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| - This ride has a descent that feels (and is, of course) too slow to me virtually the whole way down that it is much more relaxing than it is thrilling. It is pretty much a vertical zip line, except personally, I find the horizontal ziplines to feel more thrilling. Do it if you're trying to nudge yourself into bigger, faster thrills and are pretty new to the thrill world.
OR do it if you are an experienced thrill-seeker (who doesn't fool themselves but know that they are actually an EXPERIENCED THRILL-seeker) who has expectations that this may be much slower than their liking or too tamed but still want to do it for other reasons than a thrill. For me, I don't think it would be worth even a quarter of what they charged ($109.99) to do a second time... maybe like 15-20 bucks tops.
I didn't even purchase a wrist camera or photos because I had a huge feeling from experience with other thrill rides that this was going to be more about anticipation, huge reliance on the world-record breaking height for a SkyJump, and hype than actual thrill. Needless to say, I was right. I don't need to pay the extra money to commemorate something that's not really anything to write home about with high marks. My SO said that I looked like a ragdoll coming down because I was so limp, and there was a reason for that. It was a relaxing experience though and something like a spa treatment for your mind, I guess.
I did the jump several minutes past midnight in late March, so the view was filled with bright orange lights and you could still make out things really well. I enjoyed the cool breeze and being in the cool, mild darkness above lights the most about the ride.
The staff were great in terms of their service to me; one of the male staff at the top kept striking friendly conversation with me while being thoroughly professional and the girl who suited me up was very attentive to everything. However, I found the Asian male staffer who kept making stupid racist jokes in a rowdy manner among his co-workers and other customers to be so obnoxious that he detracted from the atmosphere. I'm not taking any stars off because of this though.
Oh, and to anyone who reads the review of RIC A., who says that this is "very similar to those rides you see at fairs & other amusement parks; where they hoise you to the top, release you & you swing back and forth," THAT IS A FALSE STATEMENT. He describes some of the major differences already, so I don't why he says it's "very similiar." What he is describing is a skycoaster by the way.
HERE's THE TRUTH: the SkyJump is a controlled descent that decelerates to a stop, with an ascent that takes place on a fast elevator of the building, and it stops at the end of the vertical controlled fall. A skycoaster is complete free fall (like that of a bungee jump) with large swings back and forth to a stop, and the ascent is when they hoist you [slowly] to the top. As an extra bit, you then have to pull on a rip cord attached to your harness to release yourself into that free fall as opposed to jumping off. They're very, very different rides.
In fact there's more similarity between base jumping and the SkyJump (which are still quite different) than there is between a skycoaster and the SkyJump.
I just don't want anyone to be badly misinformed.
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