Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel closes for a top-to-bottom makeover

Hong Kong Disneyland’s Victorian flagship hotel is fully closed starting Oct. 12, with no reopening date. A first look at a test hallway shows starry blue carpet and Disney princess art.

Hong Kong Disneyland’s flagship hotel is going dark for a while.

The Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel is fully closed starting Monday, Oct. 12, for what Disney calls “comprehensive enhancements to elevate our facilities, services, and the overall guest experience.” Disney hasn’t said when it will reopen.

Disney rarely does that. In the U.S., Disney World and Disneyland redo their hotels a wing or a building at a time while guests keep checking in.

Why is the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel closing?

For a full renovation. Disney announced the closure in August, and work had already started on part of the building by then.

Crews began renovating the hotel’s west side in June, working daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., BlogMickey reported. Disney warned guests at the time that they might notice some smell or noise, and some room types weren’t available on certain dates.

Now the whole building is shut.

The timing lines up with the end of a big year, too. Hong Kong Disneyland wrapped up its 20th anniversary celebration on June 7.

What will the new Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel look like?

Princesses, from the looks of it. Disney hasn’t released any renderings, but WDW News Today got a peek at a test hallway where the new look sits right next to the old one.

The old hallways have green carpet with a floral trellis pattern and yellow damask wallpaper, very Victorian. The new section has:

• Deep blue carpet with gray and blue marbling, white stars and curly frames

• Gray and gray-blue marbled wallpaper flecked with gold pixie dust and stars

• Concept art from Wish on the walls, showing Queen Amaya, the Kingdom of Rosas and Star

• Fairy Godmother artwork welcoming guests to the hotel’s Walt Disney Suite

That’s a big swing away from the hotel’s original style. It was built to look like Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa at Walt Disney World, with a dose of the Disneyland Hotel at Disneyland Paris mixed in.

When will the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel reopen?

Disney hasn’t announced a date.

The resort’s only promise so far is that it looks forward to welcoming guests back to “a newly enhanced Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel in the future.” No timeline, no season, nothing.

If you’re planning a trip for 2027, it’s safest to book one of the other two hotels for now.

Where can you stay at Hong Kong Disneyland instead?

The resort’s other two hotels stay open the whole time:

• Disney Explorers Lodge, the newest one, which opened in 2017

• Disney’s Hollywood Hotel, which opened with the park in 2005

Disney says both will “continue to offer the same high standard of Disney hospitality.” You can book either one through Hong Kong Disneyland’s official website.

Has Disney ever closed a whole hotel like this?

Not in the U.S., but Disneyland Paris has done it twice.

Paris shut down Disney Hotel New York for a full overhaul, and it came back in 2021 as Disney Hotel New York: The Art of Marvel. Then it did the same with its own Disneyland Hotel, the pink one sitting over the park entrance. That one reopened in January 2024 with a new theme built around Disney royalty.

So Hong Kong isn’t the first Disney resort to close a flagship hotel and bring it back royal.

What is the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel like now?

It’s the resort’s signature hotel. It opened on Sept. 12, 2005, the same day as the park, and has 400 rooms, plus a hedge maze shaped like Mickey’s head and indoor and outdoor pools.

It also has some of the best feng shui details in the Disney world. As we reported Oct. 5, the hotel skips the fourth floor, because “four” sounds like “death” in Cantonese. Its Crystal Lotus restaurant has exactly 2,238 crystal lotus flowers, a number that sounds like “generate wealth easily.”

We’ll find out at the reopening whether all 2,238 of them made the cut.

Article compiled and written by Kambrea Pratt (editor-in-chief), Derek Gibbs (beat editor) and the Pirates & Princesses newsroom. Pirates & Princesses is part of WebReef Media.

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Hat Tips:

• BlogMickey (Oct. 11, 2026), the closure date, Disney’s statements, the west-side work and the 20th anniversary end date

• WDW News Today (Oct. 11, 2026), the first look at the test hallway

• Laughing Place (Aug. 12, 2026), the closure announcement and the Paris hotel closures

• Pirates & Princesses (Oct. 5, 2026), the hotel’s feng shui details

• Wikipedia, the hotel’s opening date and room count

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