The advent of slots gambling in Pennsylvania has had a “walloping effect” on tour bus companies that once thrived ferrying midstaters to Atlantic City, said Dennis Warner, owner of Red Lion Bus Co. They’ll go to Mount Airy Casino in the Poconos instead. Jumper, who organized the tour as members of the Cumberland/Carlisle Chapter 4377 of AARP, said they recently canceled a trip to Atlantic City planned for September because they had problems filling it.
She joined 43 other Carlisle-area senior citizens early Thursday for a Wolf’s Bus Lines charter trip to Mohegan Sun Casino at the Pocono Downs in Luzerne County. Trip organizer Elinor 'Skip' Lindsey, 78, checks over her list of people going to the Mohegan Sun Casino at Pocono Downs for the day.įor Frances Goshorn of Mount Holly Springs, there’s really no choice between Pennsylvania casinos and those in Atlantic City - it’s “naturally Pennsylvania.” “They’re cleaner, and they’re new - and I’m always up for trying new things,” Goshorn said. View full size CHRISTINE BAKER, The Patriot-News Bus tours to Atlantic City have dropped about 70 percent since Pennsylvania legalized gambling.
