I know you can visit some theme parks at certain times of year to avoid many children, however what I mean are theme parks built more for imaginative and fun-loving adults.
Take some of the park rides you might find in family theme parks that appeal to both adults and children, but instead of avoiding elements that may confuse/frighten children, they’re allowed to get more detailed or whatever may be more fun for people. Fwiw I’m aware of some smaller scale themed venues (particularly some horror-related ones), but I feel like I’m blanking on any obvious larger scale ones.
New Orleans - enjoy the potholes.
(It’s really a great place though & I miss living there)
You might enjoy cruise ships. They get a lot of hate but they’re an amazing vacation.
Endless adult-friendly activities at the destinations. All you can eat gourmet included in the price of the ticket. World class service from staff that actually cares. You even get to know the housekeeper on a name-to-name basis. Not to mention waking up to a different view out your balcony every morning. It’s worth it for that alone.
Meh. Cruises are boring as fuck. I guess they are OK if all you enjoy is getting wasted
Boring as fuck if all you do is get wasted. You have to sign up for the excursions. Why get wasted when I can hop on a water jetpack or swim with wild dolphins?
Race track.
Burning Man?
Not technically a park, more of an event
if temporary counts i’d say burningman.org or one of the giant music festivals
Highly recommend meowwolf. I did the Vegas one on a work trip and it was a blast.
Unfortunately that one is still plagued by children, even if not fully designed for them, at least when I was there
Hadn’t heard of the first two, thanks!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of one, and I’m not sure if it’d be profitable. I mean, a lot of elements of theme parks are designed to extract money from parents, and only work because they are there with a child.
How would the adult theme park make money? Expensive entry tickets maybe? We would want to avoid alcohol because we don’t want people acting without inhibitions near all this heavy machinery, plus it’d make cleaning more expensive, and might cause more vandalism. I guess you could not allow re-entry once they leave, to force them to eat inside the park. But that’s about all I can see happening. You could put a nice sit down dining place inside the park though too, because the audience would be more into that sort of thing.
How about the decor, what kinds of thing even appeal to adults? This one is tough. Maybe a western, or dystopian future theme? That could be cool.
You’d 100% be selling overpriced alcohol in an adult-centric theme park. If Six Flags and even Disney have figure out how to do it safely (and very profitably, I’m sure), so can other theme parks.
You can buy alcohol at Disney?! With everything being so prude about drinking in public in the US, this completely amazes me.
Not public, it’s private property, also this is California adventure.
Prude stops being an issue when money can be made with it.
You got a point, if we’ve seen it work there, it can work here.
Omega mart in Las Vegas might come close?
Can’t think of large scale ones unless you include the rest of Las Vegas.
Yeah, it may not be the larger scale but it strikes at the basic idea I was thinking of, so thanks!
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Children are allowed in Omega Mart and Area 15. Regardless, serious upvote for Omega Mart!
Strip clubs?
The theme is SEEEEEEEEEEX
“Why is there a waste management facility directly behind a playground? Sometimes there are kids there!!!”
If a bunch of them have coordinated a themed red light district, I guess that may count for the most explicit approach to this idea, but I don’t know of any that have, albeit maybe parts of Vegas have given that a run for its money.
I mean there is a red light district skyscraper being built in Amsterdam right?
okay but where roller coasters?
Bring strippers to a theme park for the day!
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Damn. That’s a good answer.
Tokyo
Correct
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Oh God the worst beers
sky diving paragliding scuba diving jet skiing bungee jumping wall climbing
Ya. These are activities tho. It’s not a theme park.
Queenstown, NZ has you covered.
In what country or continent?
Honestly any, even if I may never get a chance to visit, I like learning about some of them, particularly ride designs and engineering. (Also for those lurking, this question is mainly inspired by having watched some more Defunctland videos lately.)
6 flags was fun as an adult.
LARPs, honestly
Theme parks are very expensive to build and run, so it’s not usually financially viable to limit the audience like that, but they usually have some rides that are fun for adults. Or they have to be smaller scale, since it’s a more niche audience.
MMOs
I’m so glad I’m not the only person that gets the same “theme park” vibes from MMOs. It really takes me out of it when someone is doing the same quest as me but is a few steps ahead so they trigger a unique animation or dialogue from the quest giver, and then I experience the same animation or dialogue a few minutes later. Kinda like waiting in line for a ride but you can hear or see some parts of the ride as you progress through the line.
