Day 350: St. Mark's Square at the Venetian

Venetian never gets old.  It has always been an eye candy for me.  Every time I visit Macau, I need to dedicate an entire day for Venetian.  With every other hotel-casino cropping up on Cotai, you'd think that Venetian would eventually be passed over.  It doesn't happen.  Has never happened ever since I first saw it.  If they put up a Bellagio on Cotai, then that's probably a possibility.  However, with how this entire majestic place is built, I just don't think it's going to happen.  Even their public lavatory looks amazing.  Seeing Venetian is like going through the motions of a dream.  Every little piece of it is an eye candy.  I'm not a big fan of clowns.  In fact, I hate them (which is synonymous to being afraid of them).  The jesters in Venetian, though, I can tolerate.  Most of the restaurants, too, do not charge you an exorbitant amount for meals.  Plus, the staff speaks English.  You'd even get lucky and find a lot of Filipinos.  Going to the hotels in Macau is actually isn't as difficult as most people think it is.  All of the hotels have free shuttle service to and from main transport locations like the Ferry Terminal and the Taipa Airport.  I did go around the Lisboa area, too.  However, Venetian really was the cake of my day.

The entire place was lit brighter for Christmas, and it looked amazing.  Apart from the regular opera songs that gets sang by a woman from a window, she also sings a Christmas song.  The gondoliers also sing Christmas songs and wear Santa hats.  I love hearing them sing in Italian while rowing gondolas on the man-made moat in the Marco Polo wing.  They also have gondolas outside, but they'd only take tourists on rides when it's not winter.  I really love Venetian.  You do not even have to do anything.  Just walking around it is enough eye candy for one person.

Music while walking: The Dance (Charlotte Martin)