The property was acquired by the then Eldorado Resorts in 2017 and connected as an additional hotel tower serving Tropicana.

It hosted distinguished guests including William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

By the mid-1980s the Tropicana demolished the Sheraton-Deauville to open TropWorld, an amusement center which included a three-story ferris wheel.

[4] In 2008, the Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson was remodeled and opened as The Chelsea after undergoing $100 million in renovation costs.

The Luxe rooms contains "animal-print chairs, large desks as white as disco boots and a pair of cockatoo-shaped lamps at bedsides".

[8] The hotel has 358 rooms and has been described by Andrea Sachs as having "an old soul, adopting the history of its buildings' former occupants, the Holiday Inn Atlantic City-Boardwalk and the Howard Johnson".