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We Are Vertigo Climbing high in Northern Ireland
A new family entertainment centre has launched in Northern Ireland, featuring a SkyTrail ropes course as one of its main attractions. We Are Vertigo in Belfast comprises three key components – a ski simulator, adventure centre and zip lines. It was after operating a Spectrum Sports mobile zip line from Innovative Leisure that the owners decided to establish a full time FEC and so they went back to the company to order both a Sky Trail high ropes course and Sky Tykes junior ropes course, as well as an ice-themed climbing tower for the new facility in the city’s Newtownbreda area. The new attractions, manufactured in the USA by Rope Courses Inc, are the first of their kind in Northern Ireland.
The big course features 10 poles, linked by 17 different physically demanding rope elements. The structure stands 6m (20ft) tall, with the platform height 4m off the ground. Climbing through the attraction attached to a continuous belay system, participants are free to choose which direction they take, and to overtake others. The minimum user height is 1m if accompanied or 1.2m if alone. The Sky Tykes course, meanwhile, is suited to kids aged two to 7 and built around the lower part of three poles from the Sky Trail.
As well as the aformentioned ski simulator and zip line, the We Are Vertigo experience also includes an extensive soft play area, themed as a Swiss Alpine village.
SPI Play at Edinburgh Airport child-friendly airport.
“As we grow we have the opportunity to improve the experience for all of our passengers, including our youngest fliers,” notes airport commercial officer, John Watson. “These free soft-play areas will allow children to run around and unwind in a safe environment before boarding their flight while their parents relax and supervise.”
Young travellers passing through Edinburgh Airport are promised a soft landing on each of two new soft play areas added recently by SPI Global Play. Located opposite gate 2 and 15, the play areas are equipped with padded steps, tunnels and other fun obstacles and form part of a strategy to make Edinburgh Scotland’s most
A survey commissioned by the website Skyscanner revealed that a lack of facilities for children was one of one of the most stressful things about the airport experience. Top of the services they would like to see offered was soft play, followed by TV/film area and a play with toys and books. For tied or flustered parents travelling through Edinburgh, the new areas added by SPI should making flying with young children that little bit more bearable. A larger play area will open later this year in the airport's departure lounge, spnsored by an airline.
“The Sky Trail and the Sky Tykes courses really fit our demographic and we hope they can continue to make us one of Northern Ireland's best family entertainment centres,” say owners Gareth and Lorna Murphy.
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A Vision of winter
Around 50 attractions operators and industry professionals gathered in the English town of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, just before Christmas for a one-day conference organised by the consultancy Vision XS.
Subjects addressed included weatherproofing, attraction investment levels, an economic outlook and how to designin the total visitor experience.
The event was designed as a catch-up for Vision clients and friends to compensate for the lack of a larger event in the summer due to commitments by the company’s owner Tony Sefton on the proposed Paramount theme park near London. The informal get-together concluded with a meal and drinks in a local restaurant/pub.
Visions XS is now planning a larger event for 10 July at Ascot racecourse. Watch this space.
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