Grand Lisboa Palace Macau
SJM's Cotai flagship: 1,350 Chinoiserie rooms of at least 60 square metres around the Jardim Secreto gardens.
- Neighbourhood
- Cotai
- Opened
- July 2021
Why we recommend it
The Lisboa name is Macau’s best-known casino brand, and this is SJM’s statement in Cotai. The style is European palace with Chinese ornament, and the scale is very large. What recommends it to a traveller is space: the entry-level room is 60 square metres, generous by the standards of any city, and the garden at the centre gives the resort an outdoor heart.
It is also the way in to the resort’s two fashion-house hotels, The Karl Lagerfeld Macau, with interiors designed by the couturier himself, and Palazzo Versace Macau. The main tower suits those who want the widest choice of rooms, from the 60-square-metre Deluxe to suites with their own kitchens, with the restaurants of all three towers within one resort.
For a comparison with the other Cotai resorts, see our guide to Cotai’s Zaha Hadid, Versace and Lagerfeld towers, and for the background our report on the opening of Grand Lisboa Palace in Cotai.
Rooms & Suites
The 1,350 rooms and suites take a Chinoiserie approach, with art by local artists and decoration that refers to Macau itself. The Deluxe Room, the entry category, measures about 60 square metres and includes a sitting area. The 64 Deluxe Suites are nearly twice that size, with separate baths and walk-in showers, in a palette of burnt orange and ocean blue taken from Portuguese azulejo tiles.
At the top are the Venus and Velvet suites, of up to some 350 square metres, whose theme comes from a tale by the Macanese novelist Henrique de Senna Fernandes. The two-bedroom versions have in-room check-in, butler service, a private massage room and a full kitchen. All rooms face either Cotai or Jardim Secreto.
Dining
The resort counts some 30 places to eat and drink across its three towers, which is a larger choice than a short stay can exhaust. Those with their own pages on OKYTO include Palace Garden and Zuicho. Mesa, in The Karl Lagerfeld tower, serves contemporary Portuguese cooking in a room designed by Lagerfeld.
Macau’s restaurants are a reason to visit in their own right; our gastronomic guide to Macau sets the resort’s tables beside those of the peninsula and the rest of Cotai.
Design
The resort takes European palaces and museums as its model: a Grand Pavilion inspired by Versailles, a metal dome, and gardens laid out in the French style, all overlaid with traditional Chinese motifs. The reference to the Belle Époque is deliberate, as is the mixture of East and West, which the resort presents as an expression of Macau’s own history. It also holds one of the larger art collections among the city’s resorts.
Jardim Secreto is the centre of the composition, with a domed pavilion that is lit at night, gazebos, a grass maze, lawns and a colonnade. Our article on Macau as an exhibition of hotel architecture compares this historicist approach with the contemporary towers elsewhere in Cotai.
Wellness & Spa
The hotel has The Spa at Grand Lisboa Palace, a gym, and both indoor and outdoor pools; the indoor pool in the wellness centre is 25 metres long. The resort also has meeting and event spaces and a large shopping arcade, The Bazar, on its first and second floors.
Location
The resort is on Rua do Tiro in Cotai, Macau, a few minutes by car from Macau International Airport and a short distance from the resorts of the Cotai Strip. The main tower shares the site with The Karl Lagerfeld and Palazzo Versace Macau.
- Address
- Rua do Tiro, Cotai, Macau
- Website
- Official website
