Trump Marina Hotel Casino
is located in Atlantic City, New Jersey and is managed by Trump Entertainment Resorts. The resort covers a tract and includes a casino; 728 guest rooms (including 571 guest rooms, 60 Bay Tower suites and 97 luxury suites); seven restaurants(including the Trump buffet); a nightclub; a 462-seat showroom - The Shell; the Grand Cayman; recreation deck with a health spa, outdoor pool, tennis and shuffleboard courts, basketball courts, jogging track; of meeting and function space; a nine-story parking garage with direct walk-through into the complex; and the 640-slip Frank S. Farley State Marina
(a public facility owned by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, managed by Trump Marina Associates). Trump Marina Hotel Casino has earned the Five Star Diamond award from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences.
The two million square foot complex contains its own bus arrival/departure area and enough parking to handle 3,000 cars. For bus passengers, Trump Marina features a loading and unloading zone with 11 bus bays and a passenger lobby with escalators to the third level atrium and casino. For helicopter passengers, Trump Marina offers a rooftop heliport as an exclusive amenity to the resort.
The third level is the main area of the property. At its center is a long reception area from which point every amenity - the casino, ballrooms, restaurants, showroom, or meeting rooms - is within a short walk.
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Hotel
All hotel rooms are accessed by a key system and include an in-room safe, refrigerator, iron and ironing board, coffee maker featuring
Wolfgang Puck coffee and a signature Lodgenet system for on demand movies, digital music and
Nintendo games.
Room types
- Bay Tower Rooms and Suites
– The standard rooms in the hotel. Trump Marina's recreation deck, located on the fifth and sixth levels in the Bay Tower section, includes a jogging track encircling four tennis courts and a basketball court. Facilities also include an outdoor pool (seasonal) and shuffle board courts.
- Crystal Tower Suites
– Fitted with marble from Italy, mahogany wood trimmings.
Sale and redevelopment
On
May 30,
2008 it was announced that Trump Marina is being sold to and converted into a "
Margaritaville" themed resort.
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The entire complex is to be renovated, and plans are not clear when it comes to expansion.
Coastal Development co-developed
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa and
Hollywood, Florida. It is also the largest shareholder of
Sterling Suffolk Downs).
Harrah's Entertainment, which owns the adjacent
Harrah's Atlantic City and is developing the first
Margaritaville Casino and Resort located in
Biloxi, Mississippi, will evidently not be involved in the Atlantic City Margaritaville Casino.
Use as a radio station transmitter site
The roof of the Trump Marina currently houses the transmitter tower and broadcasting equipment of
WWFP 90.5 FM Radio licensed to
Brigantine, New Jersey which in turn relays the programming of
Elizabeth City, North Carolina Christian broadcaster
WGPS.
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References
- "Trump Marina to become 'Margaritaville' casino in $316M. sale", ''The Press of Atlantic City'', May 31 2008
- Map of WWFP-FM Transmitter site (Courtesy of Yahoo Maps)