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WE ARE GOING TO THE TROPICANA!!! :)

Words cannot describe how excited I was when I found out that we are going to be staying at the Tropicana hotel in Atlantic City via the email. The level of excitement I have experienced was similar to the level of excitement I had when I filmed my first destination dispatch lift in New York City back in 2016. The Tropicana Hotel has FIVE towers:

  • North tower
  • South tower
  • West tower, which has the best set of high rise lifts in the entire state of NJ
  • Chelsey tower (separate from the main hotel complex)
  • Havana tower, which has the least interesting high rise lifts

I am at a loss of words right now, because I am trying to contain the excitement & enthusiasm. Of course, I cannot be too excited because reservations could cancel or fall through at any time before August 5 through 8, meaning I will have no choice but to make visits to Secaucus TWICE OR GO TO ELIZABETH 3 TIMES to film lifts. Here is what I know:

  • Whenever I have time to film a lift, I will first film the lifts that I wasn’t able to film in February. I still remember every single set of lifts that I was able to film back in February, so, depending on lobby traffic & crowding, I may either take rides (NOT FILMS UNTIL AFTER I FILM A GOOD HANDFUL OF THE HYDRAULIC ONES) on the traction lifts first or film STRICTLY all the OTIS hydraulic lifts first! I have noticed something good about OTIS hydros: they all have a character in the way they run. They JOLT & BOUNCE like a pogo stick hydraulic lift would.
  • I will hopefully take the most amount of films of the BEST lifts in the hotel & save the Schindler HT for last since the HT is the LEAST INTERESTING lift in the Tropicana Hotel.
  • I will not film any service lifts unless I am being escorted by hotel staff or a security guard. And I will mute parts where I am talking & replace it with outro background music.
  • I will ask for permission to film lifts in the hotel upon arrival. If they say NO, then I will only get speed recordings of every lift, with background sound enabled. If they say YES (they probably will anyway since some of the hotels is public property), I will film the lifts. My only goal is to RIDE at least one Montgomery or KONE traction lift while in Atlantic City. Otherwise, I will make 1+ quick trip to Elizabeth BEFORE THE HARTFORD TRIP IN DECEMBER to film their hornrt disc lifts.
  • I will try filming lifts when there should be theoretically LESS TRAFFIC. This means early morning or late night.
  • I will try to go to Bally’s to film some of their lifts. If I am able to & I am even happier with Bally’s lifts than Tropicana’s lifts, I will finalize Atlantic City’s placement on CCRS so that it flows when I make changes to CCRS.

As of right now, CCRS (Charlotte-Carolina Ranking System) is as follows in this order:

  1. STATES:
    1. North Carolina
    2. New Jersey
    3. California
    4. Florida
    5. Texas
    6. Connecticut
  2. CITIES:
    1. Charlotte
    2. Asheville
    3. Indianapolis
    4. Saint Louis
    5. Kansas City
    6. San Diego
    7. San Francisco
    8. Sacramento
    9. Los Angeles
    10. Houston
    11. Dallas
    12. San Antonio
    13. Austin
    14. Plano
    15. Frisco
    16. Fort Lauderdale
    17. Miami
    18. Orlando
    19. Tampa
    20. Sarasota
    21. Atlanta
    22. Pittsburgh (This is a city we MIGHT go to this December)
    23. Milwaukee
    24. Chicago
    25. Hartford (This is a city we MIGHT go to this December)
    26. New Haven
    27. Stamford
    28. White Plains
    29. Rochester
    30. Buffalo
    31. Atlantic City (This is the city we are going to this August AND February 2019 for my 18th birthday)
    32. Secaucus (This is a city I wish to be going to in the fall)
    33. Elizabeth (This is a city I HOPE TO be going to in the fall)

I would have to visit Atlantic City 31 times this season in order to rightfully say that I have theoretically been to Charlotte ONCE. The Tropicana hotel is literally the city of Charlotte condensed into a 5-tower hospitality building.

More updates about other lifts I could possibly film in Atlantic City besides the Tropicana hotel are going up.



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