Atlantic City/Trump Marina/Golden Nugget - Avoid at all costs

I agree with Gary's assessment. Last year when I was at Farley State Marina someone messed with my customer water filter.
 
Oh boy, these kind of reports is not what we need to hear a week before our event. Let's hope that we won't have these troubles when we get there. But, in worst case scenario when the dockmaster will see 200 angry people marching in to his office he'll get his act together. If not him, someone else from the management will.
 
Oh boy, these kind of reports is not what we need to hear a week before our event. Let's hope that we won't have these troubles when we get there. But, in worst case scenario when the dockmaster will see 200 angry people marching in to his office he'll get his act together. If not him, someone else from the management will.

You will have to speak to the desk person before you can get to the dock master.

Doug
 
I am pretty sure the desk person will not give us any problem if 35 boat owners and their guests show up wanting to talk to the dockmaster. I have already started researching the ownership behind Golden Nugget and how to contact their management. However, I think we ought to give them a chance before we lynch them...
 
Perhaps a note from Ron indicating expectations and recent experience would be in order. Easier to fix towers on Tuesday the 5th than Saturday the 9th.
 
Perhaps a note from Ron indicating expectations and recent experience would be in order. Easier to fix towers on Tuesday the 5th than Saturday the 9th.

Yo Ron

Are you chatting up the dockmaster since GW's experience yesterday? I know that dentists don't work on Friday...

If the electrical towers aren't working when we get there, the we'll find the dockmaster and use him as a test meter until we find a couple that do work.
 
That's just a sorry a_s situation and there's simply no excuse for it, especially after giving those clowns that amount of business. No one could have kept me off that so-called "dockmaster". I hope you east coasters have a great AC get-together. ...starting my own 9-day boating 'cation in a couple hours. yippee
 
Found this a few minutes ago

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_fdaeb13e-8989-11e0-a4f7-001cc4c03286.html

ATLANTIC CITY — Jim Knight stepped gingerly on a rotted dock board next to his boat at the Sen. Frank S. Farley State Marina and wondered whether he might be the next thing in the water.
“Look at that,” Knight exclaimed of the crumbling piece of wood. “If I weighed more than 165 pounds, I would probably fall right through.”
Knight also pointed to some weeds that had sprouted on the dock.
“I don’t have any weeds at my home. I wouldn’t expect them here where I pay boat rent,” Knight said.
Rotting docks, pesky weeds and other problems that are drawing complaints — these are hardly the conditions that boaters would envision at what is considered to be one of the best marinas on the East Coast.
Certainly, the 640-slip Farley marina has seen better times. However, the new company that has taken over operations is promising upgrades that will restore the marina’s appearance and reputation.
Landry’s Inc., a Houston-based company, inherited the management lease for the Farley marina when it completed its $38 million purchase of Trump Marina Hotel Casino on Tuesday. Trump Marina Associates previously operated the state-owned Farley marina for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Landry’s, a gaming, restaurant and entertainment conglomerate, owns the Golden Nugget casino hotels in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nev., and now the new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City. The company has rebranded Trump Marina as a Golden Nugget casino. Tilman Fertitta, the Texas billionaire who heads the Landry’s empire, said he plans to dock his own yacht at the Farley marina, which is next door to the Golden Nugget.
“Being a yacht owner myself, I will make sure that it will operate on a very high level,” he said. “Come October, my boat will be parked there for a month or two.”
Fertitta’s posh 164-foot yacht, called “Boardwalk,” may be the biggest thing to dock at Farley marina since Donald Trump’s former floating palace, the 282-foot “Trump Princess,” used to spend summers in Atlantic City.
Landry’s is planning to use its operation of the 424-slip Kemah Boardwalk Marina in Galveston Bay, near Houston, as a guide for the Farley marina’s management. Kemah Boardwalk is a 60-acre entertainment complex that includes a marina, hotel, restaurants and amusement rides.
“We’re not going to have a low-quality operation,” Amy Chasey, vice president of marketing for Golden Nugget Las Vegas, said of the Farley marina. “Definitely, we won’t have a shoddy operation. We’re going to operate it better than Trump.”
Chasey said Landry’s has already begun to fix the marina’s showers and bathrooms. She also said the company is not considering any price increases for boat slips at this time.
The marina, named in honor of the late Atlantic County senator who served from 1941 to 1972, had been under Trump’s operation since 1987. Knight and other boat owners said they are eager for new management.
“It’s really a shame to allow a piece of real estate like this one to go the way it has. You have every amenity here that you need. It’s just not kept up,” said Knight, 47, a funeral director from Berlin, Camden County.
Knight pays about $5,800 annually to moor his 40-foot boat “Dead Subject.” He called on Landry’s to consider a price cut for dock rentals to make it more affordable for the typical boater.
“You have got to make the little guy happy because without the little guys, this place would be empty,” Knight said.
Bob Silverman, of Cherry Hill, recalled that every dock was occupied at the Farley marina when he first tried to bring his boat to Atlantic City 21 years ago. These days, he says, the marina has plenty of open slips because of its deteriorated condition, including rotted dock boards.
“First of all, the marina needs to be maintained. There’s no two ways about it — it has been seriously neglected,” said Silverman, a 66-year-old retired newspaper advertising executive. “When we first came here, this place was magnificent. It was gorgeous. There were shrubs, trees and flowers.”
Silverman, who pays $4,000 annually to dock his 30-foot boat, called “Shoregasm,” also complained that security has become lax in recent years. Vandals have thrown rocks at the boats, and cars not belonging to boat owners routinely park illegally in spots that are supposed to be reserved for boaters, he said.
Despite the problems, Silverman plans to keep his boat in Atlantic City. He noted Farley marina is well-sheltered from storms, offers easy access to the ocean and is conveniently located next to the casinos, the Boardwalk and other attractions.
“On the positive side, this is one of the best marinas on the East Coast,” Silverman said.
Contact Donald Wittkowski:
609-272-7258
DWittkowski@pressofac.com
 
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Date: 2011-06-26
Captain: Al Fittipaldi+, San Antonio, TX (109)
Disorganized expensive marina. Grass growing between dock planks We came in for weather. Went to office and they couldn't figure where they had put us couldn't find codes/ keys to laundry and bathrooms or gates staff didn't know transport to boardwalk or other gambling spots discovered they don't lock gates at night and we were there on a weekend so lots of drunks enjoying free music on dock far from everything need a taxi Pluses are they have floating docks easy to walk dog neighbors friendly and helped us cast off in am if you have a larger boat may be only option at 3.00 a foot included electric you decide
 
Found this a few minutes ago

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_fdaeb13e-8989-11e0-a4f7-001cc4c03286.html

ATLANTIC CITY — Jim Knight stepped gingerly on a rotted dock board next to his boat at the Sen. Frank S. Farley State Marina and wondered whether he might be the next thing in the water.
“Look at that,” Knight exclaimed of the crumbling piece of wood. “If I weighed more than 165 pounds, I would probably fall right through.”
Knight also pointed to some weeds that had sprouted on the dock.
“I don’t have any weeds at my home. I wouldn’t expect them here where I pay boat rent,” Knight said.


Jim Knight......AKA Gary.
 
Maybe we should contact Donald Wittkowski and see if he wants to do a follow up story about our trip and follow along with the Posts? :smt038
 
Off to New York City for the weekend... Maybe they'll be nicer as they drain my bank account.

From yesterday on the water:

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Is there a spot I see on your window? Pretty damn clean for having kids on board I must say.
 
Guys,
I think what Rick said before is a wise course. Give them a chance to prove that maybe what happened was an aberration. We've all screwed up at our job at one point or another. Who wants to be fired or lambasted on the internet for what may have been one transgression? This group has been to Farley in 2009 and 2010, I've been there 4 other times and many of the core group from NJ makes it a fairly regular destination, and I've never heard of any problems like this. As a business owner, I know I'd want a second chance.
 
I'm betting is was the red nantucket shorts that did him in.
 

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