Birthday trip to Macau/Hong Kong 2012- The Venetian Macao(澳门威尼斯人度假村酒店）

Since piggy bro is able to get staff rate for this hotel, naturally we chose to stay at The Venetian Macao (澳门威尼斯人度假村酒店) Heard so much about it and finally got the chance to stay here..Was excited naturally.

1st look of the hotel

The bus dropped us right in front of the main lobby and I went to settle the check in with bro.

Entrance

Mummy recovered from the ferry ride already

The lobby was grand alright. Designed in european style. Staff was courteous and spoke good english. Check in was a breeze and we were directed to our room.

With my Mr Love

Some old looking map

We were directed to walk through a long hallway and through the casino before reaching the lift lobby. Since camera is not allowed in the casino, I didnt managed to take any photos. This is the 2nd time I've been inside a casino. The 1st is to the Genting 1.

This is like many times bigger than the 1 in Genting with endless rows of gaming tables. Hotel guests will have to pass thru there to get to the lift lobby up to the rooms. I wonder why they design it in such a way since there are family with kids.

The smoking smell in the casino is someting that puts me off big time. A 5min walk through the casino leaves me covered with smoke and as if I am a chain smoker. I worry for the health of the staff here.

Our room is located on the 23rd floor and they managed to gave us a connecting room.

The long hallway

1st impression we had as we entered the room is "WOW". I mean really wow. This is by far the biggest hotel room I stayed so far. Besides the sleeping area, it also have a some sort of living room area. Man, I was impressed, very impressed.

The Living room area

Queen bed

Based on the layout/size of this room, this can be considered as apartment suite instead of a hotel room only. There are 2 tvs in the room, 1 in the cabinet placed in front of the bed, the other 1 in the living room area where you can watch tv on the comfort of the sofa.

This is good since we watched different channels. I choose the 1 in the living room area since I would snack alot and the coffee table is just nice for me to place my food.

From the living room area

View from our room

There is also a wardrobe that is big enough for 2 pax to hang at least a wk worth of clothes inside. Not the we need it, haha but it is indeed bigger than most wardrobe provided by hotel. 1 thing I must mentioned that the bathrobe quality is really good. It keeps me warm during then night when the air con gets too cold and neither 1 of us is willing to go crawl out of bed to adjust the temperature.

Wardrobe that we didnt use

Hallway that leads to the door,bathroom and connecting door

The bathroom is again the largest that I have seen so far. There's a bathtub, a shower area, 2 sinks and a separated room for the toilet inside. On top of it, there is a huge vanity table to the right of the door. Its like a dream come true to have this kind of bathroom in your house. Just this bathroom alone is as big as my studyroom back home..

Bathroom/bathtub/shower area

Love the 2sinks cuz we need no fight

Toilet separated

TA-DAH A full length mirror

Mr love waiting for me to finish taking photos of the bathroom

The vanity counter where I can slap on my skin care

We jumped over to mummy and piggy bro's room via the connecting door. It seems like their room is slightly bigger than ours due to the twin single beds. Living room area and bathroom is of the same size. Come to think of it, this can be shared by 4 pax if you are not too big sized to share a bed.

Twin sharing room

Living room area

TV and safe

In the lift

We decided to go down to get something to eat since its already 3pm. Bro suggested the foodcourt and we are fine with it.

Food court in the hotel

1 thing we realised is that the interior of Venetian Macao is designed in such a way that gives you a false impression that it is still bright and sunny out there although it might already been nightfall already.

I guess this is what all casino operators do, main aim is let you lost track of time during gambling and will immerse in it unknowingly. Great move, but its of no use to us.

Food Court street

We found a seat shortly since it was way past lunch time and proceed to order. I ordered spicy chicken noodles which is not a bit spicy at all. Not impressed by the taste and it costs quite ex, near to SGD 10 but this is normal food court price.

My spicy chicken noodles

Mr Love on the other hand ordered some curry chicken which looks more tempting than all our food. But the wait was pretty long.

Mr Love's curry chicken

After that, bro went to settle some work issue while mummy, Mr Love and I decided to check out the shopping area. There are quite a lot of shops here but since its an atas hotel, most of the shops are of middle to high end brands.

I was looking for a convenience shop but to no avail. Was quite upset as I was planning to get some snacks to snack in the room at night.

The Grand Canal with Gondola rides available, saw this in the Korean show "Flowers over boys" and was tempted to try hehe. But it seems like no 1 else is taking the gondola and I decided otherwise.

The Grand Canal

Finally saw someone taking the gondola after awhile

We just wandered around with no particular location in mind and took some photos along the way.

The 2 most important persons of my life

Mummy 1st time using a digital camera

Turns out that there was a link to Four Seasons hotel and we went there only to find more upscale shops there and thus we turned back to The Venetian.

Came across a cafe on the way back and saw Pork chop bun(猪扒包) on the menu and pulled mummy and Mr Love in.. Ordered 1 each and also some fishballs (鱼蛋）to try.

There is nothing fantastic about the buns served here, in fact I found the 1s we had randomly on the street nicer and much cheaper. But since its our 1st day here, we did not have the chance to venture out yet.

Pork chop bun that is too dry for our liking

Very ordinary fish balls