Singapore Sands, Marina Bay Sands.

That's the new philosophy in the island state. Three giant towers at Singapore Marina Bay with hotel resort a huge casino and a so called palm park at the lofty top at 200 meters above ground this is the Marina Bay Sands.

The other casino is on Sentosa Island, reachable via there is a cable car, is run by RWS, the Malaysian Genting Group which also run a huge casino in Malaysia's Genting Highland.

Interestingly, when looking into the car park of Singapore casinos quite a lot cars have Malaysian numbers. Chinese people love gambling and the Chinese Malaysian population which is a bit less than 50% is exactly the market the casino is tuned for, there is plenty of money moving south.

For decades gambling was strictly forbidden but times and minds are changing, its good for the economy, so what? The Marina Bay Sands is the second casino in Singapore and has a much more spectacular architecture than the first Singapore Casino which operates on Sentosa Island.

The Sands Casino

is built on 570,000 square meter with a highly visible central element, the three tower hotel with 55 floors each. At 200 meters it is topped by the 1.20 hectare Sky Park with restaurants, a 150 meter swimming pool, a tropical environ with flowers, palm trees and some more greenery, Singapore has some more men made great tropical environ, that's the Jurong Bird Park and the Singapore Orchid Garden. Over time this casino monument will probably become one of the most pictured building in the world.

The hotel and casino with 2,500 rooms, shopping malls and nightclubs started with a soft opening in 2010, now everything is up and running (2012).

The RWS Singapore Casino

has a rather baroque style compared with the modern and expressive architecture of the Sands. Aside of the casino operation at Sentosa a Universal Studio Theme Park and later in the year the world's largest marine life park

will be open to public, it is said . All together Genting Singapore's Integrated Resort (IR) which includes in total six hotels will cost 4.4 billion U.S. dollars. Singapore got some new sounds to hear, its the clicking of the roulette wheel, clattering of dice, spinning of slot machines and shuffling of cards. Now an aura of excitement and maybe luck via Singapore gambling came to town. Singapore becomes more and more a city of glitz, glamour and high prices. Add the formula one or F1, now some flashy casinos and lots of pretty girls called Singapore girls are around. There are definitely plenty of wealthy people around as indicated by the Ferraris, Lamborghinis, high end Audis and so on. Plenty of people from the neighboring countries all the way up to the Indian Marina Bay Sands, Marina Sands Singapore. subcontinent coming in and some are definitely high roller or whales; well I guess they are welcome to feed some money into the Singapore budget. If you have some money left go shopping for jewelry and diamonds, some  in Singapore or walk to the casino entrance at Marina Bay Sands. This is a place where the people make you feel good if you hand over money first. Also the yachts business gains momentum, until now Phuket is still the yachting hub in south east Asia but that could change in the long run. Several real attractions were opened up in Singapore in recent years, among the casinos, it's the Singapore Flyer, the F1 gigantic shopping malls and already since longer time the Singapore Orchid Garden and Jurong Bird Park. Singapore beaches are mostly at the surrounding islands such as Sentosa and some of the islands in Indonesian waters. The Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Casino complex is built on reclaimed land and it is amazing what contemporary technology, the determination and will of people can achieve this days.

Singapore Gambling at RWS-IR Sentosa Casino, slot games. Singapore Sands Singapore Casino Resort Entrance at Marina Bay Sands with plenty of casino slots. Marina Bay Sands Marina Sands Hotel Lobby View of Marina Bay Singapore, Marina Bay Singapore,

The best view for the silhouettes of the casino, the buildings and the Singapore Flyer is from the Marina Barrage a real great picnic and sightseeing place.

give you fun and take money from you, means expect to go in losing and you will be happy when you score. In general read the gaming guides that are posted next to each game.
 

The casinos at Macau, where Las Vegas Sands has invested in two casinos wont be a real competition. The idea is Macau serves the North Asia market with China. Singapore casinos are rather targeted at South Asian and South East Asia, marketing efforts are underway to get people from the Indian subcontinent over to Singapore for a quickie game, with today low cost airlines the plan could work.

Sentosa Casino  Location Map
How to get to Resorts World Sentosa, its only about 20 minutes from Singapore's Central Business District, there is a bus service,  the MRT Singapore rail system, taxi or by car and cars. It is also possible to do a short walk from VivoCity shopping mall to the

Great architecture, Singapore Sands.
Some gambling history tells a bit more about casinos and gambling. Since this casinos in Singapore and Macau are a rather new breed of entertainment looking into the gambling history of this type makes some sense. There is plenty more gambling going of in particular Chinese gambling is famous. It is possible to find the same Chinese games everywhere in the world where a Chinese community is, from China to Mauritius (Port Luis) and elsewhere, read more.

RWS. Within Resorts World Sentosa or IR Sentosa shuttle buses are on standby. The casino, hotel, shopping mall, theater and entertainment complex, remakes Singapore's skyline, dominating the silhouette towards the sea. The plan is that both casinos ad some spices to Singapore City.

The Singapore Sands

and Genting's Resorts World Sentosa, which opened the first casino on Sentosa Island in February, are creating the gambling capital of Southeast Asia. Projections are that the two casinos combined should make a turnover of about $3.5 billion per year after full operation, since Las Vegas's annual gambling revenue are about $6 billion this assumption has a rather big element of wish and hope.

At Macau, further north close to Hong Kong the average bet in a

casinos is $40 while in Las Vegas it's $5 to $10. VIP clients, which are the majority of Macau's $20 billion gambling market, averageabout $10,000 per round.

The Marina Bay Sands

What is a casino about? Money and finally nothing else !! In a real casino you buy chips with real money; in an online casino you will create an account and transfer funds onto it. The difference is in an online casino you know how much money you have at all times. The chips are abstract figures jut like a credit card making you to think differently about your money because with the intermediate as chips money becomes a abstract figure. One of the most important things is that at an online casino you play free, in a real casino you can't play practice games before you start with real money. You can also try new games you might not be sure about, you can practice your game strategy and play until you feel comfortable understand all the rules.

Are online games and physical games really different? Not much, in roulette, for instance, you can watch the croupier spin the real roulette ball around a actual roulette wheel, when you play roulette online, the croupier is substituted by a Random Number Generator with a algorithm to hit 1 out of 38 times, just like the real roulette wheel.

With slot machines,

the similarities are even more obvious. In real casinos the slots are not some mechanical "one-armed machines" anymore. The computerized slot machines you would play in a real casino are exactly the same as the computerized slot machines in an online casino. One of the differences only is , when you play slots online you are playing at home'�.