A couple of (or a whole lot of) dangerous apples have managed ruined the enjoyable for a lot of youngsters, tweens, and fogeys throughout the US. A number of common theme parks have determined to tighten their minimal age requirement to enter the park with out parental supervision after an increase in “unruly conduct” lately.
Brawls at theme parks are uncommon, however they do occur. Disney parks have gotten a lot of the highlight relating to fights these days, and most of it doesn’t contain youngsters, however adults. Altercations like this struggle between adults over house to observe fireworks, this huge brawl by Peter Pan’s Flight, and this brawl between siblings and their important others (simply to call a number of) have put theme parks throughout the nation on excessive alert.
Whereas adults may make a lot of the headlines, it isn’t to say that youngsters are with out blame. A number of brawls between teams of youngsters at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif., brought about such a disturbance that the park determined to shut three hours early. Then in April, a large brawl of round 150 youngsters at a theme park in Kansas Metropolis broke out inside and continued exterior within the parking zone.
Maybe the youngsters’ disruption is the straw that broke the camel’s again for a lot of theme parks. Or perhaps they’re a simple scapegoat to point out they’re addressing a difficulty that has gotten uncontrolled. Whereas there isn’t a sweeping chaperoning coverage for all parks, there’s a new flooring for entrance that has been raised after the protection of employees and different visitors has been prioritized after the bodily altercations lately.
Cedar Honest parks
Knott’s Berry Farm, the 57-acre theme park positioned in Buena Park, Calif., has modified their chaperone coverage a few occasions these days. Their newest coverage change coming after the April incident involving the youngsters has made it so “all visitors ages 15 years outdated or youthful should be accompanied by a chaperone who’s not less than 21 years outdated with a purpose to be admitted to or stay within the park after 4 p.m. native time to shut,” in response to their code of conduct.
The chaperone can accompany not more than 10 visitors ages 15 or youthful per day. If visitors who’re 15 years or youthful are discovered unaccompanied, they are going to be ejected from park.
The next parks, like Knott’s Berry Farm, are a part of the Cedar Honest Leisure Firm household and have carried out the identical coverage for chaperoning after seeing violent incidents of their parks:
Disney parks in California and Florida haven’t seen any adjustments to their chaperoning insurance policies, regardless of their unruly headlines. Their coverage says “visitors below age 14 should be accompanied by a visitor age 14 or older to enter a theme park.”
In the meantime, Common Orlando parks don’t have any particular printed minimal age for visitors, however they advocate visitors below age 14 have supervision from somebody age 14 or older. If you happen to plan to let your baby attend a theme park with out an grownup, be sure to learn the park’s code of conduct.
