Hurricane Irene seemed to have done a serious number on the beach north of Caesars. I seem to recall there being hardly any of it across from the Showboat. Well, that is still true now and, what’s more, there’s even LESS of it around where the Sands used to be. I really hope the Army Corp of Engineers comes back next year and dumps some more sand.
Resorts hasn’t changed as much as I had thought, although I guess you can either pay for all you can eat crab buffets or pay to have the art deco décor replaced with something out of Boardwalk Empire. Still, the flapper costumes on the cocktail waitresses are a nice touch and the dealers’ outfits, complete with green visors, provide interesting visuals. One other interesting feature was a group of people marching outside, presumably asking ladies wearing string bikinis to ‘untie them here’. Or maybe it was the union ‘Unite Here’ protesting Resorts, I really couldn’t tell. Their chanting was counter-balanced by placards from Resorts management explaining their side of the story.
A bit further up the boards, Revel is looking good. I couldn’t find any display of what the final product will look like (models, 3d computer images, etc), but I did find a little ‘café’ where you could buy soft drinks, shirts and hats and sign up for their emailing list. They also had some Xbox 360s with the Kinect motion system hooked up, although no one was playing them. I thought about asking the workers where the samples/models/mockups were, but they seemed less than friendly, probably due to being stuck on the northernmost end of the boardwalk on Labor Day weekend.
To be continued...
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