Atlantic City: Bally Bikini Beach Bar (July 2018)



My spouse and I stopped at Bally’s Bikini Beach Bar for drinks on a Friday afternoon in mid-July 2018. The bar is open seasonally from 11:00 am until 8:00 pm. It is one of several temporary bars (in addition to the Tropicana’s Chelsea Beach Bar and the 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 Bikini Bar is associated with Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel and Casino. 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 instead of spikes/stilettos). Portable bathroom facilities are provided adjacent to the boardwalk. A makeshift stage and large dance floor are onsite. Live bands and DJs provide entertainment at specific times. As its name suggests, serves don very skimpy uniforms; some were just not attractive on all the servers. (We think that sometimes costumes with more coverage can be more subtly sexy that extremely brief outfits.)

The bar offers all-day drink specials; for example, our first round of two drinks totaled only $10. Specials include certain $4 beers and specific $6 cocktails, including a “beach shaker”) a 16-ounce create-your-own drink that contains your choice of alcohol and mixer served in a plastic shaker/shot glass that you can keep as a souvenir), although even regularly priced drinks are fairly reasonable at $8 to $12. Food is available; however, the kitchen seems to be located in the hotel/casino, so basic pub food takes a long time to arrive.

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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