The average nightly cost in February of a Macau five-star hotel room was down almost 10 percent year-on-year, marking eighth consecutive months – measured from July – of year-on-year decline in average five-star rates.
That is according to the latest data from Macau Hotel Association, published by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
In February, the average five-star hotel room rate was MOP1,581.8 (US$197.5), down 9.7 percent from the MOP1,751.3 in the same month last year, according to the latest monthly survey by the Macau Hotel Association.
Judged sequentially, the February five-star room rate was up by circa 2 percent from January’s MOP1550.2.
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 February, the average room rate across all tiers of hotels of the association declined by 8.8 percent year-on-year to MOP1,408.0.
In 2024 and 2025, the Macau hotel market saw during February the impact of the mainland’s Chinese New Year holidays, the mainland being the main feeder market for Macau gamblers and tourists in general. Nonetheless, the 2024 holiday was wholly in February, with the year-on-year difference due to the festive season being dependent on the lunar calendar.
In 2024, the mainland holiday ran for for eight days, i.e., February 10 to 17, including two Saturdays. In 2025, the mainland holiday was also eight days, from January 28 to February 4, including a single weekend.
In February this year, the occupancy rate of the assocation’s five-star hotels reached 95.2 percent, up 4.3 percentage points from a year ago, show the figures. Average occupancy that month across the three-, four- and five-star categories, was 94.6 percent, up 5.1 percentage points year-on-year.
Following post- Covid-19 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.
Five-star accommodation dominates Macau’s hotel market. As of January, the city had 24,300 five-star hotel rooms, 57.8 percent of the 42,000 hotel rooms in aggregate, according to a separate set of data from the Statistics and Census Service.
The five-star room tally nonetheless was down 13.0 percent versus the same month in 2024. As per the statistics bureau’s own data, January’s five-star average occupancy was 92.0 percent. The average stay for that tier’s guests was 1.8 nights.
