Nov

24

MGM Grand Cotai on hold

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Here’s a shocker…another Cotai hotel casino project postponed.  Macau is starting to feel like Vegas.

Macau Daily Times:

Now, even Macau is being affected by the global financial crises with MGM Mirage announcing on Friday it too will suspend plans to build a second resort in Macau.

Currently, MGM Grand located in Nape is the company’s only hotel-casino in the SAR, however it had plans to develop another second property also in the Cotai Strip.

MGM Mirage not only has frozen plans to build a second resort in Macau but also to develop a large swath of vacant land at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip.

“What we are experiencing now is unique,” said Alan Feldman, senior vice president for MGM Mirage, referring to consumer confidence levels sinking to historic lows.

Nov

15

Quick Note

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I know I’ve slacked off on this site for the past few weeks.  See, November is my two year anniversary running Cotai Casino News and no one remembered, so my feelings have been hurt and didnt want to write on this anymore.  Just kidding. Ive been really busy developing a few other non casino related sites and it has taken up all my free time.  Im pretty much done so I’ll get back to this sometime next week and will probably blog more frequently than I had been in the past.

Nov

3

Ok, now its official…i think

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Looks like the Cotai Strip condos are back up for sale.  From today’s LVS filing:

On October 29, 2008, the office of the Secretary for Transportation and Public Works for the Macau Special Administrative Region of The People’s Republic of China (the “Macau Government”) published an amendment (the “Land Concession Amendment”) to the Land Concession by Lease (the “Land Concession”) between the Macau Government and Venetian Cotai, Limited (”VCL”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp. (the “Company”) in Macau’s Official Gazette (the “Official Gazette”).

The Land Concession Amendment separated the retail mall use from the hotel use for Lot II (the “Four Seasons Macao Hotel”) and authorized VCL to subdivide the Four Seasons Macao Hotel into four independent strata title units consisting of the following: (i) a five star hotel, including gaming areas, entertainment, leisure, restaurants and other supporting areas (112,167 square meters); (ii) a four star apartment-hotel, which corresponds to the most luxurious classification of apartment-hotel permitted in Macau (101,028 square meters); Read more

Nov

3

New City of Dreams multimedia

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New official website: http://cityofdreams.com.mo/

Pamphlet 

Oct

19

MPEL Provides an Update of Construction Progress and Financing at City of Dreams

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Melco Crown Entertainment Limited seeks to update the status of progress at City of Dreams, its flagship integrated casino hotel resort development in Macau, in response to recent turbulence in global financial market conditions and certain press reports.City of Dreams remains fully on target to open to the public during the first half of 2009. Construction activity will be maintained at maximum capacity through the end of 2008 to deliver the construction timetable to completion. Our projected budget for phases one and two of City of Dreams also remains unchanged.  Read more

Oct

10

The Mall at Macao Studio City video

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I only have two comments:

1) What happened to the Destination Macau guy? He was Destination Macau in my opinion. Nothing against this lady, but there’s no comparison.

3) Im glad there is a video for the Mall at Studio City, but what about the actual Macao Studio City resort??? What in the world is the status of that thing?

Sep

30

Cotai Strip hotels and “The Phoenix”

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I was just browsing the new Cotai Strip® website and noticed some new descriptions and pictures of the hotels that are being built by Las Vegas Sands for the Cotai Strip.  It should just take a second so you should check it out : http://www.cotaistrip.com.mo/en/show/hotels.

Also, I noticed something that I have never seen referenced before, “The Phoenix” on the Cotai Strip.  I dont think its something new, but the actual description is a bit light on the details:

Beside the Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip® will soon be the home of the world’s most recognized hotel brands. Together, three contemporary hotels form a “Phoenix” in what is set to become one of the most intriguing iconic structures at Cotai Strip®.

Here’s the picture of The Phoenix from the website:

The Phoenix on the Cotai Strip

Sep

27

Macao tourism infrastructure study

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Commissioned by the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao S.A.R. and conducted by the Institute For Tourism Studies (IFT), a study was completed which aimed at providing reference estimates on the optimal social carrying capacity of Macao’s tourism industry and suggest whether the existing tourism facilities and services are adequate to cope with the rapid growth in visitor arrivals.

The survey was divided into 2 parts: The first part consisted of questionnaire interviews, on 44 selected days of 2007 which covered weekdays, weekends and days within the Golden Week periods. Both local residents and visitors were asked to express their perception on crowdedness and satisfaction with environmental quality, local transportation, food & beverage and retail services quality and waiting time, and border clearance performance. A total of 5158 residents and 5120 visitors were sampled. The interview locations included Leal Senado Square, Portas do Cerco, A-Ma Temple, Ruins of St.Paul, Cunha Street, Horta E Costa, Mesquita and New Yaohan. The second part was to collect data and information from government departments and stakeholders in several tourism-related sectors to estimate their full-load capacity. The study covered 8 main services and facilities, namely hotel accommodation, restaurants and dining, buses, taxis, ferries, border clearance, tourist attractions and inbound tour handling.  Read more

Sep

8

Miss Macau 2008 crowned

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florence loi miss macau

Congratulations to Florence Loi, who was just crowned Miss Macau 2008 at the Cotai Strip Cotai Arena. Out of 10 contestants, she was contestant #8. A coincidence? Read more

Sep

6

Some new Cotai Strip photos

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Cotai Strip 

Photos of the The Shoppes at Four Seasons Macao.  When you click on one of the categories and the picture page comes up, go to bottom to click “Next” to view additional pictures in the category.

Random photos from the Cotai Strip taken by Martin at MacauCasinoWorld.com.

 

Aug

30

Cotai advertising campaign

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If anyone has seen any of these ads, please forward them to me so I can post them to share with everyone.  Here’s the article from BrandRepublic.Asia:
Macau’s Cotai Strip launch activities continue in earnest today with the launch of a new advertising campaign for several key properties.

Developed by OgilvyOne Hong Kong and OMD, the campaign promotes the new Plaza Casino, which is located at the new Four Seasons Hotel next to the Venetian Macao.

The campaign also includes TV and outdoor work for Zaia, the new Cirque Du Soleil act which is debuting at a purpose-built theater at the Venetian.

The Plaza Casino campaign sees several newspaper front pages wrapped with the print and advertorial advertisements.  Read more

Aug

29

Zaia press release, photos, and video

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zaia

(see below for more pictures and video)

ZAIA, the very first permanent Cirque du Soleil production to open in Asia, celebrated its world premiere on August 28, 2008 at the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel in Macau to coincide with the 1st Anniversary of its host resort-hotel.

Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian-based global entertainment company providing high-quality artistic entertainment. Cirque du Soleil productions have played to almost 80 million spectators in over 200 cities on five continents. In 2008, Cirque du Soleil is presenting 17 shows simultaneously throughout the world. Each production fuses innovative acrobatics, theatre, dance and music with spectacular costumes, lighting and make-up. Cirque du Soleil has successfully toured to 13 cities in Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei and Shanghai with Big Top productions but ZAIA will be the first production to be housed within a permanent theatre in the region. Read more

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