Is Merdeka 118
open yet?
The tower is finished and you can walk under it today. The observation deck at the top of it — The View at 118 — is not selling tickets to the public, and this page shows its working: what we checked, what we found, and the one date that now constrains everything.
No. As of 19 August 2026 you cannot buy a ticket to The View at 118. There is no published price, no booking route on the official site, and no product in any reseller's catalogue. There is now a date to hang it on: PNB Merdeka Ventures told retailers in early August that 118 Mall, at the tower's base, is slated to open in November 2026 — moved back from the August date it had announced in May. The deck and the mall have been announced together at every step, so November is the earliest the deck realistically follows. Anyone selling you a Merdeka 118 ticket today is not an authorised seller, and at least one site advertises a “fast track” ticket with no price shown anywhere before checkout. Go and stand under it instead — that part is free, and it is the most interesting twenty minutes in central Kuala Lumpur.
What you can and cannot do today
Three different things get called “going up Merdeka 118”, and only two of them are possible right now. Separating them is most of the confusion online.
The observation deck — The View at 118 — is not open. It occupies the top of the tower and it has never sold a public ticket. No price has ever been published, by anyone, for any nationality.
The Park Hyatt is open, and has been for some time. It occupies the upper floors with its lobby around level 98, and guests and bar patrons go up. This is the source of most “I went up Merdeka 118” posts, and it is a hotel booking rather than a deck ticket — priced accordingly.
The ground is open, free, and the best part anyway. The tower stands directly over Stadium Merdeka, where independence was declared in 1957. The MRT Putrajaya line stops underneath it and Chinatown is a ten-minute walk. You do not need a ticket to find that interesting.
How we know, and how you can check it yourself
We would rather show you the checks than ask you to trust the answer. Every one of these is something you can repeat in about five minutes.
The two ticket domains do not exist. theview118.com and theview118.com.my both return NXDOMAIN — not a broken page or a holding page, but no DNS record at all. An attraction that is selling tickets has a domain that resolves. We test both every day.
The official site cannot tell you anything, and that is checkable. merdeka118.com is a JavaScript app: every page it serves — the deck, the mall, the museum — is the same 12KB shell containing no readable text at all. Its one public data feed is a press-release list, and the newest entry there is still 4 May 2026, the release headlined “118 Mall Prepares to Open This August”. An operator that had opened a deck would have posted since.
No reseller carries it. It is absent from GetYourGuide, Klook, Viator and Tiqets. For the second-tallest building in the world, in a city where every platform sells the same twenty products, that silence is louder than any announcement. GetYourGuide's “Sky Xperience” listing, which sounds like it might be this, is a Petronas product.
The mall it sits under has slipped to November. This is what turns a mystery into a schedule. The mall was announced for August 2026 in the operator's own May press release; by 5 August it was hosting a retailers' event “ahead of its scheduled opening in November 2026”. The deck has been listed alongside the mall in every announcement, and no separate date has ever been given for it.
Merdeka 118, as of 19 August 2026
The two towers that are actually selling tickets
Until the deck opens, these are the high views in Kuala Lumpur you can genuinely buy — and one of them puts Merdeka 118 in your photograph, which is arguably the better souvenir anyway.
Is Merdeka 118 open — FAQ
Is Merdeka 118 open to the public in 2026?
The tower and the plaza around it are open and free. The observation deck, The View at 118, is not — it has never sold a public ticket, publishes no price, and has no booking route. 118 Mall at its base is slated to open in November 2026, and no deck date has been announced at all.
When will The View at 118 open?
No opening date has ever been announced for the deck itself. The nearest thing to a date is the mall at the tower's base, slated for November 2026 after being moved back from an August 2026 target the operator announced in May. The two have been announced together throughout. Treat November as the earliest realistic date rather than a promise.
How much are Merdeka 118 tickets?
There is no published price, for any nationality. If a site quotes you one, it is invented — we found one quoting “from RM180” that turns out to be a Sunway Lagoon price, on a page that admits its figures are “provided as an assumption only”. Given the pattern at Petronas and KL Tower, expect a MyKad rate and a higher non-Malaysian rate when it does open — but that is an expectation, not a number.
Can I go up Merdeka 118 right now?
Only as a guest of the Park Hyatt, which occupies the upper floors with its lobby around level 98, or as a patron of its bar. That is a hotel booking rather than an observation-deck ticket, and it is the route behind almost every “I went up Merdeka 118” post you will find.
Is it worth seeing Merdeka 118 from the ground?
Yes, and it costs nothing. Stand at Stadium Merdeka: the second-tallest building on earth is built directly over the ground where Malaysian independence was declared in 1957, and that juxtaposition is the most interesting thing in central Kuala Lumpur right now. The MRT drops you underneath it.
What is The Look at 118?
A different thing, and a common mix-up. The Look at 118 is a low-rise visitor building at the base of the precinct — the Merdeka Textile Museum, a café and a rooftop lookout that looks up at the tower. It is not an observation deck and it is not at the top.
How tall is Merdeka 118?
678.9 metres to the top of the spire across 118 storeys, which makes it the second-tallest building in the world behind the Burj Khalifa. Deck heights are quoted inconsistently across sources — CTBUH records an observatory height of 494.2m — so we will not publish a firm figure for how high the deck itself sits until the operator gives one.