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Wine, Dine and Unwind Every Day of the Week at The Borgata
It seems like lately, The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City has been offering all kinds of deals and specials to lure in gamblers and sun-seekers despite the economic slump. They’ve had $99 night rates, prix-fixe spa menus, had No Doubt kick off their comeback tour there in May, and hired Hell’s Kitchen winner Danny Veltri to work at the hotel’s Fornelletto Cucina Italiano.
Speaking of which, one of the latest special is a new Wine Down Wednesdays at Fornelletto featuring specially priced small plates paired with wines from a different Italian region each month. In October, the pairings will be wines from the south of the country, like dry red Nero D’Avola ($8/glass) from Sicily, and bright white Falanghina ($10/glass) from Campania.
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Bookable Rooms at The Borgata for $99
This year's most auspicious date - 9-9-09 - is fast approaching, and although we ended up pretty unimpressed by the Mondrian's virtually-unbookable $99 deal in Hollywood, we're hoping that the $99 specials at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa and The Water Club at the Borgata in Atlantic City work out better.
There are three parts to the Borgata's 9-9-09 promotion, the first being the same $99 room deal offered by the Mondrian – but better, because when we checked the online reservations we actually found plenty of $99 rooms, and you don't even need a special code.
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The Chelsea Atlantic City Puts The Focus Back On The Beach
This is what the beach in Atlantic City, NJ looks like, specifically just in front of The Chelsea Hotel. It's been open just barely a year, and as the city's only non-gaming nice hotel on the Boardwalk, we're surprised it's doing so well.
When we popped by last weekend, we noticed that the area of the beach covered with "The Chelsea" umbrellas and chaise loungers was definitely the most populous of all the hotel sand. Our theory? We think that the people who come to stay in The Chelsea in Atlantic City are the ones who are there to enjoy the natural beauty of Atlantic City (the beach, the walking down the boardwalk) rather than the lights and synthetic glamor of the casinos and expensive buffets at the other hotels.
And you know what? We're right there with The Chelsea guests; we can only handle so much Trump.
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Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal Covers The Grit In Gilt
Guess where we were last weekend? No, not Las Vegas, but close! We took a day trip down to Atlantic City for the fun of it, and for some hotel reconnaissance. Also, we only took a day trip because we refuse to pay over $200 a night at a hotel where weeknights go for $40-60.
If you haven't already guessed from our picture above, we meandered through a Trump property or two, this one that obviously overdosed on chandeliers being the Trump Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal is like an old Jersey Shore woman spending her retirement getting plastic surgery: she pretties up here and there, but in the end she's still old and still facing the inevitable.
But now that Donald Trump has recently bought back control of his Atlantic City properties, will this old lady shake her weakening hips once more? For the record, we also spent time at the Hilton, Showboat, Caesar's (where we won $25 on slots!), and Resorts, and, although the Taj still has a lot of work to do to reheat Atlantic City's hipness, at least it isn't the worst property on the boardwalk.
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Order Up Some Class, Pure Class, at The Water Club at The Borgata
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series where we profile fun new summer drinks that hotels are making. Got one we should know about? Send us the recipe with a photo of the drink. Otherwise, enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
Yesterday we told you how the Borgata would let you cash in on your clubbin' habits but there's something a little more refined going on at the hotel's sister property, The Water Club.
Inside the hotel's lobby lounge is The Sunroom, a sun-filled space (hence the name) where water cascades down the curved, 50-foot linear blue stone wall into a reflective pool. We know! It's so classy for AC.
Speaking of class, while you're gossiping about the Real Housewives of New Jersey or whether or not you got the latest Bon Jovi or Springsteen tickets, why don't you order yourself some Pure Class? That's a drink made with vodka, fresh stawberries, fresh lemon juice, rock candy syrup and some perrier jouet champagne.
The drink is available in the Sunroom for $14, along with other fresh fruit concoctions (for $12) like the Basil Berry (made with gin), the Blue Berry (made with absolut ruby red and blueberries) and the Banana Cafejito (made with malibu banana and kahlua mocha) but you can make it yourself at home. It's the perfect drink to sip during those RHONJ marathons!
Just don't flip the table after you've had too many. Not classy at all.
Check out recipes for The Sunroom's cocktails after the jump.
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Cash In On Your Clubbing Habits at the Borgata
Atlantic City's Borgata is new, it's nice — and, in our experience, it's a mighty fine place to party. And we're guessing they know it, too: they've launched Borgata Nightlife Rewards, a loyalty program designed for nightlife customers. Ha! So you can cash in on your clubbin'. Nice.
If you sign up for the My Borgata Card, you can earn comp dollars based on everything you spend at the hotel/casino's nightlife venues — mur.mur, MIXX, Gypsy Bar and B-Bar — and then you can use those points toward rooms, even more nightlife, dining, spa treatments, entertainment, retail and whatever you need at the Borgata and its sister property, The Water Club. (Oh, warning though: you can't buy gum. The last time we were there, a retail staffer told us they don't sell gum on the premises. Ugh.)
As part of the launch, the Borgata is also running a "Soul & Cash Giveaway," where you can win one of three Kia Souls (yes, that would be the boxy car driven by the rodents in that commercial), cash and other nightlife prizes if you hit up the Borgata nightlife venues on August 8th, August 22nd and September 5th — more details here.
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Paris Hilton Doesn't Let Breakup Interfere With Busy Table-Dancing Schedule
Paris Hilton is going through yet another breakup as yet another one of her "I'm so in love, we'll be together forever" relationships has crashed and burned. The poor fella' this time? Doug Reinhardt. The "table-dancing must go on" post-breakup venue? mur.mur at The Borgata Hotel & Spa in Atlantic City.
Paris hosted a night at the club this past Saturday with some fake "BFFs" and some real ones like fashion designer Richie Rich. Paris even was paid to say shouted out that "mur.mur is the best club in Atlantic City. Borgata is Vegas on the East Coast. So hot I love it!"
Apparently, the party girl stopped at the hotel on her way to Dubai and spent a night in one of The Water Club hotel rooms. Before hitting up mur.mur, she dined at Izakaya with friends. Also in attendance that night at mur.mur was Danny Veltri, recent winner of Hell’s Kitchen, who is getting ready for the opening of Fornelletto Cucina Italiana from Chef Stephen Kalt this summer. In the words of Paris herself, "Yeah, that's hot."
More Paris party pics after the jump.
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Shootout At The Trump Taj Mahal
Ugh. An employee of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was killed yesterday after sustaining gunshot wounds during what appears to have been an attempted robbery at the Casino. The victim, a shift manager who had been working for the hotel since the first day it opened (almost 20 years) died after a frequent patron of the casino shot him in his office.
Eerily, nobody on the casino floor really noticed all the ruckus going on. According to CBS news:
The shooting and its aftermath were not visible from the casino floor, and the gambling hall remained fully open until management shut its table games down Wednesday evening and sent home workers assigned there. Slot machines remained open.
Yeah. Gotta keep those slots open, no matter what, apparently.
This is the latest in a string of unfortunate incidents at the hotel: in January, there was an 11-hour standoff with a man waving a gun around and, in February, the hotel filed for Chapter 11.
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Order Off the Spa 'Prix-Fixe Menu' This Week in Atlantic City
You know a restaurant is goin' for a fancypants vibe when there's a prix-fixe menu involved (or they're just luring the too-tired-for-math Sunday brunch crowd in with the promise of easy billing) — we assume the same is true of a prix-fixe spa menu.
This week (May 17th through 22nd) in Atlantic City, The Borgata's Spa Toccare and The Water Club's Immersion Spa are launching the first-ever "Spa Toccare & Immersion Week," which is kinda like spa week in major cities — i.e., there are major discounts happening.
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The Chelsea AC Celebrates Memorial Day With New Nightlife Options
Okay, New Yorkers. You know you want to get out of the city for Memorial Day. Surely, if the weather's nice, the tourists are gonna be swarming every city block, Astoria Beer Garden is going to be packed and your normal daytime drinking spots are going to be tough to move around in. We know you probably don't want to hear this, but just flee to Jersey already. At least for the weekend.
How about this to entice you (and everyone else, not just NYC-ers): The new, chic Chelsea Atlantic City is gettin' ready for the summer season by launching new nightlife options on Memorial Day. Party people, meet the Cabana Club and C5.
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No Doubt Kicks Off Comeback at the Borgata
Back from those long walks along California beaches with husband Gavin Rossdale and babies Kingston and Zuma (as heavily, heavily chronicled by People and Us Weekly), Gwen Stefani and her band No Doubt kicked off their world tour at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in New Jersey on Saturday night.
Perez Hilton reported a Zuma sighting at the concert and then cited the singer shouting to fans: "Its so good to be back after five f-ing years" and "I forgot how adorable you all were!" (Good thing Zuma was sporting big blue headphones; he probably didn't hear his mom say the F-word). No sign of Gavin and Kingston, though. Maybe they were having some father-son bonding time workin' the BlackJack tables.
Following the show, the 38-year-old mommy showed she could turn it out late night along with Jersey's finest, as she was spotted partying at the hotel's club mur.mur into the wee hours.
[Photo: Donald Kravitz/Getty Images via NJ.com]
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'Hell's Kitchen' Descends on The Borgata Atlantic City
Tip: Fast forward to the 5:07 mark for their trip to The Borgata
Anybody watching this fifth season of Hell's Kitchen with angry chef Gordon Ramsay knows all too well about the final grand prize awaiting the winner: a restaurant of their own within the The Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. This most recent episode not only revealed the unfinished, massive space, but also gave viewers of the show a peek at the features of The Borgata and a glimpse inside the hotel's pimpin' private jet.
Aside from the jet and the restaurants, we learn from the hotel's Director of Marketing that The Borgata "launched the culinary revolution in Atlantic City" and was named a "Foodie Hotel" by Forbes.com. Big boasts from the hotel, but then we get a tour of the hotel's other restaurants from Bobby Flay and Wolfgang Puck to prove that they do have the big-name restaurants.
Perhaps now we'll have to start watching Hell's Kitchen, if only to see at whose place we'll able to eat in a year or so. Fast forward towards the end of the video to check out the gigantic space allotted to the winner. At a point, one of the finalists asks the Director of Marketing "how many square feet is this?" to which the Director replies, "more than you can use, I bet." No fooling; this is a huge new venture for a hotel in a city already struggling in the economy.
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