1,706-Room Wynn Palace Opens in Macau

The 1,706-room Wynn Palace in Macau has officially opened.

Among the highlights of the resort is the eight-acre Performance Lake and fountain show, employing 1,195 water jets shooting eight million gallons of water into the air in more than a dozen intricately choreographed musical fountain shows. The result: fountains that dance to a diverse program of Chinese, European and American songs, operatic arias and musical numbers.

Guests can view the fountain shows and directly enter the heart of the resort via a ride in air-conditioned Sky Cabs that travel more than 90 feet above the Performance Lake.

Floral themes play a major role in the resort. Two massive floral sculptures are located in the South and North Lobby Atriums. Each brilliantly colored sculpture, one of a Carousel and the other a Ferris Wheel, are fabricated from more than 100,000 real flowers each and move in time to music. The sculptures are custom designed by renowned floral designer Preston Bailey.

Also on display throughout Wynn Palace are thousands of works of fine and decorative art, assembled over a six-year period and representing an investment in excess of US$125 million. Many of the pieces continue Steve Wynn's efforts to bring Chinese artwork home, including a quartet of rare porcelain Qing-dynasty vases that are among the finest examples of chinoiserie in the world. The only other such quartet is in Buckingham Palace in London.

The resort, which offers 1,706 rooms, suites and villas, also has a spa with 22 treatment rooms as well as 18,580 square meters of luxury shopping, home to more than 50 of the most renowned names in retail.

"Wynn Palace is arguably the most beautiful hotel in the world, which is a wonderful thing to be able to say," said Steve Wynn, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Wynn Resorts. "But it is not in London, Paris, New York or Rome. It is in Cotai, in Macau, and sits here for all the world to come and see. It's our gift to the community, to the public. It will be here forever and it's perhaps unlikely we'll see a place of this scope and artfulness in our lifetimes again." 

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