If you take the greyhound option you would take the R1 Septa airport train to Market East station, this is very close to the greyhound terminal. Greyhound should drop you off at a casino. You can call greyhound to find out what their current casino promotion is.
If you take the NJT train route you would get off the R1 at 30th st. Personally I prefer the train. The bus clientele isn't very hygienic, the bus stop at the tropicana which I walked through once was full of people sleeping on benches and smelled like urine.
As for hotels you may want to look at the Econo Lodge Beach Block. I stayed there once, it is clean and close to the boardwalk and closer to the Tropicana's casino floor their the Tropicana's own hotel.
If you go on a weekend a lot of the hotels have cheap rooms that will rival the Econo Lodge and other budget hotels.
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If you are not a member of any of the casinos' player programs, your best bet for an inexpensive room is probably a bid on Priceline. And unless there is something special going on in town, you're probably better off arriving on Monday, rather than Sunday. You can get an idea of some successful Priceline bids at
www.biddingfortravel.com, and at
www.betterbidding.com.
In addition to the NJ Transit train to A.C., Greyhound offers their "Lucky Streak" bus service from Philadelphia to A.C. every hour on the half hour. The roundtrip is $20, and you would have to get to the Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal from 30th Street Station -- probably a short ride on a connecting train. (I'll let the Philadelphia experts weigh in on that.) The upside to taking Greyhound is that they will drop you right at the casinos, and the casinos will pay you a rebate -- typically cash or a certain amount of free slot play -- that could reduce the bus fare to almost nothing. Check with Greyhound for details of the current casino bonuses if interested.