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.
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