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More wallet-lightening offerings await at the Grand Casino, with around 375 gaming tables with over 900 arm-exercising slot machines and a further 16 private gaming rooms. The Grand Ballroom can host 680 persons theatre-style while assorted function rooms and alcoves for those sound-and-fury board meetings provide versatile space for small meetings or larger conferences. This is another address to mark in your Macau casino hotels diary.
Next door to the Mandarin Oriental is the lavish MGM Macau, with 582 deluxe guest rooms, villas and suites. It cuts a fine figure on the waterfront with its waved design. For sheer wow factor, this is a place to see. The lobby is deep and wide with reception off to the left (backed by huge abstract square paintings in bright splashes and spatters), a sitting area to the right, and a huge red glass chandelier hanging in the centre, created by renowned American blown-glass artist, Dale Chihuly. The same artist has a store (one of two in the world, the other being at the Bellagio in Las Vegas) in the ‘Art Corridor’ off to the left of the main lobby – a surreal light-changing tunnel lined with more glass sculptures leading to one of the hotel’s 12 eating outlets. The US$1.3 million MGM Art Space on the second floor showcases highbrow art exhibitions; its November 2013 launch exhibition featured a Botticelli loaned from Turin, Italy.
The Landmark Macau, is attached to a larger-than-life 24-hour casino, Pharaoh’s Palace. As well as its 450 rooms, The Landmark has Chinese, Shanghainese and Japanese restaurants, a business centre, an indoor swimming pool, and is your ticket if you’re after a themed karaoke lounge. Return guests – which are largely from the business sector – rave about the comfort of the beds, and, because of its location close to office blocks, this is a reasonable Macao business hotels choice.
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In the vicinity is Sands Macao Hotel (along with the Sands casino), a gold, mirrored-glass creation that opened in 2007 (the casino opened a few years earlier). With the same owners as The Venetian and The Parisian (Las Vegas Sands Corp), it is more restrained than its Cotai Strip siblings with a relatively smaller number of rooms at 289. There’s no shortage of in-room amenities though with plasma-screen TVs, iPod docks, WiFi Internet access, walk-in wardrobes, a clothes press, roomy safes, and microwaves. The feel is modern, emphasised by catchy art pieces and dark wood doors with pearl-shell mosaics.
There’s the necessary casino offering, but also a large spa with hair salon, fitness centre, slimming machines, alongside 13 rooms and 11 more at the “clinic”. Channelling the spirit of Hong Kong’s hippest evening venue but dancing to a different tune might be just the ticket for Hotel Lan Kwai Fong Macau. Being painted bright purple doesn’t hurt either.
This law marks a significant shift in Macau’s handling of illegal gambling, imposing stricter penalties and stronger regulatory oversight. It also includes amendments to existing laws to ensure a comprehensive legal framework. Stakeholders in the gaming industry are closely watching its potential impact on governance and regulation.
Vida Rica Restaurant & Bar serves mainly Western food with some Chinese and Japanese dishes. Adjacent to the dining room, the bijoux bar is a glam spot for cocktails, offering stellar evening views of the waterfront and bridges beneath a glimmering spiral chandelier. Also on the premises is a spa and Mandarin Oriental cake shop. Don’t expect roulette tables and jackpot machines here though – the hotel is strictly a non-gaming property. If you need to shed some coins, don’t worry, the neighbouring One Central shopping complex is linked to the MGM casino.
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The former Grand Lapa Hotel (once a Mandarin Oriental) stands in the shadow of its shimmering neighbour, Sands. But there any similarity ends. On 1 January 2021 it transformed into lifestyle hotel Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau (). In the casino-mad bustle of Macau, this is an oasis of tranquility and Old World appeal. With a woody lobby (reminiscent of a lawyer's club, brightened up a tad after the refit), the place is both stately and homey. It is a reassuring mix. Furniture is sparse and spread out, colours are in grey muted pastels and a gleaming wooden balustrade leads up the staircase to the second-floor eateries. Music is unobtrusive and classical and wafts around past the retail store and the AMAGAO art gallery.
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Macau’s legislator granted significant enforcement powers to the local regulator. From fines to concessions and concession termination, there is a broad range of sanctions available in Macau’s jurisdiction. However, the DICJ’s track record in terms of sanctions application is not as opulent as allowed by the legal framework in force. Despite some informal and unofficial recommendations issued under certain specific situations, there are no records of significant sanctions issued by Macau’s regulator. Perhaps the most noteworthy action from the DICJ at such level was in relation to gaming promoters’ operating requirements. In the second half of 2015, the DICJ enacted a set of stronger operational requirements and subsequently monitored the full completion of those requirements in order to minimise certain issues arising from the non-complying operations of some of those stakeholders. The non-compliance of such requirements led to the non-renewal of some gaming promoters’ annual licences. Following such change to the requirements and enforcement strategy, there was a significant decrease in the issuance of gaming promoter licences during the recent years.
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In a similar case, Levo Chan, the former chairman of Tak Chun Group, has had his 14-year prison sentence reduced by one year. The Court of Second Instance made this ruling while also acquitting Chan and his four co-defendants of fraud, relieving them from paying a collective HKD 570 million (USD 70.5 million) to five of Macau’s gaming concessionaires. However, the court significantly increased the amount they owe to the Macau Government to HKD 2.5 billion (USD 310 million). This case is still pending final decision of the Court of Final Appeal.
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As to criminal sanctions, Macau’s Court of Final Appeal has upheld the 18-year prison sentence for Alvin Chau Cheok Wa, former head of the now-defunct Suncity Group casino junket, dismissing appeals from both his defence team and the Public Prosecutions Office. Although this ruling reaffirms the Court of Second Instance’s decision from October, it also confirms the sentence reductions granted to some of Chau’s co-defendants.
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Bring your appetite. Grand Lisboa is home to Macau’s only three-Michelin-starred restaurants; Robuchon au Dôme and The Eight. The latter hides behind a nondescript steel door that is opened by remote control to reveal a decadent ebony and red restaurant with rippling chandeliers and bold, goldfish-painted silk screens. Goldfish projections ‘swim’ underfoot as you glide across the marble entrance. The menu showcases Cantonese and Huaiyang cuisines, with more than 50 types of dim sum served at lunchtime. The Eight is highly recommended for a sophisticated Cantonese meal.
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Law no. 7/2022 that amended the Macau Gaming Law includes a crime of disobedience for those who do not allow DICJ and Finance Department personnel entry to conduct inspections, as well as a regime of sanctions for administrative infringements, with fines that may go up to MOP 5 million and additional sanctions that may include the closure of casinos or the advertisement of the sanction. Similarly, sanctions are also provided under Law 16/2022 – regime of operation of games – for administrative infringements conducted under this statute.