The Venetian

In 3 weeks, I will be visiting Hong Kong and Macau for a brief winter holiday. At first I wasn't too excited about spending a night in Macau because I would have less one day of indulgent shopping in Hong Kong, until my family decided to upgrade to a night at The Venetian. Oh yeahh... I know I'm spoilt for the finer things in life! XD







And so, I did a little research on the accommodation, facilities and entertainment on The Venetian's website. It's certainly a privilege to be able to visit the world's largest casino which is also the sixth largest building in the world. There are no such things as standard rooms - there are only luxury suites with the Royale Suites starting at 70 square metres of floor space!



The Venetian can never qualify in namesake if it did not have an authentic Venetian themed interior. It boasts of over 300 shops built around 3 canals complete with gondola rowers, street performers and a vast painted ceiling that resembles a sky with enough lighting to match the time of day. I ran through the directory of shops at The Grand Canal Shoppes which are enough to rival that of a large world class shopping mall. Needless to say, I marked the ones which I intend to visit:

1. Coach
2. Adidas
3. Armani Exchange
4. ck Calvin Klen
5. CK Underwear
6. G2000
7. Hugo Boss Orange Label
8. Massimo Dutti
9. United Colours of Benetton
10. Zara





I hope to have sufficient time to explore The Venetian since I will mostly be touring around the ourdoors to visit some famous landmarks with Ruins of St. Paul being the foremost. I will be arriving and departing Macau via Hydrofoil so I will need to watch the weight of my luggage and not go overboard with the weight of my shopping bags (pun intended)!