Macau

NuggetTNQ · Member Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Australia

Has anyone been to Macau and can therefore offer any opinions on the place? Is it just full of casinos and that's it? Suitable to take the family?
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Wanderlust · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

I went there for a day trip from Hong Kong about 6 or 7 years ago, but was only there a few hours. It wasn't dominated by casinos and there is some very nice buildings there from the days when it was ruled by Portugal. Other than that though I can't really recall anything very good or bad - I did spend a good portion of my time in a casino though! Mr. Green

DawnHRD · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

Lovely place & totally suitable to take the family. Yes, there are casinos, but, as WL says there are some beautiful historic buildings. I like it. Smile

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seasider · Member Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 70 Location: TRFTS

I used to go there from Hong Kong for R& R every few weeks. It is still a nice place but not quite as nice as it used to be. There is a huge amount of development going on (casinos) and anyone who hasn't been for a few years wouldn't recognize the place.
It is nice to wander around the old parts of Macau and the restaurants are very good. Coloane is a great place (still) to get away from it all. Probably a weekend is long enough though.
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Bamboo Grove · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject:

From what I can recall from the late 80´s is good food and excellent and inexpensive Portuguese wines and ports.
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acerockolla · Rookie Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 24 Location: UK Devon

Spent some time in Macau last September stayed at the Wynn.
Sure it's got lots of Casinos but it's no Las Vegas. However as a place to visit, imagine China mixed with Europe, the place has lots of Portugeise style property, cobbled streets and very friendly chinese people.
The Wynn is a smaller version of the one in Vegas and was wonderful, although the food was nothing like as good as you can get on the streets of Hua Hin!
Family friendly if you ignore the casinos, for sure!.
Worth a visit for gambling yes although lots of strange games that you don't see in Vegas!

The understudy · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

HI there NuggetTNQ

I was in Macau last February as part of our Hong Kong Trip. It takes just a hour and a half trip by Jetboat from Kowloon to Macau the ride hmmm... fairly pleasant.
Macua is really Beautiful it has a lot of buildings which reminds visitors of the Portugese Colonial Times. There are also Casinos but spread all over the City not like Las Vegas where it's Ceentered on the Strip or on Fremont streeet. A must see in Macua is the world known Ruins of St. Paul Cathedral. If you haven't been @ Ruins of St. Pauls you haven't been to Macau.

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STEVE G · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:15 am Post subject:

I recently read that Macau is about to over take Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world, I think on income.