Built
on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip in 1996, the 2,427-room Stratosphere
includes a tower that is 1,149 feet tall. Among the hotel's attractions is the
SkyJump, which gives intrepid guests the opportunity to don a safety suit
attached to cables and jump off the building's 108th floor to experience an
855-foot "controlled descent."
The
hotel also features Big Shot and Insanity (the world's second- and
third-highest thrill rides), an 80,000-square-foot casino and the Top of the
World restaurant.
Best Western is also adding the 1,906-room Aquarius Casino Resort in Laughlin, Nevada, which is about 100 miles south of Las Vegas. The two casino resorts are among the hotels that Golden Entertainment is buying as part of its acquisition of American Casino & Entertainment Properties.
Golden Entertainment said last month that it would pay $850 million for
American Casino, which also owns Arizona Charlie's Decatur and Arizona
Charlie's Boulder.
Best Western, which has 4,100 hotels worldwide, launched the BW Premier tier in late 2015.
Source: GMB/ Travel Weekly
