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2nd May got large convention, rushed opening just days before ...... now RWS can at last smirk quietly to themselves after crticis all praise MBS for a more successful Casino opening that RWS ....
I went there on 1 May, exterior the architects did a wonderful design ... but inside the casino annexe, the interior finishings are atrocious, puddles & leaking ceilings & cracked floors at the B3/B4 areas ... bad contractors ...
Stage lights go out at MBS
by Clement Mesenas and Teo Xuanwei [email protected]
05:55 AM May 05, 2010
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SINGAPORE - The Chief Justice of Australia's New South Wales state was addressing an international gathering of legal eagles yesterday when suddenly the stage lights went out and then the sound system went silent - all at the first major event to be staged at the newly-opened Marina Bay Sands.
Mr James Jacob Spigelman bravely continued his speech in the dark, assuring his audience: "I have got a loud voice", but some members at the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) 20th Annual Conference were less than amused. Several left, while those who remained were herded by MBS staff into a smaller conference hall.
The incident capped a series of discomfitures for the delegates at the integrated resort, where IPBA organisers had booked 400 rooms for its conference.
The guests told MediaCorp about air conditioners not working in their hotel rooms, luggage being brought up to their rooms two hours after check-in and a three-hour power failure in their rooms that caused laptops to go on the blink.
Some overseas delegates had to change rooms three times before finding one with amenities that worked. One delegate was led into a room - to find it occupied by a another couple. Others, including Mr Spigelman, were trapped in the resort's lifts, some for up to 20 minutes at a stretch.
Yesterday's power failure, which lasted for almost 30 minutes and which occurred after Singapore's Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong had delivered his speech and left the conference, was the last straw for some participants, who checked out and moved to other hotels around Singapore, sources said.
Several delegates whom MediaCorp spoke to were clearly frustrated.
Malaysian lawyer Cecil Abraham told MediaCorp: "We were told to wait for 10 minutes for the (blackout) problem to be fixed, but that didn't happen. We were then moved into a smaller room where speakers had to go without microphones. And considering that you had three judges as your speakers, it's really quite terrible."
He added: "There was a great deal of expectation before we attended the conference but the facilities have been a disgrace. You wouldn't have expected hiccups like these - they happened one after another."
Indian lawyer Sumeet Kachwaha, who sits on the IPBA Council, said the facilities at MBS had created "a very bad impression of Singapore".
"The many glitches have been a very big disappointment. So many things at the conference were so dysfunctional that it didn't feel like we were holding a conference in Singapore."
A member of the IPBA organising committee told MediaCorp last night: "We tried to work very hard with MBS to ensure our delegates have a good experience. While the content of the conference has been excellent - with world-class speakers - the facilities of MBS have not been up to our expectations.
"We're deeply embarrassed by the unfortunate series of mishaps and substandard facilities."
An MBS spokesperson told Media_Corp it has been "working tirelessly" with the IPBA organisers to "ensure the success of its conference".
"We continue to work closely with them. We moved quickly to manage situations that are typical of all opening projects, in order to minimise inconveniences to delegates," she said.
2nd May got large convention, rushed opening just days before ...... now RWS can at last smirk quietly to themselves after crticis all praise MBS for a more successful Casino opening that RWS ....
I went there on 1 May, exterior the architects did a wonderful design ... but inside the casino annexe, the interior finishings are atrocious, puddles & leaking ceilings & cracked floors at the B3/B4 areas ... bad contractors ...
Stage lights go out at MBS
by Clement Mesenas and Teo Xuanwei [email protected]
05:55 AM May 05, 2010
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SINGAPORE - The Chief Justice of Australia's New South Wales state was addressing an international gathering of legal eagles yesterday when suddenly the stage lights went out and then the sound system went silent - all at the first major event to be staged at the newly-opened Marina Bay Sands.
Mr James Jacob Spigelman bravely continued his speech in the dark, assuring his audience: "I have got a loud voice", but some members at the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) 20th Annual Conference were less than amused. Several left, while those who remained were herded by MBS staff into a smaller conference hall.
The incident capped a series of discomfitures for the delegates at the integrated resort, where IPBA organisers had booked 400 rooms for its conference.
The guests told MediaCorp about air conditioners not working in their hotel rooms, luggage being brought up to their rooms two hours after check-in and a three-hour power failure in their rooms that caused laptops to go on the blink.
Some overseas delegates had to change rooms three times before finding one with amenities that worked. One delegate was led into a room - to find it occupied by a another couple. Others, including Mr Spigelman, were trapped in the resort's lifts, some for up to 20 minutes at a stretch.
Yesterday's power failure, which lasted for almost 30 minutes and which occurred after Singapore's Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong had delivered his speech and left the conference, was the last straw for some participants, who checked out and moved to other hotels around Singapore, sources said.
Several delegates whom MediaCorp spoke to were clearly frustrated.
Malaysian lawyer Cecil Abraham told MediaCorp: "We were told to wait for 10 minutes for the (blackout) problem to be fixed, but that didn't happen. We were then moved into a smaller room where speakers had to go without microphones. And considering that you had three judges as your speakers, it's really quite terrible."
He added: "There was a great deal of expectation before we attended the conference but the facilities have been a disgrace. You wouldn't have expected hiccups like these - they happened one after another."
Indian lawyer Sumeet Kachwaha, who sits on the IPBA Council, said the facilities at MBS had created "a very bad impression of Singapore".
"The many glitches have been a very big disappointment. So many things at the conference were so dysfunctional that it didn't feel like we were holding a conference in Singapore."
A member of the IPBA organising committee told MediaCorp last night: "We tried to work very hard with MBS to ensure our delegates have a good experience. While the content of the conference has been excellent - with world-class speakers - the facilities of MBS have not been up to our expectations.
"We're deeply embarrassed by the unfortunate series of mishaps and substandard facilities."
An MBS spokesperson told Media_Corp it has been "working tirelessly" with the IPBA organisers to "ensure the success of its conference".
"We continue to work closely with them. We moved quickly to manage situations that are typical of all opening projects, in order to minimise inconveniences to delegates," she said.
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