The Brighton was famous for its potent “Brighton Punch” concoction, which was created by the hotel’s very first bartender, William DuBois. The hotel soon set a standard of year-round service in Atlantic City. It was the first hotel in Atlantic City to remain open during the winter, after the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition drove customers away from the seashore in the summer. Easy to find a door to enter.One of the fanciest hotels in Atlantic City’s heyday, the Brighton was built in 1873 at Indiana Avenue and the Boardwalk. Ask someone or just go outside near the boardwalk end and you will see the other casino accross the small street (almost a driveway-no traffic). Not much is marked for going to the other, but it is easy. Because of fights years ago it may be a little confusing to go back and forth between Sands & Claridge. Going out is another story as with the road signs all over AC. Well marked, you can't miss it or go wrong going in. Getting back to Sands from the boardwalk is easy as they have a moving walkway to them & Claridge. All very doable by anybody who can walk, or with a walker. Then Resorts, Taj, Steel Pier, Showboat (all connected) and the Garden Pier. The Irish pub, (a great eating & watering hole), is on St.

Going the other way, (northeast), you have a few blocks of boardwalk stores. Oops, I mean it's then a hop, skip and jump across the boardwalk to Chicken Bone Beach by the Plaza and then the old Convention Center, where they have free shows on the boardwalk at night. Sands is connected to Bally's (all owned by Harrah's) Claridge, which is connected to Bally's Main Casino, which is connected to Bally's Wild West, which is connected to Ceasar's (also a Harrah's), which is connected to the shinbone.

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