Venetian Macao/Macau for Chinese New Year

Joss and I went to Macau to see 'The Police' in concert one night over Chinese New year. I must fess and say I was grumpy; tired and not feeling too hot (man flu) ... but I thought the group were rubbish. Not a show at all. Nothing like ELO or Sir Cliff R or Pink Floyd would put on. Joss thought they were good though (as did 14,998 other punters. Sting was looking in good shape for someone aged 55 I must admit.

We stayed at the new Venetian Hotel - HUGE place and, this particular time, full of over-excited heavy smoking Chinese gambling away their New Year bonuses. Not nice. Hotel is a ghastly affair. The worst of Vegas. Hate the place. Unfortunate really given I was back there a week later on a business trip. It's so big, you can see it lit up @ least 20 mins before you land @ HK airport -- as Joss would say, "it's vulgar and gopping" - I think they proudly say something like 80+ Jumbo jets could fit in its gambling halls.

Here's what wiki says:

The Venetian is a 40-story, $1.8 billion anchor for the 7 resort hotels which are under construction on the Cotai Strip in Macau. The 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m²) Venetian Macao is modeled on its sister casino resort – the The Venetian in Las Vegas – and is the largest single structure hotel building in Asia and the second-largest building in the world.

The main hotel tower was finished in July 2007 and the resort officially opened on August 28, 2007. The resort has 3000 suites, 1,200,000 square feet (111,000 m²) of convention space, 1,600,000 square feet (149,000 m²) of retail, 550,000 square feet (51,000 m²) of casino space – largest in the world – with 3400 slot machines and 800 gambling tables and a 15,000 seat arena for entertainment/sports events.

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