Hotel rating: 4-stars
Chain: Synxis
Number of floors: 43
Number of rooms: 2002
Year opened: 2003

Classic Italian style meets modern sophistication at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City. The first new casino hotel in the East Coast entertainment capital in more than 13 years, the 43-story tower stands as both the largest hotel and the tallest building in the entire state of New Jersey. Located at Renaissance Pointe overlooking the marina, Borgata brings an all-encompassing, Las Vegas-style travel destination to Atlantic City. The 1.1-billion seaside resort-a joint venture of Boyd Gaming and MGM Mirage-offers a broad range of activities, a brand of hospitality, and a level of service designed to please business and leisure travelers alike. Few hotels can rival the impressive scale and breadth of amenities. The 125,000-square-foot casino, for instance, holds 145 gaming tables and more than 3,600 slots. Headline acts from around the globe appear at the 1,000-seat Music Box Theater, while the 2,400-seat events center can stage anything from major events to top-flight meetings and conventions. Even the parking lot elicits awe with its space for up to 7,100 vehicles. All 2,002 guest rooms and suites offer Sealey beds, 300-thread-count custom Egyptian cotton linens, armoires with refrigerators, high-speed Web access, and floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the city, marina, and Atlantic Ocean. Lavish bath- rooms come with oversized glass-enclosed showers, marble walls and floors, granite countertops, Egyptian cotton bath sheets, and all-natural, essence-based grooming products by Lather. The six categories of accommodation range from Classic Rooms to the twin Residence Suites, which manage to pack marble fireplaces, grand pianos, 12-seat dining rooms, 60-inch plasma-screen TVs, private exercise rooms and spas, and butlers pantries into 5,000 square feet of domed ceilings and fresco-painted walls. Equally expansive-and impressive-the resorts dining selection includes 11 destination restaurants. They range from the modern Italian of Specchio and the prime beef selections of the Old Homestead Steakhouse to the bold French-Chinese cuisine of Suilan by Susanna Foo and the Pacific Rim-influenced delicacies of Mixx. All of the restaurants use fresh seasonal ingredients -like candy-stripe beets, English peas, and Sicilian oregano grown for the hotel at Borgata Farms in Buena, New Jersey. The restaurants also draw collectively from the hotels 14,000-bottle wine cellar. Eclectic describes the casual dining options as well-contemporary American at The Metropolitan, hearty and healthy at the Gypsy Bar, savory Asian at Noodles of the World, home-style Italian at Risi Bisi, and grand Las Vegas style for breakfast, lunch, or dinner at Borgata Buffet. The hotels European-style Spa Toccare sprawls over 50,000 square feet, encompassing 22 treatment rooms, a full-service barber shop -Shaving Grace-, a hair salon -Pierre and Carlo-, a state-of-the-art fitness center -The Pump Room-, and a massive indoor garden pool complex where guests can work up a sweat or simply relax. Just a two-minute drive from the Atlantic City Convention Center, Borgatas meeting and conference facilities provide everything an organization needs to produce an outstanding event. The meeting complex offers 70,000 square feet of event space, including a column-free ballroom accommodating up to 3,700 guests for receptions, 2,400 for seated presentations, and 1,500 for banquets. All 20 meeting rooms feature the latest in lighting, projection, video, and sound systems. Ten boardrooms with diverse configurations come with wet bars, marble floors, plasma-screen TVs, and spectacular ocean views. Executive groups seeking an even more intimate rendezvous can gather in private rooms, Ommagio or Champenois, tucked into Borgatas wine cellar.