Atlantic City: Chelsea Beach Bar (July 2018)



My spouse and I stopped at the Chelsea Beach Bar for drinks on a Friday afternoon in mid-July 2018. The bar is open seasonally from 10:00 am until 12:00 midnight. It is one of several temporary bars (in addition to Bally’s Bikini Beach Bar and an [independently owned] Bungalow Bar) set up on the sand between Atlantic City’s boardwalk and the ocean. (Resorts LandShark Bar and Grill is the only permanent beach bar, although it too has some transitory elements).

The Beach Bar is associated with Tropicana Casino and Resort (which acquired The Chelsea and The Annex hotels in 2017). Patrons walk down a wooden boardwalk-like ramp to reach the bar’s position on the sand, the flooring of which is also constructed of wooden boards (therefore, ladies, wear either flats or wedge heels rather than spikes/stilettos). Portable bathroom facilities are provided adjacent to the boardwalk. Food comes from an on-site food truck (with items from Teplitzky’s Coffee Shop and Celebrity Corner restaurants). Although drinks at the Chelsea Bar were more expensive than those at Bally’s, but they were also better-tasting, so it was worth the additional cost. Servers attired in classy, vintage red, white, and blue swimsuits were far sexier than the barely-clad servers at Bally’s Bikini Bar. A DJ and live bands provide entertainment. You can sit at the bamboo tiki bar (which sports a red bar top and seating on several sides), at tables (regular-height or high-top), or in one of the comfortable lounge groupings; a few cabana tables are also available. A skinny, pine wood (picket) fence surrounds the bar area, and you can rent umbrellas and loungers outside its limits. 

It was fun to do a sort of pub crawl along the boardwalk, stopping at several beach bars for a drink.






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