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:

Then there are hotels that have completely gone without a standard room, such as:

Sands China Ltd. is the proud owner of these hotels.

However, as for the hotel rooms still available, they are:

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.