The Roller Coaster at New York-New York

The Roller Coaster at New York-New York

Location

3790 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV, 89109
United States
Name of Attraction: The Roller Coaster at NY NY
Type of Attraction: Fun rides
Location: New York New York Hotel
Distance from the Strip: On the Strip
Cost: $14+
Minimum Recommended Ages: Must be 54 inches tall, 10-18 years old
Duration of Attraction: 2 minutes, 45 seconds

In a word: OUCH! It's unusual for a hypercoaster (a coaster with a height of about 200 feet) to include inversions. The Roller Coaster shows why. Its over-the-shoulder harnesses incorporate side-to-side head restraints. When the coaster cranks into high gear, its rough ride turns passengers into human pinballs. For riders caught in the head banger's brawl, this is one New York minute that can't end too soon.

The setting is surreal, Las Vegas-style. The faux New York City skyline along Sin City's famed Strip, with its Statue of Liberty, Chrysler building, and other landmarks, is both enchanting and unsettling--particularly with the "Eiffel Tower" looming just across the street. Snaking through the Manhattan mock-up, and creating quite a scene on Las Vegas Boulevard, is the roller coaster's red track.

It would have been so much more apropos to build a classic white wood coaster in homage to Coney Island's famed Cyclone (or at least a steel coaster made to look like a woodie, such as California Screamin' at Disney's California Adventure). The casino's designers, however, opted for a steel looping hypercoaster.

Instead of doubling the fun, The Roller Coaster's hypercoaster heights and looping inversion elements cancel each other out--and cause some pain to boot. Rather than being built for height and speed, the coaster climbs over 200 feet, but (to accommodate the inversions?) only drops 144 feet and reaches a relatively puny top speed of 67 mph. In place of the graceful inversions of most looping coasters, the ride's jarring twists and turns are worse than a cab ride during rush hour in midtown Manhattan.

The Roller Coaster at New York-New York Details:

  • Hours of operation: Sunday - Thursday, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Friday - Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - midnight.
  • Cost: $14 per person. Second-time riders can purchase an additional ticket for $7. Both tickets should be purchased at the same time. The All-Day Scream Pass is $25. The "Flight-for-Four" package is available for $56 and includes admission for four as well as two souvenir photos Please call for special group rates.
  • Payment options: Cash, American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa.
  • Reservations: N/A.
  • Location: Located on the second level inside the New York-New York hotel-casino at the south end of the Strip where Las Vegas Boulevard meets Tropicana Avenue.
  • Age/Height/Weight restrictions: You must be 54 inches tall to ride, and no loose articles are allowed on the ride.
Contact
Telephone: 
(702) 740-6969

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