I love Venice. So on a recent trip to Hong Kong I decided I’d check out ‘The Venetian’.
For those non-gamblers amongst you (me included) ‘The Venetian’ is the world’s largest casino, and it’s in the gambling Mecca of the world…. Macau. If you were thinking Vegas, then true, there is a much smaller Venetian there. But America’s gambling Mecca is now being dwarfed by the rise and rise of Macau. (Thanks’ entirely to the Chinese peoples’ obsession with gambling.)
And boy is this place big. So big in fact that it has re-created the floating city, indoors. I’ll repeat that, indoors.
Now to be honest it is as far away from the real Venetian experience as Italy is away from Macau. But it was a fun way to spend the day, and of course a few Macau Patacas…