{"id":22,"date":"2008-03-16T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/alcatraz-tour-prices-increase-by-50-is-it-cheaper-to-just-go-to-prison.html"},"modified":"2008-03-16T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T21:18:55","slug":"alcatraz-tour-prices-increase-by-50-is-it-cheaper-to-just-go-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/alcatraz-tour-prices-increase-by-50-is-it-cheaper-to-just-go-to-prison.html","title":{"rendered":"Alcatraz Tour Prices Increase By 50%.  Is it cheaper to just go to prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2e5142c0289a1f785cf2dcce097231a4\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6725039255769208\";\r\n\/* Reno Hotels Leaderboard *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0584775893\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/images\/alcatraz\/alcatraz2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco&#8217;s world of tourism is constantly changing.&nbsp; Hotels change owners; restaurants change names or close.&nbsp; When we were notified earlier this week to update our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/alcatraz_island.htm\">Alcatraz tour<\/a> pricing, we dutifully went to work making our updates for the new operator of the tours.&nbsp; <em><strong>But wait &#8211; the prices went up &#8211; A LOT.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adults rose by 48% ($16.50 to $24.50); kids rose by 41% ($10.75 to $15.25); but the biggest price increases were reserved for <strong>senior citizens who rose by 58%<\/strong> ($14.75 to $23.25).&nbsp; All of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/alcatraz_tickets.htm\">Alcatraz Ticket <\/a>price comparisons are from July 2006 to March 2008.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We were doubly shocked to find almost no news coverage of these large price increases for San Francisco&#8217;s #1 tourist destination.&nbsp; Has no-one noticed a 50% price increase to visit Alcatraz???<\/p>\n<p>Now we understand supply &amp; demand &#8211; and are also well aware that many tour operators buy up tickets in bulk to combine with add-on bus tours that drive up the true cost of visiting the island.&nbsp; That said &#8211; these are hefty increases that threw us for a loop.&nbsp; We hope that Alcatraz can remain affordable for visits by average families but the price increases have become significant.&nbsp; Even a &quot;family pack&quot; for 2 adults and 2 kids saves a family only $5 from the prices shown above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new tour pages note that the tours are &quot;affiliated with&quot; Hornblower Cruises.&nbsp; We hope that the LLC set up to handle Alcatraz tours can maintain the fun and spirit of the cruises and keep prices reasonable for our visitors in the future.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco&#8217;s world of tourism is constantly changing.&nbsp; Hotels change owners; restaurants change names or close.&nbsp; When we were notified earlier this week to update our Alcatraz tour pricing, we dutifully went to work making our updates for the new operator of the tours.&nbsp; But wait &#8211; the prices went up &#8211; A LOT.&nbsp; Adults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}