Theme Parks and Attractions Editing and Proofreading Services

Her daughter measured 46 inches against the board at the entrance to the ride, two inches under the line, after two hours in the car, four tickets bought online, and fifty minutes of waiting. The requirement had been on the park's website all along, on a page listing 30 attractions in a table with a row of icons beside each one and a legend at the bottom. Her mother had checked that page the night before and read the icons for the wrong ride. The attendant is now explaining the rule to a seven-year-old in front of everyone still in line.

The documents we edit for Theme Parks and Attractions

Ride restriction and rider safety information dominates what parks and attractions send us. Height, health, and body-size requirement wording comes with it, along with signage for the waiting area and pre-boarding warnings. The work also covers accessibility and ride access documentation, disability access program information and eligibility wording, guest safety rules and conduct expectations, and ticketing terms and ride closure policies. Park maps and orientation copy, show and attraction descriptions, food and allergen information across outlets, lost child and reunification procedures, incident and evacuation communications, and season pass terms come to us as well. Our editors work on the information a family needs before they leave home.

What the editing involves

A restriction page organized by attraction asks a parent to check 30 rides against a legend and get every reading right. The same information organized around the visitor asks for one number and gives back two lists: what a 46-inch child can ride today, and what she cannot. Setting the height and deciding which conditions a ride excludes belong to the operator and its safety engineers, and those criteria arrive with the copy. Our part is where the number appears, how often it appears, and whether the figure on the website is the figure on the sign at the gate of the ride.

"Guests with back, neck, or heart conditions should not ride" asks a visitor to match herself against a list of categories. Where the operator supplies a description of what the ride does, that description reads better in the visitor's path than in a general caution, and it can be printed at the point where the restriction is stated. Body-size wording works the same way. The measurement the operator uses and the location of the test seat near the entrance can both be published, which lets a family settle the question at the kitchen table rather than at the front of the line.

Confidentiality and the limits of our role

Everything you send us is treated in confidence, including operating material, incident documentation, and unreleased attractions. We are editors, not safety, accessibility, or medical advisors, and we offer no opinion on restriction criteria, ride safety, accessibility obligations, or any operating decision. What we can do is put the number where a parent will find it the night before, and word it without embarrassing the person it applies to.