. "1"^^ . "2015-07-28T00:00:00"^^ . "My wife and I live in Vegas and there is a nice $25 discount for locals, so the cost is $50. That price is about worth it for a one-time experience, but it's not so spectacular that we'd do it again. I've been outdoor skydiving before, and she hasn't, but our evaluation of the experience was very similar.\n\nThe main issue for both of us is that it's missing the adrenaline rush (and we aren't adrenaline junkies by any means). The weightless sensation that comes with wind blowing upward against you is very similar to free-falling, but it doesn't come close to the actual \"thrill\" of skydiving. Part of the problem is that you are never more than a few feet above the metal grate floor (through which hot air from the fan below blows) so subconsciously you never feel at risk. This is because an instructor is always right next to you, holding on to you, so at most you'll be six feet off the floor. What makes real skydiving so spectacular isn't so much the floating feeling, it's the sensation of being out in open space, looking down seeing the ground thousands of feet below you, and powering through your subconscious fear. This experience, the way it is currently designed, isn't capable of replicating that. To get closer to that, you would need to be much higher in the chamber, more \"free\" and in control of your personal experience. What you are left instead is feeling relative weightlessness for brief periods (each person does this about 45 seconds at a time, 4 times total), which IS kind of fun, but it's not what I would call a \"wow\" experience."^^ . . "3"^^ . "0"^^ . "2"^^ . .