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Host Hotels' Don CeSar Hurricane Repairs Total $105 Million
Host Hotels & Resorts' end-of-year filing puts an estimated $105 million price tag on hurricane repairs and preparedness at The Don CeSar in Florida, with 30% linked to remediation. The company spent $75 million on restoration work in 2025 and says resilience investment does not eliminate risk.
The estimate appears in Host Hotels & Resorts' 2025 end-of-year filing, which details damage from Hurricanes Helene and Milton after they hit The Don CeSar in 2024. Of the $105 million total, 30% related to remediation.
Host spent $75 million on hurricane and other restoration work in 2025 — about 11.6% of its overall capital expenditure — including work at the Florida St. Pete Beach hotel.
By the time of the filing, the company had received $73 million in insurance payouts related to the hurricanes. Those payouts reflected lost business as well as physical damage.
The Don CeSar stayed closed until late March 2025. All amenities were reopened by the third quarter of the year.
The filing underscores a wider practice in hospitality: hurricanes have become boilerplate in risk disclosure, and companies tend to bundle climate repair costs and damage with other capex projects. Host notes that investing in resilience does not reduce risk to zero.
Elsewhere, a Sandals resort in Jamaica suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Melissa.