The First Guide to Macau & Cotai Casinos

Welcome back !» Profile  Settings  Faves  Check Out

Book A Room  Twitter   RSS   PitBoss

• Home
• Features
• TripBlog
• Macau Casinos
• Macau Map
• Cotai Strip Map
• Trip Tips
• Games
• Board

The boss sent Chuckmoster to Macau to see what the deal was with Asia's Las Vegas. He returned smitten and poured his love it into creating the world's first guide to Macau casinos. This was his blog until we invited long time contributor and Macau expert Dramman join the team. Hi.

Introducing Sands Cotai Central

Las Vegas Sands Corp. d/b/a Sands China Limited have announced the grand opening of Sands Cotai Central™ in 2012. Unfortunately, they've done so with an ad campaign at appears to be based around people putting fingers in unsuspecting, floating Sands icon buttholes.

Sands. Cotai. Central.... be at the "Centre" of it all.

The video fly through of the renderings reveal a fantastic array of shopping, dining and gaming opportunities as well as Sands' copy/paste version of the Conservatory at Bellagio. You snooze, you lose MGM!

This amalgamation of hotel brands - Sheraton Macao Hotel, Conrad Macao and Holiday Inn Macao - will bring approximately 5,800 more hotel rooms to the Cotai strip, two spas, three health clubs, at 20+ restaurants, 92 retail shops, and 300,000 square feet of casino gaming.

Impressive!

Wynn Cotai Rendering Leaked By SW

Ooops.

Bourdain Does Macau... TONIGHT!

For those who live in territories that get the Travel Channel, be sure to tune in tonight for Anthony Bourdain's visit to Macau.

He eats, he walks around casinos, he eats, he drives carts, he eats and he bungee jumps off the Macau tower.

Wynn Talks Wynn Cotai

Steve Wynn talked Wynn Cotai on the earnings call earlier today, calling the property a "category breaker" and "hum dinger" that will be worth the wait.

Wynn Resorts is currently performing soil sample tests (it's all trash) while they await official land grant from the Macau government.

Wynn Cotai Is Coming... Roger Has The Credit Card Again

Wynn Cotai is coming. No, for real, it is coming.

Earlier this year, I had the grand opportunity to talk with Wynn Resorts uber designer Roger Thomas about all things Wynn and managed to sneak in a coupla Cotai related questions. He relayed to me that Wynn Cotai will have the signature curve - or "hug" as Wynn architect DeRuyter Butler told us recently - and that Mr. Wynn clearly asked Roger to "concentrate on vistas."

Are Happy Days Here Again?

As things get back to normal in Macau, and by normal we mean runaway Casino revenues, the casino property market is showing signs of life. I put emphasis on signs. It is a mixed bag.

First the good news. The Grand Lapa, nee Macau Mandarin Oriental nee Excelsior, is getting a facelift. The property expects to spend millions of dollars in freshening up a hotel that was built in 1984 and last underwent renovations in 2004. The hotel is still managed by Mandarin Oriental by the way, and a tip, you can get the same Mandarin service for a lower price if you search around.

« Archive | Page 2 »

Recent Comments:

Friends:

Die Is Cast
Two Way Hard Three

RSS Feeds The Board Twitter Facebook YouTube

The Latest:

Vegas: Making Sense Of WynnLasVegas.com
Macau: Introducing Sands Cotai Central
CityBOOM: The Golden Nugget Returns to Atlantic City
FeltJungle: Photo Review: Dad's Room At Pala