Atlantic City - Always Turned On

Atlantic City. It’s a seaside resort that combines the scenic beauty of a beach community, an array of unique attractions, and the action and excitement of high stakes gaming and headliner entertainment. It’s also where you’ll find a kaleidoscope of elite shopping, non-stop nightlife, comedy and musicals, restaurants featuring famous chefs, and beautiful beaches and back bays.

You say you don’t believe it? Just ask Bobby Flay, Michael Mina, Tommy Bahama, Jeffrey Chodorow, Louis Vuitton, Stephen Starr, Hugo Boss, Jay Z or Wolfgang Puck. Because from The Pier Shops at Caesars to the 40/40 Club to The Chelsea, you’ll find them all in Atlantic City, and they’re all looking to show you the time of your life.

According to the Washington Post, “Atlantic City is dancing to a new beat. And it goes all night.” A part of that ‘new beat’ is one of Atlantic City’s newest non-gaming hotels, The Chelsea. Recently opened during the summer of 2008, The Chelsea boasts 331 luxury guest rooms, a spa including an outdoor heated salt-water pool, conference and banquet areas, pool side cabanas and pool bar, and two restaurants in partnership with Stephen Starr: Chelsea Prime and Teplitsky’s.

Also opened during the summer of 2008, The Water Club, a signature hotel by Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. The non-gaming 43-story hotel features 800 guest rooms and suites, 18,000-square feet of meeting space, and six retail shops. The hotel's motif is water, and its centerpiece is the two-story, 36,000-square foot Immersion Spa, which includes 15 treatment rooms, 25-yard lap pool and fitness center. Guests have the choice of two indoor swimming pools and two outdoor heated swimming pools.

Harrah's Atlantic City has been busy in recent years with the opening of The Pool, the Waterfront Buffet, an Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa - one of the largest in the chain - and new retail shops. The Pool is a year round tropical paradise under a huge glass dome, complete with hot tubs, private cabanas, a 50-seat bar and special events open to the public every week. The centerpiece of the project is a 47-story, 961-room Waterfront Tower featuring 183-suites and 13-super-suites for high rollers. Harrah's is now the tallest hotel in Atlantic City.

Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort has also added a new hotel tower to its offerings. The 39-story tower Chairman’s Tower features 786 guest rooms and 70 suites with beautiful ocean views. The standard guest rooms are larger than usual, at a minimum of 500 square feet. Plus you can take a walk down Spice Road, with eateries including Candy and Burger, Plate offers American cafe food 24 hours a day, and Go for food on the run.

Opened summer 2005, House of Blues at Showboat – The Mardi Gras Casino has brought a whole new attitude to the Boardwalk. Atlantic City’s House of Blues is the largest on the East Coast and includes a casino and poker room, a southern-inspired restaurant, Worship nightclub and a private membership club called The Foundation Room. The multi-level Music Hall, offering a dance floor and seated boxes for private viewing, has featured musicians from all walks of life such as INXS, Octane, Boz Scaggs, Tesla, Method Man with Little Brother and B.B. King.

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has been credited for taking Atlantic City to the next level in 2003, and have never looked back. Before completing The Water Club, Borgata added a 500,000 square foot expansion including slots and table games, and both the poker room and Spa Toccare have been expanded. Many famous chefs have hung an open sign on the door. Bobby Flay has introduced his first steakhouse, Bobby Flay Steak. Both Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina have made their East Coast debuts in Atlantic City. Puck opened the self-titled restaurant, Wolfgang Puck American Grille, and Mina opened Seablue. And Michael Schulson recently opened Izakaya.

Always alive. Always vibrant. Always Turned On. That’s Atlantic City, a seaside resort and glittering gaming capital of the East Coast that hosts 33 million visitors a year, making it the fifth largest tourist destination in the United States.

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