Vegas Stratosphere Ride Review: Fancy a Rollercoaster on Top of a Skyscraper?

Here’s my Stratosphere Hotel Review. You know the one – the hotel with a rollercoaster on top of the building in Las Vegas…

I’d said a definite no, when my friends asked if I’d ride the Vegas Stratosphere rollercoaster. There was no way I wanted to be on a rollercoaster on top of a building.

We’d booked the Stratosphere Hotel in Vegas for our one night in Sin City.

We were going to go all out and stay at the Bellagio but when I found a £20 per room deal at the Stratosphere, which included entry to the look out platform (usually $20), we decided to save our money for the gamblers.

Our rooms at the Stratosphere were ok. A great deal for the price, but not representative of the glitz and glamour of Vegas. It was the height of the Stratosphere Hotel building which was its main attraction, not the lobbies or facilities like many of the other hotels.

It’s a great choice for value, mainly because of the Stratosphere Big Shot ride on top of the skyscraper.

The Stratosphere Big Shot

I was in Vegas with friends who’d been before and as I had less than 24 hours in Vegas they denounced this was the best way to see the city, and I just had to do it. Especially as they all were.

I’m a sucker for peer pressure and so of course, somehow ended up in the queue.

We’d road tripped for the past 5 hours from Coachella Festival and arriving into Vegas we stank of 5 days of ridiculous fun from Coachella – we were a bit hazy for the same reason. So, after a quick shower and refresh we went straight up the Stratosphere to wake us up and get us in the Las Vegas spirit.

We really wanted to make the most of all the fun things to do in Vegas for our one day there.

After getting totally bamboozled into paying for the special three-ride deal they were doing for ‘one day only’ on the Stratosphere Big Shot – which as soon as we saw said ‘three rides’ we realised we didn’t want them – we joined the confusing elevator system up to the top.

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