Re: Alton Towers submits planning permission
I agree with Erol on pretty much everything.
Sanitise them after every use? Evidence please!
There's a few reasons why I don't think they do... Or rather, a few reasons why I don't think whatever "sanitise" means it's good enough. Firstly, the cost of the headsets makes it unlikely that they own enough to waste time and money cleaning them. Secondly, how do they do it? The plastic 3D glasses go through industrial dishwashers, clearly these can't. Any dry cleaning methods are not only super expensive, but any physical grime on them doesn't get removed. If someone's snot or dribble or vomit gets on these, which it will, it's staying in the crevices until the end of time. I, like Erol, have first hand experience in dealing with the way body fluids get cleaned up at theme parks, and let me tell you, it's not good enough. The focus is entirely on antibacterialising and not actually removing the gross. If you spray antibac on vomit, it's still vomit. Same with UV cleaning. Everything you touch at a theme park is coated in layers of vomit and the idea of putting something like that on my face is a great big nope.
And this will make people vom, a lot. It just will.
It *will* cause delays.
It'll also be a H&S hazard and require some awkwardness to work around that. Sue's suggestion would not surprise me, but neither would some kind of "fix" that doesn't actually fix the H&S issue at all it's just more bullpoop in the way to slow it down.
I am not surprised that they want to do this at all, but it's dumb for all kinds of reasons.