Macau YOHO Treasure Island Resorts World Hotel has postponed its official opening date by more than a month to 26 January 2024, the company announced on its website, as a soft opening period continues.
In October, IAG reported that the large LED screens on the YOHO Treasure Island Resorts World Hotel façade featured a photo highlighting that the hotel would open on 15 December 2023.
No reason has been given for the newly revised date, which will see Macau’s first Galeries Lafayette department store and first Bona International Cinema among the new attractions.
The company’s website indicates that the hotel is currently in the “soft opening” phase but will include two separate hotels once fully operational “YOHO Treasure Island Hotel” and “YOHO Resorts World Hotel”.
YOHO Treasure Island Hotel is described as comprising hotel condominium suites suitable for long stays, with a total of 88 suites, 11 family sea-view rooms, nine balcony sea-view rooms and 365 standard rooms.
YOHO Resorts World Hotel features suites in red, white and metallic colors, with a large number of specialty suites, including a presidential suite, 18 garden onsen suites, 14 garden onsen rooms, 23 suites, 14 balcony sea-view rooms, and 57 standard rooms.
As previously reported by IAG, the property’s shopping mall management firm Jones Lang LaSalle said last June that 80% of the retail space had already been leased out at that time.
The mall covers five-storeys with a total area of nearly 400,000 square feet. It will also open on 26 January 2024, and in addition to Galeries Lafayette Paris and the first Bona International Cinema, will include a supermarket called “T Mart” and a leisure and entertainment center called “BeeBeeLand”.
It was previously believed that the property’s previous majority owner, Genting Group, had wanted to incorporate gaming into the development should the opportunity arise. However, Genting Hong Kong announced in 2021 the sale of 50% of its stake in Genting Macau, which in turn had owned 75% of Treasure Island Entertainment Co Ltd – the firm that was initially developing the hotel it had dubbed Resorts World @ Macau.
Genting Malaysia was also unsuccessful in its bid for a Macau gaming concession in late 2022, seemingly ending any opportunity for the Genting brand to gain a foothold in the Macau market.
