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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.

Wynn Macau Ditching Encore Brand?

WynnMacau.com has updated their website to include an intro teaser for the opening of the Encore tower using the tag line "Everybody's talking about the new girl in town." The imagery appears to be a mashup of Wynn's flowers and Encore's butterflies, perhaps they flower petals flying in the wind? What is interesting here is the omission of the name Encore, as a top line 'brand.' This, coupled with the folding of the @encorelasvegas Twitter account leads me to believe that Wynn has finally realized that the putting dual brands under one roof concept probably wasn't going to work over the long term. Either way, there is no "Encore Macau".

Encore's two tiers of suite offerings - Encore Grand Salon Suite (HKD$4388/nt / ~US$549/nt) and Encore Deluxe Suite (HKD$2588/nt / ~US$319/nt) - have been added to the available room inventory in their "Rates and Reservations" app. Squirreled away in a puny scrolling textarea are two high level descriptions of the offerings.

Encore Grand Salon Suite

A perfect complement to Wynn Macau, Encore retains its own elegance and sense of style for a unique experience

• Located in the Encore Tower with VIP check-in.
• While offering superior living environments and appointments, each with an average 180 square metres of luxury living space
• The Grand Salon Suites offer majestic views of Macau.
• Each Grand Salon Suite features a living room, bedroom and private therapy room.
• The spacious suites feature 65” flat screen LCD television, cordless phone, wireless and high speed internet access (Charges Apply).
• Grand Salon Suites feature dual bathrooms, and separate glass showers, as well as whirlpool bathtub with exclusive Desert BambuTM bath amenities.

Encore Deluxe Suite

A perfect complement to Wynn Macau, Encore retains its own elegance and sense of style for a unique experience

• Located in the Encore Tower with VIP check-in.
• The deluxe suites are spacious environments outfitted with luxury appointments, each with an average of 100 square metres of elegant living space.
• Stunning floor-to-ceiling view of the Nam Van Lake.
• The suites feature flat screen LCD televisions, and cordless phones, wireless and high speed internet access (Charges Apply).
• The bathrooms are equally luxurious with dual bathroom sinks with under-counter nightlight, and separate glass shower & serene soaking tub with exclusive Desert BambuTM bath amenities. Connecting suites are also available.

The new "Encore" tower at Wynn Macau opens April 21st.

Photo: Encore Macau Turns On The Lights

From the Flickr stream of Freeman@Mirelle comes this gem profile shot of Encore Macau glowing in typical evening fog. Gorgeous.

In related news, MT reader Kagehitokiri tipped us that Encore Macau is taking reservations for dates beginning April 22. 4/22 = 8 Clever.

Inside Encore Macau

Encore at Wynn Macau is putting the final touches on in advance of its April 2010 opening and we've got a slew of new photos taken yesterday by MacauTripping correspondent Ace Macau. Included are some pics of the building exteriors as well as a handful of beauty shots inside the freshly opened Golden Flower restaurant. In a word, wow.

Enjoy! And big thanks to Ace for hooking us all up with another round of gorgeous photographs!

Encore Porte Cochere

Sneak a Peak Inside Encore Macau

We've managed to unearth a treasure trove of Encore Macau interior design drawings over on VegasTripping... check them out here.

MGM Grand Paradise to IPO in 2010

MGM Mirage CEO Jim Murren spoke with Las Vegas Sun reporter Jon Ralston on Monday, primarily about the opening of CityCenter. On small tidbit to come out of the fourth segment of discussion was Murren mentioning plans to take MGM Grand Paradise public in early 2010.

Funds raised would go to reducing MGM Mirage's debt load, NOT to finish MGM Grand Macau phase II or begin the MGM Cotai project. For those who don't know, MGM Grand Paradise is the umbrella name for the MGM Mirage / Pansy Ho joint venture which owns MGM Grand Macau.

Steve Wynn On Encore Macau & Wynn Cotai

Wynn Resorts released its quarterly earnings last week and with it came another fine episode of everyones favorite program - "The Steve Wynn Quarterly Radio Hour". Freshly back from the Wynn Macau Ltd. investor roadshow, Stevezi seemed to be quite hot for Macau, waxing poetic about Encore Macau (opening in April) and revealing a morsel or two about the status of Wynn Cotai.

Take it away Steverino...

Encore in Macau is completely budgeted and under control and we will finish it. We've opened some parts of it in the last few days. We will finish opening it in April. Everything is paid out of cash flow. We are completely confident of the cost of Encore and it's a little under our budget. And it is the most pretty and beautiful thing that we’ve ever built. It's 412 suites and villas. It has casino space, both general casino and VIP casino space. It was the first building that we had the luxury of building in Macau, where we could take advantage of our experience the past three years, what we have learned about our customers. And we took our time to do it until after we did learn about our clientele and the building was specifically designed to meet the - what we considered to be the real, real sensitivities of the people who come to Macau who spend the real money.

And so I say it's the prettiest thing we've ever done and that may be very nice for a design magazine. It certainly is another demonstration of the wonderful gifts that Roger Thomas has, our Chief of Design. But more importantly, in 100 cunning ways, it is a place that will ingratiate itself to the customers that matter most to us. It has two or three new restaurants and retail space and it has a spa that is completely unique, as far as I’m concerned, anywhere.

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