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I have stayed at the stratosphere before and I liked the way the hotel looks. Like every hotel it has its ups and its downs. The rooms were clean and spacious. We didn’t have any problems with them at all. The two downs that we saw was that even if we were on the floors near the pool the only thing that we saw outside our window were vents and the bottom part of the tower and that since it is all the way at the end of the strip you have to walk along way to get to the center of the strip. The place that we ate was the buffet and it was great the food had good variety and they catered to almost everyone. I would recommend this hotel to anyone that I know is going for the first time. Room Rates: as of now for weekday stays start at around a night and on weekends start at TOWER TICKETS Adult – .00 Child – .00 Senior – .00 Nevada Resident – .00 RIDE TICKETS Big Shot – .00 X-Scream – .00 Insanity – .00 SkyJump – .00 and up EXTREME VALUE PACKAGES(sky jump not included) Tower Admission + All Day Unlimited Rides – Tower Admission + 3 Rides – Tower Admission + 2 Rides – Tower Admission +1 ride – Express Pass – additional .00 For reservations please go to www.stratospherehotel.com and tell them the the vegas reviewer on youtube sent you please visit out shop and help us out by buying something http

It’s the only sky jump in North America and the highest in the world. SkyJump is a controlled free fall, similar to a vertical zip line. The launching pad is located on the 108th floor of Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas, 855 feet above the Las Vegas Strip. Jumpers are harnessed in and attached to a cable that is connected to a descender machine. Guide wires keep the skyjumper on course and on target. Just before reaching the rapidly approaching ground, the skyjumper is slowed down for a controlled and safe landing.

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The view from the hotel we stayed at in Vegas. Music in this clip is Smells like teen spirit – Paul Anka and Viva Las Vegas – Wilmer X Stratosphere Las Vegas is a tower, hotel, and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its tower is also the tallest observation tower, and the 5th-tallest structure, in the United States, as well as being the tallest structure in Las Vegas. It is owned by Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co who purchased American Casino & Entertainment Properties which includes the Stratosphere along with three other properties. The sale closed on February 21, 2008 for US.3 billion. The property’s signature attraction is the 1149 ft (350.2 m) Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States, and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, surpassed only by the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario. The hotel is a separate building with 24 stories, 2427 rooms and an 80000 sq ft (7400 m2) casino.
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Stratosphere Las Vegas Hotel Casino Rides. More at amzn.to and www.thetraveltart.com

Insanity Ride Stratosphere Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Insanity the Ride is a truly mind-bending experience! A massive mechanical arm extending out 64 feet over the edge of the Stratosphere Tower at a height of over 900 feet, this Vegas ride will spin you and several other passengers in the open air at speeds of up to three ‘G’s. You’ll be propelled up to an angle of 70 degrees, which will tilt your body into one position — straight down! If you’re brave enough to keep your eyes open you’ll be rewarded with a breathtaking view of historic downtown Las Vegas. Experience Insanity and walk away to tell the tale!
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Stratosphere Las Vegas

History

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In the early 1990s, The Stratosphere was conceived by Bob Stupak to replace his Vegas World casino. At the conception of the project, one of the planned rides was to be a giant ape that would carry riders up and down one of the tower’s columns. The original plans envisioned the Stratosphere exceeding the height of the CN Tower (1,815 ft (553 m)), making it the world’s tallest freestanding structure at that time. However, due to possible interfence with nearby McCarran International Airport, and any possible flights that come through Las Vegas, the Tower’s proposed height shrank multiple times until its current height of 1,149 ft (350 m).

On August 29, 1993, the Tower caught fire while still under construction. No one was injured, but the fire forced repairs and rebuilding that led to numerous delays in the construction of the Tower.

In 1995, Grand Casinos was brought on as an equity partner for the still privately funded project under construction. While construction was still progressing, the Stratosphere Corporation was formed as a public company with shares being offered to the public.

The Stratosphere opened on April 30, 1996. Shortly after opening, the Stratosphere Corporation was forced to file bankruptcy. This caused construction on the second tower to stop, with only a few stories partially built, and it allowed Carl Icahn to gain control through one of his companies by buying a majority of the outstanding bonds.

A major addition was completed in June 2001 for billion that included finishing the 1000-room second hotel tower.

In the early 2000s, the company attempted to get approval for a roller coaster that would run from several hundred feet up the tower and, in the last proposal, across Las Vegas Boulevard. Part of that last proposal included an entry monument on the ride over Las Vegas Boulevard welcoming people to the City of Las Vegas. The Las Vegas City Council did not approve the project due to objections from the neighbors over possible noise from the enclosed cars on the proposed ride.

Restaurants

Dining options include Top of the World, a revolving restaurant; Fellini Italian Ristorante; a buffet featuring a one price/eat-all-day option; Roxy, a 50-themed diner with singing servers; and Lucky Cafe, a coffee shop and full menu restaurant reminiscent of Vegas in its “Rat pack” heyday.

Attractions

View from the top

The top of the tower has two observation decks, a restaurant known as “Top of the World” (revolving restaurant), and three thrill rides:

Big Shot at 1,081 ft (329 m) is the highest thrill ride in the world

Insanity, opened in 2005, at 900 ft (270 m) is the second highest thrill ride in the world; it dangles riders over the edge of the tower and then spins in a circular pattern at approximately forty miles per hour

X-Scream at 866 ft (264 m) is the third highest thrill ride in the world

Previous attractions

The High Roller at 909 ft (277 m) was the second highest ride in the world and the highest roller coaster. It was closed on December 30, 2005 and dismantled to make space for a new attraction.

Future attractions

In January 2010, American Casino & Entertainment Properties announced a new thrill ride for the top of the tower: SkyJump, a Bungee jumping-like ride that will allow riders to plummet 855 feet attached to a bungee cord type apparatus. SkyJump is scheduled to open in April 2010.

Gaming

Some of the casino games include slot machines, video poker and European roulette. The Stratosphere has inherited some unusual variations on casino games from its Vegas World predecessor, such as “crapless craps”. The 80,000-square-foot casino includes approximately 50 table games, 1,500 slot and video poker machines, a poker room, and a race and sports book.

Controversies

In two separate incidents in 2005, riders were left dangling several hundred feet above the Las Vegas Strip for nearly an hour and a half when one of the thrill rides shut down. The ride didn’t malfunction, but was programmed to cease operation if a fault or problem is detected by the ride’s control system. Compensation was offered to the stranded riders.

Since its opening in 1996, five people have jumped to their deaths from the top of the tower.

Gallery

View looking upwards at The Stratosphere

The Stratosphere by night

View from front

View from ground at night

Clouds over the Stratosphere at midday

View from Stratosphere during construction

Insanity the Ride atop the Tower

The X Scream on top of the Stratosphere “drops” riders over the edge of the tower

View of the former High Roller ride

Aerial view of the Stratosphere

See also

List of towers

List of tallest freestanding structures in the world

X-Scream

Tower of the Americas

References

John L. Smith, No Limit: the Rise and Fall of Bob Stupak and Las Vegas’ Stratosphere Tower (Huntington Press, 1997) ISBN 0-929712-18-8

Notes

^ http://www.stratospherehotel.com/thrills/

^ Tower Fire Rained Debris’, Elizabeth Holland and Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Sun, August 30, 1993.

^ Official Las Vegas tourism site

^ http://www.aaavegas.com/attractions/the-stratosphere-las-vegas-hotel-casino-to-add-worlds-highest-skyjump”-to-their-collection-of-thrills/2010/01/11

^ ‘Teen and cousin suffer night of insanity’, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Keith Rogers, April 21, 2005

^ ‘Man jumps from Stratosphere Tower’, Joe Schoenmann, Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 7, 2000.

^ ‘Two Jump to their deaths at separate hotels’, K C Howard, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 16, 2002.

^ ‘Tragedy follows ‘Elvis’ show work’, Norm Clarke, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 30, 2005.

^ ‘Man jumps from Stratosphere Tower’, Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 8, 2006.

^ ‘Man jumps to death from Stratosphere Tower’, Las Vegas Sun, May 6, 2007

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Stratosphere Las Vegas

Stratosphere Las Vegas homepage

Las Vegas Leisure Guide page on the Stratosphere, with construction details

Stratosphere Tower at Structurae

Insanity the Ride

Insanity the Ride video

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