Tiny rooms for $5,000: Is Disney’s “Star Wars” hotel a gigantic failure?

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March 15, 2022 at 2:28 p.m

The “Star Wars” hotel “Galactic Starcruiser” in Florida lures with a two-day adventure for the whole family, but the high prices cause disillusionment shortly after opening.

• “Star Wars” fans can experience intergalactic adventures in the new Disney themed hotel “Galactic Starcruiser”.
• This special experience has a proud price: 5,000 US dollars are required for 2 people.
• After the first videos of the hotel appeared on the Internet, the reservations were not made.

Spend two days on board a spaceship and experience intergalactic adventures – certainly a dream for many “Star Wars” fans. This dream can now come true in Florida, at least if you don’t lack imagination or money.

“Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” is the name of a newly opened luxury hotel that offers guests an interactive journey. In the style of a cruise, arrival and departure are specified, each stay comprises two days and two nights.

Apart from a short trip to a Disney park, you stay in a large hotel complex throughout, but the premises and numerous monitors make you believe that you are really in space.

How realistic this experience is and how much you become part of the story told by hotel actors is up to you. Do you dress up as a Jedi and chat with the Captain about lightspeed travel? Do you stay in the background and secretly press a few buttons, or do you get annoyed with the other passengers in their Yankees hats, who ruin the whole illusion with their smartphones always at the ready? Everything is possible!

Disney has spared no expense or effort to make you pay big

However, this new concept of immersive adventure holidays also comes at a steep price: almost 5,000 US dollars are due for 2 adults, and it is correspondingly more expensive with children. This is already the price for the smallest hotel room, which is tantamount to a sparsely furnished staff cabin. Of course, it’s up to you how much time you spend in the room, but for $2,500 per person you would expect more.

This is also the reason why the “Star Wars” hotel could already be in trouble. For two weeks, guests have been visiting the “Galactic Starcruiser” and sharing their experiences on the Internet. Opinions differ on this, but everyone seems to agree on one thing: This experience is not worth the high price!

For many visitors who had previously booked their trip based on photos and promotional videos, the cancellation period has already passed, so the “Galactic Starcruiser” is not yet running out of guests, but in the meantime, “Star Wars” fans who are interested are of course finding out more and coming the result that they can invest their money better.

After all, the “Galactic Starcruiser” hotel does not see itself as an event for the super-rich, but as a special experience for families that will ensure unforgettable memories. That might be true for kids, too, but paying adults are more likely to long for a two-week luxury cruise when a Rey actress wields her “real” lightsaber to defeat Kylo Ren in the grand finale.

Especially for tourists from Germany it would be advisable to simply visit Galaxy’s Edge, the “Star Wars” area in Disneyland in California or in Disney World in Florida, which is also headed for by the “Galactic Starcruiser” hotel guests. You also get an exciting “Star Wars” experience for less (albeit not a little) money and are completely free to organize the rest of the journey.

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