5 Surprising Places To Score Senior Discounts
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If you’ve reached a stage in life where you qualify for senior discounts, you deserve nothing less than the best. Truly, who doesn’t love a delicious breakfast from Denny’s or breakfast for dinner at IHOP? How great is it that you can call your grandkids or Facetime with friends with discounted phone and internet service?
But maybe, just maybe, you’re looking for more adventure. Where can you find some out of the ordinary fun, while still benefiting from your senior discounts? Fortunately, GOBankingRates did some research to help you find out where you can enjoy a good time for the great prices you can get with your senior discounts.
Maryland Renaissance Fair
Get ye olde party on by donning thine most appealing Renaissance-inspired attire and joining fellow fair-goers at the Maryland Renaissance Fair. Take in jousting events, derive your merriment from actors playing out the fair’s storyline, and, oh yeah, chow down on a giant turkey leg.
The Renaissance Fair offers you a chance to leave the woes of the 21st century behind, shop for one-of-a-kind handcrafted gifts and enjoy live music and entertainment. All seniors, or people aged 62 and older, can get their tickets for $23, a $3 discount from the standard $26 fee for other adults. Or they could wait for Senior Day on Sept. 2, where all people 62 and up get to enjoy the majesty for free.
YMCA
If you’re old enough to remember the Village People’s classic tune, “YMCA,” you just might be old enough to enjoy the variety of senior discounts and programs available for older members at the place itself.
Whether you want to enjoy aqua fitness or partake in a book club, center yourself with Tai Chi or get really ambitious on the treadmill, you can generally find some kind of senior discount at your local Y.
Some branches offer a reduced membership fee of $56 for people aged 65 and older. There are also certain Medicare Advantage programs and third-party insurance plans that can offer discounted memberships.
Movement Gyms
It’s never too late to pick up a new skill, even if that skill happens to be scaling rock climbing walls. At Movement, the gym chain known for its dynamic range of climbing walls — as well as its yoga classes to help you build strength and flexibility, not to mention your Zen — you can test yourself while getting knowledge from fitness experts.
If you want to test it out before committing to a full membership, you can receive a 10% discount on a day pass and a 0% initiation fee for memberships if you are 65 or older.
Theater Tickets
You might think that all the glitz and glamour of attending the finest theater in New York would cost quite a lot — even for seniors. Thankfully, the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens partnered with TDF to provide major senior discounts for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater shows, dance performances and concerts in the city.
If you’re eligible for membership in the TDF Community Partners Program, which includes retirees who are at least 62 years old and no longer working, you can join for just $25. With those discounts, the magic of theater can come to you for prices as low as $9 or $47.
Escape Rooms
If you’re looking for a way to ramp up your cognitive skills and get your blood pumping, you should consider an escape room. That’s right, some escape rooms offer special senior discounts, like the Arizona-based Escape Room @ Grant.
Explore some truly uniquely themed rooms, like Cowboy Mafia, a “Hangover”-inspired room, or even the mysterious room 221B at Escape Room @ Grant. The website for this escape room encourages you to call ahead to see what the discount will be. Even if you’re not in Arizona, it’s worth calling your local escape room to see whether it offers discounts.
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