Atlantic City Trip Report Day 1

Monday 2/16/09


We left home around 10am and arrived in Atlantic City by mid afternoon. Since it was a bit early to check into our timeshare, we headed over to the Absecon Lighthouse which would be closed during the rest of the trip. We paid our admission and proceeded to climb the 228 steps to the watch room and walkway on the outside of the lighthouse. The views were fantastic, but it was cold and windy up there. After we climbed back down we toured the keeper's house which had the gift shop and various displays. We also walked around the grounds.

Headed over to our vacation club facility to check-in even though it wasn't 4:00pm yet. Check-in went smoothly and they did have a room for us, room 609. The room was nice, the view could have been better, but at least it wasn't of the city, we could see the beach and the Pier at Caesars. Before we unpacked, I took pictures of the room. We headed out and walked the boardwalk south as far as the Tropicana Casino & Resort. On the way down we walked through Pier at Caesars. The 3rd floor of the Pier had restaurants, but they either didn't appeal to us or were too expensive. We also checked out a couple of the Fralinger stores, but didn't buy anything, did not want to carry around with us.

I had remembered that there was now an area of the hotel called The Quarter and that there was a restaurant there I thought would be interesting, but couldn't remember what the restaurant was. Once in The Quarter I recognized two names (Carmine's and P.F. Chang's). Once we realized that the meals at Carmine's were served family style and priced accordingly we crossed that off. P.F. Chang's looked more like what we were interested in. The entrance off The Quarter just leads to stairs that take you down to the first floor dining room. They had a special that night $39.95 for 2 soup or salads, 1 appetizer, 2 entries, and 2 mini deserts. The selections that went with this were pretty good. We both had the Hot and Sour soup, split an order of Spring Rolls, Diane ordered the Mongolian Beef and I ordered the Cantonese Shrimp. Diane didn't really care for the beef, so I eat most of that and Diane eat most of the Shrimp. For desert Diane had the Great Wall of Chocolate and I had the Tiramisu.

After diner we walk back up the Boardwalk and stopped in the Pier at Caesar's for their water and light show, we were a little late for that and only caught the very end of the show. We continued back up the boardwalk to our timeshare and relaxed for the rest of the evening.

Photos can be found at my smugmug site