Wynn Palace hotel stands apart. Literally. If you look at a map of the Cotai Strip, all the major hotels are clustered together: Venetian, Parisian, Londoner — they are connected by walkways, share the same ecosystem, and split the crowds. Wynn Palace is slightly to the side. But it’s the kind of side that everyone still ends up visiting. Because here you’ll find what nowhere else has.
The Hotel Built by a Collector
The owner of Wynn Palace, Steve Wynn, spent over a hundred million dollars on the hotel’s art collection. He didn’t buy paintings just to hang them in the corridors for show. He spent five years searching for pieces usually gathering dust in private collections and acquired them so people could see them.
Walking through Wynn Palace feels like entering a museum where the exhibits aren’t roped off. Here are four Jiaqing-era vases — identical to those in Queen Elizabeth’s Buckingham Palace. Here is Jeff Koons’ twelve-meter Tulips — red, yellow, blue mirrored spheres reflecting this entire golden hall. And it’s just sitting there at the entrance. Free.
And then there are flowers everywhere. Real, fresh flowers, but not ordinary ones — “eternal” blooms treated to last for months. Every six weeks, the installations are completely replaced. A carousel of roses becomes a windmill of chrysanthemums. Chinese New Year brings its own flowers, autumn brings its own. At Wynn Palace, even the carpets have buds woven into them, and the mirrors in the rooms are carved with swirls.
The Lake and fountain of the Wynn Palace Hotel
In front of the hotel lies an artificial lake. Eight acres of water, a thousand nozzles, the tallest jet reaching twenty stories high. Every day from noon until midnight, the fountains dance here. By day, it’s simply beautiful. Water rises, falls, rearranges into formation. But at night, the magic begins.
The schedule is simple: from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM, the show runs every half hour. From 7:00 PM to midnight, every 20 minutes. The music varies: today it might be classical, tomorrow Chinese pop, the day after something from a musical. The fountain listens to the rhythm and moves as if it has a soul. Tourists freeze. Even taxi drivers who pass this lake ten times a day sometimes stop to watch.
The Cable Car Over Water
Wynn Palace is the only hotel in the world where you can show up, not gamble, not book a room, and just hop on a cable car to fly over the fountains.
This isn’t a children’s ride. It’s a full-sized six-person gondola with air conditioning, speakers, and a glass floor. It departs from the hotel building, makes a wide circle over the lake, rises 28 meters, turns at almost a right angle — and you’re looking at the water from a bird’s-eye view, listening to music through speakers in your seat, realizing the architects must have lost their minds when they came up with this.
For hotel guests — free. For regular tourists — 100 Hong Kong dollars. It runs from 10 AM to midnight. Best time: an hour before sunset. You board in daylight; you step off when the lake is already glowing with lights.
Rooms of the Wynn Palace hotel
The rooms at Wynn Palace are white, gold, and spacious. The average standard room is 68 square meters — the size of a large apartment in Macau. Some rooms have a view of the fountain. You can lie in bed and watch the water show with a glass in your hand.
The bathroom is marble, with Molton Brown toiletries made exclusively for this hotel. And a particular point of pride — the pillow menu. There’s buckwheat, down, orthopedic, cooling. They bring any choice within five minutes.
The Casino Where You Won’t Find Blackjack
If you gamble — this is your place. If you play blackjack — you might have to look around. Seasoned travelers say blackjack tables here are in the minority, and the minimum bet is 500 Hong Kong dollars. But the interiors — like Versailles.
Illuminarium: A Flight to the Moon Without Leaving the Hotel
In 2025, Wynn Palace opened Illuminarium — an immersive cinema with screens all around you, beneath you, everywhere. The show is called SPACE. You stand in the middle of the hall, and suddenly the floor drops away, you soar above Earth, land on the Moon, walk through craters. Reviews say: “It feels like you’re walking on the surface yourself.”
There’s also WILD — an African safari, and MUSIC IN LIGHT — classical music paired with digital art. Tickets start at 288 patacas, shows aren’t daily, check the schedule online.
Who Needs This?
Wynn Palace doesn’t try to be democratic. It declares from the doorstep: I am expensive, I am beautiful, I display the queen’s vases, and cable cars fly over my lake. People come here to feel like millionaires, even if their travel budget is limited. They ride the cable car for 100 Hong Kong dollars and spend 11 minutes soaring over a golden palace. They drink coffee at Starbucks, which here looks like Marie Antoinette’s boudoir. They gaze at Jeff Koons’ Tulips and photograph the sunset against twenty-meter water jets.
