Do you know what is yea? You drink tea on 328 meters!
The Auckland City Sky Tower is the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere at 328 metres. Located in the heart of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. With picturesque views from the tower, come in and enjoy one of SKY CITY’s restaurants and bars. There’s something to suit everyone’s taste.
The Sky Tower, built in 1997, is an Auckland landmark icon. Upper levels accommodate communications equipment, three circular public observation levels – Sky Deck, Main Observation level, and the Sky Lounge, a revolving restaurant, from each of which you can get a 360-degree view of Auckland. This 170 ton tower attracts over 600,000 visitors each year and is owned and operated by SKY CITY Entertainment Group. Tourists come for numerous reasons but the main one being Sky tower contains New Zealand’s largest casino and offers table and slot machine gaming. The tower also features the Sky Jump, a 192 metre controlled fall from the observation deck of the tower similar to bungee jumping. Knowing that Chunkmonster is the proud collector of numerous casino chips, agreed to venture up the hill with some of my Kiwi colleagues.
As principal sponsor of Auckland Festival, SKY CITY is celebrating it’s association with the Auckland Festival by lighting the Sky Tower orange.
Sky jump is a whole new way of falling off things. Jumpers wear a “flying suit” and full body harness. They are then clipped to the jump cable by professional Jump masters and simply “step off”. The cable drum rotates as the cable feeds out, causing air resistance against fan blades on the end of the drum. This means Jumpers are effectively riding on a cushion of air. Jumpers fall very quickly until near the ground then decelerate to a safe landing speed. Ground rush is awesome.Sky Tower is beautiful at nigh where its lit up and is more visible than ever, especially at Christmas, Easter and well-marked events in the calendar, where sky tower is lit up in fantastic different colours. Its usually green and red at Christmas and pink to mark breast cancer awareness day. The colours vary throughout the year and you never know what colour it will be next. The Sky Tower is an icon on the Auckland skyline and the most prominent feature of SKY CITY Entertainment Group’s flagship property.
