Poolside Shade Structures for Hotels
As a hotel manager, you recognize the importance of customer satisfaction. You also know the many individual components that come together in providing the optimal guest experience. Rooms must be clean. Bedding must be changed often. Employees must strive to create an environment that dissuades complaints, and then engage in assertive politeness whenever they do arise. Satisfied customers amount to more than a burst of revenue: a guest who is pleased with their experience leaves outstanding reviews on Google and Yelp and is more likely to make return trips. Businessmen, tourists, frequent visitors to your city — all of these could become regular guests if you leave a fantastic first impression.
Outdoor pools and relaxation areas are part of that first impression. What’s more, they’re an instant visual marketing tool: used in photographs on your website as well as on the social media pages of guests ready to boast about their latest vacation! Of course, the pool itself is part of the larger picture. You also need clean deck chairs, access to towels, and a professionally crafted sun shade structure.
PalmSHADE specializes in custom-designing and manufacturing shade structures useful to hotels and resorts throughout the nation. For these structures not only attract the eye (heightening interest for people browsing hotel photos!), they help with guest safety and contribute to that winning experience that encourages return visits. In this article, we’ll discuss the top reasons hotels need poolside shade structures.
Table of Contents:
- Improved Guest Safety
- Reduced Energy Costs for Your Hotel
- Boosted Curb Appeal and Hotel Value
- Distinguishing Your Hotel
- Consider Mechanical Equipment Screens for Pool Storage
Improved Guest Safety
Hotel pools are a top attraction for summer visitors, and even more so for wintertime guests in perpetually sunny climates such as Southern California. Guests enjoy strolling into the initially comforting heat of the sun, dipping into the pool, and clambering back out. From there, they often enjoy collapsing into a sun chair, plop on their sunglasses, and allow Mother Nature to dry them off. It’s refreshing, comforting, and sure beats the negative wind chill up north. In these moments, hotel guests feel they’re getting their money’s worth.
That said, prolonged sun exposure can have an adverse effect on our health. Being out in the sun too long increases the risk of dehydration, and without sunscreen your skin becomes more vulnerable to UV rays. Too much sun without protection can result in anything from damaged skin to skin cancer. Not to mention there comes a point where guests have finished their sun soak but want to continue enjoying the poolside venue. In these situations, there’s nothing better than crawling beneath a shaded area.
That’s where PalmSHADE’s shade structures come into play. Our team custom designs each structure according to the installation site’s exact parameters, so that your guests receive the necessary shade. The spacing between the structure’s legs provides adequate space underneath for setting up lawn chairs, sofas, and patio furniture.
Before we continue with this article, we wanted to mention that PalmSHADE manufactures ten specific structure styles. Each one is unique and will complement a variety of poolside designs and furniture layouts.
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Reduced Energy Costs for Your Hotel
That’s correct: investing in a poolside shade structure has the potential to reduce spending on energy. It all revolves around customers spending more time outdoors instead of in their rooms, where on hot days they’d inevitably crank up the A/C. As we mentioned before, when guests climb out of the pool and finish drying off, they’ll be inclined to remain outside if there’s a comfort-providing shade structure nearby. They can remain cool and comfortable by relaxing in a lawn chair beneath the overhead canopy, and will do so in a way that doesn’t raise your utility bills. Hotel guests will also spend less time indoors when there’s a comfortable poolside shelter available. Even if they merely want to enjoy the outside environment without going swimming, they’ll congregate at your poolside, beneath the canopy of your shade structure.
All that means less time customers spend in their rooms, and less time in which the A/C will be running. In short, shaded areas are an essential investment for hotels interested in lowering costs and being energy-efficient. They also make your hotel more appealing to environmentally conscious visitors, who’ll be impressed by your efforts to reduce electrical use.
Boosted Curb Appeal and Hotel Value
Appearances make a world of difference when it comes to first impressions — be they impressions formed via customers browsing hotel photos online or driving past the establishment on the freeway. There’s more to first impressions than cleanliness. The more attractive your hotel, the more likely people will remember it and want to stay there. A professionally crafted poolside shade structure helps distinguish your resort area from other hotels who lack that unique-looking fixture on their property. Not to mention: these structures help raise your property value, so you’ll get more return on investment when you decide it’s time for the establishment to change owners.
Distinguishing Your Hotel
It’s not an industry secret that hotel pools are common throughout the nation and, indeed, the world. But how many hotels have outdoor shade structures that protect guests from harmful UV rays? How many establishments lay claim to fixtures that draw the attention of passersby, make for unique marketing photos online, and ultimately set your hotel pool apart from the competition? Our sun shade structures receive top-notch design and engineering, constructed in so a way to last and provide all the above mentioned benefits for generations — hotel managers and guests alike.
Consider Mechanical Equipment Screens for Pool Equipment
Did you know that our fabrication team also manufactures equipment screens used for storing pool equipment? Obviously, for safety and storage reasons, you don’t want chemicals, cleaning supplies, tools, etc. out in the open near water where guests will be swimming. Doing so would present numerous hazards — especially on windy days when objects can be blown across the property (thereby compromising one of your hotel’s top attractions). At the same time, it’s a hassle for staff to constantly go indoors to retrieve equipment, come out to the pool to use them, and then haul everything inside again. What you need in this situation is an aesthetically pleasing yet secure outdoor storage method.
That’s where our mechanical equipment screens come into play. Designed to seal off access to contained items — while also allowing ample ventilation — these barriers can also be designed to include a sturdy, reliable gate. The gate keeps out unauthorized personnel while allowing easy entry for hotel employees. You can set up your equipment screens in an area close to your poolside area, shorten the trek staff members must take, and preserve your pool’s aesthetic appeal. Our screens come in a variety of styles, from traditional louvered screens to LED backlit panels (another tool for distinguishing your hotel pool) to trellis screens.
If you have questions about sun shade structures for hotel pools or want a free quote for the project you’re dreaming of, contact PalmSHADE’s sales team today! Let’s start putting together the shade structure that’ll boost your property value and comfort guests for generations to come!