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| - I highly suggest you read this review because it may contain useful information for you, especially at the bottom of this review. Luckily I read another person's review and that saved me from going home and being greatly disappointed.
Thanks to a bunch of Yelpers, when I asked for what I should do for my fourth anniversary with my boyfriend, several suggested zip-lining and that's something in my bucketlist! Took a bit of convincing to get my boyfriend to agree but once he did, we got a good deal on Groupon: $60 for a ride for 2, free GoPro video, buy one get one free photo, drinks, etc. . After purchasing the Groupon deal, I called to see if we had to set a specific time to come and was told to just show when we want to ride, so away we went!
It was fairly easy to find after parking in the self-park area on the parking garage. Just a few feet ahead of exiting the elevators, to our left, was the VooDoo Zipline store with merchandise to purchase such as t-shirts, tank tops, hats, etc. and the line for your to purchase tickets to ride the Zipline. There's also some Elite line or something, I can't remember the name, for special guests I guess. I waited in the regular line and I think the timing was perfect because there was a couple in front of us and behind us, the line was growing fast! When it was our turn in line, we showed our groupon purchase and the lady asked for ID to confirm that we were over 18 (I think that's what she said she was doing) and she handed us an iPad to sign an electronic form. She didn't explain to us what exactly it was, not even a brief explanation and if you're like me, it's important to read what you're signing. It was just a consent form saying you won't sue and blah blah blah. After signing, she told us as we leave the store, there's a woman to our left a few feet ahead by a sign and she would direct us where to go.
We went out and saw the lady there who smiled and pointed at the elevators behind her. All you press is that one single button, the elevator may take awhile. There's several lockers you can use to stash your things but you have to pay for it and I suggest you wait until you get up to the top. There are lockers right in front of the ride where you can stash your things for free anyway. The elevator takes you directly to the 51st floor and the ride up shows you the Strip.
You walk through a club, which, in the daytime, is empty and no one was there to show us the way but we found the exit all the way to the right of the hallway. It gets real windy up there so if you have a hair tie, tie your hair up... Unless of course you want tangled hair. I forgot a hair tie, so my hair was pretty messed up after. There are several couches for you to sit on but I assume it's for the people at the club. When you make your way down the spiral stairs you can see the rest of the city. There's a little station by the line you wait in where you can purchase pictures and videos.
No flip flops, glasses, or hats! No phones, purses or cameras either. They ask you to put it in the small locker by the ride in case you didn't put it away already on the first floor because they are things that could fall and seriously injure a person 500ft below if it were to hit them.
When it was our turn I was a little bit nervous but we were fastened securely to our seats. The GoPro was placed in front of us, angled down toward our faces. Not going to go into too much detail on the ride, BUT IT WAS FUN! lol.
I went to the picture station hoping to buy a picture (buy one, get one groupon deal!) but the pictures were ugly lol but we were handed a SD card and a SD card reader containing our GoPro video of us on the ride. I read in an earlier review from someone else (thank you!) who advised riders to check your SD card for your GoPro video, so I asked the woman there if she could check my SD card and she said she couldn't do it there but if I went back down to the store, they could check for me.
Back down to the store, I asked to make sure there was a video in my SD card and IT'S A GOOD THING I CHECKED because when they came back out, they said it only recorded the first 30 seconds, which only showed us coming up to the ride and fastening our seatbelts. The whole ride wasn't ever recorded! So we were told we could go back up and ride again and we would get another SD card. The man said he would tell the people up top to let us go first with his walkie talkie.
We went back up and no one was informed of our free ride back so we had to explain it to someone and they let us go after two other people. After the ride was over we got another SD card but were in a hurry for our dinner reservations so we left when the ride was over.
When I got home I checked the SD card and was very pleased to find that our whole experience was recorded this time! So all in all, I'm a happy camper :)
Don't forget to have your SD cards checked! I wouldn't want you going home and finding out your video had nothing in it.
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