Macau hotel guide

Macau sports hotels from budget to boutique as well as five-star hotels with extensive meeting and conference facilities. Five-star hotels are very competitive with casinos, shopping complexes and some battle for business using Feng Shui, an ancient Chinese art that harmonises buildings and interiors with nature to improve business success. Here are the players.

Grand Lisboa Hotel

Location: 10 minute walk from Senado Square. 15 minute drive from Macau International Airport.

Specs: 430 guest rooms, casino housed in the golden podium, quality international restaurants.

Signature: Chinese and Portuguese style decor, 258 metre high lotus shaped skyscraper emerging from a golden podium, illuminated at night and influenced by Feng Shui.

Recommend: Business, Couples, Singles

Room rate: From HK$2,018

Sofitel Macau at Ponte 16

Location: Walking distance from Historic Centre of Macau, 6 km drive from the Macau International Airport, 3 km from The Macau Ferry Terminal.

Specs: 408 rooms, including 19 presidential apartments, 10 prestige suites, 16 sofitel suites, 153 club rooms and 210 superior and luxury rooms.

Signature: Classical French and Portuguese style architecture and decor.

Room Rate: from HK$1,388

Appeal: Singles, business and history buffs

Location: Along the waterfront in Macau’s central Nam Van entertainment district, a 15-min drive from Macau International Airport and 5-min drive from the Macau Ferry Terminal and Heliport.

Specs: A 35-storey tower with close to 600 rooms, upper two floors house two Duplex Villas of 440 sqm and 540 sqm. There are 24 Villas ranging from 220 sqm to 380 sqm. There are 99 suites of 138 sqm to 220 sqm and 468 rooms of 48 sqm to 220 sqm. The rolling camber of the wave changes the size shape of each room.

Signature: The hotel mirrors the rolling swell of the Ocean surf. The building is separated into three distinct segments with three shades of gold.

Room rate: from HK$1,606

Appeal: Couples/Business

Venetian-Macao-Resort-Hotel

Location: Situated on Cotai Strip, 5 minute drive from Macau International Airport

Specs: 3,000 all-suite guest rooms, 92,900 sqm of Grand Canal Shoppes, a 15,000-seat Cotai Strip CotaiArena, 111,484 sqm of convention and meeting facilities, and a purpose-built theatre for ZAIA, the new resident show from the world-renowned Cirque du soleil.

Signature: Integrated resort, shopping complex and classy decorated suites.

Room rate: From HK$1,588

Appeal: Business/Families/Couples

Four Seasons Hotel

Location: Cotai Strip, which links Taipa and Coloane

Specs: A 20-storey hotel with 360 rooms starting from 46 sqm, broad¬band and wireless connection, 2,555 sqm of conference and banquet facilities. The hotel has a three-storey shopping mall, connected to The Grand Canal Shoppes of The Venetian Macao.

Signature: Colonial Macau with Neo-classical decoration incorporating Oriental culture.

Room rate: From HK$2,934

Appeal: Couples/Business/Families