Large amount of hotel rooms within Macau casino resorts have all their rooms, which were available on the open market, booked for nearly all nights of the approaching autumn national holiday Golden Week, in compliance with details provided by GGRAsia when they checked the booking engines of the relevant hotels.
Increase in bookings is good for GGR:
October Golden Week 2023 is a mid-fall festival celebrated according to the lunar calendar. This year, it starts on September 29 and lasts until October 6, including China’s National Day, which is celebrated on October 1. As of September 22nd, exactly 22 hotels linked with Macau casino facilities have received their standard rooms, aka rooms for 2 adults, booked for minimum 3 nights of the upcoming holiday. Those hotels are:
- Palazzo Versace hotel – located within Cotai’s gaming resort;
- Grand Lisboa – a Macau peninsula establishment owned by SJM Holdings Ltd;
- Grand Lisboa Palace;
- MGM Macau hotels and MGM Cotai hotels – which are owned by MGM China Holdings Ltd.
Then there are hotels that have completely gone without a standard room, such as:
- Parisian Macao
- The Londoner Court
- The Venetian Macao
- The Londoner Macao Hotel
- Four Seasons Hotel Macao Cotai Strip;
- Conrad Macao
Sands China Ltd. is the proud owner of these hotels.
However, as for the hotel rooms still available, they are:
- Wynn Macau and Wynn Cotai hotels – owned by Wynn Macau Ltd;
- hotel towers Nüwa and Morpheus Hotel in City of Dreams Macau – located in Cotai and owned by Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd.;
- Epic Tower at Studio City – located in Cotai and owned by Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd..
Additionally, there are hotels that are booked for majority of the nights during the upcoming holiday, such as:
- Banyan Tree Macau
- The Ritz-Carlton
- Galaxy Hotel
- Hotel Okura Macau
- JW Marriott Hotel Macau and Macau at the Galaxy Macau property
- Raffles at Galaxy Macau – which recently opened and is part of the property’s Phase 3 expansion
However, they are all owned by Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.
Moreover, strong advance reservations, especially for five-star hotels, could mean well for casinos’ gross gaming income (GGR) throughout the festival, few industry specialists said in individual comments to GGRAsia.
Average rooms rates per night:
For the approaching festivities, the average price of standard rooms per night is MOP3,000, which is approximately US$373, up to more than MOP4,000, excluding service charges and taxes. This is according to the prices quoted through the individual hotel reservation systems and is valid from September 21. Additionally, the most expensive listed prices are valid from September 30 to October 3.
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