In the past couple of weeks I have observed a serious and annoying source of strong light pollution coming from the new hotel site at Disneyland.

It emanates from a concentration of very bright white floodlights located at the front of the hotel near their promenade. The lights form an intense white blob and seen from Discovery Bay appears almost like a giant spot light directed into your eyes.
Apart from the irritating glare into your eyes , it definitely spoils our view of the bay. The other lights in the area of the hotel are not too bad because their are amber in colour and not too intense.

A friend of mine has suggested that these lights are associated with a swimming pool and are "mandatory". If this is the case, the pool should be closed in darkness or the lights concealed from view from Discovery Bay.

I regard this as unacceptable and share the opinion that HKR and/or DB City management should complain to Disneyland about this.   

Please join me and write to District Councillor Amy Yung about this requesting her to also make representations to Disneyland and to City Management.


Amy's email:  amyyung@civicparty.hk

fish22 wrote on Nov 15^th, 2017 at 6:44am:


or the Greens, facing the hill

Interesting.......... After posting a complaint on the Disneyland web site last week, I have received a reply from their "Guest Relations"  Department saying "Have a Magical Day".......

fish22 wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2017 at 6:58am:


@"I lived in Peng Chau for one year and .....never noticed any light pollution: everything is in darkness after 10 pm. .... Then I suggest you have an eyesight problem. Walk southwards along the waterfront promenade to the line of fishermens' cottages and look across the sea to the blaze of glaring  lights from the Explosives Depot on Lantau ( Illuminated all night) . It spoils the whole sea view.
The Disneyland glare is a blob of intense dazzling  white light seen from certain angles only.  Beach and Parkvale properties with direct sea-views are probably the worst affected. Other DB properties are shielded by the geography. The flood lights causing this will not be so intense from other angles.

And  ....I am no going to pull my curtains when I am sitting on my balcony.

It's a fishermen' island. No reflection of any disneyland fireworks there or any other lights from anywhere. I live in Db for a decade and now have direct view to fireworks... strange for you, but I like to watch them))) [/quote]

well, now even the firework is gone.

Read the thread. No one was irritated by the fireworks but by bright lights beaming across into a block here.

There's actually some news on this front. The bright flood lights have not been seen illuminated for almost two months now. This might be due to the hotel's swimming pool being closed during the winter months.
On the other hand I have  been told that my complaint to our District Councillor was aired during a meeting and received some support from other councillors....... and that then  later Disneyland promised to try to mitigate the annoyance. If this is true,  "Mission Accomplished"

I can now confirm that Disneyland have taken action to mitigate this problem;

Our District Councillor received this message from the company in December:

EXTRACT: We attach great importance to the environmental aspects of the Resort’s operation, with lighting being a component. We have looked into the resident’s comments relayed by you and identified the source to be the lighting at the swimming pool area of our new hotel opened in late April this year. The lighting concerned is installed for the safety of our Guests in accordance with the Swimming Pools Regulation. As part of our continuous effort to review our operation, we have recently implemented measures to adjust the lighting installations at the swimming pool area including installation of light diffusers, adjustment of the fitting angle of the lighting and shutting down of the lighting shortly after closure of the swimming pool to guests.  The measures are introduced without compromising the safety of our guests and cast members and we believe that such operational adjustment should have addressed the comments relayed by you. 



Thanks again for contacting us.