Las Vegas continues to be a popular affordable destinationthat can be visited via cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages. Dont make the mistake though of assumingthat the only game in town is gambling.
The following are popular new Vegas attractions that willappeal to visitors wanting to get their pulses up:
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SkyJump, the latest addition to the Stratosphere, is a controlled free fall from855 feet. Dare devils are first strappedinto a suit and then step off the edge. It is similar to a vertical zip line inthat you are attached to a cable all the way down. Towards the end you slow down to land like afeather.
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NewYork New York Hotel and Casinos roller coaster has cars designed to look likethe Big Apples yellow cabs. The rollercoaster reaches speeds of up to 67 mph. Riders are spun upside down at 203 feet, drop 144 feet, and twist andturn all within view of the faux New York skyline and the rest of the Las VegasStrip.
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VooDooSkyline Zip Ride is coming this summer to a location just west of theStrip. The VooDoo Skyline cable willspan 800 feet between the Rio Hotel and Casinos 50 story Masquerade Tower andthe Ipanema Tower. VooDoo is a zip ridewhere two people climb into specially designed seats and then have gravity takethem down at 33 mph. The ride will besimilar to a very fast ski lift and returns you backwards to the tower fromwhere you came.
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SlotZillais scheduled to commence service in 2015 and is a zip line experience thatcombines slot machines and out of control Japanese monsters. Riders will be spit out of an 11 story slotmachine like dollar coins once did. There will be two levels: the topwhere riders shoot down 1,700 feet under the Fremont Street Canopy, while thelower level riders travel 800 feet, at speeds of up to 35 mph.
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