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Sky Tower Review

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Sky Tower

  • Address: Victoria and Federal Sts., City Center, Auckland
  • Phone: 09/912-6000

Fodor's Review:

The joke among Auckland residents is that your property value rises if you can't see this 1,082-foot beacon. Yet it's also the first place Aucklanders take friends and relatives visiting from overseas to give them a view of the city. Up at the main observation level, the most outrageous thing is the glass floor panels -- looking down at your feet, you see the street hundreds of yards below. Adults usually step gingerly onto the glass, and kids delight in jumping up and down on it. More educational are the audio guides to Auckland and touch-screen computers that you'll find on the deck. There's also an outdoor observation level. Through glass panels in the floor of the elevator you can see the counterweight fly up to pass you. For an adrenaline rush you can even take a controlled leap off Sky Jump, a 630-foot observation deck, for a steep $195. For a slightly less heart-stopping experience (and price, at $145), take the Vertigo Climb. On this, you can climb up inside the mast to emerge at the crow's nest 1,000 feet up. At that height you're above the weather, and people have reportedly seen rainbows as complete circles.

  • Cost: $18
  • Open: Sun.-Thurs. 8:30 AM-11 PM, last elevator 10:30 PM, Fri. and Sat. 8:30 AM-midnight, last elevator 11:30 PM

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