The average nightly rate for a five-star hotel room in Macau was MOP1,555.7 (US$192.6) in May. That was flat from a year ago, even as May occupancy dipped 2.4 percentage points year-on-year to 92.3 percent.
That is according to the latest monthly survey from the Macau Hotel Association, published by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
The survey collected data from 49 association-member hotels, 28 of which are five-star properties. Most are within casino resort complexes. The remaining members – in either the four-star or three-star category – include some hotels that are within casino resorts.
In March, the average nightly rate for a five-star hotel room already saw a rate boost that reversed the previous 14 consecutive months of year-on-year decline.
The first five days of May encompassed the Chinese mainland’s 2026 Labour Day holiday season. During the period, Macau saw nearly 7 percent year-on-year growth in visitor arrivals from the mainland, at 725,000 entries, according to data from MGTO.
Nonetheless, the average nightly rate for both the four-star and three-star hotels canvassed by the Macau Hotel Association saw year-on-year decline in May. The four-star average was MOP1,117.4, down 2.7 percent year-on-year. The three-star average was MOP891.8, down 6.7 percent year-on-year.
The latest data took the average nightly rate for five-star rooms in the first five months of this year to MOP1,534.3, flat from a year ago, with occupancy averaging 94.3 percent, down 0.2 percentage points.
The average nightly rate for the five-star hotel rooms surveyed in the January to May period was still 5.3 percent lower than the same period in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, where it stood at MOP1,619.4, according to the association’s data.
Across all hotel categories covered in the 2026 data, the average room rate across January to May declined 0.2 percent year-on-year to MOP1,369.0.
Five-star hotels dominate Macau’s hotel market. As of April – the most recent figures available – the city offered 26,300 five-star rooms, nearly 58 percent of the total 45,400 guest rooms across all categories. That is according to the city’s Statistics and Census Service. The number of Macau five-star rooms rose 1.1 percent compared with April 2025.
