Sands to complete Londoner in 2020

Las Vegas Sands has reported that its Londoner Hotel will be fully completed at the end of the first half of 2020.

Macau.- Cristina Quental, vice president of Integrated Marketing & Communication at Las Vegas Sands, has revealed that The Londoner Hotel is likely to be fully completed by July 2020. The facility will replace the Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Central, and the 1200 rooms will be turned into 600 one-bedroom suites.

Quental said that the decision that aims to reduce room space comes after they learned their lesson with The Parisian, according to Macau Business. “We learned our lesson and we will make sure The Londoner rooms are spectacular from the get-go […] We drew inspiration from British artisan craftsmanship picking the most famous bespoke tailors on Savile Row and in Mayfair and we will try to make everything unique.”

The decision to change the rooms is part of the US$2.2 billion renovations that will turn the Sands Cotai Central into the Londoner Macao in Cotai between 2020 and 2021.

“Between the second and third quarter [of 2020] you will see a lot of amenities coming online, the restaurants, gaming facilities. The hotel will be fully completed in July and then the retail area will be opened portion by portion,” Quental added.

“The complexity of this project is that everything will come up online as it is built. The last thing that will come through is the façade because the construction period is much longer,” she said.

Las Vegas Sands aims to increase VIP

Quental explained that Las Vegas Sands intends to target a growing premium mass and family market with The Londoner. “VIP is exactly where we see the highest demand growth. We’re not so dependent on the VIP segment as other concessionaires, we’re mainly mass but we are really focusing on the premium mass segment. That’s where we’ve seen the largest growth in the last two years and that’s why we believe that there’s enough demand out there to upgrade all our room products, all our service levels to definitely cater to that audience,” she said.