High-Tech Borgata Casino & Spa Opens This Week

The grand opening is set for Thursday this week.  The Borgata will be the first new casino resort in Atlantic City in over a decade and the largest hotel in the area. The hotel will comprise 2010 guest rooms, 135,000 square feet of gaming, 11 restaurants, a 35,000 square foot spa, lounges, bars, shopping and entertainment facilities and 70,000 square feet of conference space.

The Borgata's 135,000ft² gaming area will hold 145 gaming tables and 3,650 slot machines. Bally Gaming and Systems are supplying 30% of the slot machines as well as the ACSC (Advanced Casino Systems Corporation) integrated slot marketing and casino management system. The slot machines will include a variety of ProSlot® 6000 reel-spinning slots as well as both EVO VIDEO and EVO HYBRID games. More than 100 wide-area progressive and daily fee games will also include aggressive marketing programs designed to capitalize on the high-profile slot titles offered to Borgata.
Being located in the US, Internet gambling is off the menu at the Borgata, despite the high-speed Internet access in each of the 2,002 rooms. There´s also a wireless Internet system, which will be handy for laptop-wielding conventioneers.