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People walk on the beach near The Boardwalk entrance to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section exotic car rental vancouver of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing exotic car rental vancouver Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
The property that debuted at sunrise on April 2, 2012, with its then-president joining New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno in a blueberry smoothie toast, quietly ended operations as the last handful of gamblers, who never turned out in great enough numbers to keep Revel alive, filed out of the sleek glass tower.
When I started, it was promising. We had high hopes, said Liditze Diaz, a restaurant worker at Revel. Then we started hearing rumors, exotic car rental vancouver but I thought, No way this place is going to close. It s too new, too pretty. It s hard to believe.
Revel became exotic car rental vancouver the second Atlantic City casino to shut down over Labor Day weekend, joining the Showboat, which closed its doors Sunday afternoon. Trump Plaza is closing on Sept. 16, and the Atlantic Club closed in January.
Atlantic City, which started the year with 12 casinos, will have eight before summer is over. Many casino analysts and industry executives say they expect the remaining casinos to fare better financially with less competition.
A casino worker walks out of The Boardwalk entrance exotic car rental vancouver to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
It s a ... shame, said Ruthie Fenimore of Warren, New Jersey, one of the last gamblers to play at Revel on Tuesday. I really love this place. This place would be perfect if it was in Las Vegas. It would be right up there with Wynn. All the restaurants were awesome exotic car rental vancouver and HQ is the best nightclub I ve ever been to in New Jersey. I remember the first time I came here, I was lying on the bed opening and closing the curtains with a remote control. It blew my mind. The bathroom was bigger than my home.
Revel had been slated to close at 6 a.m., but staff shut it down 35 minutes early, pulling yellow chains across its entrances, and herding the small handful of gamblers that remained inside toward the doors. A pre-recorded announcement programmed in advance blared through loudspeakers precisely at 6 a.m., saying Attention: Revel Casino is now closed. Immediately, lights began snapping off inside the glass-covered building, built to appear as it if had been sculpted by waves.
But Revel had gone mostly dark hours earlier. Its hotel, shaped like the 1950s cartoon character Gumby, was closed on Monday, and it was virtually invisible in the early morning darkness. exotic car rental vancouver The iconic ball atop the building, designed by the son of actor Frank Gorshin, who played The Riddler on the Batman TV series, was also turned off, and the only illumination was two emergency red lights at the very top of the structure to warn away approaching aircraft.
Casino workers and customers walk out of The Revel Hotel Casino together early in the morning Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m.Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing exotic car rental vancouver Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
The casino broke ground just before the Great Recession. It ran out of money halfway through construction and had to drop its plans for a second hotel tower while scrambling for the remaining $1 billion or so it needed to finish the project. When it opened, it was so laden with debt that it couldn t bring in enough revenue exotic car rental vancouver to cover it.
The idea behind Revel was to open a totally different resort, exotic car rental vancouver a seaside pleasure palace that just happened exotic car rental vancouver to have a casino as one of its features. That included Atlantic City s only total smoking ban, which alienated many gamblers; the lack of a buffet and daily bus trips to and from the casino; and the absence of a players club. By the time those decisions were reversed, it was already too late. High room and restaurant prices hurt, too.
They had to bring people exotic car rental vancouver in — give the customer what they want — and they weren t doing that, said Aubrey Becht, a slots attendant. They wanted the high-limit people, and there s not too many of those.
A casino worker secures a plastic chain across The Boardwalk entrance to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m.Tuesday. Revel is shutting exotic car rental vancouver down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic exotic car rental vancouver City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
i dont smoke but many gamblers do and do not want to go to a casino exotic car rental vancouver where they cannot smoke at the tables. i never went to revel but am sorry it closed...bad for the people that lost their jobs. gamblers will go elsewhere.