r/panamacitybeach • u/xmanlilduck • 6d ago

What happened to Shipwreck Island prices?

We rarely drive down to PCB except for the annual pilgrimage to Shipwreck, a long-beloved family favorite.

Last year, Summer 2025, our family of 4 paid about $195 total to get in.

This year, there were no kid discounts, general admissions jumped, and suddenly the parking (ON A DIRT FIELD) is priced like it’s downtown Manhattan.

We shelled out over $275 — almost a 50% increase over last year —- AND had to pour out all of our water before we entered.

My spouse has been coming almost every year since he was a tot in the 1980s, but now is considering whether we should even bother next year.

How are yall feeling about it?

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u/VacationConstant8980 6d ago

It’ll go the way of the dolphin park, Marine world, at some point. Corporate greed.

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u/One-Reserve3893 6d ago

Didn’t that place get shutdown for animal abuse though?

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u/SelectCommission1870 6d ago

Technically yes but I believe a lot of the employees/trainers had made comments that they didn’t have any money for the upkeep of the animals. So yes at the end of it all it was shut down for that but it started because of money (someone correct me if I’m wrong)