New ‘Super Six’ hotels expected to offer world’s rich and MICE delegates the perfect excuse to splurge in Macau
Upcoming glitzy openings expected to draw big spenders and diversify city’s reliance on casinos and shopping
In recent years, glitzy hotels opening in Macau caused the industry to sit up and take notice, but the next 12 months could cut a new template with the arrival of “The Super Six”.
The new properties are split between Taipa, the Cotai Strip and the re-emergent Fisherman’s Wharf, which welcomed the 223-room Legend Palace Hotel last month.
Next up is the Macau Roosevelt Hotel, with 368 balconied rooms and suites, which opens on Taipa this spring, taking Hollywood as its theme.
The playfully constructed 1,500-room MGM Cotai property is already being compared to an outsize jewellery box and will complement the group’s existing hotel on Avenida Dr Sun Yat Sen.
Adding a hefty dollop of the X-factor to luxury, billionaire Stephen Hung’s The 13 – containing 200 “villas” – at the southern end of the strip is billing itself as the world’s most expensive hotel.
On present planning, early 2018 will see the advent of the 780-room, twin-towered Morpheus – featuring an arresting design by the late Anglo-Iraqi architect Zara Hadid – which will add another jewel to the crown of the City of Dreams complex. And next to the East Asian Games Dome, the designer-label Lisboa Palace, with around 2,000 keys, represents the most ambitious expansion yet to Stanley Ho Hung Sun’s empire, combining three hotels in one, with two branded by Versace and
Karl Largerfeld.
