The shuttles stop at Long Wharf, East Boston, and the World Trade Center.īut every $7 ride counts for one less car trip, which is important to Encore operator Wynn Resorts. The casino expects demand for the shuttle to drop off over the winter. “We’re not going to be the first ones to break the ice, so to speak,” Larcome says. Commercial interests like the Exelon plant use icebreakers to keep the travel path clear for shipping, which means the casino’s little boats will have no problem slipping through. The industrial heritage of the Mystic is actually a help for the casino as it seeks to keep running the shuttle service year round. In addition to its four MGM Yachts (built just down the shoreline at Boston BoatWorks in Charlestown), Encore also allows boat owners to reserve dock space if they want to navigate there themselves. The casino is now a marine destination of its own.
“So there was really never much for us to do. “It was a commercial type of thing,” he says. But in all of his years boating in and around Boston, he never explored this part of the Mystic.
