Hotel guides for the resort destinations ThrillZing covers — every Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando resort, the Disneyland hotels, Disneyland Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the casino resorts of the Las Vegas Strip. Each guide covers rooms and theming, how you reach the parks or the Strip, the perks a stay unlocks, price tier and who it suits.
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/ September 18, 2026
The Palazzo is a 50-story, all-suite luxury resort on the Las Vegas Strip, built as the sister tower to the adjoining Venetian and operated together as one connected complex. It opened in phases starting December 30, 2007, adding roughly 3,066 suites and about 105,000 square…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Venetian Las Vegas is an all-suite luxury resort on the Strip at 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, built around a Venice theme complete with indoor and outdoor canals, gondoliers, and recreations of the Rialto Bridge and St. Mark’s Campanile. It opened May 4, 1999…
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/ September 18, 2026
Bellagio opened on October 15, 1998, at 3600 South Las Vegas Boulevard, built around an 8.5-acre man-made lake that anchors the Strip’s most photographed sight: the Fountains of Bellagio. Owned by Blackstone with MGM Resorts International operating under lease, the resort spans two towers, a…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Universal Studios Grand Hotel is the flagship on-site hotel at Universal Beijing Resort, sitting directly at the entrance to Universal Studios Beijing. Opened alongside the park on September 20, 2021, the 800-room hotel is themed around a contemporary take on Hollywood’s Golden Age, with…
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/ September 18, 2026
Shanghai Disneyland Hotel is the flagship on-site hotel of Shanghai Disney Resort, opened June 16, 2016, and set on Wishing Star Lake directly across the water from Shanghai Disneyland park. Built in an elegant Art Nouveau style with Disney theming woven through its 420 rooms…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Explorers Lodge is a 4-star resort hotel on Lantau Island, part of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort alongside the flagship Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and the budget-friendly Disney’s Hollywood Hotel. It opened on April 30, 2017 as the resort’s third and largest hotel, built…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Hollywood Hotel opened with Hong Kong Disneyland Resort on September 12, 2005, and sits in Penny’s Bay on Lantau Island, part of the resort’s Islands District. Built around a 1930s Hollywood Art Deco theme, it’s the most budget-friendly of the resort’s three on-site hotels…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Disney Ambassador Hotel is one of three Disney-operated Deluxe hotels at Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, just outside Tokyo. Designed by architect Robert A. M. Stern in an elegant 1920s-30s American Art Deco style, it opened on July 20, 2000, as the resort’s…
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/ September 18, 2026
Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta is the deluxe hotel operated by Oriental Land Company as part of Tokyo Disney Resort, and it’s unlike any other Disney hotel in the world: it isn’t next to Tokyo DisneySea, it’s built directly into it. The hotel’s Italian-seaport facade forms…
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/ September 18, 2026
Tokyo Disneyland Hotel is the flagship deluxe hotel of Tokyo Disney Resort, sitting directly across from the entrance to Tokyo Disneyland. Opened in 2008 and operated by the Oriental Land Company, the hotel was built in an early 20th-century Victorian style meant to echo the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Davy Crockett Ranch is Disneyland Paris’ campground-style resort, set among 55 hectares of woodland in Bailly-Romainvilliers just outside the main resort perimeter. Instead of hotel rooms, guests stay in one of 595 self-catering log cabins arranged along pine-shaded loops, each with a kitchenette, bunk…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Hotel Santa Fe is the entry-level on-site hotel at Disneyland Paris, opened in April 1992 and designed by architect Antoine Predock to evoke a Pueblo Revival motel in the American Southwest. Its roughly 1,000 rooms are spread across low-rise buildings named for Cars characters…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Newport Bay Club is a 1,098-room resort hotel at Disneyland Paris, built in a crescent around Lake Disney and designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (the same firm behind Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts at Walt Disney World). It opened on April 12…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel is a deluxe resort hotel at Disneyland Paris, built in 1992 by postmodern architect Michael Graves and completely reimagined in June 2021 around Marvel’s characters and artwork. It sits right next to Disney Village, within a…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Disneyland Hotel is the flagship five-star resort of Disneyland Paris, built directly above the entrance gates and ticket booths of Disneyland Park in Marne-la-Vallée, France. It first opened in April 1992 as the park’s original showcase hotel, closed in March 2020 for a multi-year…
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/ September 18, 2026
Universal Terra Luna Resort is a 750-room hotel operated by Loews Hotels & Co that opened March 25, 2025, right next to Universal Epic Universe on the Universal Orlando Resort property. It’s classified as a “Prime Value” hotel, Universal’s newer budget-friendly tier, with a space-exploration…
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/ September 18, 2026
Universal Stella Nova Resort is a 750-room, space-themed hotel operated by Loews Hotels & Co that opened in January 2025 directly adjacent to Universal’s Epic Universe theme park in Orlando. It sits in Universal Orlando’s “Prime Value” tier alongside sister property Terra Luna Resort, offering…
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/ September 17, 2026
Universal’s Endless Summer Resort – Surfside Inn and Suites is Universal Orlando Resort’s budget-tier hotel, opened June 27, 2019, at 7000 Universal Blvd. It shares a 1960s surf-culture theme with its sister property, Dockside Inn and Suites, right down to a surfboard-shaped main pool and…
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/ September 17, 2026
Universal’s Aventura Hotel is a 600-room on-site hotel at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida, which opened on August 16, 2018 as the resort’s sixth hotel and second “Prime Value” property. Set off Adventure Way within the resort footprint, near Universal’s Volcano Bay water park…
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/ September 17, 2026
Loews Sapphire Falls Resort is one of Universal Orlando’s on-site hotels, opened in 2016 on the shores of the resort’s shared waterway between CityWalk and Universal’s Volcano Bay water park. It’s built around a Caribbean-island theme, with cascading waterfalls, stone-ruin details in the lobby, and…
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