Scores coming to Trump Taj Mahal in AC (1 Viewer)

[shadyridr]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — What if, after seven years of plunging casino revenues and fleeing customers, Atlantic City's real problem was this: People are wearing too much clothing?

Scores, the famous New York strip club, will open a satellite establishment inside the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort next month — the first strip club inside an Atlantic City casino in the 35 years of legal gambling here.


It will be the most audacious adult offering in an Atlantic City casino, though it's not the first: Revel has offered the Royal Jelly burlesque show since it opened, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa hosts a burlesque show every Thursday night, and dancers in bras and panties are common on gambling floors, including at the Tropicana Casino and Resort and the Showboat Casino Hotel.

"We feel this is the third leg of the Atlantic City triangle: gambling, alcohol and adult entertainment," said Bob Gans, the club's managing partner. "It's a natural."

Since 2006, when the first casino opened in Pennsylvania and began taking away business that had gone to New Jersey for three decades, Atlantic City has been struggling with new competition popping up all around it. Revenue has fallen from $5.2 billion that year to just over $3 billion last year, and thousands of jobs have been lost in a decline that shows no signs of ending.

In addition to family-friendly attractions like a revamped Steel Pier amusement park, the return of the Miss America pageant and free outdoor light shows on Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City has been looking for other ways to separate people and their money. The seaside resort has a century-old reputation as an adult playground, so it's somewhat surprising it took this long for strippers to make their way inside the gambling halls.

Gans is investing $25 million in the newest Scores, which will open Sept. 12 with five private VIP rooms, 11 stripper poles and an ultra-VIP room for celebrities and high-rollers.

Cover charges will range from $10 to $30. The club's Diamond Dollars, which cash-strapped customers can charge to their credit cards, come with a steep 20 percent markup: $100 worth of club dollars costs $120.

Patrons and employees will have to behave; New Jersey laws governing casinos prohibit total nudity. In approving the club in December 2011, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement issued a ruling that bordered on an anatomy lesson, governing in explicit detail what can be shown and what needs to stay covered. In short, dancers may strip down only to a G-string and pasties, small fabric patches that cover the nipples. Lap dances are prohibited, as is any simulation of sexual activity.

While Las Vegas is known for its racy offerings, there are no strip clubs inside any Sin City casinos. Several offer topless stage shows and topless pools, and strip clubs regularly offer free transportation from anywhere near the Strip, including casinos.

One pool venture didn't fare as well. The Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino partnered with a strip club to run a topless pool at the casino, but the casino shut it down in 2009 after an undercover bust resulted in 11 arrests for various prostitution charges.

Gans is confident Scores will succeed, even in a city with four other strip clubs, including one with all-nude dancers.

"There are 30 million people who come to Atlantic City every year," he said. "You have the safety of a hotel casino, and we have the right brand and the know-how to do something that hasn't been done before. We can be the Pied Piper here."

Sounds like a great idea

 

[AcerFC]

I have a bachelor party down there in a few weeks. I'm not familiar with the strip club scene down there but the groom wants to go to one so I have to set it up.

I have heard sketchy things though. Someone point me in the right direction here. I don't want to get strippers to the room and force everyone to pay $100. A lot of these guys are strapped for cash.

This actually sounds appealing to me since it would be in a safe zone

 

[shadyridr]

I have a bachelor party down there in a few weeks. I'm not familiar with the strip club scene down there but the groom wants to go to one so I have to set it up.

I have heard sketchy things though. Someone point me in the right direction here. I don't want to get strippers to the room and force everyone to pay $100. A lot of these guys are strapped for cash.

This actually sounds appealing to me since it would be in a safe zone

Dont waste your time. If you dont wanna go the stripper in the room scene just dont bother. The strip clubs in AC are grimey. Theres one thats decent but its packed like sardines in there.

This would be a good idea except the fact that there is no nudity or lap dances. WTF is the point?

 

[Scoresman]

hell yeah

 

[Long Ball Larry]

hell yeah

:golfclap:

 

[Michael Brown]

There's full nudity and lap dances at Bare Exposure, but no alcohol (you bring it in yourself from the bar next door), and the quality of the chicks has waned in recent years. And the lap dance room is very very strict about no touching. But in the private rooms...

 

[RUSF18]

I have a bachelor party down there in a few weeks. I'm not familiar with the strip club scene down there but the groom wants to go to one so I have to set it up.

I have heard sketchy things though. Someone point me in the right direction here. I don't want to get strippers to the room and force everyone to pay $100. A lot of these guys are strapped for cash.

This actually sounds appealing to me since it would be in a safe zone

They're going to spend $100 a man anyway at a strip club. Better off to do it in the room where the experience will be much better. I'll say though, if you're basing $100/man on the price it will cost to get the girls into the room, split amongst the group, expect to nearly double that once everyone coughs up additional $20s throughout the show. At mine, there was a relative ton of money thrown around during the hour.

edit: Not sure if you still have my contact info from the NYR games but you can also shoot me a PM if you want me to get some info on the service my buddies used for mine. We had two girls...a blonde who was a 7 and a Latin chick who was a 9.

 

[McGarnicle]

My cousin's bachelor party was in AC. I forget the name of the place but it was packed and there were 5 or 6 other bachelor parties there that night. They served booze and the lap dances were pretty much full contact. I got one from a Russian girl who was about 9, but she smelled like hockey equipment.

ETA: Uh, she was a 9, she wasn't 9 years old.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Assume the no lap dance rule goes away in the VIP rooms?

 

[mquinnjr]

My cousin's bachelor party was in AC. I forget the name of the place but it was packed and there were 5 or 6 other bachelor parties there that night. They served booze and the lap dances were pretty much full contact. I got one from a Russian girl who was about 9, but she smelled like hockey equipment.

ETA: Uh, she was a 9, she wasn't 9 years old.

 

[belljr]

you want seedy go Coconutz

 

[shadyridr]

you want seedy go Coconutz

went there. Girl with stab wounds climb on top of me smelling like BO. Left immediately after

 

[jamny]

My cousin's bachelor party was in AC. I forget the name of the place but it was packed and there were 5 or 6 other bachelor parties there that night. They served booze and the lap dances were pretty much full contact. I got one from a Russian girl who was about 9, but she smelled like hockey equipment.

ETA: Uh, she was a 9, she wasn't 9 years old.

 

[Koya]

Will it suck as much as other Scores?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Update?

Anyone have a ranking of best strip clubs in AC?

 

[John Bender]

Update?

Anyone have a ranking of best strip clubs in AC?

Been a few times because my clients liked it.  Overpriced, always dead so if you walk in with a group of men, you get absolutely mobbed.  If it's not closed down already, avoid.