Sauce and Mustard's journey to Macau started with a one hour ferry ride with Cotai Jet from Hong Kong - Macau Ferry Terminal, Sheun Wan at 1100hrs. Sauce and Mustard ended up snoozing the entire ride because they stayed up late playing monopoly deal with Mustard's family (2.30am). To travel between Hong Kong and Macau, you will need your passport and filled out an arrival and departure card.
Upon arriving in Macau at the Taipa Ferry Terminal, Sauce and Mustard went searching for the free shuttle to their hotel. They had missed it. Instead they caught the shuttle bus to another casino hotel, The Venetian Macao, which also happened to be where Sauce and Mustard had to pick up their tickets for their show later in the afternoon.
After picking up their tickets for the Zaia Cirque du Soleil, they walked through the Resort's massive casino floor and got lost in little Venice. In little Venice, Sauce and Mustard found they had Gondola rides with Italian opera singers rowing the boats. Sauce and Mustard had been such good little Venetians, they even got to get their photos taken with Santa Clause, Merry Christmas and a sleazy Portuguese gambler.
Zaia Cirque du Soleil was an incredible awe striking show of death defying stunts, magnificent beauty, powerful energy, emotional scenes and dazzling performances. Sauce and Mustard would have had more pictures but flash photography was strictly forbidden. As the theater was rather empty, Sauce and Mustard upgraded their seats for free from Reserve C to Reserve B. However, when they tried to upgrade their seats for the second time from B to A, the ushers told them off, leaving them stuck with the second best seats in the house. >.<" Not too bad for all of HK$188 per ticket (from Beng Seng Travel).
After the 90mins show, Sauce and Mustard were hungry so they went looking for food. They came across Rua do Cunha, where Sauce and Mustard nibbled on heaps of Portuguese Chinese fusion food, such as pork and beef jerky, almond biscuits, egg rolls, pregnant chicken biscuits, pineapple shortcakes and ginger lollies all for free. After snacking on the tasty nibbles, Sauce and Mustard visited the famous Restaurante Dumbo for a warm freshly baked Portuguese tart straight from the oven. ummmm...Yum! On their way to their hotel, Mustard spotted an interesting coffee shop, Fong Da Coffee, that made specialty syphon and water drip coffees.
Sauce and Mustard spent the night at Hotel Taipa Square, a supposed 4 stars hotel. The bed was hard, the room was cold, the heater was broken and the bath leaked. There's also no complimentary coffee or mints. Overall Sauce and Mustard hotel rating: 0/10. But then again, we were meant to be back packing, not hotel hopping.
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