A pleasant young woman sporting a guitar-shaped name tag reading J.Lo upgraded us to a sweeping corner room with a fridge, a spacious modern bathroom, and floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the harbor and of the Ocean Casino Resort, where we’d stayed on our October visit. We were checking in to Atlantic City‘s new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to take advantage of the comp-room offer we’d received as part of the hotel’s generous status-match program. My travel companion and I walked under sparkling crystal chandeliers across glossy flooring laden with guitar-pick shapes.
The memorabilia ranges from Elvis Presley‘s silver Rolls to Michael Jackson‘s crystal glove.