Because who has never wanted to take a balloon ride up into Earth’s stratosphere before? World View, a privately owned Arizona startup has announced that it will be selling tickets in the upcoming months for two-hour rides 19 miles into the air, offering princely views and the kingly price of $75,000 per ticket.

“This is a very gentle flight that will last for hours aloft,” said Jane Poynter, World View’s chief executive. She said the cabin would be about the size of that of a private jet, and would have a ” superbly comfortable, luxurious interior where you can get up and stand upright and move around and go back to the bar and get a drink.” Drinks are included in the price tag.

Though the balloon will not actually go into outer space, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has regulations stating that the World View capsule must meet the same safety requirements as a manned spacecraft orbiting Earth. “At Paragon’s intended altitude, water and blood boil, and an unprotected person would rapidly experience fatal decompression,” the FAA, which oversees commercial spaceflight in the United States, wrote in a letter Paragon provided to Reuters.

World View is not the only company starting to offer orbital balloon rides, though it is the cheapest. Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson’s London-based Virgin Group, has been building the SpaceShipTwo, a suborbital six-passenger, two-pilot vehicle owned by Virgin Galactic that is expected to reach about 68 miles above Earth. However, the ride on SpaceShipTwo will be more like a roller coaster ride with the top arc of the ride lasting only a few moments. Tickets for that ride will also cost $250,000.

On the other hand, World View’s balloon and capsule, which can hold six passengers and two crew members, would take around an hour and a half to reach the correct altitude altitude and then float for a couple of hours before the balloon was abandoned and the capsule would glide back to Earth beneath an inflated parasail.

“We really think there is a market for being able to contemplate the view,” said Taber MacCallum, the company’s chief technology officer. While the major shortcoming of the flight is that it will not actually reach space, the capsule will fly high enough to allow customers to view the planet’s curvature and for the sky to darken from blue to black.

Commercial rides won’t begin until 2015 so start saving now.