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Penny's Bay, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Penny's Bay, or Chok Ko Wan, is a reclaimed inlet on north-eastern Lantau Island carrying the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Inspiration Lake.
About Penny's Bay
Where to stay in Penny's Bay
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Beds here belong to the resort itself. Disneyland Hotel stands on the water at the western edge of the reclamation, its gardens facing the channel, while Disney's Hollywood Hotel sits closer to the park gates and the Inspiration Lake shore. Families wanting the shortest walk to Hong Kong Disneyland choose the latter.
Anyone treating Penny's Bay as a base for the wider city should account for the change at Sunny Bay station, the single interchange linking the MTR Disneyland Resort line to the rest of the network.
About Penny's Bay
What are the main landmarks in Penny's Bay?
Hong Kong Disneyland fills most of the reclaimed ground, and the MTR Disneyland Resort line runs right up to its gates. Two hotels flank it. Disneyland Hotel stands nearer the water, while Disney's Hollywood Hotel sits closer to the theme park entrance, so the choice between them is a matter of a few minutes on foot rather than a different neighbourhood.
Inspiration Lake lies behind the resort, an artificial sheet of water formed in the same works that closed the bay itself.
What is the history of Penny's Bay?
Ships worked this water long before the theme park. Penny's Bay served as a port from the Ming dynasty onward, a sheltered notch on the Lantau Island shore used by coastal traffic for centuries. Then the engineers arrived.
Reclamation squared off the inlet and raised a platform of new land, on which the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort was laid out along with Inspiration Lake and the road and rail links that reach it.
Where is Penny's Bay?
Penny's Bay occupies the north-eastern shore of Lantau Island, a flat shelf of reclaimed land facing the channel that leads toward Sunny Bay.
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Updated September 2026