Friends

Heartlake City Grand Hotel

A big, story-stuffed hotel that quietly wins you over floor by floor.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 42704 · 2026

Pieces1,411

Minifigs6

Year2026

Set number42704

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The verdict

This is the biggest Friends set of the Summer 2026 wave, and it earns that spot honestly.

You get a proper multi-storey hotel with a revolving door, two working elevators, a spinning dance floor, and a whole wedding staged inside, plus six minidolls and two cats. The play features are the real draw here, so if you love a building that actually does things when you touch it, you'll adore this. The one thing that gives me pause is the price, because $149.99 for 1,411 pieces is steep even by Friends standards.

Best for: Friends fans who want one big centrepiece full of working play features

The full review

What it is

The Grand Hotel is one of those Heartlake City buildings that keeps coming back, and this is the newest take on it, reimagined as the headline LEGO® set of the Summer 2026 Friends wave. What makes this version fun isn't just the size, it's how much of the hotel actually moves. There's a revolving door that spins guests inside, two elevators that really carry minidolls up and down, and a dance floor that turns. You build a check-in desk, a lobby, a buffet room, two bedrooms and a bathroom, and then a wedding venue with a flower arch and a rooftop reception space for dancing. It's a set built for stories, and it hands you six minidolls and two cats to tell them with.

The catch

Now for the honest bits. At $149.99 for 1,411 pieces, this is a premium buy, and it was one of only three roughly $150 sets in the whole Summer 2026 Friends wave, which a lot of fans flagged as unusually pricey for the line. You're paying for the play features and the minidoll count more than raw brick value, so if you judge a set purely on cost per piece, this one won't top your list. Like most Friends builds it's designed open at the back so kids can reach in and play, which is great on the floor but means it looks a little unfinished if you park it on a shelf and walk around it. And because it only landed in 2026, there's no settled Brickset community score yet, so you're going in a bit early.

Who it's for

So who should grab this one? If you have a Friends fan in the house who lights up at buildings that spin, lift, and revolve, this is an easy yes, because the working features are what carry it and they're genuinely good. It's also a lovely pick if you like staging little scenes, since the wedding setup gives you a ready-made story right out of the box. If you're more of a display collector chasing the best price per brick, or you want something that looks finished from every angle, you might want to wait for a discount or look elsewhere. But taken for what it is, a lively play centrepiece, it's one of the strongest Friends sets of the year, and I think it'll hold up beautifully once it's had a few weddings.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this feels like assembling a real little hotel wing by wing, and the pacing keeps it interesting because each section opens up a different mechanism. You start with the ground floor, the lobby, the check-in desk, and that revolving door, which is one of those clever LEGO builds where a simple turntable does all the work. Then you move up through the guest floors, building the two elevator shafts as you go, and the elevators are the standout technique here because they actually travel between levels rather than just decorating a hole in the wall. The top brings the wedding venue and the spinning dance floor, another turntable trick, so you finish on the fun part rather than a plain roof. It's a smooth, confidence-building sequence aimed at ages 9 and up, and grown-up builders will breeze through it happily.

On the parts front, the value story is more about function than rare elements. The elevators, the revolving door, and the rotating dance floor all lean on turntable and hinge pieces put to smart use, and there's a generous spread of Friends pastels, plus useful printed pieces like the wedding cake, camera, keys, wedding rings, and bouquet. With 1,411 pieces for $149.99, the cost per part sits higher than you'd like, so this isn't the set to raid for cheap bulk bricks. What you're really buying is a big pile of colourful plates, tiles, and the working mechanisms, which is exactly the right trade if play features matter more to you than a bargain parts haul.

Fun facts

01The Grand Hotel is a recurring Heartlake City landmark, with earlier versions released as 41101 in 2015 and 41684 in 2021, making this 2026 edition the third take on the same hotel.
02It's the largest set in the entire Summer 2026 LEGO Friends wave at 1,411 pieces.
03The two cats in the set aren't just decoration, they're written in as ring bearers for the wedding staged on the upper floors.
04It launched first in the UK, Europe and Australia on June 1, 2026, with North America getting it later on August 1, 2026.