If you want to burn some cals before hitting up the Encore’s 15 different dining options: BlueBike One of the coolest visuals you can get this Sunday? The view from the long-awaited harbor ferries, specially designed by the casino to shuttle guests to Everett from the World Trade Center in the Seaport and Long Wharf North downtown. A trip will set you back $7, but you’ll be riding in style: a press release says the European-style boats feature “plush seating, gloss-varnished teak wood and a below-deck salon seating area with large hull windows and overhead skylights.” While some can’t wait to get their hands on the Encore’s 3,000 slot machines and 88 poker tables, others are much more interested in the endless new Instagram backgrounds a $2.6 billion casino can provide.

If you’re more of a ‘grammer than a gambler: Harbor shuttle $7 later, you’ll be on a “premium” shuttle to the casino’s front doors. If you’re an out of towner: Park and rideĭitch your car at one of the park-and-ride lots in Londonderry, N.H., Rockland, or Millbury. On opening day, there will also be free shuttle service from the Blue Line’s Wonderland stop. Make your way to the Orange Line’s Malden Center or Wellington stops, where there will be free shuttle buses to the casino leaving every 10-20 minutes. If all the MBTA drama this week hasn’t scared you off for good: Trains to shuttle busesįor the Encore-bound with MBTA access, there are options aplenty. Want to make sure your path to the slots is streamlined? Read on. For months, executives have been hard at work devising a strategy to get prospective patrons to the Encore’s doors, and at a press conference Wednesday, they shared all the details of this transportation plan.

While it seems like the cursive “Encore” at the top of the gigantic gambling palace is visible from basically everywhere in the Greater Boston area, actually getting to the casino, located in Everett, is no small feat.

At long last, the 210,000 square foot Encore Boston Harbor is scheduled to open this Sunday, June 23 at 10 a.m.

Water taxi to encore casino