Friday, 20 November 2009
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Shopping Centre
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Macau shopping may not be as famous as its casinos. But a little known fact is that many luxury brands are available in Macau at duty-free prices. Shopping in Macau is not just limited to an increasing number of international label boutiques at casinos like The Venetian, MGM Grand, The Landmark and Wynn Macau. The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian has 1 million sq ft worth of shopping and dining, and is well worth setting aside at least a few hours or the entire afternoon for.
Outside of the casinos, there are several areas selling plenty of bargains. Senado Square has shops selling freshly made cookies and Portuguese egg tarts as well as many fashion boutiques. There are also a few antique shops selling authentic antiques as well as reproductions made to measure. Senado Square is also the home of Macau’s most popular daily flea market, which sells everything from souvenirs, to underwear, sweaters, accessories, shoes, household products and food.
For example the most famous shopping center is inside the venetian hotels with facilites :
RESORT SHOPS
APOTHECARY
Experience beauty at its finest. The Apothecary offers cosmetics, bath and body, gifts, wine, and pharmaceutical items. Featuring Beauty Consultants.
GONDOLA
After taking a romantic ride on the water, take that memory home. Emporio D’ Gondola features souvenirs, gifts, and apparel.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Get all your essentials here, featuring refreshments, snacks, newspapers, magazines, and pharmaceutical.
JEWELRY GALLERY
Step into the spot light. The Venetian Jewelry Gallery has everything you need to shine.
MERCATO
Gifts, logo apparel, wine and spirits can all be found at the Venetian Market.
NEWSSTAND
Get all your essentials here, featuring refreshments, snacks, newspapers, magazines, and pharmaceutical.
POOL SHOP
Enjoy the sun in style, Venetian Pool Shop offers a wide variety of the latest swim fashion for men and women, accessories, resort wear, and a complete selection of skin protection products.
RICORDO
Bring home a piece of Italy. Unique gifts, logo apparel, fashion jewelry can all be found at Ricordo. Also featuring refreshments, snacks, wine and spirits, souvenirs, and pharmaceutical.
Unique gifts, logo apparel, fashion jewelry can all be found at Venezia. Also featuring refreshments, snacks, wine and spirits, souvenirs, and pharmaceutical.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Venetian Macau Hotel and Resort
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A bigger replica of its sister-property in Las Vegas, the $2.4 billion Venetian Macao Resort Hotel is a renaissance Venice-themed property featuring stunning replicas of Venice landmarks such as St. Mark's Square, the Doge's Palace, Campanile Tower, and three indoor canals with gondolas and singing gondoliers.
The Macau version however adds some Chinese touch. Chinese-style sampans as well as gondolas will sail down canals. Bringing the charm of Venice and the glamour of Las Vegas according to the company's billboard advertisements.
If you were not here for the opening of the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel on a good Chinese Day, 28th of the 8th month of 2007, anytime is a good time to visit this massive fairy tale mega complex. The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel is the largest building in Asia and the second-largest in the world.
The Asian version of Las Vegas Venetian “a massive paradigm shift for Macao and the future of tourism development in Asia according to owner Sheldon G. Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Venetian Hotel Suites
The hotel's 3,000 all-suite guest rooms are all elegantly decorated and come complete with lavish Italian marble bathrooms. All rooms are more than 70 square meters (750 square feet) each.
Royale Suites are split-level suites, complete with King-size bed and kingly luxuries. The Bella split-level suites offers the comforts of our Royale Suite, but with 2 Queen-size beds. Finally the Rialto,the Venetian flagship suites, offers the opulence and luxury in 170 square meter (1,830 square feet) suites complete with an enclosed bedroom, an open spacious living room and extravagant amenities.
Venetian Shopping and entertainment
The Venetian Macao will eventually have 350 stores covering one million square feet of retail shopping space on 3 floors, which is more than any shopping mall in Hong Kong. The Venetian Macao is showcasing top designer names and famous retailers and will soon become a major destination for the region's top shoppers.
The Baroque Theme Mall also includes Gondola Rides at three canals, two of them indoors. Various types of Street Side Entertainment happen all the time to amuse and entertain the visitors.
Venetian Dining options: restaurants, food court, bars and lounges
Dining is served by 20 leading restaurants, a 1,000 seat food court plus a high end night club. Fine dining is served by luxurious restaurants offering traditional dishes from time-honored classic dim sum to the finest abalone and magnificent seasonal Asian food. Gourmet dining is a Venetian tradition and are conveniently open 24 hours a day.
For more casual dining the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel offers a wide selection of delicious Chinese, Asian and Western style dishes. You can get a quick snack when you want to be close to the action, a delightful cold beverage at the pool side or in your Cabana, or a peaceful meal from your in-suite dining anytime you want.
For those looking for bars and lounges, you can now choose between the bustle of the traditional Irish pub, the live music of the main floor lounge, or the laid-back attitude of a sports & beer bar. One offers light snacks are provided during the day and your favorite beverages and cocktails are available any time of day or night. Another offers live entertainment featuring top bands and vocalists. What more, another bar serves your favorite chicken wings with a whole gamut of tantalizing sauces paired with more than 100 brands of beer from 24 countries!
Gigantic Venetian Macao casino floor
The Venetian Macao casino floor will boast the world's biggest casino (some 600,000 square feet of gambling space, about five times the size of your state-of-the-art Vegas gaming floor) and is home to 870 table games and more than 3,400 slot machines - with room to expand to 6,000. Together with the Wynn and Sands Casino this southern coastal Chinese city of Macau surpass the Las Vegas Strip as the world's most lucrative gambling center.
15,000-seat Venetian Arena
Venetian Macao Resort also features the 15,000-seat Venetian Arena. The Arena already hosted a pair of NBA exhibition games and later a match-up of tennis greats Roger Federer and Pete Sampras. The arena’s seating capacity and state-of-the-art equipment instantly make it the top entertainment facility in the region. Earlier in Julythe Venetian Macao sponsored the first appearance by Manchester United in Macau to compete against Chinese Super League's Shenzhen Football Club.
Venetian Macao Resort MICE facilities
The Venetian Macao Resort also has 1.2 million-square feet of meeting, convention and exhibition space, more than twice the amount of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The MICE facility features the largest pillar-less ballroom in Asia and has the catering facilities to provide a five-course banquet for 15,000 guests.
Las Vegas Sands President William Weidner has said that 44 major conventions have already been scheduled at the Venetian for the next two years. He also said he expects the Venetian Macao to lengthen the average guest stay to three to four days from 1.2 days in other Macau Hotels.
Venetian Theatre and the Cirque du Soleil
Additionally, the 1,800 seat Venetian Theatre will soon open and feature an original production from world-renowned Cirque du Soleil. However there are doubts about whether Western entertainment like Cirque du Soleil will appeal to an Asian clientele.
In addition to the excitement surrounding The Venetian Macao, the grand opening festivities also marks the opening of Las Vegas Sands' Cotai Strips. American billionaire Sheldon Adelson hopes his Venetian Macao Resort Hotel on Cotai will help launch a massive, concentrated resort area he calls the Cotai Strip, after its Las Vegas counterpart.
"Today is the beginning of what has been a dream of mine for some time to reproduce the capital of entertainment in Asia for Asians," Adelson said at a press conference several hours beforethe Venetian was to open to the public.
Getting to The Venetian Macao
A variety of transport options lets you get to the VMRH in comfort and style.
From the Macau Airport: take the Venetian shuttle bus which operates from 11am to 9pm daily and leaves the airport every 10 minutes.
The Macau - Hong Kong Ferry Terminal shuttle buses operates from 10am to midnight.
From Zhuhai's newly constructed Lotus Bridge (which joins Zhuhai with Macau's Coloanne and Taipa region (the Cotai region), a Venetian Macao shuttle bus also runs every 10 minutes between 9am and 8pm.
If you find yourself in the Sands Macao, then you can easily catch the Venetian shuttle bus every 8 minutes between 10am and 2am.
The mass transit railway is scheduled to be finised by 2012. There is also a massive carpark available underground.
Venetian Hotel Macau Facilities:
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Coloane Village (30 minutes)
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Take any bus marked 'Coloane' or 'Hác Sá' to Coloane Village...Start at the square Largo Presidente António Ramalho Eanes, and take a look at the little park in the middle, with its bronze statue of Cupid...Turn right on Rua das 
Gaivotas...which becomes Rua dos Navegantes...Walk along to the Tin Hau Temple (guarded by black and gold painted Chinese lions...look inside at the fine ceiling of green wooden rafters and beige tiles)...Ahead you find Chinese medicine shops, a shrine embedded in the roots of a tree and stores selling dried salted fish (said to be the best in the region)...some of the buildings are made of tin and built on stilts over the water...At the wharf of the Ponte Cais de Coloane (before the building of the causeway and bridge links, this was the pier for ferry travellers from Macau)...Turn back and take a right turn at the temple to reach the waterfront along Avenida 5 de Outubro...On your right is a narrow stretch of water (once part of the Bamboo Curtain) and part of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone of Guangdong, a flourishing new area which produces vegetables and fish farms, now
linked to Macau by bridge...Follow the waterfront with its avenue of banyans and palm trees...On the left is St Francis Xavier Square, a public library...private houses and a Primary School...At the end of the road is the Tam Kung Temple (dedicated to the Taoist God of Seafarers, with fine tiled roof and inside a boat carved from a whalebone with figures of guardians, also a plaster mural of a wide-eyed, orange-striped tiger with cub)...Outside take the road that branches left to Rua do Estaleiro...follow the parade of stately banyans till you reach some steps on your right, leading to the Largo Tin Hau Miu...Go up and visit the Tin Hau Temple (dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea, also known as A-Ma)...Go back down via the adjoining Travessa da República...Ahead is a public playground...Cross it to Travessa do Pagode and see another, smaller, Tin Hau Temple (notable for its gilded carved plaques and a moongate that makes an attractive frame for a typical Coloane village scene)...Turn right and stroll along the traditional China Coast street, with small, open-fronted stores overflowing with hardwares, groceries and haberdashery...neatly complemented with 
Macanese touches like whitewashed facades, blue-and-white name plaques and old-style lamplights hung with flower baskets...Soon you're in the main square, with Portuguese mosaic paving and rows of neo-classical arcades...Dominating the square is the Chapel of St Francis Xavier (opened in 1928 to enshrine the arm bone of the saint and remains of Christian martyrs from Japan, Korea and Indochina)...Although the relics have been moved to Japan and Macanese museums, the chapel, with its cream-and-white pedimented facade, still attracts pilgrims and tourists...At the opposite end of the square is an obelisque surrounded by stone cannonballs, which celebrates Macau's defeat of local pirates in 1910...This is an ideal place to stop for refreshments in one of the arcade restaurants...Leave the square by Rua dos Negociantes, to browse the antique shops...and before you catch a bus to town, cross the square and buy some egg tarts from Lord Stow's Bakery.
Coloane Extras
Besides the village, Coloane has many other attractions...Get off the bus outside Seac Pai Van Park, to enjoy the hillside nature trail, the aviary and children's zoo, and the Museum of Nature & Agriculture (with exhibits of the local ecosystem and a room devoted to Chinese herbal medicines)...OR take the bus past the village to Cheoc Van Beach (with long, sandy beach, swimming pool, yacht club, windsurfing, the Pousada de Coloane and some excellent Portuguese and Italian restaurants) or further on to Hác Sá Beach (the sand is naturally black, not polluted! Hác Sá means "black sand").
Taipa Village (40 minutes)
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Take a bus to the Taipa terminus...look in at the small Tin Hau Temple in the square...Opposite is a green and white neo-classical mansion that is the Museum of Taipa and Coloane History...Walk a few metres down Rua Correia da Silva and turn left into Travessa da Felicidade, continue to Rua dos Mercadores, one of a cluster of narrow streets lined with traditional Chinese shop-houses, with pastel plaster walls, wooden shutters and stucco ornamentation...at street level they contain shops, restaurants and family businesses...Stroll through Largo das Virtudes and Largo Maia de Magalhães to Rua da Cunha, which is popularly known as Food Street because of the many restaurants here and on nearby streets, serving Portuguese, 
Macanese, Indian, Italian, different kinds of Chinese and even African food...Cross Rua Correia da Silva and take the narrow lane on your right to the cobbled slope of Calçada do Quartel (named after the former military fort on the hilltop)...which becomes Avenida Carlos da Maia...Pass the post office and school to reach Our Lady of Carmo (a pastel and white neo-classical church built in 1885)...In front are landscaped gardens, with fountains and vine-covered bowers...Take the zigzag path, lined with scallop-shaped borders, down to Avenida da Praia (this was the waterfront for merchants and sailors when the bay - now mostly reclaimed land - was anchorage for China Clippers and Indiamen)...You will find a beautifully restored row of early 20th-century houses and an avenue of banyans and flower-covered bowers...The first 
building is the Macanese House (filled with reproduction period furniture and furnishings in both Chinese and European style, illustrating the life of typical Macanese at the time)...Next door is the House of the Islands (displaying maps, pictures and memorabilia from Taipa and Coloane)...then the House of the Portugal Regions (displays of costumes, musical instruments and photos)...Next is the Exhibition Gallery, with changing shows of photographs, paintings and posters...and finally the largest house is now used for meetings and receptions,which can overflow onto the praia and a small open arena...Note that the museums are closed on Monday...By now you should be hungry, so walk back up the steps and take Calçada do Carmo to Avenida Direita Carlos Eugénio...Opposite is one of the former firecracker factories that once flourished on Taipa...Ahead is Food Street!
Taipa - by night
There's plenty of nightlife on Taipa...Of course the many restaurants of Food Street are particularly busy...as are the island's major hotels, which contain casinos and nightclubs as well as a variety of places to eat and drink...But Taipa is also a place for sports fans...there are night meetings at the Macau Jockey Club's superb horse racing facility at midweek and sometimes weekend evenings...There's no need to plan in advance and it's easy to combine a night at the races with drinks and dinner either before or after...The other sports venue is the Macau Stadium, close to the race track...It is equipped to host soccer matches, track and field events or pop concerts...Check with the Tourist Office or your hotel for details.
Outer Harbour (30 minutes)
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In recent years Macau has almost doubled in size, with new districts being created by land reclamation...One of them now occupies part of the Outer Harbour, where once seaplanes and ferries arrived...
Begin at the Grand Lapa Hotel and take the bayside road that runs past the hotel and its health spa to a garden featuring pools with stone sculptures...Ahead is the Cultural Centre (you can't miss the swooping structure roof)...in the main building you can see the Grand Theatre, that is used for major musical and dramatic performances, a studio theatre and exhibition area...the adjoining building houses the Museum of Art (with permanent exhibitions of China Trade paintings, calligraphy, Shiwan ceramics, 20th-century art and historical documents, plus temporary shows. Open 10am-7pm, closed Monday)...Follow the Avenida Dr Sun Yat Sen along the waterfront, passing the Macau Urban Development Exhibition Room to the Kun Iam Statue (rising from a small promontory, the 20-metre bronze figure of the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy was sculpted by a Portuguese and cast in China. In the lotus-shaped base is a small ecumenical centre for meditation and information on religions in China) ...Leading from the statue, the broad avenue is devoted to the Dr Carlos D'Assumpção Park (with children's playgrounds and tree-shaded relaxation areas)...Stroll through the park to the main Avenida de Amizade and turn left for 
the Jardim das Artes (a park with brightly coloured geometric sculptures)... Cross the avenue by subway to Comendador Ho Yin Garden (more or less an extension of the Ho Yin Garden)...Take the right exit on Rua de Luís Gonzaga Gomes and follow it to the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) (next to the Macau Forum)...here you find the Grand Prix Museum (dedicated to the annual Formula 3 championship races with cars, motorbikes, videos, memorabilia and interactive race simulators) and the Wine Museum (exhibits of Portuguese wines, antique wine-making equipment and history of vine growing. Both museums open 10am-6pm)...If you're ready for lunch you can try the restaurants nearby, or take a bus or taxi back into the town centre.
Outer Harbour - by night
This area has become a nightlife hub, with new restaurants and bars opening all the time...You can retrace all or parts of the previous itinerary, depending on whether you have tickets for a show at the Cultural Centre or the Forum, in which case you have plenty of choice for early dinner, supper and pre- or post-theatre drinks...For gamblers there's casinos at the hotels nearby...And everyone will enjoy a stroll to see the floodlit Kun Iam Statue and the sculpture park of Jardim das Artes.
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