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Singapore has a casino. Which I mention in part because gambling had been illegal in Singapore for its entire modern history, but it wants to be a major tourism hub, and if you want to be a major tourism hub round these parts, you need one of two things: (1) a Disneyland, or (2) a casino.
Anyway, the Marina Bay Sands opened last year, and it has a mall and a convention center, and this year’s annual telephones-industry convention (i.e. the reason I was in town to start with) was relocated there, so I got to spend quite a bit of time at the MBS.
It looks like this.
And at night from the Esplanade waterfront, it looks like this.
That is a cruise liner on top of it, yes.
Okay, it isn’t, really. But it is the world’s largest rooftop swimming pool.
Casinos.
DISCLAIMER: I wasn’t actually staying at the MBS. I was just working there. My company doesn’t have that kind on budget. That’s why I was staying at a budget hotel on Bencoolen Link (where I stayed this time last year). No room service or mini-bar, but there’s a 7-11 downstairs and (this is the best part) the broadband internet is free.
Shame about the chairs.
FUN FACT: It's legal to gamble at the casino, provided you haven't been barred by the govt, a family member, or yrself.
Seriously. You can apply to have yrself barred from the casino. As opposed to just not going to the casino. I take it this is to help gambling addicts kick the habit. Sort of like quitting smoking by getting a permit to be banned from convenience stores.
Up next: a giant monkey driving a New York taxi.
Place yr bets,
This is dF
Anyway, the Marina Bay Sands opened last year, and it has a mall and a convention center, and this year’s annual telephones-industry convention (i.e. the reason I was in town to start with) was relocated there, so I got to spend quite a bit of time at the MBS.
It looks like this.
And at night from the Esplanade waterfront, it looks like this.
That is a cruise liner on top of it, yes.
Okay, it isn’t, really. But it is the world’s largest rooftop swimming pool.
Casinos.
DISCLAIMER: I wasn’t actually staying at the MBS. I was just working there. My company doesn’t have that kind on budget. That’s why I was staying at a budget hotel on Bencoolen Link (where I stayed this time last year). No room service or mini-bar, but there’s a 7-11 downstairs and (this is the best part) the broadband internet is free.
Shame about the chairs.
FUN FACT: It's legal to gamble at the casino, provided you haven't been barred by the govt, a family member, or yrself.
Seriously. You can apply to have yrself barred from the casino. As opposed to just not going to the casino. I take it this is to help gambling addicts kick the habit. Sort of like quitting smoking by getting a permit to be banned from convenience stores.
Up next: a giant monkey driving a New York taxi.
Place yr bets,
This is dF
