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I love waterparks but...
Posted by: Erik Torkells, Tuesday, Jan 15, 2008, 11:07 AM

I found it annoying when, during a September visit to the Kalahari indoor park in Wisconsin Dells, renting a locker proved to be a pain (we couldn't bill the locker to our room the way we would a hotel-restaurant meal). The workers instead told us to just leave our stuff, including our room keys, on a chair inside--"Everyone does it," they said. Anyway, I was excited to learn that KeyLime Cove (a new waterpark resort in Gurnee, Ill., that opens on February 29) will have radio-frequency identification wristband technology. That means you don't have to carry a room key or cash (to rent a locker with, say). You just use your wristband. The resort will also take photos of you going down the slides, and ID you by the wristband, so you can look at the pix later. The resort, by the way, is the "brainchild" of Dave Anderson, founder of Rainforest Cafe restaurant chain.

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When I spent some time in Japan 2002-2004, they had this kind of system for at least the one onsen (basically a spa built around natural hot springs, though there were water slides at this one) that I visited. You paid admission and got a wristband that looked like a kids watch without a face. You held it up to various sensors and it opened and locked your locker. It was also how you got extra services like massages and mudwraps, food, even things from the onsite vending machines. You settled your account on your way out.

Posted By T on January 17, 2008, 3:17 PM

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