Hong Kong - Day 5

Ok, technically we are not in Hong Kong on Day 5. We took the ferry over to Macau. This is my first time there, and I'm just so excited because J kept telling me how nice the Venetian is. He went over a few weeks back, and has been talking non-stop about it!

The ferry ride was uneventful, we were so sleepy that we slept all the way there. We checked into the Grand Waldo Hotel, and was really happy with the room! Thanks to Cath for recommending this hotel!

We immediately went over to the Venetian, because J said that I need a few hours to shop there because the place is HUGE! Huge shopping malls are my forte! Ha! So excited now!

This is how the entrance to the Venetian looks like....wow.....

I am impressed by the fake skies, and the canal that goes through the shopping mall! But we missed taking the gondola because it was evening time, and they have stopped operating :(

The blue skies look real hor? Wah, I like leh...even though it's fake!

I think this is one of the nicer Christmas tree I've come across this year :)

The Venetian is a truly shopping paradise! I'm not into the gambling...but the shops!! Aaaarrggghh....Joy & Peace, Lancel, Marc Jacobs, Prada, On Pedder, LV, Gucci, you name it, they have it! I could shop for hours here...which I did lah...hehehe...I only wish I had more money to spend!!

After the shopping, we went out of the Venetian to view it from the outside, and it is indeed very grand...

This is the entrance to the Four Seasons Hotel beside The Venetian. It is also very grand, but not as big as Venetian.

After taking shots of hotel exterior, we went back in in search of food. J and me could not decide what to eat, so we ended up eating McDonald's :P There are a lot of restaurants inside, but we didn't know which are the good ones, and didn't want to risk having an expensive meal which is not tasty. The restaurants were only like filled with one or two tables?!

We stayed around the casino - me to play jackpot and J went to play some games at the table. J won HKD200, and I won....HKD4.00! I was too embarrassed to cash out my winning ticket! Kept it as a memento instead :)

The next morning, we had a yucky buffet breakfast, but it comes free with the hotel stay...so...we ate and we left.

I took a pic out of the hotel window, and you see nothing but construction sites! They are building more casinos and hotels and mega malls. I wonder if they will be realised during this economic downturn?

We didn't explore much of Macau after that, but took the ferry back to Hong Kong. The ride was quite rough and poor J felt terrible. As for me, I slept all the way through again!

Back in Hong Kong, we moved to Cosmopolitan Hotel to spend one last night in Hong Kong before heading back home.