Las Vegas of the East coast...Nah!
December 28-29Went to Atlantic City, NJ last week for a overnight trip. We (Ram, Sid and I) left on the 28th late in the afternoon to drive towards NJ. We were armed with a Garmin (cool GPS gadget which tells us the way) and hopes of winning millions. The garmin has two options the shortest route and the second is the fastest route. We picked the shortest route and it took through some country roads and also West Baltimore (murder capital of the US).
Anyway we reached Atlantic city, the city on which the board game Monopoly is based. We saw some of the streets as we were looking for a place to stay (Baltic Ave, Atlantic Avenue, Pacific avenue, No. Carolina ave, and of course the Boardwalk). Again Garmin proved to be a worthy ally. We parked our car and started calling the hotels listed on the Garmin. We finally found a place called the Burgundy Inn (run by Indians) for a bargain. The guy was going to charge us 20 dollars a head for a room with two double beds. It was a little too Good
to believe and I demanded that we see the room. The poor manager was hurt and reiterated that all his rooms were good. It was a good room after all - clean and enough for the few hou
rs we were going to be there.
After a quick wash we headed to our first spot the Irish Bar and Inn. It was a quaint bar with good beer and live music. The guy on the guitar was playing some really good classic rock and very soon we were singing along with him. He was so impressed that we (read Sid) knew all the words for the songs and came up for a chat. We asked him where he would recommend for us to go on a Thursday night. He suggested the Gypsy bar at the Borgota.
W
e first walked out onto the Boardwalk and went to the Trump Taj Mahal (Shahjahan would have been turning in his grave). It minarets looked like a cross between the Kremlin
n and the Taj's - so it was what it was meant to be - a cheesy looking casino. We walked around and then headed out to the Borgota. We found it thanks to the Garmin, but couldn't have missed it cos it was huge purple casino and hotel off the boardwalk. We found the Gypsy bar where they had a live band playing some loud alternative rock. We had a drink or two and decided to give it a pass as it was too loud.
We then went on to the Ballys Park place with the wild west casino. We tried our luck at the slots here. But luckily we were 'low rollers' and di
dn't loose any significant amount of money. We then passed by the Cesar's though we didn't go inside.
we headed back towards the boardwalk and went to a Casino called the Resorts. Architecturally I thought this was the most impressive. It w
as built in the art deco style and had a imposing facade (our hotel room incidentally had a view the resorts parking lot).
We found a bar there called 25 hours and had one last drink for the night (er...morning). We then found a coffee shop and had a nice meal before calling it a day.
It w
as 6:00 a.m. and we had to check out at 11:00 a.m. so we decided that it was time to head back to the Burgundy.
The trip was a good break especially since it is only 4 hours away. But any comparisons to Las Vegas is out of the question but I am not complaining as I had a great time in monopoly town.
Anyway we reached Atlantic city, the city on which the board game Monopoly is based. We saw some of the streets as we were looking for a place to stay (Baltic Ave, Atlantic Avenue, Pacific avenue, No. Carolina ave, and of course the Boardwalk). Again Garmin proved to be a worthy ally. We parked our car and started calling the hotels listed on the Garmin. We finally found a place called the Burgundy Inn (run by Indians) for a bargain. The guy was going to charge us 20 dollars a head for a room with two double beds. It was a little too Good
to believe and I demanded that we see the room. The poor manager was hurt and reiterated that all his rooms were good. It was a good room after all - clean and enough for the few hou
rs we were going to be there.After a quick wash we headed to our first spot the Irish Bar and Inn. It was a quaint bar with good beer and live music. The guy on the guitar was playing some really good classic rock and very soon we were singing along with him. He was so impressed that we (read Sid) knew all the words for the songs and came up for a chat. We asked him where he would recommend for us to go on a Thursday night. He suggested the Gypsy bar at the Borgota.
W
e first walked out onto the Boardwalk and went to the Trump Taj Mahal (Shahjahan would have been turning in his grave). It minarets looked like a cross between the Kremlin
n and the Taj's - so it was what it was meant to be - a cheesy looking casino. We walked around and then headed out to the Borgota. We found it thanks to the Garmin, but couldn't have missed it cos it was huge purple casino and hotel off the boardwalk. We found the Gypsy bar where they had a live band playing some loud alternative rock. We had a drink or two and decided to give it a pass as it was too loud.We then went on to the Ballys Park place with the wild west casino. We tried our luck at the slots here. But luckily we were 'low rollers' and di
dn't loose any significant amount of money. We then passed by the Cesar's though we didn't go inside.we headed back towards the boardwalk and went to a Casino called the Resorts. Architecturally I thought this was the most impressive. It w
as built in the art deco style and had a imposing facade (our hotel room incidentally had a view the resorts parking lot).We found a bar there called 25 hours and had one last drink for the night (er...morning). We then found a coffee shop and had a nice meal before calling it a day.
It w
as 6:00 a.m. and we had to check out at 11:00 a.m. so we decided that it was time to head back to the Burgundy.The trip was a good break especially since it is only 4 hours away. But any comparisons to Las Vegas is out of the question but I am not complaining as I had a great time in monopoly town.
posted by Prathap @ 7:50 PM
1 Comments:
I was suprised about your gadget Garmin. Could you send a photo of the gadget. I wonder when we can get such in India. but i am sure it will be soon
Amma
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