The Grand Lapa Macau is a luxury hotel on Avenida da Amizade in Sé,

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located directly adjacent to the

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and near the

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. The hotel opened in 1984 as the Excelsior and was later renamed the Oriental Hotel and then the Mandarin Oriental, Macau. The hotel was 50% owned by

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and 50% owned by

Stanley Ho Stanley Ho Hung-sun (; 25 November 192126 May 2020) was a Hong Kong-Macau billionaire businessman. His original patrilineal surname was Bosman, which was later sinicized to 何 (Ho). He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings, which owns ...

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before being fully purchased in 2009 by another of Ho's companies,

Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau The Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, SA; abbreviated as STDM, (, English: "Tourism and Entertainment Company of Macau Limited") is a company in Macau owned by Stanley Ho and his family. Historically, it held a monopoly to Macau's ga ...

. The hotel was renamed the Grand Lapa Macau on August 1, 2009, a year prior to the opening of the new

Mandarin Oriental, Macau The Mandarin Oriental, Macau () is a luxury hotel on Avenida Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Sé, Macau, Special administrative regions of China. The hotel overlooks the Outer Harbour and Nam Van Lake, and is part of the One Central development connected to ...

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. Despite the renaming, the Grand Lapa continued to be operated by Mandarin Oriental through January 2014. The 435 rooms are decorated with Portuguese fabrics and teakwood furnishings.

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