I've got some good news for any Star Wars fans out there who don't have thousands of dollars spare to blown on hotels: the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser accommodation, which just opened up in Galaxy's Edge at the Walt Disney World Resort experience, is rubbish.
That's according to the first wave of reviews from influencers and press who were lucky enough to be among the first guests to stay at the hotel. Critics have blasted the "immersive Star Wars experience" as cramped, sterile, and hugely uncomfortable. Probably not worth the asking price, then.
Disney raised some eyebrows last year when it confirmed that the Galactic Starcruiser would cost up to $1,209 per guest per night, which packages as expensive as $5,999. I can't begin to comprehend spending that kind of money on a two-night stay anywhere, let alone an uncomfortable pretend spaceship.
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Described as "part live immersive theater, part themed environment, part culinary extravaganza, part real-life role-playing game-and yet so much more", the Galactic Starcruiser is billed as the mother of all of Star Wars getaways. Alas, living your best Star Wars life and getting a good night's sleep don't appear to go hand in hand.
Polygon’s Charlie Hall wrote of their stay: “The Halcyon’s interior scale just doesn’t match up to the grand ship shown in marketing materials. I expected the atrium to be taller, the banquet hall to be wider. Liminal spaces, like hallways and stairwells, feel particularly sterile, like wandering around a suburban junior high school built in the mid-1970s. The staterooms are also entirely too small, falling somewhere in between the narrow cabins of a Disney cruise ship and a basic hotel room in a Disney World resort hotel.”
Meanwhile, reporters visiting on behalf of the 800k subscriber-strong YouTube channel Disney Food Blog blasted their visit, concluding that “Disney went all-in on an experience that seemingly puts only the wealthiest guests inside a windowless bunker for two full days.” Ouch.
Most seem to agree that the rooms aren't really the "point" of the stay, however, admitting that the experience is really about immersing yourself in Star Wars.
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“The No. 1 thing that will make this experience worth it to you or not is how much you’re going to immerse yourself in the story. You have to suspend reality,” AllEars' Molly McCormack wrote. “You have to buy into all of these things happening around you for it to be a meaningful and impactful experience.”
Still, for $5,000 I'd expect some level of comfort from my hotel room... wouldn't you?
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