Atlantic City?

I havent been to Atlantic City in almost 15 years.    I was thinking of going next year.    A few questions for anyone who has insight...

1) What's current safety on and off the Boardwalk area?

2) Can you do a whole week there or does it get boring after a few days?   Other things to do besides casinos?

3) Best local restaurant (not in a casino)?

4) Best place to gamble as far as VP schedules, comps, etc...

thanks

1) Most visitors survive with only minor injuries. It's OK as long as you're in the immediate vicinity of the casinos or on the boardwalk. But God help you if you wander inland even one block.

2) You'll wear the place out very quickly. The casinos are no big whoop--nothing really different about them, and no real bargains. Their market is primarily daytrippers, which is reflected in the extremely small number of rooms.

As far as anything else to do--the immediate neighborhood, despite voluminous promises and the elapsing of 45 years since the first casino opened, STILL resembles a bombed-out war zone. The boardwalk looks and is old and tired. There's the beach--but visiting AC for the beach is like visiting Vegas for the scenery.

3) No restaurants in the immediate vicinity, because of the aforementioned war zone and their unwillingness to compete with the casinos. My sole experience with a local restaurant was in 2019, where I visited a Jewish deli and enjoyed a pastrami sandwich, matzo ball soup, and the famous New Yawk/Joisey snarlingly bad customer soivice. Er, service.

4) My info on this is old--pre:pandemic (2019). I found decent VP here and there, including some flavors unique to AC, such as Double Joker. Blackjack was lousy, though Vegas has caught up to that lousiness. Ditto craps with high limits.

Players' clubs are about as shitty as Vegas players' clubs. 0.1 percent is an above average return. I gave six joints some reasonable play, but I've never received any mailers or emails, probably because my zip code is out of bus range.

Bottom line: my honest recommendation is, don't bother. The whole place is an uninteresting dump. And I'm not saying that because I lost--I actually won $1700. But I ain't going back.

Thanks, Kevin.  Interesting.    

I'm going to Gettysburg and  thought I'd spread that out to AC ....but maybe not. 

Gettysburg is excellent.  Definitely start at the visitor's center, and then make your way into town.  We spent a full day there.  

I was there about six years ago. The visitor center is fascinating--they have a presentation inside a 360 degree diorama, and of course, an amazing array of artifacts. You can drive around pretty much the entire battlefield. I went whole hog: I watched the movie, "Gettysburg" and I was inspired to try to walk the path of Pickett's Charge---over a mile, uphill, and you have to cross a busy road and climb over some fences. I made it to the stone wall, the "high water mark of the Confederacy." My thought after I finished the trek was, "Lee was completely nuts to send his men up this hill in the face of cannon and rifle fire."

BTW, the town itself is one big tourist trap. Don't eat, stay, or shop there.

If you want some casino action, you could try to visit the casinos outside Philadelphia--Parx and Rivers, I think they're called. But in general, while there are casinos scattered all over the Mid-Atlantic states, there's nothing special.