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Our observations of Macau Cotai strip during December 2025.
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The Cotai Strip is an area known mostly for its hotel-casinos in the central portion of Cotai, Macau. The term was coined by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation in reference to its construction of a strip.

The Venetian Macao (Chinese: 澳門威尼斯人) is a hotel and casino resort in Macau, China owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The 39-storey structure on Macau's Cotai Strip has 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m2) of floor space, and is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas. It is the 2nd largest casino in the world,[2] the largest single structure hotel in Asia, and the tenth-largest building in the world by floor area.

The main hotel tower was finished in July 2007, and the resort officially opened on 28 August 2007. It has 3,000 suites, 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m2) of convention space, 1,600,000 sq ft (150,000 m2) of retail space, and 550,000 square feet (51,000 m2) of casino space (with 3,400 slot machines, 800 gambling tables), and the 15,000-seat The Venetian Arena for entertainment and sports events.

Its lead architects were Aedas and HKS, Inc., who were responsible for its design, coordination and implementation.

Cotai was the result of a major land reclamation project which joined the two islands of Coloane and Taipa and forms part of the Macau government's continuous efforts to expand the region's territory. The reclaimed land in Cotai has been mainly used for the development of casinos.

Over the past few decades, the layout of the Cotai Strip has also slowly developed into a grid-like layout with major hotels and casinos, not directly connected to the 'strip' as opposed to Las Vegas Strip where the majority of major hotels and casinos have front access to the strip.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corporation a trademark on the term Cotai Strip.  The name 'Cotai' was formed by combining the first letters of the islands of Coloane and Taipa.

The Cotai Strip is a term coined by the American company Las Vegas Sands Corporation, referring to its construction of a strip of hotel-casinos in the Cotai section of Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. The Cotai Strip was built upon a 5.2 square kilometer land reclamation site in the Seac Pai Bay of the Pearl River Estuary. The strip joins the formerly separate islands of Taipa and Coloane. 

The Grand Waldo Hotel, owned by Galaxy Entertainment Group, was the first casino to commence operations in Cotai, which commenced operations in May 2006. The construction of many other casino and hotel projects is currently underway. The largest property on Cotai is The Venetian Macao, which opened its doors on August 28, 2007.

Due to the 2008 financial crisis, as many as 11,000 construction workers were set to lose their jobs as the US gaming giant Las Vegas Sands scaled back its development in Macau.[6] Stephen Weaver, Sands' president for Asia, said up to 11,000 workers lost their jobs in Macau after the company halted building projects in the city such as the developments of Plots 5 and 6, previously Sands Cotai Central, now The Londoner Macao, on the strip. Las Vegas Sands had instead, focused its construction work on the Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore.

On November 30, 2009, Las Vegas Sands announced that it had secured $1.75 billion to complete its development of Sands Cotai Central, which was abandoned with 65% completed in mid-2008. Sands Cotai Central was completed in phases from 2012 to 2015 before being rebranded to The Londoner Macao in 2021.

No information was released about Plots 3, 7, and 8. It was very likely these would be cancelled. Macao's Director of the Lands, Public Works, and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT), Jaime Carion, said on 5 December 2010, that the Government is now looking at developing non-gaming projects in Cotai. He emphasized that the Sands China application procedure for Plots 7 and 8 was not fully complete and that the Government would announce the result at the most convenient time.

Phase 1 of the Galaxy Macau was eventually opened on May 15, 2011, followed by Phase 2 on May 27, 2015.

The Venetian's facilities include 3,000 hotel rooms, 300 retail stores, an indoor canal, a clinic, a spa, and a gymnasium. 

Casino

Inside the casino in 2020
The casino measures 546,000 sq ft (50,700 m2). It is further divided into four themed gaming areas:

Golden Fish
Imperial House
Red Dragon
Phoenix
The casino contains slot machines and gambling tables.

The attached hotel contains a club called Paiza Club which is reserved for premium guests. The gaming area of the Paiza Club is divided into individual private gaming rooms each named for notable Asian cities and regions such as Yunnan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

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