Plus, Guests Can Save 30% On Stays of Five Nights or More at Select Universal Orlando Hotels
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Orlando, Fla. (August 12, 2026) – This fall, the Halloween Horror Nights fog creeps beyond the gates of Universal Studios Florida and throughout Universal Orlando Resort, transforming select hotels into an extension of the World’s Premier Halloween event. Universal Orlando’s hotels will become the only place where the Halloween Horror Nights experience continues before, during and after the in-park event with unique limited-time offerings, guest experiences and benefits that make staying the ultimate way to enjoy the fall season. Headlining this year’s seasonal hotel experiences are highly themed lounges across select hotels that transport guests into haunting environments. Plus, all hotels will feature specialty cocktail menus across their bars featuring wickedly crafted spirits, while select hotels will serve up late-night bites for guests to enjoy after a night of screams.
See below for additional details about this fall’s lineup of haunting hotel experiences:
Themed Lounges
Whether guests are looking to sip on uniquely themed beverages, or capture the perfect photo in a hauntingly-immersive environment, they can enjoy frightfully fun themed lounges across the portfolio of hotels inspired by Halloween Horror Nights, including:
NEW THIS YEAR! Loews Royal Pacific Resort – Jake’s American Bar will transform into Universal Monsters Laguna Lounge, a classic monster hideaway inspired by mid-century modern tiki. Guests can catch characters like Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, and more lurking throughout the décor, along with some larger-than-life photo ops.
NEW THIS YEAR! Universal Stella Nova Resort – A sleek research exhibit has gone wrong, and a mysterious substance has breached containment, creeping and pulsing with a life of its own at Universal Stella Nova Resort’s Nova Bar. As guests explore the bar, they’ll notice that hazmat teams have sealed off the area and are working urgently to stabilize the situation before the substance infects everyone and everything.
NEW THIS YEAR! Universal Terra Luna Resort – By day, Luna Bar is a sleek interstellar outpost, but by night it becomes contested ground as two rival alien species who once declared Terra Luna neutral territory are in battle. Guests will be surrounded by the turf battle, with each alien species on opposite sides of the bar.
Loews Portofino Bay Hotel – Returning for a second year, guests can climb aboard an old fishing ship, frozen in time by a freak ice storm, at The Thirsty Fish. Guests will encounter fishing nets and ropes crusted in ice, with the ship’s broken mast dangling over the bar, all surrounded by an eerie blue glow sure to send shivers down their spines.
Hard Rock Hotel – Night of the Living Shred has returned for another rancid residency at the Hard Rock Hotel’s lobby and Veranda Bar. This time around, the whole undead roadie crew is here to amp things up: more lights, more sights, and of course, more frights. Guests will experience the chaos of the Night of the Living Shred with more zombies, more band members, and a rock-fueled apocalypse at the Veranda Bar, a new addition for this year.
Loews Sapphire Falls Resort – Located in the lower lobby, guests can enter an eerie seaside Gothic Manor, where they will encounter a range of creepy floral sculptures, candelabras, and other dark-academia items scattered throughout the seating areas. New this year is the addition of a satellite bar, where guests can sip on crafted cocktails like the Witch Doctor Old Fashioned, the Pumpkin Plunder and the Haunted Jungle Bird, all of which are also available at Strong Water Tavern.
Universal Aventura Hotel – Alien overlords have taken over the hotel’s lobby bar, barVentura, serving mind-controlling cocktails as they attempt to abduct unsuspecting guests to their looming mothership.
Universal Cabana Bay Beach Resort – The fan-favorite Pumpkin Lord Bar returns to Swizzle Lounge, with the theme expanding to the lobby where even more sinister roots are waiting to be unearthed.
Universal Endless Summer Resort – Dockside Inn & Suites – From the briny deep of the dead sea, spirits have washed ashore at the Sunset Lounge, taking the form of eerie driftwood sculptures guests can discover throughout the space.
Frightful Offers & Benefits
Staying at a Universal Orlando hotel is the best way to experience Halloween Horror Nights, with hotel guests enjoying close proximity to the horror and exclusive benefits including Early Park Admission to the theme parks during the day, along with special access to a priority event entrance to Halloween Horror Nights from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., complimentary transportation to the theme parks and Universal City Walk available before and after the scares, and more. Plus, new this year, hotel guests (along with Passholders and Universal Rewards Cardmembers) attending Halloween Horror Nights will have exclusive access to their own bar, The Keyholder Bar, located to the left of the Music Plaza Stage, to conveniently enjoy quicker access to cocktails and mocktails.
On top of the amazing Halloween Horror Nights benefits, guests looking to stay at a Universal Orlando hotel this season can save up to 30% when booking a stay of five nights or more at participating hotels, plus Universal Orlando Passholders can also save up to 30% off at participating hotels.
Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights runs select nights from Friday, August 28 through Sunday, November 1, and will be one of the most expansive events in its 35-year history as Universal Studios Florida transforms into the Infernal Carnival of Nightmares. Guests will encounter a decrepit, fuel-filled carnival run by legendary icons, Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow, featuring 10 all-new haunted houses, immersive scare zones and street experiences, live entertainment, themed food and beverages, and other haunting surprises. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com.
