Date
of Stay: November 1 - 5, 2009
RATING
(Scale of 1 to 10)
Location:
*******
Rooms:
********
Condition
and Cleanliness: *********
Staff
Performance: *******
Room
Comfort: *********
Food
and Beverage: ********
Other
Amenities: ********
Value
for Money: *******
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Venetian Resort Macau |
For my first extended visit to Macau with my family (my first visit, with my wife Grace, was only a day tour from Hongkong), we all stayed at the 40-storey, US$2.4 billion
Venetian Resort Macau, at the Cotai Strip, a luxury hotel and casino resort owned by the American Las Vegas Sands Casino company.
Here, we stayed at two of the hotels 3,000 suites (Levels 7-38). The high-end and spacious interconnected airconditioned suites were furnished with a flat-screen TV, wardrobe, minibar and a seating area with sofa. The ensuite bathroom had a bathtub, bathrobes, slippers and hair dryer.
Facilities include a 24-hour Front Desk, business center, restaurants, bars, outdoor swimming pool, spa, fitness center, children's playground and barber shop/beauty salon. Activities include minigolf courses and gondola rides.The hotel also offers car rental,
currency exchange, laundry and dry cleaning, concierge, ticketing service, room service and free luggage
storage. A free shuttle service is available
from Macao Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal and Macau Taipa Ferry Terminal to the
property. The Venetian Macao is a 5-min.
walk from The Shoppes at Four Seasons, an 8-min. drive from Taipa Ferry
Terminal and a 14-min. drive from the Macau Ferry Terminal.
It is also located 500 m. from the Eiffel Tower at the Parisian Macau; 600 m. from House of
Dancing Water and Taipa Houses Museum; 700 m. from the Museum of
Taipa and Coloane History and Rua do Cunha; 1 km. from Macau Stadium; 1.2 kms. from the Lotus Bridge; 1.3 kms. from the Macau East Asian Games Dome; 1.9 kms. from Macau International Airport; 5.2 kms. from Lilau Square,
Mandarin’s House and Moorish Barracks; 5.4 kms. from Dom Pedro V Theater and
Hongkong-Macau Ferry Terminal; 5.5 kms. from Leal Senado Square; 5.7 kms. from
Monte Forte and 5.9 kms. from the Ruins of St. Paul.
Officially opened on August 28,
2007, the Venetian’s casino space is the largest in the world at
550,000 sq. ft. (51,000 sq. m.) with over with 3,400 slot
machines and 800 gambling tables.
Also the largest single structure hotel
building in Asia and the 4th largest building in the world (by area), it also
has 3,000 suites (Level 7-38) served by 250 guest lifts, 111,000 sq. m. of
convention space, 149,000 sq. m. of retail (330 shops), and a 15,000-seat
entertainment/sports arena.
Its foremost attractions
are Cirque du Soleil’s Zaia, an aerial ballet that
takes place above the audience’s heads, and the gondola rides where visitors
are rowed, by a gondolier serenading you in Italian, through the romantic
indoor Grand Canal, the next best thing to Venice.
The Venetian Resort Macau – Interior
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The campanille |
We tried dining at the 1,000-seat
Festivita Foodcourt, located on the 3rd level of The Grand Canal
Shoppes.
It offers 21 big brand names in fast, mid-priced food offering almost every
international cuisine (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican and
American).
When we looked up, we found ourselves under the perfect blue sky although we
were actually indoors. The ceiling was done in a way so as to create an
impression of a clear blue sky (even at night) which is Pantone 14-4318 (Sky
Blue). Some say it was done to lull shoppers into thinking that it’s not yet
time to go and that there’s still more time to shop.
Festivita Foodcourt
Venetian
Resort Macau: Estrada Da Baia De N., Senhora Da Esperança, s/n, Taipa, Macao.
Tel: (0)2882 8888. Website: www.venetianmacao.com.
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