Inside Asian Gaming

July 2010 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 15 2,560 hotel rooms. Pictured below is a selection of some of the tasteful and spacious interiors on offer. Unhappy conference campers The 120,000 sq. m convention and exhibition centre at Marina Bay Sands has become the subject of a heated legal dispute between MBS and a group of lawyers who held a conference at the venue. According to Bloomberg, Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS) Chairman Sheldon Adelson said he was ready to settle “any day they want” with the lawyers’ group that accused it of using their conference to hasten its gaming license. “We much rather make love than war,” Adelson said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We tried to settle with them; they didn’t want to and were quite unreasonable.” Marina Bay Sands sued the lawyers after they withheld payment for the first conference it hosted. IPBA 2010 Pte, on behalf of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference, countersued for misrepresenting a “complete disaster” as a world-class venue. Sands used the attendance of Singapore Minister Mentor Lee KuanYewat the event to speed up its casino and occupation permits, according to the IPBA lawsuit. “People should know that there will be little glitches in an opening of a new property,” said Mr Adelson. “They couldn’t stand even one glitch.” Delegates at the conference complained of unfinished rooms, power failures, closed facilities and lost luggage, and the Bar Association’s annual general meeting Horizon Room Singapura Suite main bedroom Singapura Suite living room Marina Bay Sands