Building shops has never been simpler! Create food courts and shopping plazas quickly and easily with pre-built shops or design your own spaces with shop counters and scenery.
For more information about designing the park of your dreams from scratch, take a look at our Building Your Park guide.
Gift Shops & Services
Gift Shops and Guest Services are a great way to provide your guests with amazing mementos and useful items for their time in your park.
Gift shops don’t just sell fun merchandise for your guests to take home! They also sell handy items for guests to use in the park, like inflatables for chilling in the pool or hats to keep cool and avoid sunburn.
In Planet Coaster 2, we have new and returning stalls for guests to browse and shop!
Hat’s Fantastic
Guests can get in the mood for excitement and grab hats decorated with their favourite mascots from across your park with Hat’s Fantastic.
Other than looking really cool, hats will protect your guests from sunburn on hot days at your park.
Just A Momento
Your guests have made wonderful memories at your theme park. Now they can take home something to remember it from Just a Memento!
Selling keyrings and plushies, this gift shop is perfect for placing next to rides so guests can grab knickknacks of their favourite mascots to remember all the fun they’ve had. Plus, they can purchase keepsakes that they can use in the parks, like t-shirts and hoodies.
Loony Blooons
You’d be crazy not to grab a balloon from Loony Blooons! Guests can purchase fun, coloured balloons or designs featuring the wonderful mascots of Planet Coaster 2.
Splash Emporium
Dive into the fun with incredible inflatables from Splash Emporium! Selling lilos and pool rings this shop is ideal for placing nearby your water rides and pools.
While seemingly impossible, your guests can carry pool rings in their pockets! They will purchase these items to chill out and relax in your pools and lazy rivers.
Guest Services
Guests will check in at Guest Services to grab their pool passes as well as all kinds of useful items your guests will need in the park.
Guest Services sell items like suncream and umbrellas as well as pool and priority passes. It’s vital to have these shops at high traffic points across your parks as pool passes are the only way guests can enter your pools!
Modular Souvenir Shops
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There’s nothing better than exiting through the gift shop! Create fun shopping areas for your guests to explore with pre-built blueprints or let your creativity take over with modular shop tills.
Building a Modular Souvenir Shop
Even thrill seekers need a break from the rides sometimes, so allow your guests to give into a little retail therapy. Modular souvenir shops in Planet Coaster allow you to set up the perfect place for your guests to browse and buy all kinds of themed merchandise!
Plus, they add a boost to your theme park’s economy all while fulfilling your guest’s Souvenir need. For more information about looking after guest needs, check out our Guest guide.
Each modular souvenir shop’s InfoPanel will show:
- The parent shop
- The number of vacant shelves
- The number of purchasable items
- How many guests have visited that day
- Amount of profit made that day
- Staff zone the shop is in
- Power used
Did You Know?
You can connect up to 40 of the various shelf types and four tills together to create the largest possible Souvenir Shop.
Customising your Merchandise
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Curating your souvenir shop’s merchandise is a great way to organise purchasable items across your parks; bring that theming down to the tiniest detail!
Modular Souvenir Shop Catalogue
Your Modular Souvenir Shops can sell a variety of merchandise to your guests. Customise what you’d like to sell in the Catalogue tab of the InfoPanel by selecting a category. The shelves will automatically populate with these sellable items.
Each modular souvenir shop can sell:
- Mascot Props
- Postcards
- Pool Floats
- Character Balloons
- Posters
- Jigsaws
- Pool Rings
- Luxury Balloons
- Novelty Hats
- Umbrellas
- T-Shirts
- Plushies
- Keyrings
- Mugs
- Caps
Select the cog button next to each category to choose which variation of each item is available to guests. The best place to sell Bard balloons in your Mythology themed areas!
Toggle item visuals On or Off in the InfoPanel, letting you to still sell your chosen merchandise but allowing you to decorate the shelves with scenery items.
You can also adjust the cost of your sellable items in the InfoPanel, choosing between Bargain and Custom pricing as explained in our Managing Vendors section below.
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How To Build a Custom Modular Souvenir Shop
Guest will love to flaunt their souvenir so give them the ideal opportunity to buy some.
- Select the Facilities tab and then Create Custom in the browser at the bottom of the screen. Narrow down the view by selecting Shops, then Modular Souvenir Shops.
- To create your base for your modular souvenir shop, place a Modular Souvenir Shop Till. Add shelves to the modular souvenir shop either by selecting the ‘Add Shelves’ button in the info-panel, or by placing shelves and then assigning them to the modular souvenir shop via the Connections tab.
- Open the Connections tab of the till info-panel. Select ‘Connect Existing’ and highlight the shelves you want to add to the modular souvenir shop. Press ‘Confirm Selection’ once you’ve added all the shelves you want to connect together.
- With your till and shelves placed, you can now customise the colours of each modular piece to fit your theming. Add more scenery pieces to create small kiosks dotted around your park or large gift shop areas for guests as they exit their favourite rides!
Food & Drink Shops
Keep your guests happy and full of energy by building food and drink shops throughout your theme park!
It’s up to you how you incorporate them into the park, whether that’s as fantastic food courts where guests can chill out and grab a bite to eat or as specialist shops in themed areas of your park.
For a quick refuel, guests can grab snacks and drinks from vending machines as well!
Did You Know?
Some guests will have dietary requirements that will affect which food and drink shops they can visit! These dietary restrictions are displayed in individual guest InfoPanels and shop ingredient sections.
Each food and drink shops will display the ingredients for every item they sell. For each item on the shop menu, you can see a percentage of guests that the food or drink caters to. The higher this number the more guests can eat or drink this particular menu item.
Chief Beef
Keep your guests fuelled for fun with delicious, juicy burgers from Chief Beef. Just add cheese, lettuce and other toppings!
Viva La Vegan
Everyone can eat something tasty at Viva La Vegan! Guest can choose between Bean and Breakfast Burritos, all without animal products.
Gelato Bros
Gelato Bros offer a range of sweet and creamy treats for your guests, including classic flavours like Vanilla Gelato and exciting options like Lemon Sorbet.
Haya Sushi
Perfect for an on-the-go savoury treat, Haya Sushi has several delicious items for fish-lovers and vegetarians.
Hot Dog Squad
At Hot Dog Squad, guests can purchase a theme park classic! There’s something for everyone with Meat, Vegetarian and Gluten Free options.
Pizza Pen
Guests can grab cheesy, yummy slices of pizza from Pizza Pen, including classic cheese, pepperoni and vegetarian.
Cosmic Cow Milkshakes
Yummmooo! Guests can sip on thick, flavourful milkshakes that’ll satisfy their taste buds, like banana and chocolate.
Gulpee Soda
Guests can get their sugar fix with Gulpee the dinosaur at Gulpee Soda, with classic and exotic flavours to choose from.
Latte Love
Keep your guests energised and caffeinated with a range coffees from Latte Love. Add a range of delicious spices to appeal to more customers!
Pipshot Juice
For health-conscious guests, Pipshot Juice offers refreshing, fruity drinks that the whole family can enjoy.
Slush Hour
Sugary and wonderfully cold, Slush Hour’s slushies are the perfect thing to keep your guests cool on a hot day at the theme park.
Soda Lightful
For guests that want a little less sugar, Soda Lightful offers diet and sugar-free drinks to quench their thirst.
Did You Know?
Placing multiple different food and drink shops in the park will make sure that guests are able to find somewhere to eat when they're hungry or thirsty.
HOW TO CUSTOMISE MENU ITEMS
All food and drink items at your shops are made up of ingredients. You can add extras to make them more appealing, but it will increase your costs and potentially cater to fewer guests’ dietary preferences.
- You can also view which of these ingredients will be a hit with your guests in this same info-panel!
- Select a food or drink shops and navigate to the Ingredients Panel via the cog button on a menu item.
- You will be presented with a list of potential addition ingredients you can add to each individual menu item e.g. cheese for burgers, or cinnamon for lattes.
- Select which extra ingredients you’d like to add and customise your theme park food!
Photo Kiosks Guests can purchase a memento of their time at your theme park by buying a Ride Photo from a Photo Kiosk. Learn more about setting up Ride Photos in our Coaster & Ride Building Guide.