The average nightly cost in April of a Macau five-star hotel room was down by 5.3 percent year-on-year. It marked 10 consecutive months – measured from July 2024 – of year-on-year decline in the five-star average rate.
Judged month-on-month, the average nightly five-star rate was down 0.3 percent.
That is according to the latest data from the Macau Hotel Association, published by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
In April, the average five-star rate was MOP1,441.9 (US$178.6), compared to MOP1,523.4 in the same month last year, according to the latest monthly survey by the association.
Subsequent to post-Covid travel easing in Macau in January 2023, the five-star rate among the association’s hotels peaked at MOP1,766.9 in December that year.
The association currently has 47 hotels as members, of which 26 are five-star properties. Most of those are within casino resort complexes in the city. The rest of the association’s hotel members are of the four- and three-star tier.
In April, the average room rate across all tiers of hotels of the association declined by 4.0 percent year-on-year, to MOP1,275.0.
Last month, the occupancy rate of the assocation’s five-star hotels reached 93.5 percent, up 3.9 percentage points from a year ago. Average occupancy in April across the three-, four- and five-star categories, was 92.6 percent, up 3.7 percentage points year-on-year.
Five-star accommodation dominates Macau’s hotel market. As of March – the most recent figures available – the city had 25,000 five-star hotel rooms, 56.9 percent of the 43,900 hotel rooms in aggregate, according to a separate set of data from the Statistics and Census Service. Measured year-on-year, the tally of five-star rooms in Macau actually fell 11.1 percent in March.
Macau’s April 2025 visitor arrivals amounted to just over 3.09 million, a 18.9-percent increase from a year ago. The rise was led by a surge in the number of same-day trippers, show figures from the statistics bureau published on May 21.
