The Parisian Macao: all you need to know about new resort
The rooms offer Frenchified contemporary design, Wi-fi, 55-inch TV screens and, for some, views of the new resort's star attraction, a half-size replica Eiffel Tower, and the lobby rotunda modelled on Paris' Place de la Concorde will leave all but the most jaded traveller agape
Where is it? In the City of Light Entertainment rather than the City of Light. Nearly four years – and US$2.7 billion – in the making, The Parisian Macao is the latest gaming resort to explode onto the Estrada do Istmo. It would be a sizeable landmark even without the half-size replica Eiffel Tower out front. It makes a fairly glamorous Gallic bookend to the western side of the Cotai Strip, where it joins The Venetian and The Plaza, both – like The Parisian – owned by American squillionaire Sheldon Adelson, the man who puts the “Oh!” into casino mogul. Some effort has gone into duplicating French architecture – the Parisian-style Mansard roofs are a prime example – and it would be a very jaded traveller/gambler/gawker who didn’t do some sort of double take on entering the super-sized lobby rotunda, with its marble balconies, painted ceiling and fountain modelled on the Place de la Concorde.
What’s the accommodation like? As in so many casino hotels, where you rest your weary head seems to cede priority to the smorgasbord of fun and games laid out for guests’ delectation elsewhere on the property. Suffice to say there are 3,000 (gasp!) rooms and suites, about a third of which have an Eiffel Tower view. Famille rooms are designed for parents with children in tow, while the Lyon Suites clock in at 72 square metres. A 55-inch television screen is standard, ditto complimentary Wi-fi and Frenchified contemporary design.
