NOTE: The Sands Bethworks Casino is not currently open. It is slated to open in 2009.
The Philadelphia
casinos are helping to make the nation’s fourth
largest city a more attractive vacation destination than
it already is. The Sands Bethworks Casino is the newest
addition to the list of casinos in the City of Brotherly
Love, and if you enjoy gaming action, then you won’t
want to miss this when in town. Built in two separate
stages, Sands Bethworks is easily one of the largest casinos
in all of Pennsylvania, and you can expect more than just
casino floors here. The Sands Bethworks Hotels provide
a most agreeable selection of accommodations, and with
more than 1,000 loft apartments, local residents can enjoy
a riverfront location with a lot going on. The Las
Vegas Sands Corporation, which is the company in charge
of the Sands Bethworks complex, is even going as far as
to introduce a National Museum of Industrial History.
This museum, which is headed by the local ArtsQuest Foundation,
is intended to honor American industry as well as the
Bethlehem Steel company, which once called the same plot
of land home.
The Sands Bethworks Hotels feature no less than 300 comfortable rooms. The Sands Bethworks Hotels aim to provide some of the best Philadelphia accommodations for guests to enjoy, so even if you aren’t in town to gamble you can still consider staying here. If you are in town to enjoy the Sands Bethworks Casino, then staying at one of the Sands Bethworks Hotels will be convenient. Aside from the 300-room hotel, there is the Marina Bay Sands complex offering a mind-boggling 2,500 rooms.
As for the Sands Bethworks Casino itself, no less than 3,000 slot machines are available to visitors, not to mention a range of entertainment and dining possibilities. In addition to the aforementioned museum, the first stage of development also reveals a culturally-rich arts center and a broadcast base for the local PBS branch. The second stage of development at the Sands Bethworks Casino and Resort brings another interesting museum, as well as more than one million square feet of convention and meeting space. In other words, this place is pretty spectacular.
Speaking of spectacular, the Sands Bethworks Hotels
and Casino complex employs an impressive number of people.
The casino’s owners hope that their project is a
model for other urban areas that might be looking to increase
business- and tourism-related profits. Some 1,000 employees
are needed at the 3,000 slot-machine Sands Bethworks casino
alone, with another 800 workers making sure things go
smoothly at the adjacent shopping
complex. In addition to all this, the complex is also
home to restaurants, a parking garage, and a concert hall.
Sands Bethworks offers a taste of Las
Vegas for those Philadelphia residents and visitors
who are interested in such an atmosphere. Adding the Sands
Bethworks Casino experience to your list of Philadelphia
things to do should only help to keep things more interesting,
and you can bet that the accommodations here will find
their place among the top Philadelphia
hotels.
