Published 21 October 2026
The 73rd Macau Grand Prix runs Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2026 on the Guia street circuit: practice and qualifying on Thursday and Friday, the main races on Saturday and Sunday. From today, Wednesday 21 October, that is four weeks away. A Grand Prix trip has four bookable pieces: race tickets, a room, the Hong Kong ferry and flights. They do not sell out in the order most people book them, and booking them in the wrong order is how a planned race weekend quietly falls apart. Here is the order they actually go, where each one stands today, and a week-by-week countdown to race week.
Grand Prix tickets went on sale on 9 October 2026, and the weekend went fast. On the official listing, checked on 17 October 2026, Saturday 21 November had only Reservoir Stand standard seats (MOP 400) left, and Sunday 22 November only Lisboa Bend seats (MOP 1,200); the Grand Stand and the rest of the weekend allocation were sold out. What remains bookable is the bundle our ticket and ferry package guide decodes in full: a weekend stand ticket paired with a one-way Cotai Water Jet ferry from Hong Kong, in three stands, from US$55.69 (Reservoir), US$95.59 (Grand Stand) and US$148.45 (Lisboa Bend), all three tiers available when checked on the live product page on 21 October 2026. Confirmation is instant and bookings cannot be cancelled or refunded, so check your dates twice. One soft spot remains: Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November, practice and qualifying, were still MOP 100 in all three stands on the official listing. If you can add a day, it is the cheapest Grand Prix viewing there is, and our sister site's tickets guide covers it stand by stand.
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From US$55.69, checked 21 October 2026. Live stock and the live price show on the product page before you pay. No cancellations or refunds.
Hotels do not sell out in one clean moment like tickets. Instead the good inventory thins and the price climbs, which fools people into thinking they still have time. Six hotels sit on the circuit with track-facing rooms, covered in full in our Grand Prix hotel views guide: Artyzen Grand Lapa, StarWorld, Wynn Macau, Hotel Lisboa, Waldo Hotel and Hotel Guia. The smallest goes first: Hotel Guia has only 90 rooms. Remember that a track-facing room is a request, not a room type, so ask explicitly and get it confirmed in writing. Three of the six to check first:
The classic racegoer pick, closest to the pits and the first high-speed bend. City-facing rooms overlook the circuit; sea-view rooms face the wrong way.
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Up by the Maternity Bend where the twisty Guia Hill section begins, in the leafy conservation area around the lighthouse. Only 90 rooms, so it is the first of the six to fill.
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Right at the Lisboa Bend, the corner named after it, where cars brake hard from the fastest straight into a 90-degree right-hander. The most dramatic single view on the circuit.
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If the trackside six are gone or priced out of reach, the fallback is a Cotai Strip hotel from our hotel deals and a taxi or bus to the circuit, allowing generous extra time on race days when roads around the circuit close.
Ferries do not sell out as a route; individual sailings do. The two that go first are the Saturday morning crossings into Macau and the Sunday evening crossings back to Hong Kong after the racing. The ticket bundle above includes one one-way Cotai Water Jet sailing, Sheung Wan to Taipa, about an hour, with the time chosen when you book. Your return sailing is separate, and the single most common Grand Prix week mistake is leaving it unbooked. Book both directions in the same sitting. Our Macau ferry guide compares the operators and terminals, and our Hong Kong to Macau guide covers the bridge bus as the pressure valve when peak sailings fill.
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Book the Sunday evening return at the same time as the way in.
Flights into Macau and Hong Kong rarely vanish outright, but fares step up as race week approaches and the convenient arrival times go first. Two timing notes. If you fly into Hong Kong and hold a bundle ticket, the routing works in your favour: the physical race ticket is collected in Sheung Wan, in the same Shun Tak Centre complex as the ferry terminal, so you can land, collect and sail in one movement. If you fly straight into Macau, you would still need that Sheung Wan pickup before your first race day, so price the Hong Kong routing before you commit to the direct one.
The order does not change, it just compresses. What tends to remain longest is exactly what remains now: Thursday and Friday tickets, Cotai rooms instead of trackside ones, and mid-day ferries instead of the peak sailings. A Grand Prix trip built from those leftovers is still a very good trip. It just is not the trip that was available in September, and it will not be improved by waiting another week.
Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2026, the 73rd edition, on the Guia street circuit. Thursday and Friday are practice and qualifying; the main races run on Saturday and Sunday.
Weekend grandstand tickets go first, then track-view hotel rooms at the six trackside hotels, then the popular Hong Kong ferry sailings (Saturday morning in, Sunday evening back). Flights rarely sell out completely, but fares climb as the weekend fills.
Barely, through official channels. On the official listing checked 17 October 2026, Saturday 21 November had only Reservoir Stand standard seats (MOP 400) left and Sunday 22 November only Lisboa Bend seats (MOP 1,200); the other weekend stands were sold out. The bookable route that remains is the Klook weekend ticket plus Hong Kong ferry bundle, from US$55.69 as checked on 21 October 2026. Thursday and Friday tickets were still MOP 100 in all stands.
Now. The six trackside hotels are finite, the smallest (Hotel Guia) has only 90 rooms, and track-facing rooms are a subset of every hotel's inventory. Ask for a track-facing room explicitly and get it confirmed in writing.
If you book the Klook bundle, the race ticket is physical and is collected at Shop 3040, 3/F, Shun Tak Centre, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, on any day from 14 to 22 November 2026, 10:00 to 17:00. The ferry terminal is in the same complex, so you can collect and sail in one trip.
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Race dates from the Macau Grand Prix Organizing Committee's published 2026 regulations (19 to 22 November 2026). Official ticket status checked on the official MacauTicket listing on 17 October 2026. Bundle prices and terms checked on the live Klook product page on 21 October 2026. Prices and stock move fast in Grand Prix season; the live page is the final word.