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| - Do you feel like leaping off an 800+ foot drop and landing gracefully on your feet during your time in Vegas?? If so, this is the place for you!
Experience
Located in the Stratosphere hotel this is a controlled descent from the top of the stratosphere tower (108th floor). Yes, you will be terrified. We did ok until we were standing on the edge with our feet halfway off and they count down 3, 2, 1 jump! Advice: when they say JUMP just do it. If we hesitated I don't know if we ever would have done it. Just keep telling yourself it's safe and you're attached to tons of cables (which you are). The staff check your harness and cables and then another staff double checks their work. So, it did feel very safe. The first few seconds after you jump is terrifying. It really takes your breath away. After those seconds, though, and you realize all is well you can actually enjoy the ride and the view for the rest of the way down. We did it during the day. The view at night must be awesome. Your decent slows significantly just before landing so you can land gracefully on your feet.
Cost
The price is $100-$140 depending on whether you do just the jump or if you add a photo or a GoPro video of your jump. If you're a local or have a Stratosphere player's card you save $20 on your package. You do apparently need (or are recommended to have) a reservation which can be made online or in person at the counter. Tip: we had one local and three visitors but were able to get everyone the local price since the local paid for all the tickets.
Service
The experience definitely lost points here. Viviana at the check in counter was extremely.. curt to put it mildly. No smile. No thank you. Nothing. The other staff on the lower level that suit you up were similar. Not friendly. They seemed to have canned jokes like "don't worry nobody has died today." They write your weight on your wrist before you go up. The staff member told me "this is just an ID number to identify your body if something goes wrong." I guess I appreciate the attempt at humor, but it could go very badly with someone much more nervous than I was. The guy and girl at the top seemed generally nicer, more easy going, and tried hard to put people at ease. Everyone did seem very thorough, though, checking and double checking the harness, lines, safety procedures, etc which is a good thing.
Mojo
Overall a fun and terrifying experience. We are by no means daredevils, but we managed and felt proud for having done it. That moment standing on the edge before you jump is the scariest, but just keep telling yourself everything is fine and jump when they say jump. It's expensive, but it's the only game in town for this kind of thing. They really need to work on customer service and friendliness, however.
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