Chrismas trip to Hongkong, Macau and Hainan Island-Macau
Macau is another Special administration of PRC government, who took back from Portuguese government in 1999. The city received much less attention than Hongkong. it’s understandable, Macau size is only 1/40 of Hong Kong, and it’s not financial center, the only thing make Macau famous among Chinese is casino business. The only person we always heard about macau is their richest man + his 4 wife.
We hired a private van with driver, who can tour us around the island, but I barely understand his Chinese. He first brought us to Macau side of Zhu river, the other side is China, Zhuhai city. when I was a kid, Zhuhai was another well developed industrial city other than Shenzhen(boarder city of Hong Kong), but it’s no longer the case. Zhuhai is no longer attractive to any new business development, business is slow there.
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Custom at river used to catch illegal immigrants swim from China side.
Then we were taken to the most famous tourist site of Macau, A-Ma Temple(goddess of fisherman), where the name Macau came from. When Portuguese first landed in Macau near A-ma temple, they asked locals what’s the name of the place. The locals answered “Makau”. There is really nothing special about temple, too many people there, I did not try to get in.
After that, we went another site that everyone visits, Ruin’s of St. Paul Cathedral, the Cathedral was built three times, but was later buried 3 times with only one wall left and became a tourist site.
on our way back to hotel, we visited Venetian hotel, well, it just like the one in Vegas. Other brands including Wynn, MGM, so for people have been Vegas countless times, what is the difference? I don’t see any.
Jean-Claude said,
the difference is the depth of people, it’s always full at the tables and the average bet being 11 times the average bet of vegas.
Kris Ziel said,
There is no way the average bet is 11x what the average bet is in Las Vegas. Not only do all of their Macau resorts bring in 8x what their Las Vegas properties do, but heir Macau casinos have about 7x as much floor space as their Las Vegas casinos, so it ends up being almost even in terms of revenue per square foot. As for the hold averages, they are about the same. I’m sure Macau has many more high rollers, but the average person in all likelihood bets less than the average person in Las Vegas. That being said, Macau is growing far, far faster than Las Vegas, but you are so far off I had to point it out.
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