Went last Saturday - Monday. Stayed at Ballys. Per one of the maintenance guys, the hotel suffered minimum damage, a few windows had blown out during the storm but were repaired, the front sign was damaged. Sammys beach bar was slightly in disaray, but is closed until next summer anyway. Piles of timbers/driftwood/ were nearby. Quite a few bottles in this mess, reminded me of opening scenes to Boardwalk Empire. Some of the walkways from the boardwalk to the beach, on the beach side, the hand rails were buried in the sand. The beach appeared to be extended way out to the ocean from where it normally had been the last few years, or at least from before they did the beach reclamation project years ago. There may have been a few more restauraunts closed at Ballys than normal, the Diamond lounge was closed on Monday. The bathroom's towards the boardwalk, south side of the casino were locked most of our stay due to "reduced staff", and the pool was drained. The crowd was pretty sparse on Saturday night, but Sunday seemed busier. Ballys was taking care of some of their employees whose homes were destroyed, by allowing them to stay in the hotel through the 16th, and allowing them comped food. As posted earlier, the boardwalk is OK until you get past Revel, that I heard was a ghost town last weekend.
