Seattle Aquarium Military Discount — Sources and Search Audit

The official Hours, Discounts, & Groups page lists $2 off admission for active, retired, and veteran U.S. military, available only at the admission gates for the next available time slot. The FAQ says military ID is required. The pages give no offer-validity dates or percentage; blocked results remain Unknown.

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=seattle+aquarium+military+discount&hl=en&gl=us&pws=0. The bare page displayed nine organic results. Google Web view with udm=14 displayed ten; the first nine URLs matched in the same order. The tenth result is marked as a supplement. Ads, AI Overview, videos, and People also ask were excluded.

Readable rows below come from opened page bodies. Blocked or truncated pages remain Unknown. The Facebook body is a user's question, and the MWR PDF's Seattle CityPASS is a multi-attraction bundle; neither is treated as Aquarium military policy.

Ten-result page-body audit

Rank and result	Military admission percentage	Base and limits	Claim route	Offer-valid date	Opened-body note
1. Official Hours, Discounts, & Groups	No percentage is stated; the page lists a flat $2 off admission.	Names active, retired, and veteran U.S. military. It does not specify a per-ticket, per-person, or household unit, dependents, ages, or a guest cap.	Only at the Aquarium's admission gates for the next available time slot.	No offer-valid dates appear on the page.	Opened and read. This is the direct official source for the $2 amount and gate route.
2. Official Frequently Asked Questions	No military amount or percentage is stated in the expanded answer.	Names active, retired, and veteran U.S. military; says ID is required. It gives no guest cap or document type.	Says the military discount is available only at the admission gate. It separately notes advance online purchases can offer more savings without applying that statement to the military offer.	No military offer-valid date appears in the answer.	Opened and expanded. The FAQ confirms the ID requirement but not the amount.
3. Seattle Aquarium Instagram Veterans Day post	Unknown.	Unknown.	Unknown.	Unknown as an offer date. The visible post date is not a policy-validity date.	Caption stayed truncated behind Instagram's sign-in layer after two opens; no snippet is used.
4. Facebook group post	No Aquarium military percentage is stated in the readable post.	The post asks for Seattle-area veteran suggestions and gives no Aquarium eligibility or ticket terms.	No Seattle Aquarium redemption route is stated.	No offer date is stated. The post date appears as March 4 without a year.	The user post is readable; the AI-generated result title is not used as body evidence.
5. Official Plan Your Visit	No military-admission percentage is stated. The page separately describes CityPASS savings up to 47%.	No military-specific ticket base or limits appear in the opened body.	The page describes general ticket purchase and CityPASS reservation paths, not a military-offer route.	No military-offer dates appear in the opened body.	Opened and read. The 47% CityPASS bundle is not counted as a military discount.
6. JBLM MWR LTS Online Price List PDF	No Seattle Aquarium military rate appears in the PDF's Seattle listing.	Lists a general Seattle CityPASS bundle with the Aquarium among five attractions; it is not an Aquarium-only ticket.	This is an MWR LTS bundle listing, not an Aquarium military-admission claim route.	The PDF cover says Updated 18NOV25. That is a document update date, not an offer-validity date.	Official PDF body read. The Seattle CityPASS listing is kept separate from the Aquarium's gate discount.
7. Official Tickets page	No military percentage or military price appears in the opened body.	No military-specific base or limits appear in the opened body.	No military-specific claim route appears in the opened body.	No military-offer date appears in the opened body.	Opened and read. CityPASS is a separate bundle.
8. Greater Seattle on the Cheap	Unknown.	Unknown.	Unknown.	Unknown.	Two Chrome navigation attempts failed before the body loaded. No title or snippet is used.
9. Official Membership page	No military-admission percentage is stated. The page lists general member benefits of 20% off After Hours events and 10% off selected purchases.	Membership levels and benefits are separate from military admission; no military ticket base or eligibility is stated.	Membership purchase links are not a military admission route.	No military-offer date appears on the membership page.	Opened and read. Member benefits are not moved into the military discount row.
10. WorthEPenny coupon page (web-view supplement)	Unknown.	Unknown.	Unknown.	Unknown.	Two Chrome navigation attempts failed before the body loaded. The result title is not used as offer evidence.

Among seven fully readable, target-relevant original result bodies, 0/7 state a military-admission percentage, 2/7 give a military admission base or eligibility limit, 2/7 state a military claim route, and 0/7 state an offer-valid date. The Instagram caption remained unreadable, the third-party article failed to load, and the rank-10 coupon page failed to load; those three rows are not counted as readable. The Facebook title's AI-generated wording is not counted as policy evidence. CityPASS and membership percentages are excluded because they are not military admission offers. These counts are limited to this sample.

Official source register and date boundaries

Opened source	What its body states	Scope boundary
Official Hours, Discounts, & Groups	$2 off admission for active, retired, and veteran U.S. military; available only at the admission gates for the next available time slot.	The page does not define the $2 purchase unit or state offer dates.
Official FAQ	Says military discounts require ID and are available only at the admission gate.	The answer gives no military amount, document type, or offer period.
Official Plan Your Visit	Describes tickets and a separate CityPASS bundle with up to 47% savings.	The CityPASS statement is not military-specific.
Official Tickets page	Describes general daytime tickets and CityPASS.	The opened body contains no military ticket terms.
Official Membership page	Lists membership benefits including 20% off After Hours events and 10% off selected purchases.	These are membership benefits, not military admission terms.
JBLM MWR LTS Online Price List	Lists a Seattle CityPASS bundle that includes the Aquarium among five attractions.	The PDF is marked Updated 18NOV25; that document date is not a current-validity or Aquarium policy date.
Seattle Aquarium Instagram post	Caption not readable after two opens.	The visible post date is not treated as an offer date.
Facebook group post	A user asks for Seattle-area veteran recommendations; no Aquarium offer terms appear in the opened post.	The displayed post date has no year and is not an offer date.
Greater Seattle on the Cheap	Unknown after two navigation failures.	No search snippet is substituted for the body.
WorthEPenny	Unknown after two navigation failures.	No title or search snippet is substituted for the body.

The official Aquarium pages checked September 25, 2026 state the $2 gate discount and ID requirement but give no offer-validity date. September 25 is the review date, not a policy start or end date. The JBLM PDF's 18NOV25 mark is a document update date. The Instagram and Facebook dates are post dates; none is used as a military-offer date.

The direct query used gl=us and did not establish a physical U.S. search location. No search volume, advertising bid, or price from another aquarium is included in the page copy.

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