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Can Wynn Hotels' Luxury Shops Survive the Recession?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Rua Cidade de Sintra, Nape, Macau
March 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

"I went to the Wynn and all I got was this stupid T-shirt." Without a doubt, this is being heard more often around Vegas as merrymakers head to the city of spending without as much cash. On our last excursion, we opted for a case of mints shaped like the hotel rather than an overpriced T-shirt.

So how will the glut of luxury shops at the Wynns in Las Vegas and Macau get through the bad economy? We're going to guess group therapy.

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Making a Pilgrimage to the Macau Clone of Vegas' Wynn Hotel

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Rua Cidade de Sintra, Nape, Macau
February 9, 2009 at 12:58 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

We are totally still in Hong Kong, and if there's one huge benefit to staying longer than a week in a new city, it's the opportunity for side trips. Tempted by the possibility of more passport stamps and a ride on a jet catamaran ferry, we hightailed it out to Macau, a former Portuguese property which now turns out both gambling addicts and heavenly egg tarts.

After about $15 USD and a comfortable 40-minute ride out in the South China sea from Hong Kong's downtown port, we headed ashore to what has become the Las Vegas of the East; The Sands Casino towers is a behemoth sitting right off the main drag, and further down the main street you'll find the newcomers MGM Grand and the Wynn along with the old Hotel Lisboa. At one moment you'll be strolling down a cobblestone alley and licking gelato, and the next you're throwing dice a few hundred feet away from a Chanel boutique.

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