Choosing the right flooring system for a theme park involves balancing the functional and aesthetic demands of different areas, including safety, design, and performance. As most theme parks incorporate a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as customer facilities, retail areas, restaurants, and staff/maintenance spaces, they often incorporate two or more interlinked and complementary systems. A tailored approach will help ensure that your flooring strategy supports the parks’ operation while providing a positive and memorable experience for your customers. As you are probably aware, this balancing act is often no easy task!
Let’s take a look at two of the leading flooring solutions for theme parks:
Stamped Concrete
Stamped concrete is a style of decorative concrete flooring system that mimics the appearance of more premium natural materials, such as various stones, terrazzo, tile, slate, or wood. The concrete is poured into a slab and then a pattern is imprinted directly onto the surface before it sets. This is a popular option in theme parks because it allows flooring to be customised to meet the style or theme of different areas – from the lost world to a pirate’s cove – without the expense of investing in ‘genuine’ materials.
Applications: walkways, outdoor piazzas, themed areas, playgrounds, car parks
Advantages:
- Provides an immersive experience for your customers
- Strong and resistant to weathering and wear and tear
- Easily customised with your choice of patterns, colours, and textures
Resin Flooring
Resin flooring is suitable for both indoor and outdoor parts of theme park, and strikes a good balance between comfort, style, and resilience. This makes resin flooring the option of choice for many soft play spaces and queueing areas in theme parks, for instance, as well as busy lobbies, eateries, and gift shops. Resin flooring is easier underfoot than concrete, making it more comfortable for your guests, and also has natural noise dampening qualities that help to create a calmer atmosphere in hectic spaces. Like concrete flooring, a modern commercial resin floor is strong and designed to last, making it suitable for high foot and vehicle traffic areas. And unlike the tiles and paving slabs sometimes used in theme park outdoor walkways, resin creates a continuous and seamless surface, minimising the growth of weeds and making it easier for your staff to keep the park looking clean and tidy throughout the day. Resin is also good in terms of personalisation, capable of being dyed or stained in various colours to match your desired appearance.
Applications: pathways, play areas, queues areas around rides, changing rooms and toilets, indoor areas, entrance and front of house spaces, staff office and breakout areas.
Advantages:
- Strongly slip resistant when coated with a textured surface
- Easy to maintain
- Customisable with various coatings, designs, and branding
- Maintains integrity and appearance in high traffic areas
Contact Us
Get in touch with one of the team at Advanced Resin today to find out more about the benefits of investing in a resin flooring for your theme park. Click here to send us a message, or feel free to call us directly on 01332 215310.
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