Inside the Venetian in Macau

This post is part of our itinerary in Macau. For the complete itinerary view here: Macau itinerary

This spot wasn’t coming up during my search of tourist spots in Macau. Luckily Jeff found this and we immediately altered our itinerary for this one.

How to go there

From our walking tour in Macau, we went back to our hotel to get the free service going to the Venetian. It took us about 15 minutes to get there.

Every minute, there are buses and tourists arriving at the Venetian. At the entrance, there were two lines going in, we think the other line leads to the ferry ride going to China. Were not really sure, just be careful what line you get in.

What to See

The Venetian is actually a hotel/casino, so at the entrance is the reception for people wanting to stay there. We on the other hand, just followed the flock of people walking in.

The Venetian is such a fancy place, the aura is gold, the designs are gold, everything is gold. In fact, the pictures on this post are not altered. It’s really that ‘gold’ in there.

It’s so fancy that just on the hallway near the entrance, are huge chandeliers decorating their ceilings.

Chandeliers in the Venetian

Every area has a unique ceiling design, including this one from the casino area, inspired by Roman paintings.

Painting ceilings in the venetian, Macau

And every step we took were cushioned in soft, red carpets. Ipa felt so small in there.

Carpeted floors in the Venetian

The highlight of this place is the actual Venice replica inside the hotel. Actually, only the second floor of the replicas are Venetian-inspired. The ground floors are occupied by high-end stores like Louie Vuitton, Gucci, Versace, all that fancy stores. The fanciest store we went in was Marks and Spencer, haha. Shopping wasn’t really our goal there anyways, we want to prepare our money for Hongkong.

stores in the Venetian

There are surprise performance every now and then in the Venetian. We went there January 3, after new year, so I’m not sure if its a regular feature there.

One surprise performance we caught, was from this opera singer singing some Christmas song.

Performers in the Venetian

There’s also the copied gondola ride in this Venice canal replica. The ride costs 85 mop per gondola, which includes an hour of ride, and a free opera serenade from the Gondola operator. And no, we didn’t ride the gondola, it’s too cheesy.

the Gondola

After which, we walked around more to look for the actual casinos. I was excited to do some games there, and the fact that Jeff is lucky, made me want to play more.

We took pictures from the second floor first before getting in the casino area. Picture taking from where the casino is, is not allowed. I was still able to take some pics though, I mean there’s no sign whatsoever that it’s not allowed, and there were like a hundred of us snapping pics. I only knew of this rule when I saw some guard asking the tourists beside us not to take pictures. I simply covered my camera with my lens cap.

The circle where the casino is

Since Jeff and I never played casino. We didn’t understand the game, we stopped at one slot machine to read the rules of the game, but we were told not to stay too long in the machines. In short, I got annoyed with how tight the security is in the casino, we decided to scrap that.

Jeff and I then went to the food court to grab some dinner. We just went with where everyone was eating. After the dinner, we stayed for a while until the bus service going back to our hotel arrived to pick us up.

Food Court in the Venetian

At the end of our Day 2 trip in Macau, we were both very satisfied and very tired tourists. We’ll definitely go back there, given the time and the money.

Check out our gallery for more pictures of the Venetian. There are not enough words to describe how pretty it was, so let our pictures do the talking.

Fees and Fares of this tour

None

More pictures of the Venetian and Macau here

(click on the picture to view the album)

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