Atlantic City Casinos and Points Of Interest Map

After my recent discovery of Google's custom map features, I got inspired and creative. Here's the result:
Google Map of Atlantic City Casinos and Points Of Interest

Feel free to notify me of errors or additions.

DJ awesome job, I think you covered it quite well indeed! If I had any addition at all would a 92 year old restaurant that is a locals institution, The Knife and Fork, and it actually has pretty good food and drink.

Nice!

The Marina is actually called "Farley's Marina," after an old time state senator from the area.

Knife and Fork and Doc's Oyster house for sure..

You have the aquarium, but don't have Gardner's Basin, in which the aquarium sits. Some nice, casual restaurants there, too.

White House Sub Shops and/or Atlantic City Sub Shops for good sammiches.

The Irish Pub on St. James is a great spot that nobody ever goes to.

Chef Vola's is a banging.. BANGING Italian place. You need reservations months in advance though.

Angelo's Italian is casual, family-friendly Italian fare.

Going a little more regionally, you have Ram's Head Inn (fancy), Renault and/or Balic Wineries, Seaview Golf Course / Marriott hotel.

That's off the top of my head...

I purposely omitted CHef Vola, but it is one of the top Italian restaurants in the country. They just won a James Beard Award last month. Also just had my first White House Sub two weeks ago, it was so good I almost got an asthma attack from it!!

You have ACY, but not the Bus Terminal or the rail terminals.

Another Regional one - Storybook Land isn't that far away from AC. Good for the kiddos.

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I purposely omitted CHef Vola, but it is one of the top Italian restaurants in the country. They just won a James Beard Award last month. Also just had my first White House Sub two weeks ago, it was so good I almost got an asthma attack from it!!

Of the mind that if you don't tell anyone about it, you can get in more? :-). Seriously, it's *that* good of a place.

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The Marina is actually called "Farley's Marina," after an old time state senator from the area.

I *knew* it had a different name. Thanks. Funny thing though, in Wikipedia, "Farley's Marina" is an alias for Trump Marina, which now redirects to Golden Nugget. I.E. There's no Wikipedia entry for the marina itself.

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You have ACY, but not the Bus Terminal or the rail terminals.

I include ACY not so much because it's a POI, but more to point out just how far it is from A.C. - a point that I make often in the "AC's problems" threads.

I DID mention that the new convention center houses the train station, but it's not a POI, so no thumbtack. Ditto for the bus terminal.

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Another Regional one - Storybook Land isn't that far away from AC. Good for the kiddos.

Thanks. Added.

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The Irish Pub on St. James is a great spot that nobody ever goes to.

Nobody? I beg to differ.

Every time I go there, it's packed! I even stayed in their inn a couple times.


However, I left off all restaurants because they aren't POIs either. If you zoom in and see some, those are Google POIs - not mine. Ditto for hotels/motels. If you're really interested in that stuff, zoom in to see the Google POIs.

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Feel free to notify me of errors or additions.

Good job DJ.

My sick father wants to go there on the bus and walk for therapy. I don't have any idea where it is no longer safe to walk. If he starts at the Tropicana can he walk to the southern terminus of the boardwalk? How about to the elephant? Is it safe to go from the Hilton to the northern boardwalk casinos?

Is there a recommended shortcut to go from boardwalk to Marina?

On the boardwalk, it's fairly safe in the casino zone: from Showboat to Hilton. Of course, there are the two stretches where there aren't any casinos, where it may feel less safe, but I've never had or seen any problems. I've walked north past ShowBoat, to view the Revel work site. The only time I went further than that was with a group of about 20 people. We went all the way to the north end. The furthest south I ever went was to the Hilton.

I've driven from ShowBoat to Borgata, and thought that it's a rather shitty neighborhood that I was driving thru. I'm not sure I'd want to walk it. At least, not alone. Then again, they seem rather warn down, and somewhat ghetto-ish, but not like "gang land" or anything like that. So would I walk it? I suppose. But I'd be far more inclined to take the Jitney.

On the subject, the Jitney service is great, although the Jitney website doesn't have a route map. It does list the routes, but no map. Note: That page lists places to buy tickets, then the routes. You can also just pay the fare, exact change, on the bus.

Walking between casinos in the marina district is tricky because of the traffic, but at least it no longer feels like walking in the ghetto.

Walk all the way to Lucy? That 2.6 miles from Hilton to the end of the boardwalk, then another 1.3 miles to Lucy. I suppose it could be done....

nice job Dave, you put some work into this.