From ITBusiness.ca:
The one thing you know for sure when you go to a waterpark is that you and your money are going to get all wet.
Great Wolf Lodge opened in April of 2006 and is a year-round waterpark resort with its own spa service for girls along with restaurants, shops, mini-golf, arcade, fitness centre, conference and meeting area, 406 all-suite guest rooms in a log cabin setting and an adult concept spa as well. Great Wolf Lodge’s goal is to get its guests wet, not their money.
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This is ok and everything (and it is a good application for a water park) but people need to be aware of the fact that cashless systems make you spend more money at the place you are at because you cannot physically see the money changing hands. With that being said these systems are hugely profitable for companies that use them.
That’s probably one reason WHY these RFID systems work so well… because they’re making a huge profit over it by having people spend more.
It seems like it draws from a debit-card, because any money you don’t spend, gets put back into your credit-card… this would actually be really handy in true amusement parks where carrying around a wallet is probably the least fun thing to do when you constantly worry if it’ll fall out or get wet. I wonder if actual parks will eventually adopt such a feature.
I wonder if they’ve always given you the money back… I’ve stayed there three times and always thought that if I put $20 on it, I had to use it or lose it. So I didn’t bother. Perhaps they need to explain this better to their guests.
I assume if you put 20$ on it and you don’t use it, then they give you the money back. I also assume that you hand them cash for the payment. I do know that some systems allow for direct linking of the wristband to your credit or debit card (for increased spending lol!). If your carrying cash though it could be dangerous to leave your wallet in your room with cash in it since all the thieves would know that many people are leaving their wallets behind in their rooms, if not with cash then with credit cards in them. Your probably better off dumping all your cash onto the wristband with the knowledge that it will make you spend more rather than leaving it in your room (assuming you can get that money back if you don’t use it of course).
This would be very handy for a true amusement park, and since people automatically spend more with these types of systems it would likely mean increased profits in times of economic hardship. If your not cell phone dependent them it would also mean you wouldn’t have to purchase a locker at every ride to stash your stuff since loose items (such as a wallet) aren’t permitted at all on many rides. Of course the wristbands could probably be used to purchase lockers as well, thus depleting your funds even more.
This is just one of the many ideas that the people pushing RFID technology have come up with to get us all conditioned to the idea of it playing a larger role in our very near future.
This is where this technology belongs at a water park, not at our borders or in our cities. – Believe me, this is not about getting you to spend more.. cheap people will always be cheap regardless if the cash is in their pockets or in a computer somewhere.