Where to Get Student Discounts in Seattle

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This is the number one best student discount. A short and probably non-inclusive list of museums that offer cheap tickets to students includes the Seattle Art Museum ($7 off), Henry Art Gallery (free for students), National Nordic Museum ($5 off), MoPop ($3 off), and the fabulous but sometimes-overlooked-in-the-bunch Tacoma Art Museum (free through the MUSE Program). And very probably other museums too! If you have one in mind, you should check.

 

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Seattle’s biggest nonprofit theater offers tons of discounts on all of their performances, to groups including active-duty military personnel, Native-identified people (to whom tickets are FREE!), arts-and-culture–industry employees, seniors, and yep, students. You have to present your student ID, and you can get a pretty hefty discount depending on the show. All student tix are $18, and regular prices can range between $20 and $73, so like. You could really save some cash here.

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This is pretty interesting. Students, seniors, nonprofit workers, educators, and a few other categories of people are eligible for rush tickets to the opera, which means you can buy one $25 ticket per student on the day of the performance. Tickets normally start at $35, for the very cheapest seats, so that’s a decent discount! This included the recent run of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, which was a total banger honestly.

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A crown jewel within the glittering crown that is the Washington Park Arboretum, the Seattle Japanese Garden is within walking distance of the University of Washington—don’t sleep on it! The SJG is one of North America’s most highly regarded Japanese gardens, with its dreamy koi ponds, flowering trees, 16th-century-style bridges and lanterns, and guided tours led by kimono-clad docents. Admission is normally eight bucks, but students can get in for four. If you feel like splurging with the money you saved, you can opt to direct those four bucks toward the exquisite tea ceremony at the Shoseian Teahouse, on site, which costs ten dollars for adults and seven for youth under 18. 

 

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This isn’t a thing to do as much as a way to get to the thing—or just to class—but college students are now eligible for ORCA LIFT passes, which is just an ORCA pass that charges you way less. This enchanted card makes the bus cost a buck. This is a massive discount as a regular adult fare on King County Metro buses is $2.75. What costs a dollar anymore? Nothing. The answer is nothing. Apply for your ORCA LIFT pass here.

Oh, my god, CLEAR is like a magical wand got tapped on your little head. For only $60 a year (it’s normally $189), you can skip the TSA line at any of 50+ major airports and just head right up to the ID check. You still have to go through the TSA check after that, but it feels like a freaking miracle happened, to behold a giant line snaking through the concourse and then get escorted right to the front. Once you’ve tasted this luxury, you’ll never do commercial air travel any other way, we swear.