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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 is his blog.

Wynncore Macau Photo Update

Wynncore Macau is looking fabulous, and - thanks to our roving correspondent Ace Macau - we've got some great great great photos to prove it. Thanks Ace!

Galaxy StarWorld, L'Arc and Wynn Encore Macau (in a typically hazy Macau afternoon).

Encore Macau, east facing view. Notice the diamond lattice work, harkening back to the days when this was the Wynn Diamond tower and the diamond motif so prevalent at Encore Las Vegas.

Wynncore Macau from the west.

Detail view of Encore Macau's tower. It's kinda strange to see the bronze glass without the creme stripes.

In related news... Ace Macau sent us some detail photos of butterflies that have mysteriously appeared in Macau.

Those are almost dead ringers for Encore Las Vegas' butterflies!

On the outside of Hotel Sintra!

Are these part of the Borboa 1975 painting in the middle or a later addition? Oh Roger Thomas... do tell... did you steal these butterflies?!

Taubman Moves Out Of Macao Studio City

Taubman, owner and renter of shopping malls all over the world, has divested itself of holdings in Macao Studio City a casino project proposed, and partially built, on Cotai. They've also managed to hose their website's homepage.

We've been predicting for years that Macao Studio City was dead in the mud once the pile drivers and cranes started leaving their construction site which has been idle for at least a year.

MGM Grand Macau To Be "Overhauled"

Now that the financial disaster surrounding MGM Mirage's City Center appears to have been settled, CEO Jim Murren has decided to roll up his already rolled up sleeves and dig into MGM Grand Macau, signaling to Bloomberg that an "overhaul" is in the works.

Our Macau market shre is half what it should be. The other U.S.-based and new casinos have been more aggressive in marketing, more aggressive [in recruiting and junket relationships."

It's kinda funny he says that, as just yesterday Steve Wynn implied during the Wynn earnings call that competing for junket business via bidding up commission rates was probably going to stop under the new leadership of the Macau SAR.

Steve Wynn Talks Encore

You gotta love the Wynn Resorts earnings call, if only to hear The Steve get passionately excited about whatever he is feeling passionate about.

In the middle of the call, Steve bellied up to the conference call microphone and dropped this bomb:

I've never been more serious in my life... the Encore hotel in Macau is the prettiest building of its kind in the world.

I don't believe there is a hotel tower - remotely close on this planet - to [the] 415 suites and villas that we are going to open up this spring. It is quite stunning.

The smallest room is 1000 sq. ft. Even the spas, the 8 spas, each one is an individual spa, as if you had your own spa.

The villas have their own casino rooms.

Everything about it is a result of all the wonderful lessons and experiences we have learned over the last seven years.

The Encore tower is going to give people a really clear insight into what we'll do next, and the level which we'll be operating in China.

New Feature Posted : Hard Rock at City of Dreams Macau Review

Just a quick note to those tuned into the RSS and Twitter feeds, our dear friend and contributor Dramman recently returned from a stay at the Hard Rock at City of Dreams and brought back a ton of photos of what might very well be one of the biggest high budget hotel room failures in recent memory.

Check it out here Hard Rock Macau at City of Dreams Photo Review. Enjoy!

Update: Encore Macau Renderings Leaked

Update: As expected, the rendering police came after us and we have removed them per their request:

From: Michel Hong Architects - admin@mhongarchitects.com

Comments: http://www.macautripping.com/tripping/post.php?p=367

We are writing to inform you that the Wynn Macau renderings in the above link were illegally watermarked. The renderings are the properties of Michael Hong Architects. In addition, they were obtained and posted without the permission of Wynn Design Development and Michael Hong Architects. Please remove them from your website or legal action will be perused by both entities.

One of the architects who has worked on many of the Mirage Resorts/Wynn Resorts projects has posted an astounding number of presumably top secret renderings to their public website, including shots of Encore at Wynn Macau, Encore Las Vegas and proposed Wynn resorts for Singapore and Monaco.

Rendering removed

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