The champagne bottle smashes against the gondola while a huge group of people clap their hands. Those who are close to the event takes a quick look at the quite fragile looking gondola...
Fortunately the gondola didn't breake and since the Venetian tourism symbol is going to serve as an mean of transport for millions of tourists the condition of the gondola is quite an important factor... The man who smashes the bottle against the gondola is the multi-millionaire Sheldon Adelson. Together with his wife, he is in China to open an impressive building project - a complex some people consider to be the center of the "new" Las Vegas.
Las Vegas or Macau?
If you're planning the ultimate trip to Las Vegas, and if you're willing to leave your online favourite poker sites, and if have the courage to try something new, it may be worth skipping the destination of your dreams and replace it with China.
China may not sound like the perfect place to let your gambling skills shine. However, this is where you'll find the biggest casino in the world covering an area more than 10,76 square feet.
If you're atill sceptic about China as a casino country, and if you still believe that Las Vegas is the best and the biggest, you're wrong. Actually China offers a casino which is three times as big as the biggest in Las Vegas - a casino which is placed in an area that in 2006 realized more than Las Vegas.
Casinoportalen has examined the impressing and luxurious Venetian inspired amusement complex The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel in which you'll find the casino Venetian Macau. In this article we bring you the unbelieveable facts about the entire Venetian Macau Resort Hotel - place that certainly seems worth visiting!
The whole caboodle opened on the 28th of August 2007, and is situated only 60 km from Hong Kong in the former Portugeese colony Macau. This is the only place in China where you're actually allowed to gamble at casinos.
Welcome to Cotai Strip
The enormous complex is placed on "Cotai Strip" which is build and designed with Las Vegas' world famous and legendary boulevard in mind. Like "The Strip", "Cotai Strip" is always busy. Several thousand people has already visited The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel - actually in a scale never seen before at an opening event in the gambling industry. On the first night 76.000 expectant people showed up to see the huge complex with their own eyes witnessing how the amount of £1 billion has been distributed on 43,04 square feet and transformed into 3000 hotel suits, 1150 game tables, 7000 slot machines, 350 shops, a conference hall with the capacity of 1800 people and The Venetian Arena with 18000 seats. No less than 15000 people are employed to take care of this.
Apparently these impressive facts have made even more people flock to the place. After 24 hours of opening more than 114.000 people had visited The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel. However, the cracy numbers don't stop. On an "ordinary" weekday The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel attracts up to 86.000 visitors, and on the very first weekend 500.000 people from all over the world had dropped by the second biggest building in the world. A NASA building in the US is the only building in the world bigger than The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel. The Las Vegas based Sands Corp is the company behind The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel, and this company certainly has ensured that a lot of people has the opportunity to visit the complex. Thus, Sands Corp has 15 ferries, each with a capacity of 400 passengers. Besides they expect to bring six air planes, two helicopters 85 busses into action to transport the huge amount of tourists.
Take a trip in a gondola or go shopping
One of the more obscure experinces at The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel is to take a tour on the three canals in your very own gondola having your own "captain" singing serenades for you. If this is not enough you can spent time shopping in more than 300 designer shops, and when you get hungry you'll not find a better place to go for dinner. Every single cook at the The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel has a background from the finest restuarants in the world. As a result of this you'll find every sort of meal at The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel.
Of course you can play every game that you can ever think of at the casino. In that sense The Venetian Macau dosn't stand out. What makes this place special is with out doubt its size and extravagant luxury.
In 1999 Portugal made over Macau to China after having been under Portugeese administration for 442 years. There are app. 500.000 inhabitans in Macau. The official language in Macau is Portugeese and Chineese, but you'll do fine with English. |
