Galaxy Macau on Wednesday confirmed the soft launch of its newest partner hotel brand, Raffles at Galaxy Macau, with a Grand Opening scheduled to take place before the end of the year.
Bringing the legendary Raffles brand to Macau for the first time, Raffles at Galaxy Macau is an all-suite hotel offering 450 luxury suites plus additional gaming space and various non-gaming attractions.
The soft opening includes a range of food and beverage options, among them Raffles Lounge & Terrace – home of the famous Singapore Sling – featuring a custom-made 15-metre-high chandelier formed of 500,000 crystals and 23,000 crystal rods, connected in the shape of a diamond and weighing 4,800kg. Raffles Lounge & Terrace also features a “Green Art Wall”, described as a 70-meter expanse incorporating hundreds of plants and LED lights, plus a glass ceiling which uses more than 30,000 individually programmable LED nodes to create an imaginary sky that can express various different moods and scenes.
The lobby of Raffles at Galaxy Macau is designed as an “art-filled garden sanctuary”, Galaxy explained, landscaped with 90 trees, 50,000 shrubs and seasonal flowers alongside a unique collection of art pieces themed around the four seasons. The collection was curated in Singapore and features artworks by Dutch sculptor Joris Kuipers, Singaporean artist Sun Yu-Li; China’s Chen Chun Hua and Bulgarian-born artist Latchezar Boyadjiev.
The Grand Opening towards the end of 2023 will see the addition of the property’s remaining signature restaurants, the iconic Long Bar and a spa.
Those restaurants will include a Sushi-Kappo concept helmed by Chef and Sushi Master Masaaki Miyakawa, one of only five Michelin three-starred sushi chefs in Japan.
The soft opening of Raffles at Galaxy Macau comes after Galaxy recently announced that Andaz Macau – part of the new Galaxy International Convention Center – would open on 15 September.
