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Asia-Pacific resorts / issue for information

Five casino hotels in Asia, read as structures.

We are not a booking site. We read the drawings: who designed the thing, how it holds itself up, and whether the guest gets anything out of it.

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Section through Marina Bay Sands Three sloping towers rising 191 metres, carrying one continuous deck across their tops, with a 66.5 metre length of that deck cantilevered past the northern tower. 66.5 m 191 m Tower 1 Tower 2 Tower 3

Sheet 01, section. The blue length is the part with nothing under it.

Marina Bay Sands seen across the water from the Singapore bayfront: three sloping towers carrying a single long deck, with the lotus-shaped ArtScience Museum and the convention centre roof to the left.
Marina Bay Sands from across the bay, August 2019. Photograph by Balon Greyjoy, released CC0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Fourteen years of transfer structures, then one afternoon on a roof.

I spent fourteen years at a structural practice off Arundel Gate in Sheffield, mostly on transfer structures: the unglamorous business of carrying a building where the columns underneath have run out. Housing over a supermarket. A hospital wing over a service road. You learn to look up in car parks.

In November 2016 I was in Singapore for a conference and did the tourist thing, went up Marina Bay Sands, and found myself standing under the north end of that deck reading the soffit instead of the view. Nobody in the travel press was writing about the only interesting question, which is how it stays there. Every article was about the pool. So in March 2019 I started photocopying notes for about forty people, and nilvado is what those notes turned into.

The honest bit: I have never set foot in Paradise City. Sheet 05 is read off published drawings, the architect's own project write-up and the operator's material, not off a site visit, and I have said so on the sheet. When I have not been somewhere, it says so.

We take no money from any resort, we cannot book you a room, and we have no commercial relationship with anyone in this issue. If that ever changes it will be printed at the top of the page, not the bottom.

More on the publication

Five questions per sheet, and a number at the end.

Every sheet answers the same five, in the same order. The score at the bottom is one thing only: does the building pay off the ambition it announced?

  1. Idea

    What was it trying to be?

    Stated at the competition or in the brief, not reverse-engineered from the finished thing.

  2. Structure

    How does it stand up?

    Spans, piers, cantilevers, exoskeletons. Where the load goes and what it cost to send it there.

  3. Payoff

    What does the guest get from it?

    A hard structural move that produces nothing for the person staying there is engineering as advertising. We say so.

  4. Access

    Who is actually allowed in?

    The part most guides skip. Age rules, resident entry charges, foreigner-only floors, guest-only decks.

  5. Candour

    Does the operator publish its own numbers?

    A resort that will not state its floor area or its room count has told you something. We record the silence rather than fill it.

The long version, including what we refuse to do

Sheet 01 Marina Bay, Singapore

Marina Bay Sands

Las Vegas Sands / opened 2010 / Moshe Safdie, Safdie Architects

Safdie won the 2005 competition with a diagram a child can draw and almost nobody can build: three towers, one deck laid across the top of all three. The resort cost around 5.7 billion US dollars and sits on 16 hectares of reclaimed land, which is to say the ground it stands on did not exist either.

The towers are not vertical. Each splits into two legs that lean apart at the base and rejoin near the top, so the deck lands on three points rather than three walls. That is why the thing reads as legs and a plank instead of as a slab block with a roof garden. It is also why the north end works: past the last tower, the deck simply keeps going, roughly 66.5 metres of it with nothing underneath, held by the mass of everything behind it.

Up top is the SkyPark, a garden of about 1.2 hectares at the 57th floor. The observation deck is a level below, at 56. The swimming pool, the one that sells the building, is published at 146 metres, though 150 is printed nearly as often and turns up in material close to the resort. We have not been able to reconcile the two, so we are giving you both rather than the rounder one.

Rooms
~1,850after refurbishment
Height
191 m
Pool length
146 m150 also published
Admission
21+CCA s.130

Older articles still print 2,561 rooms. That figure predates the refurbishment and is no longer what the hotel is. The casino runs over four levels with roughly 600 tables and around 3,000 machines on the operator's own account; the floor area it will not state, so neither will we.

In the current MICHELIN Guide Singapore selection the resort holds two starred restaurants, CUT and Waku Ghin, at one star each. Nothing on the site holds two or three. Cé La Vi, Bread Street Kitchen, Spago and Maison Boulud are not starred, whatever the aggregators say.

The catch, and it is the big one

The infinity pool is for hotel guests only. Marina Bay Sands puts it plainly: access to the SkyPark Infinity Pool is exclusive to hotel guests, and a hotel keycard has to be presented at the door. A day ticket to the Observation Deck, S$35 off-peak and S$39 peak, buys you the view from level 56 and nothing else. The single image that sells this building is the one a day visitor cannot buy.

Swimmers standing at the far edge of the Marina Bay Sands infinity pool, looking out over the Singapore skyline in haze, with potted palms and a sun lounger with folded towels in the foreground.
The SkyPark pool, October 2016. Every person in this photograph is a hotel guest, because there is no other way to be in it: the S$35 observation deck ticket does not reach this water. Photograph by Ank Kumar, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Second caveat

A second phase is coming, again by Safdie with Populous: a fourth tower of 570 rooms and a 15,000-seat arena. The opening date is genuinely disputed, with 2029 and 2031 both in circulation, and we are not going to pick one for you. Either way, if you are booking a bay-facing room between now and the end of the decade, you are booking next to a construction site.

9 / 10 structure

The hardest move in the issue and the only one that fully pays off. One point withheld: the payoff is gated behind a room key.

Official site

The head of one Marina Bay Sands tower in January 2010, still being built: the SkyPark deck under assembly on temporary steelwork, growing sideways out of the tower top with its far end hanging over open air, tower cranes standing above it and a Marina Bay Sands SkyPark banner on the deck edge.
The deck going on, January 2010. This is the argument of the building, caught with the scaffolding still on it: the deck grows sideways out of the tower head and the far end simply hangs there, carried by what is behind it. The finished north end does this for 66.5 metres. Photograph by Shiny Things, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

66.5 m · north end, nothing underneath

Close view of the three Marina Bay Sands towers under grey cloud, each tower splitting into two leaning legs, with the SkyPark deck running across their tops and projecting well past the left-hand tower into open air.
Finished and clad: the north end of the deck, running past the last tower with nothing under it. Photograph by Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Deck plan, Marina Bay Sands SkyPark Plan of the SkyPark deck showing the garden at level 57, the observation deck at level 56 near the cantilevered end, and the 146 metre pool over the supported span. POOL 146 m, GUESTS ONLY LVL 56 S$35 supported span, three piers garden 1.2 ha, lvl 57
Sheet 02 Sentosa, Singapore

Resorts World Sentosa

Genting Singapore / opened 2010 / 49 hectares, wholly owned

Singapore licensed two integrated resorts in the same era and got two opposite buildings. Sands is one gesture you can draw from a boat. Resorts World Sentosa is a district: 49 hectares of hotels, theatres, an aquarium and a theme park, stitched together with canals, timber roofs and covered walks, all of it owned outright by Genting Singapore.

That makes it harder to write about, and the operator does not make it easier. Its own website cannot agree with itself on how big it is. The accommodation page says eight five-star hotels with over 1,000 rooms. The about page's prose says six luxury hotels. The about page's own meta description, the line that shows up in search results, says seven. Eight, six and seven, on one website, on the same afternoon. We are not going to referee that. We are going to note that a resort of this size cannot state how many hotels it has, which on our sheet is itself a finding.

Site
49 ha
Hotels
8, 6 or 7per the operator's own site
Newest hotel
Oct 2025The Laurus, 183 suites
Admission
21+

The recent work is real and worth the trip. The Laurus opened on 1 October 2025 with 183 suites. The old S.E.A. Aquarium reopened as Singapore Oceanarium on 23 and 24 July 2025, roughly three times the size of what it replaced, across 22 zones, with adult tickets from S$55 and children and over-60s from S$43. Minion Land opened at Universal Studios Singapore on 14 February 2025, with park entry from S$76.

The gaming floor is a blank on this sheet, and deliberately so. There is no casino page on the RWS website at all, which is what Singapore's advertising rules produce. No page, no published area, no number from us. No restaurant on the property currently holds a MICHELIN star.

The catch

You are booking into a building site. The RWS 2.0 programme runs to 2030, Hotel Michael is formally under renovation with its pool and gym shut, and the newest attractions sit next to hoardings. Everything here is true and open at once: the good bits are genuinely new, and so is the noise.

6 / 10 structure

Excellent pieces, no single idea holding them together, and an operator that will not state its own dimensions. Sheds and canals, well made.

Official site

Resorts World Sentosa at dusk: a still canal running between low buildings, with a deep timber roof structure of exposed rafters and angled shading louvres lit from beneath on the right bank.
Timber roof and canal frontage at Resorts World Sentosa, March 2011. Photograph by William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
A large sand tiger shark and several smaller sharks swimming past the viewing glass of the main tank at the S.E.A. Aquarium, Resorts World Sentosa, lit blue with a rock wall to the left.
Shark Seas at the S.E.A. Aquarium, February 2018, since rebuilt as Singapore Oceanarium and reopened in July 2025 at about three times the size. This is the half RWS publishes: 22 zones, S$55 an adult, from S$43 a child. For the casino there is no page on the website at all. Photograph by Banej, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Site diagram, Resorts World Sentosa Diagram of eight separate low blocks spread across a 49 hectare site with no tall structure and no long span, and the casino drawn as a dashed outline because no figures are published for it. CASINO: NO DATA eight blocks, 49 ha, one room count nobody agrees on no tall move, no single span
Sheet 03 Entertainment City, Manila

Solaire Resort & Casino

Bloomberry Resorts / opened 16 March 2013 / Paul Steelman, Steelman Partners

Enrique Razon's Bloomberry opened Solaire on 16 March 2013 as the first of the Entertainment City resorts on Manila Bay, and hired Paul Steelman's practice to draw it. Steelman Partners are casino specialists rather than art-house architects, and the building is honest about that: this is a competent, curved, heavily serviced host box, not a structural argument.

Which is fine, and it is the reason this sheet is short. There is no span here to write home about. What there is, is circulation, and Steelman's people are very good at it. The entrance sequence, a long shallow curve of bronze-framed doors under a low soffit, does the one job that matters at a resort this size: it tells 800 rooms' worth of arriving guests where to go without a single sign.

Rooms
800
Gaming floor
18,500 m²secondary source
Tables / slots
360 / 1,620secondary source
Admission
21+students barred

A caveat on those numbers. The floor area, the table count and the machine count all come from secondary sources. Bloomberry does not publish them. We have printed them with the label attached rather than laundering them into facts.

The group's second property, Solaire Resort North in Quezon City, opened on 25 May 2024: 526 rooms, 38 floors, around a billion dollars. You will find 2025 given as the date in several places. It is 2024. No restaurant on either property holds a MICHELIN star, although the guide does now cover the Philippines.

Access, and this one surprises British visitors

21 and over, as everywhere in this issue. But the Philippine rule goes further: under PAGCOR's Responsible Gaming Code of Practice, students of any Philippine educational institution are barred from the gaming floor regardless of their age. A 27-year-old postgraduate at a Manila university is not getting in. A 21-year-old tourist from Leeds is.

7 / 10 structure

Never promised a structural idea and does not pretend to have one. Marked on what it set out to do, where the planning is genuinely expert.

Official site

The entrance hall at Solaire Resort in Manila: a long shallow curve of tall bronze-framed glass doors with heavy vertical handles, polished marble floor, and staff and guests standing at the doors for scale.
The entrance curve at Solaire, March 2013. Photograph by Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Arrival plan, Solaire Plan of the arrival sequence. Cars stop at a kerb, guests pass through one shallow curve of doors, and the flow divides three ways to the hotel lifts, the gaming floor and the theatre. No span is dimensioned on this drawing because the building does not have one worth marking. HOTEL GAMING THEATRE ONE SHALLOW CURVE OF DOORS kerb and porte-cochere no span dimensioned: the drawing is the circulation
Sheet 04 Parañaque, Manila

Okada Manila

Tiger Resort Leisure & Entertainment, Universal Entertainment / opened 30 December 2016

Okada Manila opened on 30 December 2016 with 1,001 rooms, a gaming floor of 26,410 square metres and a first-phase cost of about 2.4 billion US dollars. The building is a long gold curve, which is a facade decision rather than a structural one, and it photographs better than it sections.

The Okada Manila site in April 2015 at dusk, then known as Manila Bay Resort: a long rectilinear concrete frame several storeys high standing under a row of tower cranes, with low-rise Parañaque in the foreground and the bay behind.
Manila Bay Resort, April 2015, before the name and before the gold. A straight-sided concrete frame on a regular column grid, which is the honest section of this building. The curve arrives later, as cladding. Photograph by RioHondo, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Frame first · the curve is a coat, not a structure

The interesting engineering is outside the building, in the water. The Fountain covers 37,464 square metres, cost around 30 million dollars, carries 739 nozzles and opened in March 2017. It was built by WET, the Californian firm behind the Bellagio lake and the Dubai Fountain, and it is a genuinely serious piece of hydraulic and control engineering, whatever else is going on here.

Rooms
1,001
Gaming floor
26,410 m²
Fountain
739 nozzles37,464 m², by WET, from 7pm
Admission
21+students barred

The resort calls it the largest multicolour dancing fountain in the world. That is the resort's own line, not a ratified record adjudicated by anybody, and we are not going to repeat it as though it were one. The fountain is currently running, every half hour, 7pm to 10pm Monday to Thursday and 7pm to midnight Friday to Sunday. Two notes on that. It went dark for about two years during the pandemic and only came back in July 2022, and you will still find the old 6pm start time all over the internet, including on the resort's own past social posts. It also suspends without warning in bad weather, which in a Manila summer is not a rare event. Check the day you go.

The catch

Control of this property has been the subject of documented corporate disputes between Universal Entertainment and its founder Kazuo Okada, up to and including a physical takeover of the building. None of that changes the room you sleep in. It does mean that management, branding and published information here have been less stable than at any other resort in this issue, so treat anything you read about Okada Manila, including the fountain schedule, as perishable.

6 / 10 structure

The best engineering on site is a fountain that has not always worked. The building itself is a curve pulled around a conventional plan.

Official site

Okada Manila from the roadside: a long curved facade of gold and blue glass rising above a low stone wall, with a line of small fountain jets playing along the wall and a motorcycle and van passing on the road in front.
The gold curve and the roadside jets, February 2024. Photograph by Takuya Umezu, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Site relationship, Okada Manila Diagram showing a conventional curved building block set behind a much larger fountain basin of 37,464 square metres, with the fountain drawn in blue as the more significant engineering work. 1,001 rooms, conventional plan THE FOUNTAIN, 37,464 m², 739 NOZZLES
Sheet 05 Yeongjong, Incheon

Paradise City

Paradise Co. with Sega Sammy / opened 20 April 2017 / WATG, project design by Robert Payan

South Korea's first integrated resort opened on 20 April 2017, a joint venture between Paradise Co. and Japan's Sega Sammy, on 330,000 square metres beside Incheon airport. WATG drew it, with Robert Payan leading the design. It has 711 rooms plus a further 103, and it is the largest foreigner-only casino in Korea by floor area.

What makes this sheet worth writing is that Paradise City spends its money on shells and surfaces rather than on spans, and does it seriously. The art programme runs to roughly 2,700 to 3,000 works, depending on whether you take the architect's count or the operator's, and it is not hotel-lobby art. Yayoi Kusama's Great Gigantic Pumpkin is here. So is Alessandro Mendini's Paradise Proust. The canopies and vaulted interiors are the real design work: doubly curved shells lit as objects, which is a structurally cheap trick done expensively well.

Rooms
711 + 103
Site
330,000 m²
Art works
~2,700 to 3,000sources differ
Casino access
ForeignersKoreans barred
The catch, and it is a strange one

This resort is legally split down the middle. Korean nationals may use the hotel, the spa and the Wonderbox park. They may not enter the casino. It is a single building in which your passport decides which doors work, and it is the clearest illustration in this issue that a casino resort is not one building but two overlapping ones.

The wider Korean rule behind that: citizens are barred from the country's foreigner-only casinos under the Tourism Promotion Act. Kangwon Land is the only casino Koreans are allowed into, and even that is now more complicated, since it began piloting a foreigners-only zone of its own in September 2024.

8 / 10 structure

No heroic span, but the most coherent building in the issue: one idea, curved shells and a serious art collection, carried through without a gimmick. Marked from drawings, not a visit.

Why there is no link on this sheet

Every other sheet ends with a link to the resort's official site. This one does not. On the day we compiled this, p-city.com was serving an incomplete certificate chain: the leaf certificate is valid, but the intermediate is missing, so strict browsers refuse it while Chrome and Safari quietly patch around the gap. We are not going to send you to a link that throws a security warning on some machines and not others. Search for the resort by name, or start at the Paradise Co. corporate site.

Interior of a doubly curved shell canopy at Paradise City, Incheon: a gridded funnel-shaped vault washed in red and amber light, narrowing to a dark opening onto the night outside, with a tiled floor running out through it.
One of the shell canopies at Paradise City, November 2019. Photograph by lazy fri13th, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
Access section, Paradise City Section through the resort. One shell canopy covers two volumes. The hotel, spa and Wonderbox on the left are open to any passport. The casino volume on the right is shaded and closed to Korean nationals. A dashed line between them marks a legal boundary that is not a wall. one shell, one building HOTEL / SPA / WONDERBOX ANY PASSPORT CASINO FOREIGN PASSPORTS ONLY a legal line, not a wall

The spec table

Everything on one sheet, gaps included.

Blanks are not laziness. Where an operator does not publish a figure, the cell says so, because a resort declining to state its own floor area is information.

Marina Bay Sands under construction in November 2009 seen across the water: three bare concrete towers topped out with no deck yet spanning them, surrounded by dozens of tower cranes, with the steel frame of the convention centre and a red gantry to either side.
November 2009: towers topped out, deck not yet across them. A resort is legible for about two years and then it is cladding and a press office. Everything in the table below is a number somebody chose to publish, and the hatched cells are the ones nobody did. Photograph by Merlion444, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Five resorts, as published by their operators. Compiled 17 July 2026.
Resort Opened Rooms Height Architect Casino floor Age Resident entry charge
Marina Bay Sands 2010 ~1,850 191 m Safdie Architects Not published 21+ S$150 / 24h
Resorts World Sentosa 2010 Contradicted8, 6 or 7 hotels, per its own site Not published Not confirmed No pageNo casino page exists 21+ S$150 / 24h
Solaire Resort & Casino 2013 800 Not published Steelman Partners 18,500 m² secondary 21+ None
Okada Manila 2016 1,001 Not published Not confirmed 26,410 m² 21+ None
Paradise City 2017 711 + 103 Not published WATG Not published Not published Koreans barred entirely

Room counts, to the same scale

  1. Marina Bay Sands ~1,850
  2. Okada Manila 1,001
  3. Paradise City 814
  4. Solaire 800
  5. Resorts World Sentosa ? The dashed track is deliberate. The operator's own website says eight hotels, six hotels and seven hotels on three different pages, so there is no length here we could draw and still call this an honest chart.

Marina Bay Sands sets the scale at roughly 1,850. Figures as published by each operator on 17 July 2026. Paradise City is drawn at 814, being 711 plus 103.

The column British readers ask about

The entry charge is not a tourist tax. In Singapore, citizens and permanent residents pay S$150 for 24 hours or S$3,000 for an annual pass to enter either casino. The amounts sit directly in the Casino Control Act 2006 at section 116(1), as amended by Act 29 of 2024 and in force since 30 October 2024. You will find blogs claiming this came in during 2019 or April 2022. It did not. Note that the Gambling Regulatory Authority does not itself publish the figures, which is why so much of the internet gets this wrong. If you are visiting from the UK, you pay nothing.

Best drawn

Marina Bay Sands, and it is not close.

Four of these buildings are conventional plans wearing an expensive coat. One of them is a structural bet: three sets of splayed legs, one deck, and a 66.5 metre end hanging in the air because Safdie wanted the roof to be the building rather than a lid on it. It is the only resort in the issue where the engineering and the reason for visiting are the same object.

The reason it is not a 10 is on the sheet. The payoff is behind a room key. Everyone knows the picture; only guests get in the water.

Runner-up: Paradise City

No span worth drawing, but the only other building here with a single idea carried all the way through. The shells and the art programme are the same thought.

Most improved: Resorts World Sentosa

The Oceanarium and The Laurus are the best new work in this issue. They are also surrounded by hoardings until 2030.

Best thing that is not a building: The Fountain

WET's water at Okada Manila is more sophisticated than the tower behind it. When it is switched on.

Redlines

Corrections we keep making in the margin.

Rooms

Marina Bay Sands is not a 2,561-room hotel. That number is pre-refurbishment and it is still being copied into new articles in 2026. It is roughly 1,850 now.

Dimensions

The Marina Bay Sands observation deck is level 56, not 57. The garden and the pool are on 57, which is where the confusion starts. On the pool's length we are stuck: 146 metres and 150 metres are both in circulation, we cannot reconcile them, and we would rather say so than round it off for you.

Stars

Waku Ghin holds one star, not two. Resorts World Sentosa holds none at all. And the current live selection is the MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2025: the 2026 edition lands on 4 August 2026, at which point this paragraph may need rewriting.

The levy

S$150 per 24 hours, S$3,000 per year, in force since 30 October 2024, written into the Casino Control Act itself. Not a 2019 order. Not April 2022. And not payable by you if you are reading this in Britain.

POGO

The Philippine ban on POGOs did not close Manila's resorts. POGOs were offshore online operators, a completely separate industry from the buildings on sheets 03 and 04. The two get conflated in British coverage almost every time.

Who regulates whom

In the Philippines, PAGCOR is both the industry's regulator and an operator of casinos in its own right. A bill to split the two functions has been approved in committee. It is not law.

Smoking

We are asked constantly whether you can smoke in the Singapore casinos. We are not going to tell you, because the 2018 regulations do not use the word casino anywhere, and we would be guessing. Ask the property.

Questions we actually get.

Can I swim in the Marina Bay Sands infinity pool without staying there?

No. The resort's own wording is that access to the SkyPark Infinity Pool is reserved exclusively for hotel guests. There is no day pass, no restaurant workaround and no ticket that gets you in.

What you can buy is the SkyPark Observation Deck, at S$35 off-peak or S$39 peak. That is level 56 and the view. It is not the pool, and photographs on ticket-resale sites that suggest otherwise are photographs taken by guests.

Do Singapore residents really pay to walk into a casino?

Yes, and only residents. Citizens and permanent residents pay S$150 for a 24-hour entry or S$3,000 for an annual pass, at either Singapore resort. It sits in the Casino Control Act 2006 at section 116(1), amended by Act 29 of 2024, in force since 30 October 2024.

Visitors on a foreign passport, including British ones, pay nothing. You still need to be 21 or over, and you will need your passport. The age is not a house rule you can argue with: the same Act defines a minor, at section 130, as anyone under 21.

Do the resorts pay you, or give you rooms?

No. Not money, not rooms, not press trips, not affiliate commission, not a data-sharing arrangement. Nobody in this issue knows we exist as far as we are aware.

This is also why the site is thin on things like current room rates. Nobody is feeding us a rate card, and we are not going to scrape one and pretend it is stable.

Can I book through you?

No, and we would not know how. There is no booking form on this site and there never will be. Every resort here has an official site and the link on each sheet goes straight to it, with nothing of ours attached to the URL.

Why do some cells in your table just say "not published"?

Because they are not published. Marina Bay Sands does not state its casino floor area. Resorts World Sentosa has no casino page on its website at all, which is what Singapore's gambling advertising rules produce.

Other guides fill those cells anyway, usually by copying a figure from a stock-photo caption. We would rather print a gap that is true than a number that is tidy.

I am 21 and travelling from the UK. Is there anything that would stop me getting in?

In Singapore, no, beyond 21 and a passport. In Manila, also no, unless you happen to be enrolled at a Philippine educational institution, in which case you are barred regardless of your age.

Korea is the exception worth knowing. Paradise City's casino is for foreign passport holders, so as a British visitor you are in and your Korean friend is not, even though you can both use the hotel and the spa.

Next issue

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