Tag: macau
-
Macau casino hotels 2: Grand Lisboa versus Wynn
Big casino hotels appear in clusters in Macau. There is a cluster at the Outer harbor (新口岸) anchored by the Grand Lisboa at one end, the Mandarin Oriental at the other, and with the Wynn, MGM Grand, L’Arc, and Star World scattered in the middle. Another cluster of hotels is located at the Cotai strip…
-
Macau casino hotels 1: Mermaid versus Jellyfish
This is the view out of our hotel room window (16th floor) day and night – Hard Rock, Crown and Grand Hyatt – the City of Dreams – all on the Cotai Strip – the reclaimed land located between the islands of Taipa and Coloane. The pool belongs to our neighboring hotel complex – the…
-
Vida Rica @ The Mandarin-Oriental, Macau
We had drinks at Vida Rica while watching the Chinese New Year fireworks. This bar is right next to the Louis Vuitton Maison VIP salon we visited earlier during the day (see earlier post here.) One side of the bar has triple height floor-to-ceiling glass windows facing the waterfront – essentially front row seats we…
-
Louis Vuitton Maison @ One Central, Macau
We seldom visit a LV as they sell more or less the same lines of goods, but are curious to know what this luxury brand is doing to keep justifying charging those premium prices. So we wandered into this flagship “maison” which was holding an exhibition of LV’s history and craftsmanship. I took this picture…
-
The Shopping Arcades: vrai ou faux
One thing you cannot avoid in these Macau hotels is the shopping arcade, each with the same ubiquitous luxury brands – some more exclusive than the others – all expensive but boring – and they were mostly empty when we were visiting. The masses had not yet descended on these hotels and shopping centers as…
-
MGM Grand, Macau and lions
We had dinner at MGM’s Rossio, some of the tables spilled into the atrium of the hotel. The atrium was fantastically decorated, almost to the point of being garish. But it was an immense space, as a result, the large number of fake trees with lights were not claustrophobic but it was a bit overdone.…