Overnight In China's 5-Star Fake Paris Hotel
behind me that's the Eiffel Tower but I am not in Paris I am in macau China and in today's video we are going to check in into one of the most luxurious hotels I have ever stayed at the Parisian hotel in macau I will take you with me all along for the experience and we will also explore the city together with some of my friends try some food and do what this city is most famous for gambling let's see how lucky I got with that and let's find out what it's like to stay in this luxury fake Paris Hotel in Macau China feel free to join okay so here it is is the fake Paris Hotel and everything inside and around the hotel looks like France all right it looks already pretty Posh and luxurious just standing here and looking at it from the outside all right so we have stairs here water running down here or I actually like the sound of that yeah I mean already the details here it really uh resembles uh being in friends right here and this is not just fake plastic or something this is proper and solid here and my cow is is one of the richest places in the world I think the per capita GDP is actually the highest in the world and that is of course because this city is full with casinos it's the gambling Hotpot in Asia making seven times more Revenue per year than Las Vegas in the USA and macau is smaller than Las Vegas there are less casinos here also the music in the background very calm saxophone jazz music I think wow excuse me let's check in okay chicken over there okay thank you wow what an entrance to a hotel and you of course every Hotel here is also a casino and usually there's also a mall attached to it so shopping opportunities restaurants all of that but wow what a posh entrance here wow yeah I'm almost out of words already at the check-in okay so I guess oh yeah Hotel reception right here looks pretty busy I think this is the busiest Hotel reception I ever saw in my life but this is also the most beautiful reception I ever saw in my life let's see if I can check in already hello check in here check in yeah looks like a long waiting line what do you think how long is the waiting time I think around 40 minutes 40 minutes just to check in uh let's see how long we need it is now 1:20 p.m. hello good afternoon have your passport and sleep right here we go thank you so much all right I can check in now the time was only 25 minutes not too long I think this is the most beautiful Lobby I've ever seen thank you so much this looks so beautiful here do you know if these paintings are original or is it like not original right copy paintings but it looks pretty impressive here so the lobby is already a great first impression here how many rooms do you have here in total uh in total we have 2,500 2,500 rooms yes wow today is a Friday actually and on the weekend maau gets busier because many people from Hong Kong or from mainland China coming com over all right that was a very smooth check-in experience to be honest but now I have to navigate through this big building here to find my room so we have several wings of course several floors I am going to be located on the 27 floor he said that's one of the highest floors now here we go hotel rooms North I am in the north Wing wow so in order to get to your room you have to walk through the mall basically over there is the entrance to the casino here in the hotel and yeah it looks very Posh just walking around here feels like wow this is incredible so we have floor 1 to9 on the left side and floor 20 to 29 on the right side I'm very excited for the room actually if you're staying in such a posh Hotel this might be the luxurious Hotel I've ever stayed at and I'm very excited for the room if I'm staying in very nice hotels the rooms are always something uh exciting you know let's see what we can expect here wow okay this looks very good guys let me put off my bags and then I will show you around H wow okay let's start with the bathroom first before I will show you the room so this is the entrance area here we have a little closet with uh yeah standard a little safety box here some bath ropes okay nothing too special but then the bathroom wow this is ill luxurious looking bathroom right oh I like it I like the the bright white colors here oh we have a bathtub we have the toilet here a nice walk-in shower wow oh plenty of space in here unfortunately oh no rainfall shower that would be a bit better but I'm not complaining this is already quite nice as well a lot of space here several different towels here let's see what's in the box here maybe some shampoo oh yeah Dental kits lotion comb shower cap okay more towels here towels down there okay and then this is the room and look at the huge bed here oh I love it when Hotel hotels provide you with an extra space to keep your luggage some hotels don't have that a lot of space here as well a big TV a little actually very beautiful little desk right here oh I like that wow let me quickly have a seat here oh not planning to do any work today today is my holiday day oh I did press something no okay oh little oh to be honest I like to keep these uh little papers in uh hotels because I like to write down notes I am quite old school I like to write down my notes on a piece of paper instead of uh typing it into my phone so I always keep these little paper in a hotel and then this is probably for Wi-Fi here uh charging station in room dining which we are probably going to have a look at in the evening and then the view check this out W oh wow this is great so we have one two 3 four five pool areas but the one over there doesn't seem to be in use because there's no water but it looks like for children there's a little pirate boat or something wow guys what should I say the view is phenomenal here and yeah we're going to check out the pool area um in a bit as well yeah let's also check out the bed I mean what a big bad is this you can probably fit easily three persons in here okay let's check it out ah oh oh it's way harder than I was expecting to be honest oh oh maybe it's too hard for me I prefer softer beds to be honest this is always very hard okay oh but the pillows oh the pillows seem to be very nice oh yeah the pillow is very nice and I have four pillows to choose from but the bed is very hard to be honest uh I'm complaining on a high level here now I'm I'm sure the sleep will still be all right but I prefer softer beds and this is actually very hard um oh there's actually a pillow menu here neck counter pillow memory pillow buckweed pillow lavender pillow synthetic pillow dear guest perisian maau is pleased to offer a selection of pillows for your exceptional nights rest please call Priority service for the pillow of your choice so if you're not happy with the pillows you can just call and they will bring you another pillow well let's check out what we do have here there's a mini bar here with nothing inside but uh to be honest he asked me at the checkin if I want the mini bar to be filled up so if I would have said yes then probably they would have brought some things the refrigerator is emptied for your usage as you desire we are happy to personalize with your favorite drinks and snacks should you wish yeah so you can call them and then they will provide you with drinks and snacks if you want I'm missing a kettle and a coffee station oh which we do have right here water NES Cafe Dilma tea okay nothing too special and yeah the price I'm paying here is uh $150 for the night uh I did pay a bit extra for a view of the Eiffel Tower so if you have a room probably on the other side of the building I think it would have been around $30 less if you don't choose to have the Eiffel Tower view but I thought hey I'm going to stay in the Paris Hotel so I want to have the view of the Eiffel Tower and I'm really excited to see the view in the night so we're going to see that later but I think let's check out the pool area wow this area looks amazing as well and then you can yeah enjoy the outdoor facility with a view to the Eiffel Tower hello good afternoon good afternoon can I like take a look uh yes I'm just I just checked in so I just want to have a look okay suddenly yeah so you can write down your FL and the room number rer liability yes the pool is heated right yes it's keeping the temperature around 28 to uh 28 30 that sounds good okay and also the massage push will going to be the temperature will going to be a little bit higher 38 all right so have heated pools and yet the weather temperature is around 20° maybe not really the temperature where you just want to relax by the pool you know Al you see me wearing a sweatshirt so is a bit chilly here hello good afternoon I'm just here to have a quick look Jacuzzi Jacuzzi as well 38° very friendly staff here that's very nice I mean obviously you expect that kind of when you stay in a place like this I can't imagine if this is the summer time and it's proper sunshin then I would actually spend probably the the whole day here today and yeah the view to the tower is right here and then we have this seems to be like a big Hall you see all the the faces there that really looks like I am in Paris now in France and then we have the astonishing building here so my room one of the the windows over there okay I got a little bit lost I took the elevators to the fifth floor and then you end up in this part of the mall here there's a food court actually but I just see there's a fake sky here which looks actually quite cool and then down there there's a chef making a show or something he looks like a French chef I think he's making a little bit of a show oh check it out sometimes you go to these fake cities or something like that and everything is plastic and it looks really nice from the outside but once you go closer and have a look into the details you notice it's more fake than real but here all of these things here this is all proper solid and not just plastic wow and it's to be honest it's not just this building here um I stayed in another hotel the past days and also there the hotel was also inside a mall it was the London themed mall so everything looks like you in London and here everything is French themed so every Mall here in maau basically every hotel/ Casino mall is looking like this to be honest here we go Eiffel Tower and there's a shop attached to it it's souvenir shop which I do remember from last year but here we have the entrance and there also like um pictures here about the history of the actual Eiffel Tower in Paris so we have some historic pictures right here where this Tower was a built ah here we go a proper picture of the Eiffel Tower in Paris which is of course taller than the one here so this one is a smaller version of it but the look is actually quite the same I don't want to go to the top just to the the seventh floor it's free right and the top is 75 yes sir okay so if you do want to go to the top you have to pay 75 of the local currency I keep forgetting the name of it to be honest but since I have actually been up there last year I'm okay now with the observation deck on this floor but yeah I can show you some footage of the view from the top which I took about a year ago so you can see the view right now overlooking the whole Main Road here and then actually a pretty good view over the whole area around here so that actually was quite cool but yeah is it worth around $10 us extra just to go up there well I guess you have to decide that for yourself hello oh you're taking photos here what's the view here I can I can see on the screen yeah like that ah like this yeah ah so you take a pictures for tourists here yeah if you like you can buy you can try oh I'm good I don't need pictures I'm just curious what you do here so people pay you and you take pictures yeah how much you take for one picture 138 one picture again 38 138 138 no 138 for one picture for one picture oh okay he's making good money out here I think oh I'm good I don't need pictures okay oh but thank you very much did you really say 138 for one picture that's like $15 or so making good money here then I guess um anyway so what's interesting here we have all these laugh locks here which uh we also have at the original Eiffel Tower in Paris actually this is also very popular in Germany where I am from that people place these laugh locks at certain places and that is supposed to uh yeah bring good luck for their relationship but I'm actually not sure if these are like fake to to create the atmosphere here like these very old ones here maybe they are actually real I'm not sure then we have the newer ones here so I can imagine that sometimes they like remove the old ones so that people can actually Place new ones here oh yeah this is the Eiffel Tower here actually I'm not sure how high it is but it is definitely shorter than the original one in Paris but it is not as crowded here as at the original one I have been to the Eiffel Tower many many years ago when I was uh I don't know 12 years old or so so that's a while ago but I remember it was super crowded and there was a long Quee to take the elevator up so here you can visit the Eiffel Tower without a big crowd and then this is the main road here the main casino area in maau so all of the buildings you see here are hotels SL Casino SL malls so there's a casino everywhere here but the difference to for example Las Vegas which is known as the casino capital of the world um this is actually much shorter the main road in Las Vegas is way longer and you can see here this is already the end of it basically but I do think that there's a lot of construction going on all around here so maybe in 5 to 10 years I think myow will be way bigger than it is right now you can see that they are pushing a lot of money into here and you also we have these little garden areas here which actually let's go down there and have a look from up close also the little Park area there okay so what's interesting is that we also have this park here which also looks exactly like the park that you can find in front of the original Eiffel Tower obviously also here it's not as big as the original one but also in front of the Eiffel Tower and Paris you do have a park like this with a direct straight view to the Eiffel Tower and very typical for China you see lots of girls here nicely dressed up to take a pictures here Chinese girls really like to take pictures actually this is a nice shot here right if you walk here you have the alley here with the trees and the sun is shining through the trees here wow yeah I can see that this makes actually quite a nice photo location and as you can see plenty of people are taking pictures here and now we're actually going to meet up with two of my friends who are also currently here in maau and some of you may know them hello yeah please where you want to go sir senado square square okay yeah okay thank you hello ah sinado Square please okay so maau has basically two islands we're coming from the southern island and we are going now to the main city area which is on the Northern Island change thank you very much a good day bye-bye all right here we are we have arrived in the city center of uh the old town here in maau the sinado square right here which I remember from the last time I was in maau which is quite exactly one year ago and I do think I see my friends over there already hello hello y what's up hi hello hello how are you welcome to Mar you're in your sweater yeah maybe it's too hot I wasn't sure okay Hong Kong is not Hong Kong we in maau okay maau is actually home to the best dessert I ever had anywhere in Asia and I'm going to show them my favorite dessert now which is in a shop right over there this Shop sells the best dessert I ever had anywhere in Asia and that is actually right this one right here milk pudding okay so uh let's give it a try sounds good oh looks busy hello uh three okay hello so they not only have desserts here they also have lots of other they have delicious things which I cannot cannot read at the moment oh this is the pork bun oh there's the English English milk pudding oh yeah I'm here for the milk pudding uh should we get three regular milk puddings sure sure we try and then we see if we want other food as well okay we'll serve with dessert okay three milk pudding just the regular one uh what did I have last year what is better coold right okay sounds good all right and literally 20 seconds later it's see already all right thank you very much thank you last year I ordered it true because it was so delicious how's the taste it's super good really are you just saying that so I don't it's not a super strong flavor but the texture and the and the temperature it's just delicious okay let's see if I still feel the same way it actually would be even better if the weather was really hot it was really hot outside it would be so good oh it's so delicious oh man it's not like there not a super strong milky flavor to it right it's just perfect I would say MH almost like yogurt yeah a little bit like yogurt yeah mhm oh this is delicious I have to say though my memory was a bit better than this a still very delicious so maybe in the last 12 months they changed a little bit or this is just a I mean it's still super delicious but not as good as I remembered it but maybe this is too cold because it's a little bit like it's frozen right the one I had last year was not frozen there's almost a a chewy part or a hard part but I think I did not have a chili version like this because there's L ice inside your is frozen yeah yeah and I think it's much better if it's not frozen yours looks not as Frozen as mine no mine texture is quite good I got lucky yeah maybe mine is a bit too Frozen so already finished new record he's the passive one of all of us what I like about it is it's not too sweet yeah right cuz sometimes it's a really good dessert but it's just so much sugar you take one bite and you're like okay uh this is kind of almost fresh and light yeah I think that's exactly what I like about it because it doesn't feel like you're eating a huge calorie sugar bomb I don't think that there's a lot of sugar in here right so the taste is not that sugary pretty light actually so you don't feel bad after eating it you know yeah great breakfast oh that's your breakfast today well it's already 2: p.m. breakfast all right second round so we have the main course after the dessert yeah but we were still hungry so this is actually very popular food here in maau and in Hong Kong as well pork chop in a bun so this one is a STP pork chop looks like a German chitel bit like a chitel and I think it's just butter so it's PR simple flavor but tasty it's like a like a good little snack you can also find it as a street food yeah nothing super special but a great little snack Pro what are you doing Pro it's a bit it's a bit plain no so I think may you brought your own mustard uh I really love mustard let's see what happens here guys oh Steve is the Man full of surprises suddenly has mustard in his bag my drone it's a mustard wow so does it make it better let's see yeah for me is better go ahead if you want I don't really like mustard oh really if you bought ketchup then I would have tried okay me I'm a mustard man myself oh you can see it's a popular shop here it's totally full since we are here think actually this shop is a famous one and actually every single person is eating milk right yeah everyone is eating the the milk pudding hereit everyone it is a famous one okay let's see how much we have to pay for three buns and three 62 per person okay oh that was delicious so we are back at the square here what I find interesting here that it doesn't look Chinese anymore here it looks like Europe actually it reminds me a lot of Portugal and that is because of the Portuguese Colonial history here of course but that's why I think maau is such an interesting place to visit because you have the contrast of like China meets Europe here basically really good first impression Ivan and I have spent a lot of time in Brazil which is also a Portuguese colony and looks the same like this especially these black and white stones sort of look like waves on the beach this is very to us and all the architecture a nice first impression and also all the the street signs here have Portuguese writing on it as well so Chinese and uh Portuguese yeah it's a really interesting City to explore like pork fat or something pork fat pork fat something like that salty and crispy I think it's crispy por jerky what's the name it's a pork pork like pork skin maybe maybe it's skin almost like like potato ships tastes almost like potato chips with a pork flavor to it interesting but yeah check out how busy it is here so many people I guess that um or not I guess I know that this city is also very popular for tourists from Hong Kong and from mainland China to come over most of the people come here for gambling but I think you can also come over here to do some shopping I'll try some food so I actually do think that most of the people here are actually tourists okay we are here now at one of the the most famous spots in maau which is called this is the front of the Cathedral of St Paul or in Portuguese s Pao but it looks like only the front is left yeah only the front is left so it's built in the early 1600s okay which is a long time ago and then it was destroyed in 1800s if you can believe it by a storm you would have thought it was destroyed by a cannonball or something but it was it was collapsed by a storm and so this remains and with the steps going up to it it's like a tourist attraction so many Instagram photos it's really beautiful and what amazes me is right over here you have a regular apartment and somebody's balcony wow imagine living there and having the view to one of the most famous spots here every day I believe up here is a fort a fort yeah so Portuguese era again and then for defense purposes up on top of the hill you can imagine the Cannonball coming off so this is also from like the 1600s I guess so 1600s yeah okay so we have a little bit of a view here overlooking maau down there is where we're just coming from and then you actually have a nice contrast here so we have the very old uh Fort here and then in the background we have the very modern side of maau the huge Casino very interesting we have a cannon here which I'm wondering if this is an original one from back in the days or it's just here for the tourists I mean it looks it looks pretty original right looks pretty like a solid proper gun here we also have places like this in Germany like historical old castles or something and whenever you see a cannon like this in Germany me you know what people do they put rubbish inside here the worst but I guess they don't do that in China let's have a look yeah nobody does that here in China Germany it's always full with trash good job China and What a Feeling imagine being here and you see Ships coming and you're like oh gosh load the Cannons go boom I mean fighting for your life with cannon balls wow it's crazy that that actually happened right here people were people were standing here a few hundred years ago and thinking exactly that probably someone died right here now you put now the mood in the Vlog changed probably someone fought for their life and survived right here and defended his rif right something like that something heroic so this is down there where we're coming from the front of the remaining part of the cathedral and then we have a view actually on the other side of the river it's actually mainland China already and then we have the residential areas yes maau is not only casinos and fancy hotels they are also actually residential areas which you can see right here and they actually remind me a little bit of residential areas in Hong Kong which you probably know is just over there like a 30- minute bus ride a nice view up here actually so if you're coming from maau I recommend to uh do the maybe 10-minute hike and get up here all right guys welcome to the Las Vegas of Asia let's party let's check it out so this is the main road here which uh I showed you guys already a little bit earlier today so my hotel is right over there and we are now at the beginning of the air all right we are inside the Venetian Casino now and we are going to try Chinese beer have you tried this before I have you have okay for me it's actually the first time trying this which I believe is the most popular beer in China I think so or the most wellknown one the most common yeah okay Ivana doesn't want to have a beer yeah all right Cheers Cheers Chinese beer in maow good German taste buds pretty good plus as we know green bottles always the best beer it's a Steve theory of beer but it tends to be true all right we are out here now on the main road everything is lit up now because it's uh dark already and the good news is so we just gambled a little bit but the good news is we didn't lose any money yet we broke we broke Eva so far it's like Vegas but it's much more clean and sort of safe Vegas can be a bit rough yeah you know so quite fancy yeah so Las Vegas but more fancy right less party less party L part Vegas is about getting wasted and going crazy cow is about gambling thousands and thousands of do yeah you don't really have a party theme here like you explained earlier that in Las Vegas you can find beer and Cocktails everywhere everywhere like right here in the street someone would come up and say you want to buy a beer yeah you normally see that here no you don't see that yeah so it's more fancy here less partying more about gambling so the idea is now getting some food and then continue with more gambling okay so this is a very impressive lobby area here as well and then we have the casino area right here where we are going to try our Lux now 10 on on green now 10 number 20 number 20 okay okay triple and six you got you got the triple and you got the ones and then it went double for some reason everyone in the W machine goes double and Rich you buy me some laer okay and about 2 hours later and we had a lot of fun gambling here that was amazing awesome night okay my friends have left home and I am actually hungry now and we do have a food court here which is here I'm back at the um the mall next to my hotel or in the same building at my hotel and we do have lots of delicious options here lots of Chinese food of course but you can also find a little bit of International Food like I saw Singapore food for example over there this one seems to be tanese Cuisine but I see braced pork rice here which I usually really like and Taiwanese food is actually very delicious I've never been to Taiwan before but I tried a lot of Taiwanese food before I would like to have to braced pork rice huh uh pork rice okay so for the total price of 95 I got a huge bowl of pork rice and then an extra Sprite on the side and a little bit of jelly pudding and actually let me take a picture for Instagram really quick yeah by the way guys if you are not following me on Instagram yet feel free to do so canro on Instagram I'm posting daily stories you can see behind the scenes see my life locations where I am at the moment oh that smells delicious here oh Taiwanese food is so delicious and I'm saying that without ever being in Taiwan so I guess that the authentic original food in Taiwan will be even better then wow we have little mushrooms here some pickled vegetables I think oh a bit sour a sour taste to it and we even have uh some peanuts here as well and I'm actually not sure what this is if you know let me know tastes very sour if you know what it is let me know in the comments can't really identify what it is but it's not bad maybe I'm supposed to mix it all together but yeah just the the pork with the rice it's so good and you of course the prices here are a bit high but I mean you see where we are so you kind of expect that right and to be honest I would have expected the prices to be even higher I mean they are also like proper fancy Wong here where the price is definitely higher but every Mall every building here also has a food court like this where the prices are a bit lower okay so I am back in my hotel room I'm sitting here now enjoying the view having a little drink some chocolates and then just enjoying and admiring the beautiful view over the road here everything is nicely lit up now very nice just sitting here listening to music enjoying the view and good morning and it is a beautiful morning here the sun is shining I am in a very good mood I just uh packed everything up I'm going to check out in a few minutes and then I'm actually heading to a new place but that is still a secret for you guys but I am very excited what I really like about the hotel here is these blackout curtains so you can totally block out all the lights so that was really really good actually if you are a light sleeper blackout curtains are really nice to have and yeah was it worth the almost $150 that I paid here for the night of course that is a lot of money for one night only and I didn't even have breakfast included but I mean it is a very luxurious stay here you saw all the facilities the view is phenomenal here so if you want to treat yourself with a nice hotel stay this is a great experience and yeah overall maau is a very interesting diverse place to visit I can highly recommend to come to maau and if you're curious to see my previous video where I was still mainland China then feel free to check out the video right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys
2024-03-06 22:44
