Macau is a two hour bus ride away from Guangzhou. Sounds perfect for a day trip right? First bus there leaves at 7:30 am, last bus back leaves at 10 pm. Plenty of time for sight seeing and gambling.
Ummm… kind of. We got up early, hopped the bus to Macau, made it there by 10 am. No problems.
Then we saw the line to go through customs. It took us two hours to leave China and another hour and a half to get into Macau. Totally didn't factor that into our gambling time.
After a delicious Portuguese lunch (Macau used to be a Portuguese colony), several free drinks, and a few hours on the slots at the Wynn we came up with a "brilliant" idea.
"Let's stay up all night and catch the 7 am bus back to Guangzhou tomorrow so we don't have to deal with the long customs line!"
Genius.
The drinks were free. The slot machines were paying and talked to you in Chinese. You're gambling with either Hong Kong dollars or Macau dollars so you really have no idea what you are spending. It was fantastic.
Side note: I found a new favorite slot machine. It is a Chinese vampire game… it gives you lots of free spins and it talks to you in Chinese – Wo shi xi xue gui!!! (I am a vampire) Muahhhh hhaaaahh hahhhha hhahah…. It was hysterical. Probably one of those things where you had to be there though.
Our idea seemed inspired until about 4 am. Then the exhaustion set in. We had been awake almost 24 hours. The casinos are ENORMOUS. We probably walked over twenty miles trekking from casino to casino. Just walking through the entire Venetian is a good mile or two.
We managed to haul ourselves back through customs – which only took about 15 minutes this time – and back to Guangzhou. After a shower and a 6 hour "nap" we managed to drag ourselves out of the hostel for dinner and shopping. For me, recovering from a long night of partying is the equivalent of recovering from minor surgery.
I was exhausted for the next couple of days, but it was totally worth it. Bottom line: Macau – always a good idea.
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