Atlantic city sucks

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Have you ever been to the Borgata? It's an oasis in the AC desert. The rest of the AC casinos are no worse than downtown Vegas, and parts of it are becoming more like the Vegas strip. Within three years, there will be four Borgata-quality casinos built, three of which will be on the boardwalk. And the others are upgrading to keep up. Casears is already really nice. Too bad their poker room is pretty dead. Overall, AC will be changing a lot in the next few years. The money is starting to pour in.

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I have been to the Borgata, and I like the physical structure, though it's confusing to get around all those slots and difficult to get to the pokerroom (if you don't already know how to get there). I think the idea in designing the hotel was that "if we build it in AC but away from the boardwalk, we'll get a classier clientele with more money" (notice that none of the charter buses or greyhound stop there) which may be how it's worked out for them (I know they are doing exceedingly well financially), but sorry, I would appreciate better access from the boardwalk. I also think that the staff there tries too hard to create an "exclusive" aura, and in the process, behave rudely, which - for a casino which is trying to be classy to have classless staff - um, I don't get it. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

But maybe I'm just too negative. I'll give it another try next time.

[nineinchal]

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haen't been back to AC since upon checkin at really nice property found giant cumstain on headboard...guy comes up cleans it & left, mgmt makes no comment &no apology or offer of room move/upgrade

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How can you tell a story like this and not name the hotel?

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It was the Taj. Trump let one fly after pulling out of Amorosa before he fired her. I can't believe you didn't see that one on pornotube.

[chillrob]

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Have you ever been to the Borgata? It's an oasis in the AC desert. The rest of the AC casinos are no worse than downtown Vegas, and parts of it are becoming more like the Vegas strip. Within three years, there will be four Borgata-quality casinos built, three of which will be on the boardwalk. And the others are upgrading to keep up. Casears is already really nice. Too bad their poker room is pretty dead. Overall, AC will be changing a lot in the next few years. The money is starting to pour in.

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I have been to the Borgata, and I like the physical structure, though it's confusing to get around all those slots and difficult to get to the pokerroom (if you don't already know how to get there). I think the idea in designing the hotel was that "if we build it in AC but away from the boardwalk, we'll get a classier clientele with more money" (notice that none of the charter buses or greyhound stop there) which may be how it's worked out for them (I know they are doing exceedingly well financially), but sorry, I would appreciate better access from the boardwalk. I also think that the staff there tries too hard to create an "exclusive" aura, and in the process, behave rudely, which - for a casino which is trying to be classy to have classless staff - um, I don't get it. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

But maybe I'm just too negative. I'll give it another try next time.

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It is very easy to get to the Borgata poker room if you park in the surface lot - just walk up to the building (I've never had to park far away), in the door, walk left past the sportsbook and you're there!

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AC needs a monorail. 4 stops on the boardwalk, 2 in the Marina and one at the big parking garage they should build near the intersection of the AC Expressway and the Garden State Parkway.

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This seems excessive, considering that the Jitney service is really excellent on the boardwalk. And though it can take some time to get from marina <--> boardwalk on the jitney (esp. Borgata), it will still get you there for $2.

[NickMPK]

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Within three years, there will be four Borgata-quality casinos built, three of which will be on the boardwalk. And the others are upgrading to keep up. Casears is already really nice. Too bad their poker room is pretty dead. Overall, AC will be changing a lot in the next few years. The money is starting to pour in.

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Is this really true? As of when I was there last week, the Sands building was still standing there taking up space. Completely replacing a boardwalk casino seems like a massive undertaking that AFAIK was still in the planning stages. I have a hard time believing they will have three new Borgatas built and opened within three years.

[nineinchal]

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Within three years, there will be four Borgata-quality casinos built, three of which will be on the boardwalk. And the others are upgrading to keep up. Casears is already really nice. Too bad their poker room is pretty dead. Overall, AC will be changing a lot in the next few years. The money is starting to pour in.

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Is this really true? As of when I was there last week, the Sands building was still standing there taking up space. Completely replacing a boardwalk casino seems like a massive undertaking that AFAIK was still in the planning stages. I have a hard time believing they will have three new Borgatas built and opened within three years.

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Slot revenues in AC are declining.

Slots are up in Philly. I can't believe Philly will be letting AC keep an edge by not offering table games.


Florida is getting the poker crap cleared up in a few weeks. They are also bringing in craps and BJ.


Yonkers raceway has slots now. They are renovating the Boardwalk in Coney Island in Brooklyn. My lawyer freind went to a golf outing the other day about renovating the boardwalk in Rockaway with a bunch of city and state legislators. I can't believe NY won't find some excuse to bring in the gambling.

I do not believe all the new casino projects will be started in AC since they will not be profitable with the new gambling in PA and NY

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Yep, AC sucks.

Now leave, Shoobie.

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QFT + learn how to [censored] drive.

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I do not believe all the new casino projects will be started in AC since they will not be profitable with the new gambling in PA and NY

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A decline in revenue doesn't mean they're not still profitable. They are. It's like a $5 billion dollar industry here still, the problem is that the casinos here are relatively old. The higher end casinos here are having no revenue problems whatsoever.

Killing off the Sands was a good start, getting rid of a couple others and putting up some nicer ones will go a long way.

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I would think that the fact that PA is getting casinos would mean that AC would have to up the ante in order to compete, and will try to do so.

Don't know if it is feasible, but I would love to see a new casino (or an existing one) on the Boardwalk start a really nice big poker room to compete with the Borgata. The Borgata is a great place, but the fact that it is not on the boardwalk/beach is a big negative if you want the full AC experience.

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Hurry back! You missed the thrill of the road which goes to Absecon, with the concrete barrier, which prevents all left turns and U turns....for miles!! I don't hold it against the town. They probably figured it's the only way to prevent "head on" collisions.

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I was trying to get to AC from Ventnor which is aprox 2 mile south. ..............
I never found out the reason they were redirecting traffic.

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[magoo]

You said a mouthful. But, 90% of what you wrote is b.s.

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everybody knows this city sucks, and is dirty, and has ugly hookers but...they also have casinos, and in those casinos you can gamble

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