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| - When in Vegas you are going to want to go up in it at least once and look out from the top. Yet I have a complaint, and a very possible good tip;
I've been here three times, and my main complaint is that they charge $13 per person. So it was $52 for our family of four. I don't think that's right as they force you to walk past a whole bunch of little stores, loaded with hot dogs (if hungry), corn syrup laden sodas and about 150 million different varieties of Stratosphere key chains and refrigerator magnets. I've never found -anything- that I had to have, nor would want to carry around with me after making a purchase.
So here is my suggestion, I have heard this works but was not told about it until after paying for the elevator ride up each time. Just tell them you are going to the restaurant and I don't believe you have to buy a ticket to do that. And just so you are telling the truth, you know, not commiting fraud, do go in the restaurant, order a free glass of water and look at the menu. I don't think you are at that point obligated to order food.. Hehehe :)
The view is excellent and can be a little scary if you are scared of heights. I do have a fear of heights some of the time, not always, not sure what the deciding factor is. But up here we discovered that my Dad and Brother have a fear of heights as well. My Dad grabbed the chain link fence and would not let go, and my Brother froze, refusing to go near the edge. And when the roller coaster went by just above our heads, he refused to look up at it! Hahah!
One thing I found quite interesting, something now fixed, is that when on the inside floor (you don't have to go outside, but that's the best with the wind and all) the inside floor had glass windows that looked down. While there were multiple signs saying "DO NOT STAND ON GLASS" (DUH!) surprisingly many people would, and look down. Now I have no idea how much weight those were designed to handle (or if anyone fell through), they certainly didn't look real thick, as if designed to stand on. But the last time I was there they had wooden boards covering all of those... Hmmm.
When up on top, outside looking out of Las Vegas and the endless deserts and distant mountains, I wondered what it would be like to base jump (skydive) off of here. That would be a real rush.
If you never had a chance to go in the World Trade Center, aside from the Sears Tower, this is one of the only places you can get up this high and the view is similar to that from the World Trade Center and Sears Tower as the cars look like ants and people are hard to even make out. Pretty cool. They just shouldn't charge so much if anything to go up and look....
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