Crown Regency to install intense rides on top floors

Looking at strengthening Cebu’s feat in becoming a world-class destination, Crown Regency Hotel and Towers, the country’s tallest hotel tower will be installing intense themed attractions in its 40th and 38th floors to be collectively called as the Sky Experience Adventure.

Crown Regency, the King-led hotel chain has commissioned the expertise of Utah-based Interactive Rides, Incorporated, one of the finest amusement ride manufacturer and designers in the world to engineer an edge coaster and an insanity orbit, the Sky Experience Adventure’s main attractions.

In an interview with Interactive Rides, Inc. VP for manufacturing Janos Lakatos, he said that the edge coaster is actually the first-of-its-kind in the world that they specifically designed for the requirements of the hotel.

“This ride was specifically designed for Mr. King and it utilized 2008 technology with the safest restrained system that is all redundant. This is the most modern ride in the world today,” he said.

Currently, the edge coaster is already being installed in the 38th floor of the hotel tower and its tracks are now being placed.

The ride is composed of four vehicles divided into twos that can carry eight passengers in all simultaneously.

The track where which it passes measure 400 feet around the edge of the hotel tower and is placed 400 feet above the ground.

The edge coaster will travel sideways on the tracks and while it moves around the edge of the hotel tower, operators and even the passengers themselves can interactively control it to tilt 55 degrees forward the building.

The edge coaster is scheduled to be launched this November after lighting and electronic systems are all in placed, explained Lakatos.

With the aim of creating an amusement park on top of a hotel building, Crown Regency Hotel and Towers will also soon be installing its insanity orbit at its 40th floor.

The unit will be the second of its kind ride in the world next to the first unit installed by Interactive Rides, Inc. on top of the Stratosphere Tower 900 feet above the Las Vegas Strip last 2005.

The insanity orbiter is targeted to be launched in 2010, a year after the edge coaster is functional, said Hitesh Sampat, the general Manager of the Crown Regency Hotel and Towers.

Sampat said that the Sky Experience Adventure project is part of the vision of their Chairman and CEO Richard King to create a world-class display that will put Cebu in the global map. – Rhia de Pablo