Welcome to soothing, serene Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore, where good feelings were the order of the day when Las Vegas Sands soft-opened the megaresort as only CEO Sheldon Adelson‘s flunkies can …
… complete with luxurious transportation …
… to the 90% unfinished mall ([in]complete with faux Venetian canal; some things never change). Looks an awful lot like a European railway station, doesn’t it?
Notice anything lacking? Like a sense of … oh, maybe excitement? This is the most sedate casino opening I’ve ever beheld.
You might say it looks like an average afternoon on the Strip. At least one patron isn’t down with this whole “soft opening” shtick:
And for those of you who are up on your Malaysian Mandarin, here’s a much lengthier report. Judging by the “blah” look of the meeting rooms and the seemingly cramped hotel quarters, $6.9 $5.9 billion doesn’t buy what it once did …
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A nice collection of videos. FYI, the last one is in Mandarin (probably from the Mandarin language channel in Singapore) not Malay.
I’m confused: Does this mean that if I want to spend a couple of hundred bucks at Banana Republic I have to be chauffeured there in a golf cart – through the dismal concrete and car exhaust smells of a parking structure to get there?
I noticed that the cars in the video were driving on the left side of the road. Is that true in China – or Portugal, for that matter… or is that a hangover from the British rule of Hong Kong?
Interesting that all the signs in the casino & shopping mall that I saw were in English (even on the conference room doors), and at least one “money sign” was in $US dollars. Must be interesting for the change booths personnel & bartenders, given the (hoped-for) international clientele.
I apologize for my linguistic ignorance. 🙁
Kerr, given the years of English rule in Singapore, I’d hazard a guess that the driving-on-the-left policy is probably one of the few permanent vestiges of the British Empire.
Did that caption in the news report (fifth video) really describe Adelson as “hairman and CEO”? If so: Bravo.
And they’ve got those weird backwards escalators, which of course makes perfect sense in a place where they drive on the left. Not so much at Palazzo.
David, I was confused, & apologize for MY ignorance. I had Macau in my head while I watched the videos. 🙁
Of course Singapore was a British colony… that would explain the driving & the signs.
Kerr, one of the official languages of Singapore is English (and also the main one) so signs all over are in English. It is an easy place to get around. (Except, apparently, at Marina Bay Sands right now.) Singapore and Hong Kong still drive on the left. In Hong Kong some of the cross walks have “look right” painted on the ground so a pedestrian won’t walk into on-coming traffic looking the wrong way. Thailand, Indonesia, and Macau also drive on the left, but China drives on the right.