing annual offer is inferred. |
| Official Zoo Salutes 2025 event page | Free member admission and up to four immediate family Any Day Tickets at 50% off during November 2025. | Historical event terms; no automatic annual renewal is inferred. |
| GOVX listing | General Admission ticket listing with one visit and a list of eligible groups; no amount is shown in the opened body. | Third-party ticket terms; ticket validity through December 31, 2026 is not the offer's sale period. |
| Military Discounts page | Only section headings were readable; offer details remain Unknown. | Chrome 403 twice; no snippet is used. |
| Military.com | Unknown after two HTTP/2 protocol errors. | No search snippet is substituted for the body. |
| November 2026 Zoo Salutes calendar result | Unknown after two 403 responses. | No event date or benefit is inferred from the URL. |
The FAQ's $5 Standard Admission statement has no expiration date on that page. The Plan Your Visit page's $8 'as low as' Military price has no date condition or price-basis explanation. The Zoo's April 2026 page separately says $5 is available year-round, every day; that is the statement on that dated event page.
Zoo Salutes and Month of the Military Child are dated programs. The official Month of the Military Child event page says April 6-30, 2026; the Zoo Facebook post says April 6-19, 2026. Both periods have ended and are kept separate. November 2024 and November 2025 Zoo Salutes pages do not establish an automatic 2026 event.
The GovX listing's December 31, 2026 date applies to ticket validity, not an offer sale period. September 25, 2026 is the review date and does not fill any missing policy date.