The first city of the two, Atlantic City, is located in Atlantic County, New Jersey. The city was always been known as a resort town and as a prime estate for developers, mainly because of its convenient weather and popular beach destination.

Atlantic City struggled, and still struggles till those days, with urban problems such as crime and poverty and many people claim that the gambling industry helps to magnify those problems.

The town started as a beach side carnival town, just like Coney Island, Cape May, Ocean City and similar cities. During the depression Atlantic City dissolved into a forgotten town but was 'saved' by the casino and gambling industry in 1978 when the first casino was opened.

Most of the casino industry in Atlantic City relies heavily on Las Vegas. Although most of the hotel labor in Atlantic City is indeed local, the executives and the operating managers of the industry in the city were recruited from Las Vegas.

The second city, Las Vegas, is located in Nevada. Nevada was one of the first states that legalized gambling in 1931. Since then, the city became known as the entertainment capital of the world, but also as sin city. Las Vegas' glamorous image was created due to the popularity of the casinos, the availability of alcohol at any given time, and of course, the adult entertainment.

Las Vegas was established in 1905 and officially became a city in 1911, nowadays the Las Vegas Strip, where most of the casinos located, has 3 times more casinos than in Atlantic City.

The Las Vegas strip runs from the Stratosphere hotel and casino at the northern end to the Mandalay Bay on the southern end over 4 miles (or 6.7 km). Besides the big casino hotels there are also smaller casinos, motels and other entertainment attractions.

If you want to change the environment because you had enough of the regular online gambling and casinos and if you want to plan a gambling vacation and you still don't know where exactly you want it to take place in, you have to read more about those two cities and to learn about all their advantages and disadvantages.

The first important thing that you have to take into consideration is that Las Vegas is bigger than Atlantic City; this fact makes the Las Vegas vacation more complicated. If you want to plan a trip to Las Vegas there are more considerations that you have to take.

Atlantic City, on the other hand is a perfect destination for a spontaneous weekend trip. If you're searching for a quick trip of couple of days, just to play a bit, gamble a bit and enjoy the atmosphere, Atlantic City is the perfect choice. Many visitors to Atlantic City are there on an impulse, while visitors to Las Vegas are those who planned their vacation months ahead.

Whether you're choosing Las Vegas or Atlantic City, you're destined to have exciting gaming time, because both of those cities are perfect for those who search for exciting gaming time.