Arthur's Blog: Atlantic City is Open for Business

Though it's not one of my own favorite places, Atlantic City is apparently open for business. That's a report by Seth Kugel, the "frugal traveler" of the New York Times, who traveled by bus to Atlantic City this week for the purpose of checking out damage from Hurricane Sandy. According to Kugel, those TV images of a destroyed boardwalk were of a residential area of the gambling city, and not of the well-preserved, open-for-business boardwalk fronting all of the famed casinos and saltwater taffy shops beloved of gaming types. Kugel won $60 at the slots, treated himself to a good meal at one of several restaurants jammed with happy patrons, and reports that all the attractions and lures of AC. are as potent and supposedly satisfying as ever. Don't ever say that we at Frommers.com are dismissive of low-life urges.