Halloween Horror Nights fans will find a new experience this
fall as The Halloween Horror Nights fog creeps beyond the gates of Universal
Studios Florida and throughout Universal
Orlando Resort.
Select hotels will be transformed into an extension of the
World’s Premier Halloween event becoming the only place where the Halloween
Horror Nights experience continues before, during and after the in-park
event. The hotels will offer exclusive Halloween Horror Nights-inspired
offerings, including haunting lobby displays, spook-tacular themed lounges,
wickedly crafted spirits and late-night bites.
Themed lounges include:
- Loews Royal Pacific Resort – Jake’s
American Bar (new this year), transforms into Universal Monsters Laguna Lounge,
a classic monster hideaway inspired by mid-century modern tiki and meet characters
like Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Invisible Man and more.
- 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 the new-this-year Universal
Stella Nova Resort’s Nova Bar.
- Universal Terra Luna Resort – By day,
Luna Bar (new for 2026), 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.
- Loews Portofino Bay Hotel – Returning for
a second year, guests climb aboard an old fishing ship, frozen in time by a
freak ice storm, at The Thirsty Fish. Fishing nets and ropes are crusted in
ice, the ship’s broken mast dangling over the bar, surrounded by an eerie blue
glow.
- Hard Rock Hotel – Night of the Living
Shred has returned at the Hard Rock Hotel’s lobby and Veranda Bar. This time,
the whole undead roadie crew is here to amp the rock-fueled apocalypse up with
more lights, more sights, more frights, more zombies and more band members.
- Loews Sapphire Falls Resort – Guests can
enter an eerie seaside Gothic Manor in the lower lobby and encounter a range of
creepy floral sculptures, candelabras, and other dark-academia items scattered
throughout the seating areas. The newly-added satellite bar invites guests to sip
on crafted cocktails like the Witch Doctor Old Fashioned, the Pumpkin Plunder
and the Haunted Jungle Bird, 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 and expanding to the
lobby where 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 throughout the space.
Guests staying at a Universal Orlando hotel receive Early
Park Admission to the theme parks during the day and 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 before
and after the scares.
New in 2026, hotel guests (along with Passholders and
Universal Rewards Cardmembers) attending Halloween Horror Nights have exclusive
access to The Keyholder Bar, located to the left of the Music Plaza Stage.
Guests staying at a Universal Orlando hotel can save up to
30% when booking five nights or more at participating hotels, while 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, 2026.
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