Hog's Thoughts: City of Dreams

This place is really the City of Dreams. Actually it is a hotel in Macau where it was basically our landmark while we were in Macau. I think it has been 10 over years since my family (my dad, mum, bro and I) were on a holiday together. What made it better was we were joined by my sister in law, Amy and one of my cousin who is working at the City of Dream itself.

Before coming to Macau, my cousin told me that you just get off the plane, go through immigration and customer and find a lady wearing purple shirt and says City of Dreams. Go up to her and say you want to go to the hotel and she will usher you to a bus. It took us about 30 min and whole lot of running around to finally find the bus and we were on our way to the meeting point. We could actually see the City of Dreams from the airport so it was about a 10 min ride.

The next instruction my cousin gave to me was to wait for her at the hotel's virtual aquarium. In my mind was thinking it is one of those simple projector beaming to a wall a standard "movie" of an aquarium. How wrong I was because as we walked into the main hotel entrance we see...

Check out how big the screen is compared to the people in front of it. If you look properly, in front of the screen there is also water flowing down to make it look like a real aquarium. At this point, I didn't know that in Macau everything is XXXLarge and everything is Over The Top which is all built from casino money. The other thing is also everything has a water theme to it. I think it has something to do with luck.

When we finally met up with my cousin, she told us that actually City of Dreams manages 3 hotels which is Hard Rock Macau, City of Dreams itself and a very exclusive Crown hotel. Opposite the City of Dreams is the very famous Venetian which is modeled exactly like the Venetian in Vegas but that is for another day....

We were walking towards Hard Rock Hotel Macau and we saw this....

If you think that pattern is cool, what is even more cool is that they used drum sticks to make that pattern. So each "pixel" is actually a drum stick and they must have used thousand of drums sticks just to do that. After the Hard Rock Hotel, we went over to....

Why I say this is an exclusive hotel is because you cannot book any of the rooms in this hotel. Apparently, they are all suites and you must be invited to stay at this hotel. I think you can only stay in this hotel if you blow like a couple of hundred thousand bucks in the casino. The decor of this hotel is superbly modern....

After the introduction to the hotels which we do not get to stay in. Oh yea we are being cheapskate and we are staying with my cousin in her apartment instead of one of this swanky hotels. We proceeded to lunch at...

Another show of Over The Top-ness...

That is the ceiling decor and man that ball of glass was huge and the ceiling was super high. I think the ceiling is as high as a 2 or 3 storey building. We had a great Dim Sum lunch and here are some of what we had...

My Dad

My Mum

The lunch was fantastic and the egg tarts actually have bird-ness on it. Crazy right? The lunch I think was crazy expensive but because my cousin works in the hotel, she gets 25% off and she called another of her colleague to join us and with both of them working in the same hotel and their ID badges, lunch was 50% off. Her colleague is actually in charge of the casino and the keeping the guest happy. That means she could get some complementary stuff which she got us some VIP tickets for this show called Bubble. We were like what is this? Bubble? We walked in and it was HUGE!!!! dome and when the show started, we were just goobbed smacked. First....

We were treated to some jelly fish coming from the ceiling and the center came down and....

As you can see the water theme to the attractions in the casino. The cool this about this is that they could shape the water to all kinds of shapes and even diamonds. I was majorly impressed with that water fountain until....