Everything We Know So Far About The White Lotus Season 4

When The White Lotus was renewed for season 3, it felt inevitable. Mike White’s landmark HBO dramedy has fans across the globe and, it seems, across each section of society. As season 3’s spirituality-focussed drama drew to a close on Sunday night, and we said a reluctant goodbye to another higgledy-piggledy batch of moneyed guests, our minds are already floating further afield. Here’s everything we know so far about The White Lotus season 4.

Morgana O’Reilly, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Dom Hetrakul & Lalisa Manobal in The White Lotus season 3. (HBO)

Will There Be The White Lotus Season 4?

Yes, The White Lotus has already been renewed for season 4, meaning a whole new ensemble of troubled yet exuberantly wealthy tourists will land in a glitzy, far-flung destination sometime in the future.

The news came way ahead of the dramedy’s season 3 premiere (16 February), with Variety revealing the season 4 renewal on 22 January. However, according to HBO chairman and CEO Casey Bloys, season 4 was germinating even earlier: when Bloys visited the season 3 set in Thailand in December 2023, series creator Mike White pitched his season 4 concept. The executive reportedly responded that if White wants to do a fourth season, HBO will do a fourth season.

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Where Will The White Lotus Season 4 Be Set?

Season 1 was set in Hawaii, season 2 took us to Sicily, and season 3 whisked us off to Thailand – but where will we land in The White Lotus season 4? And does another new season spell another new continent? Not necessarily, according to HBO programming executive Francesca Orsi. ‘We’re going on some location scouting in the next couple of weeks, so we’ll know soon,’ Orsi told Deadline in February 2025. ‘I can’t really say where we’re going to land, but chances are somewhere in Europe.’

While fans ponder the possibility of Africa or South America, Orsi says a return to Europe is ‘likely’, adding that there are ‘some countries on the map that we talked about, but nothing to report on until they actually go location scouting’.

So far, each series of The White Lotus has been filmed in a luxurious hotel under the Four Seasons chain, rebranded into a White Lotus hotel for the series – and industry insiders hint season 4 will be no different. While a whopping 53 of the brand’s 133 hotels and resorts are located in North America, there are 19 further properties scattered across Europe, stretching from London to Lisbon, Geneva to Istanbul, so plenty of potential filming locations. The most famous of them all is probably Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, a prestigious address on the French Riviera, hidden among six hectares of gardens overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It’s the perfect destination for The White Lotus: glitz and glam paired with stunning natural scenery. Beady-eyed TV fans might just recognise this spot from a cameo in Emily in Paris, but will HBO manage to buy out Cap-Ferrat’s star-studded guestlist for circa-six month shoot? Only time will tell…

At the beginning of Emily in Paris season 2, Emily, Mindy and Camille stay in the magnificent Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat. (Lily Collins as Emily in episode 202 of Emily in Paris. Carole Bethuel/Netflix © 2021)

This all said, creator Mike White has hinted he’s over the whole beachside setting. ‘For the fourth season, I want to get a little bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular,’ he recently said. ‘But there’s always more room for more murders at the White Lotus hotels.’

Off the beach track, we could find ourselves anywhere from Budapest to Athens, Paris to Prague. We think Florence is off the cards after our stint in Taormina, but most of all we’d love to see a snow-capped ski season of The White Lotus filmed at the Four Seasons Hotel Megève. Murder on the slopes? Yes please.

The White Lotus Season 4 Release Date

According to reports, location scouting will hit full stride in summer 2025.

Between the first two seasons of The White Lotus, there was a gap of about a year and a half – and between the second and the third, a gap of almost two years and a half, though this was disrupted by strikes. Optimistically, The White Lotus season 4 will land in autumn 2026, but we think spring 2027 is more likely.

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All three seasons of The White Lotus are streaming now on nowtv.com