MAJOR news this week, that incredibly immersive – and incredibly expensive – Star Wars Hotel in Disney World is CLOSING. Why is Disney World bringing an end to one of their most ambitious and unique projects to date? There’s a lot more going on than just that $6,000 price tag…
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There was no Star Wars hotel. It never existed. A Star Wars hotel would have made billions.
This thing was an insult to fans. It was clearly pandering to the rich, and they failed to even put in the effort to make it a high quality experience. Chapek era trash. Good riddance.
I would say the poor SW output of the last few years, in cinema & TV, has to also have a lot to do with the lack of interest in this. SW toys haven’t been selling well either – it’s simply Star Wars fatigue. Time to move on.
1. Few people want to admit that this looks almost nothing like Star Wars.
2. Fans of the original trilogy were deliberately ignored.
3. I'm glad Disney Corp failed miserably.
I'll repeat 3 things.
Money, Scope, and Sequel Trilogy.
One, too expensive obviously, which combined with the second aspect, Scope, means that your expecting more of a fancy hotel instead of what it 'actually' is, a Starwars themed Space Camp for whole families instead of just kids.
And the other thing, it was Sequel Trilogy themed, which a vast majority of Star Wars fans seriously dislike and actively ignore. Even going so far as saying "they only made 6 star wars movies". If this was based on the OG trilogy, it wouldn't have guaranteed success, but I know it would have lasted longer than the Superstar Limo ride.
FOUR. THOUSAND. DOOLARS for two nights! What were they smoking!
When I was young, I thought of Disney World as a family vacation destination. When I was old enough to take my own children my eyes were opened to the corporate greed. This Company goes out if it’s way to make the experience in the parks as difficult and as expensive as possible. I don’t care what they do because I won’t ever go back there. Any day that Disney suffers the wrath of consumers is a great day for everyone else.
It closed bc it was just a massive failure. No need to sugar coat it. Bad concept, worse execution, cheap interiors, massive price tag, not for the regular Star Wars fans, plus the already underwhelming Galaxy’s Edge – Disneys big miscalculation.
5 thousand a night min of 3 nights. How is anyone surprised it failed. Have you been to the magic kingdom? Deodorant isn't required to enter. It smells like body odor in the entire park its was 97 degrees in Orlando today. I made it 5 minutes in the park and bet against Disney. Now I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
I loved the idea of this type of experience. But as a huge Star Wars fan, I was not at all interested in the setting, characters, the time period it was set In the franchise, and the events they decided to put onboard.
Out of this World experience!!! Way to Go Disney- Imagineering success!
Sequel Trilogy was the biggest blunder. KK gets off on pushing her failed IPs.
Because they would do anything rather than lower the prices
Aside of the high prices to book a stay in the Star Wars hotel, I always thought this kind of idea/attraction is more suitable for a cruise ship rather than a stationary object/building/hotel… 🤷🏽♂
It's closing due to excessive money grabbing.
Disney-ney doesn't care about peasants not being able to pay that exorbitant price.
They are a shady elitist company and this proves it.
I hope Disney-ney goes bankrupt fast.
Literally all they had to do was make a really cool Star Wars themed hotel, restaurant, and cantina, all themed to the original trilogy, with maybe life size replicas of some of the original ships, maybe a museum with real Star Wars props, and people would have paid good money for that experience.
Their #1 mistake by far was basing all this stuff on the new trilogy.
It didn’t have the capacity to turn a profit. Add to that it didn’t live up the hype.
They should have made the movie Galactic Starcruiser first and then open the hotel.
Another L for Disney. LOL Go back to your roots.
If they had made this more like an escape room where there are several different room themes where you can book different activities and at different levels based on your needs, they could have made sooooooo much money. They could have a room for light saber training and a room for the ships control room, etc. Then multiple families could have enjoyed it at a much more affordable price range and still have been able to go enjoy the parks or something else if they wanted to. They made it so that you were fully surrounded by this world but then they rushed people around and did such cheap stuff for the decorations and activities, it was never going to be worth that price point. We all said it from the beginning.
Thinking of all the cast members who had to be there for each cruise, including backup performers and people who were never even out in the public eye makes my head spin. Disney was never going to be able to significantly drop their price because they had to cover all there cast members. If they had set it up with screens where you watch performances, instead of it being live it would have been somewhat less immersive but it could have cut costs quite a bit smh.
If they wanna do a hotel again they should make it affordable to people and base it on a time period people love like the time gap between the Ep 3 to Ep 4 or a time that is being explored like gap between ep 6 to ep 7
It sucked. That in itself is enough reason to close it. It should’ve been based upon more than just the sequels. It would’ve made more money if it was based upon episode four, sometimes referred to as a new Hope, sometimes referred to as its original name Star Wars.
nobody was going, see comments above.
it cost about $1 billion to make, bad decision by Kathleen Kennedy doomed it. She answer way above.
The amount of people coming made it unaffordable to maintain the doors being open. See answer at the very beginning. She also answered to see also answer three
it’s another billion dollars Kathleen Kennedy has made Disney lose.
Good riddance in my opinion. All the decisions after Catherine Kennedy alter the original plans are secondary. This is why you need good people in leader ship. She apparently doesn’t have it. No sense of what the audience actually wants
I mean i guess i’m the odd one out but even though i’m a star wars fan, i have standards. No one talking about how everything looked like a cheap star tours knockoff instead of star wars. With the prices they had, it seemed like it was meant for suckers that wanted to waste money on something that held such little value. Get the star wars christmas celebration out of there and market it as something respectable to the customers 😂.
let it go…star wars 1977-1983
The mistake was combining a hotel stay with a dinner theater. They are very different in nature. Most people paying that kind of bread for a hotel want a lot of amenities, things like tennis, golf, pools, spa, high-end restaurants. For a dinner theater, people want a decent meal but a really fun experience for a few hours (not a few days). Disney would have been better off going with the dinner theater experience, with all the cast members from the various movies, lots of action and excitement, guest interaction, and merch sales. That may have worked for a reasonable price.
The think-tank at Disney and consultants involved in this project… LMAO. Kathleen Kennedy is next. The person that led the design of their newest cruise ship needs to be put on the chopping block as well.
The key issue without a doubt is the high price tag, 4 to 6 thousand for 4 people and 2 nights is way too much. The other problem was they based it entirely on the sequel trilogy which to this day has fans sharply divided.
They should turn it into a Indiana Jones
Theme hotel.
One of the best 3D/2N of my life
Ridiculous pricing. Like everything else lately. Overcharging and under delivering. Magical express , magic bands, pre check luggage/….etc etc etc.
reasons:
1- Price tag too much $ for a normal Star Wars fan
2- themed in the sequel trilogy, the failed era in SW makes NO real Star Wars fans will go and expend that amount of money on this era no SW fan cares or likes (numbers does not lie)
3- lackluster experience, there is no way to justify the price tag for what you have for less that 2 days there
in sum, the Kathleen Kennedy & Bob Eiger brand of Star Wars FAILED
I just was not impressed with it. I would not have wanted to spend $500 a night on this let alone $6000 for two days???? The hotel looks like it could have been designed in the 80's when Star Tours first came out. I'f I'm paying $6k we better be really IN space with working light sabers and blasters.
It would be cheaper to actually go to space. Kinda like going to Epcot, cost more than actually going to Europe.
I can visit Europe for a week, for less than a week at EPCOT would cost me.
6:55 It wasn't open for long was it? I'm pretty sure management could see the writing on the wall.
Half the cost was the pay for the people who worked there. Disney should have just run the hotel at 50% of the normal price, and only have a handful of people (to assist the guests, and to serve the food), with 90% of the crew that would normally be there absent. They could then market the place as the 'deserted/abandoned star cruiser'.
Disney says "Star Wars" I say No thank you.
"Incredibly immersive"
Wave a lightsaber at some flashlights. Push some buttons on a cheap plastic chuck e cheese level control board. Stay in a tiny motel room for over $6,000 with multiple kids.
WOOOOOOOOOOO!
For that price tag, you could visit a country for a month…
Huge "A" for effort!!! Doing and learning is better then not doing and complaining.
It was just too costly like every thing else at Disney.
$6000 and no pool or edible food….or windows….or natural light….or Star Wars thats actually recognizable to Star Wars fans. Who green lit this? 😂
Looks horrible Disney has no clue.
At most $2000 (and that's being extremely generous). But not $6000. NOT $6Ooo.
I'm a die hard star wars fan..but even I would not spend 6k for a 2 night stay
From the hotel shots at the beginning – I kept thinking "that's a nice Star Trek set"…
I was a major Star Wars fan, right up til Disney ruined it, and for this ridiculous waste of money, to be based on episodes 8 and 9, two of the worst movies of all time, and then charging you 6Gs, I'd rather hit myself repeatedly in the plums.
I do hope they bring the star cruiser back someday, I was really looking forward to it but sadly I won’t be able to go to Disney for at least 4 years. Hopefully now that they know what went wrong, they will be able to take that into consideration.