Accessibility & Safety Guide
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PARKING FOR GUESTS WITH LOCKERS: RESTAURANTS AND GIFT SHOPS: DISABILITIES: Lockers are available for a rental fee of $8.00 All restaurants and gift shops in Funtown with a refundable deposit of $12.00. Lockers Splashtown USA are accessible to guests with Non-ambulatory guest parking is located are located in the Funtown USA ride park at disabilities. All restaurants have accessible near the Main Entrance. These parking the Heritage House of Gifts (Opens 1 hour ordering and pick-up locations as well as spaces are clearly marked. Make sure that after the park opens) or at the Tiki Bar in the accessible condiment stations. Please ask one Accessibility & Safety your vehicle is equipped with a disabled state Splashtown USA water park. of our Team Members if you need assistance license plate or permit that is clearly visible. with seating, ordering or transporting food Guide If you do not have the disabled plate or trays. permit, and are in need of one of these SERVICE ANIMALS: Accessibility Quick Guide Available at Guest Services parking spaces, please go to Guest Services Guests with disabilities and their service to inform us. animals are permitted in Funtown COMPANIONS AND TRANSFERS INTRODUCTION: Splashtown USA. Service animals must be Guests with visual or mobility impairments Funtown Splashtown USA is proud to offer EXIT PASS: under their handler’s control and on a leash may need the assistance of a companion this Accessibility and Safety Guide for guests An exit pass for a guest with disabilities can at all times. Depending on size, service when transferring from a wheelchair to the with disabilities. Over the last few years be obtained at guest services. This pass will animals may be permitted on some of the ride vehicle, during loading, and during Funtown Splashtown USA has taken many allow the guest and a companion to enter the attractions. In cases where a service animal is unloading. Funtown Splashtown USA’s Team strides to ensure that our parks are attractions via the exit (Excludes the not permitted, a companion must remain Members are not trained in assisting a guests accessible for all guests. In 2012 we hired an Splashtown Water Park.) Guests with with the animal. transfer to the ride vehicle from a wheelchair ADA consulting firm to aid us in ensuring an disabilities can also stay on the attraction as or physically assisting during loading or accessible facility for all guests. long as they like. This excludes the Grand Prix unloading. Some attractions are able to FIRST AID: If you have any questions about Racers (2 rides) and the front and back seats prolong the loading or unloading times to this guide or our policies on guests with of Excalibur. Some attractions will require Funtown Splashtown USA is proud to provide meet the needs of guests that require extra disabilities please visit Guest Services or seek loading via the entrance or via a small flight licensed Emergency Medical Technicians to time. In these situations you must inform the out a Team Member. Please note that this is of stairs. Please locate the attraction and its meet the needs of all our guests. Should you operator that extra loading time will be only a guide and that you only know your loading information for guests with need medical attention please seek out one needed. own limitations and what you are capable of disabilities in this guide. Otherwise, you can of our Team Members and a member of our riding. Thus, you should not solely rely on always ask the Team Member at the medical staff will be sent meet you. EVACUATIONS: this guide to determine whether you are attraction for the proper loading area. capable of riding an attraction. You must rely There is the potential for ride evacuations on Always wait for the Team Members signal RESTROOMS: on your own judgment and not that of the Excalibur, Thunder falls Log Flume and before entering the attraction. Funtown Splashtown USA. All restrooms at Funtown Splashtown USA the Wild Mouse due to a power loss, weather are accessible for guests with disabilities. WHEELCHAIR RENTAL: or mechanical problems. Evacuations may Each restroom facility has at least 1 handicap require you to navigate steep and narrow GUEST SERVICES: Wheelchairs can be rented for $10 at the stall and a sharps disposal unit. Restrooms stairs or a catwalk from high locations. main gate. ID is required for rental. Guest Services is located at the standalone are located outside the Main Entrance, inside Companion assistance may be needed. You Wheelchairs are on a first come first serve building with the green awning to the left of the Main Entrance, at Poncho’s Restaurant, should keep this in mind when determining basis. Personal wheelchairs are permitted in the Main Entrance to the park. Guests with in the games alley next to the Heritage House whether or not you should ride a particular the parks. We do not rent Electric Service disabilities can obtain tickets, an exit pass, an of Gifts, Inside the Splashtown Main Entrance attraction. Vehicles but they are allowed in the park. For accessibility guide and have any questions and next to the Mount Olympus Waterslides. answered at Guests services. the safety of all guests, scooters, mopeds and segway’s are not permitted inside the park. GENERAL SAFETY RULES: MAINE RIDER SAFETY CONDUCT PHYSICAL RECOMMENDATIONS: All attractions in Funtown Splashtown USA LAW: All attractions in Funtown Splashtown USA are labeled with clear signage that states the have listed physical recommendations. Please Maine State Law requires riders of attractions requirements and review all signage at each attraction before amusement rides and slides to obey all recommendations. Though not listed at all deciding if you should ride. The following are warnings and directions (visual and oral) and attractions, we do have general safety rules limitations you will see at the attractions: to behave in a manner that will not cause that apply to all attractions: harm to themselves or others. Riders must maintain an upright and Recent surgery or illness The Code of Conduct states that riders must controlled seating position until the High Blood Pressure refrain from acting in any manner that may attractions end. Heart trouble or conditions cause or contribute to injuring the rider or Infants must be able to support their Pregnancy others, including: own weight in order to ride. Infants Back, Neck or Bone injuries (1) Exceeding the limits of the rider's ability; AMUSEMENT RIDES must sit on the ride vehicle seat and (2) Interfering with the safe operation of the The following is an alphabetical list of the not another riders lap. RIDE AND SLIDE RATING SYSTEM: amusement ride; amusement rides in the Funtown USA ride Safety devices must always be worn at (3) Not engaging any safety devices that are park. Please note that all rider requirements all times. provided; This guide uses the following rating system to must be met in order to ride that attraction. Picture taking via phone or camera is (4) Disconnecting or disabling a safety device identify the intensity of the attractions listed In addition, do not ride if you have any of the not permitted while riding. except at the express instruction of the ride in this guide. This rating system should only listed conditions. Ride information will Shoes are required in the Funtown USA operator; be used as a guide when determining whether describe the loading location and procedure ride park and on all attractions. (5) Altering or enhancing the intended speed, or not you are capable of riding an attraction. for guests with disabilities as well as the Shirts are required on all attractions course or direction of an amusement ride; safety requirements for that attraction. with the exception of the Thunder Falls Mild – Attractions that have low speeds, low (6) Using the controls of an amusement ride Do not solely rely on this guide to determine Log Flume and the Adult Bumper Boats. heights, predictable maneuvers and turns of a designed solely to be operated by the ride whether or not you are capable of riding an All loose articles must be secured low intensity. operator; attraction. You must rely on your own before riding. This includes: Hats, Head Moderate – Attractions that have medium (7) Extending arms and legs beyond the judgment and not that of Funtown Gear, Cell Phones, Wallets, Purses, speeds, medium heights and some carrier or seating area except at the express Splashtown USA. Bags, Glasses and anything else that unpredictable twists turns or maneuvers with direction of the ride operator; poses a safety risk. moderate thrills. (8) Throwing, dropping or expelling an object No items can be left with a Team IDE CCESS from or toward an amusement ride except as Thrill – Attractions that have high speeds, R A : Member. permitted by the ride operator; extreme heights, visual thrills and unexpected All attractions in Funtown Splashtown USA are Funtown Splashtown USA is not (9) Getting on or off an amusement ride twist, turns or maneuvers. accessible via an entrance or exit. Guests with responsible for any lost, damaged or except at the designated time and area, if any, disabilities should use this guide when stolen items. Please remember that these are only general at the direction of the ride operator or in an determining whether or not to access the ride You are responsible for your own descriptions to aid you in determining emergency; and via the entrance or the exit. This includes personal property. whether or not an attraction is suitable for (10) Not reasonably controlling the speed or riders with an “Exit Pass”.