{"id":193,"date":"2012-04-02T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T13:31:08","slug":"macau-aint-no-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/macau-aint-no-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"macau &#8216;aint no vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Vegas is sin city, Macau is sinless city. \u00a0If Vegas is an R rated movie, Macau is PG. \u00a0If Vegas what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, you can tell everyone what happened in Macau. \u00a0If the Mormons decided to open up a gambling resort, well&#8230; you get the idea. \u00a0Are the\u00a0casinos\u00a0in Macau beautiful? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0They are some of the most grandiose buildings I&#8217;ve ever seen. \u00a0Does Macau have\u00a0magnificent\u00a0shopping? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0There are Louis Vuitton\u00a0stores next to Dolce &amp; Gabbana next to Prada. \u00a0Does Macau have gambling? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0Obviously. \u00a0So what&#8217;s the problem? \u00a0The feel. \u00a0It&#8217;s too nice and clean! \u00a0Vegas has a certain grime to it, the clash of everything from\u00a0Christian Dior boutique with illegal immigrants selling call girls outside. \u00a0I love walking the strip in Vegas. \u00a0Going from one casino to the next, eating and drinking all the way, never being more than 50 ft. from a place to gamble. \u00a0Macau is very\u00a0sprawled\u00a0out. \u00a0You can walk from one\u00a0hotel\u00a0to the next, but between them is&#8230; nothing. \u00a0Just everyday city streets with a few open shops. \u00a0And the absolute strangest part of Macau is the noise level on the gambling floors. \u00a0It&#8217;s too silent. \u00a0When I walk into a Vegas casino, my senses are overloaded. \u00a0The sounds of coins hitting the slot machine tray, the low roar of people winning and losing their life savings, the flashing lights, the random group of obnoxious\u00a0strangers getting back from a club at 8am. \u00a0These are the sounds of Vegas. \u00a0Not Macau, it\u2019s silent on the gambling floor. \u00a0The other mind blowing aspect of Macau is that you can&#8217;t drink alcohol on the gambling floor. \u00a0There are bars at the casinos, of course, but you can&#8217;t bring your drink with you to play blackjack.\u00a0 The casinos in Macau have carts that bring around all you can drink water, milk, tea, orange juice and tomato juice, but no alcohol, and I think that&#8217;s the fundamental problem. \u00a0Alcohol lowers people&#8217;s inhibitions, causing them to take greater risks, winning and losing bigger and bigger amounts, creating a rising level of excitement. \u00a0Without the drinks and noise, it&#8217;s just not the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010804_post.e.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[193]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-215\" title=\"galaxy inside\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010804_post.e-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 24px; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010807_pad.e.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[193]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-216\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.4em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eeeeee;\" title=\"galaxy outside\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/P1010807_pad.e-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Galaxy Hotel<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Vegas is sin city, Macau is sinless city. \u00a0If Vegas is an R rated movie, Macau is PG. \u00a0If Vegas what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, you can tell everyone what happened in Macau. \u00a0If the Mormons decided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/macau-aint-no-vegas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigpratsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}