This summer, the first “zip biking” experience in the U.S. will arrive in Kauai, Hawai’i, where local operator Koloa Zipline challenges guests to strap in and zoom across harrowing heights on a bike.
Luxury hotels are also introducing spine-tingling height experiences of their own. Amangiri recently added the Cave Peak aerial stairway—a 120-step sky ladder suspended 400 feet above Utah’s rugged rock formations—to its offerings. Meanwhile, guests of W Costa Rica can zipline directly from the infinity pool to the beach for their next swim. So far, these kinds of experiences are working to boost occupancy. According to Virtuoso’s managing director Misty Belles, the number of bookings for hotels with in-house adventure experiences in 2021 has nearly reached the same level as 2019, a year considered to be a high-water mark of travel.
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