Two nights. One city. Zero sleep.
Headed to Atlantic City for a few nights? Congratulations on choosing the most exciting travel destination in the world! Of course, with so much to offer, there's no way you can expect to squeeze in everything if you spend time doing something as trivial as sleeping. That's why we created The Threekend: the only city guide for the discerning traveler who's low on time and high on amphetamines. We have every minute totally planned for you, so sit back and relax... or don't, because clearly that isn't your style.
10:38a: As soon as you can legally use a cellphone again, make a reservation at Chef Vola's. Don't worry, they'll call you back.
1:17p: Now put some color in your newly-shorn cheeks (the ones on your face, dude, come on!) after shuttling to the hotel's private guests-only beach in Brigantine
5:50p: Turn your shirt into the "shirt before the shirt" with an ocean-view shopping spree across three floors of velvet rope-parting Burberry, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton
6:45p: Before you tuck into Preview Bar's prime and short rib smothered 40oz Kobe cheeseburger, tuck in some napkins or your new buy'll be forever known as the "shirt after the burger.
9:00p: Don't be fooled by the light magic too long. There's still a concert hall, boxing ring, and basketball court through those doors, and you've got front row seats
Saturday, 1:51a: Attempt to leave. Get 30ft across the casino floor before spotting AC's only go-go-topped blackjack tables. Occasionally look down at your cards
2:40a: Demonstrate everything you now know about gambling without distraction at the poker room in the Trump Taj Mahal. Realize it's the same poker room that was in Rounders and get out while you can
health shake at the Borgata food court's 24/7 Fatburger
6:10a: Watch the sunrise over the windmills from the Water Club's penthouse Immersion Spa. Shame the windmills by yelling out how much faster you can spin
7:05a: Prove it, rent a bike, and race down four miles of still-too-early-for-a-pedicab-of-shame boardwalk
12:44p: ...if you want to roll like the Governor surveying the shore from a Steel Pier helicopter tour
1:49p: Ride it again!
1:53p: One more time
2:31p: Refill your now-empty stomach at Arctic Ave landmark White House Sub Shop with the house special salami-prov-cap-and-ham-piled footlong. The line's longer than the Rockettes, so if you want three, buy 'em all at once
3:01p: Breathe in the salty rim of your cup air at Margaritaville's Landshark Bar. Completely misinterpret Jimmy Buffett's lyrics, realize how much you need a brand new tattoo to show
6:29p:Chef Vola's called you back, Google Maps found their James Beard-winning unmarked basement dining room, and you're sitting down to a Flinstone-sized bone-in veal parm
9:07p: While your eyes are still glazed over from dinner and your tells aren't showing, hold your own in Harrah'sWorld Series of Poker room
Sunday, 1:10a: Cab it across the marina and dry off on the Veranda outside the Golden Nugget's Haven nightclub, home to the only open-air gaming in town
on Red 25, come on Red 25! awaits. Congratulations, you played AC before AC played you.