As a big contrast of visiting the original Macau and its old towns, we also went to visit the casinos. There are 2 casino areas, one on the north island, and the south island which has the bigger concentration of the two.

It's definitely vegas like, except with casinos that are even bigger (but with very bad signage, so it's hard to get around and find things in some of them).
We stayed at the studio city hotel:

we did the lucky 8 ride

then we did the batman ride

Pictures from higher up on the lucky 8 ride and the Paris Effeil tower:

bridge to china

hotels don't just have swimming pools, they have water parks too :)

The Venetian is huge, maybe 3 times bigger than the vegas one:

The Paris next door was also big:

place vendome

they had a show projected on the ceiling

oh great, the lock disease spread there too :)

moulin rouge

I can't believe they totally cheated and pasted bogus french text even with ISO-8851-1 accents that got turned into '?'

The 2nd Wynn was nice, it had a cable car ride to go inside:

Other misc pictures from south island casinos:

the 2nd MGM

'interesting' design...

they are building a monorail

We then crossed towards the Sands across the street to go see the monkey show, which was ok enough (sadly the dancing water show was shut down due to some issue:

Night pictures:

we climbed up the not quite closed campanile tower for views (lots of stairs)

The north island casinos are older, but some are still interesting. Some have a casino on both islands:

North Island MGMs:

North Island Wynn:

Dessert break:

Food was great. The second morning, per recommendation, we tried the buffet breakfast in the Hyatt and it was quite good:

The 2nd evening, we went back to the Hyatt for their very famous and usually booked out buffer dinner. We managed to get a last minute cancellation, which was great:

After that dinner, we went to the ferry towards Hong Kong.