Sunday, November 28, 2010

Spoting the “Disney” in Macau!

There are a number of sites which are being disneyfied.

- Venetian Macau-Resort-Hotel

When you visit the site, you would feel that you have teleported to the city, Venice, and not at Macau anymore. The site is being themed up with everything that would bring you to experience as if you were at Venice.

As you know, boat rides with a man or lady dressed in strips and rolling the boat symbolises Venice very much. In this site, they have it too. Shophouses being painted with pastel colours like pastel yellow and blue, having the ceiling of the indoor site painted as a sky enable you to feel the cloudy nice weather you could get at Venice. The architecture of the site is very much alike as to what Venice has too. They also have performance at certain time of the day show casing Venetian dance with their traditional costumes.

Hence, it gives the idea that you have gone to Venice as you enter the site when you are actually not.

- Macau

The whole city of Macau itselft has theme up as the Asia's Las Vegas as there a numerous casinos at every corner of the city. As Las Vegas is also known for its grand casinos, Macau has now successfully turned herself into one too.

- Macau Fisherman's Wharf

It is the very first theme park at Macau and also a shopping center. Is consists of three main sections: Dynasty Wharf, East Meets West and Legend Wharf.

Dynasty Wharf is an imitation of Tang Dynasty architectures of the mainland China. Whereas East Meets West is the fusion of both oriental and western features. It has a 40m tall man-made volcano, waterfalls, architectures of Greece, ancient battleship, a Roman Amphitheatre, an exhibitition facilities, an Arabian children's play area and a characteristic shopping mall. Legend Wharf has all types of recreational facilities. For example, a High-tech Games centre and Water Performance Arena.

Therefore, once you enter every different section of site, you would experience differently; Illusion of travelling from place to place and time to time (Tangs Dynasty of mainland China to Greece and lastly to the 'future world' where all are high-tech equipped).

- 3 Monkeys Cafe


There is this cafe called the 3 monkeys cafe located at St. Mark's Square. The whole cafe is themed up into jungle. This would attract families bringing their child over for dinner. They offer Italian, American, Mexican and Asian Cuisine. The staffs are all dressed into the theme too. Due to the decoration and atmosphere in the cafe, people would feel excited as if they are dining in the jungle.

- Africana Restaurant


This restaurant located at Macau Fisherma's Wharf is a traditional African themed restaurant. Both the exterior and interior of the restaurant give people the feeling that they are at a part of Africa. The restaurant's landscape is a hut and the surroundings are all decorated with tribal ornaments.

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