Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) will open the last two of its six hotels on Thursday, 16 February. The new hotels - Equarius Hotel and Beach Villas - are aimed at high-end guests. Room rates for Equarius begin at S$800, while those of Beach Villas start from S$1,200. The resort will open fully by the end of the year with three more attractions - Marine Life Park, a water theme park and a destination...
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Resorts World at Sentosa has been awarded its casino licence. It is the first of Singapore's two integrated resorts to get the go ahead for its casino operations. Although the opening date of the casino at Resort World has not been announced, preparations are in full swing. Resorts World Sentosa chairman Lim Kok Thay said: "We are very happy to have received the casino licence. This was made possible by...
Visitors to Resorts World Sentosa will be able to shop there when the first of its retail belt opens in time, for its soft launch on Wednesday. The shopping strip makes up about 20 per cent of the entire retail space at the integrated resort. As for its casino and the Universal Studio theme park, the company is hoping to open both in time for the Lunar New Year. Last minute touches are being made to...
Public bookings for Resorts World Sentosa hotels opened on Monday and more than 3,300 enquiries poured in. Some 300 reservations were made on the first day of bookings as people took advantage of discounted opening rates. The hotels are set to open to the public on January 20. To help ensure smooth visitor arrivals at the integrated resort, taxi drivers were given a drive-through tour of the three main...
Tour agents in Singapore are launching special packages for hotel stays at Resorts World Sentosa, which is slated to open on January 20. Reservations for the hotel rooms at the integrated resort will open only on January 11 at 10am. However, the integrated resort said it has received hundreds of calls on its reservations hotline. Travel agents said while they are targeting markets like the US and the UK,...
One of Singapore's integrated resorts, Resorts World Sentosa, will begin opening its doors in phases from January 20. The resort said its four hotels - Crockfords Tower, Hotel Michael, Festive Hotel and Hard Rock Hotel Singapore - will be opened on that day. Resorts World Sentosa began operations at two of its four hotels on Tuesday, and employees and their families were the resort's main guests before...
Three years in the making and Singapore's two integrated resorts will finally open soon and the operators are upbeat about the prospects. Resorts World Sentosa, due to open in a matter of weeks, expects to attract 13 million visitors in the first year alone. The resort said it has been receiving thousands of enquiries from the public everyday. And one of the most talked about attractions is Universal...
The two upcoming integrated resorts in Singapore, which open in the first quarter of next year, are not planning to gamble with the environment. In fact, they have spent millions of dollars on green technologies and sustainable building concepts to conserve resources. It has been a roller coaster ride for the environment, and climate change is a real threat. So companies, like Singapore's two integrated...
Visitors are one step closer to visiting Southeast Asia’s first and only Universal Studios theme park opening on Sentosa's Resorts World, now that ticket prices have been revealed. Sale of tickets shouldn't be too far on the horizon with Resorts World Sentosa announcing on Wednesday its one-day, two-day and express pass ticket prices that range from S$32 to S$118 to access all attractions. “We have...
Genting Berhad is on track to open the 'Resorts World at Sentosa' in Singapore by early January 2010, said its chairman and chief executive Lim Kok Thay. Bernama news agency quoted Mr Lim as saying the project, which cost S$6.6 billion, would attract 12 to 13 million visitors in the first full year of operation. "Construction is going on smoothly. We are targeting to open it by early January 2010," he...