Disney World finally releases prices for its new Galactic Starcruiser Star Wars hotel - SF Gate

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If you’ve ever dreamed of living “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” now is your chance — as long as you’ve got a spare four to six thousand dollars sitting around.

This week, Walt Disney World announced more details about its new Galactic Starcruiser hotel opening in the spring, an immersive, two-day “Star Wars” experience that evokes the feeling of being in the movies. The tech will be more advanced than any other Disney experience, including Rise of the Resistance at Disneyland and the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge lands.

The cost, as you might expect, is going to be higher than almost any other Disney experience, too, with the exception of, say, a grand-scale wedding or renting out Epcot for the night.

A hotel room in Disney's new Galactic Starcruiser
Courtesy of Disney

“Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is a revolutionary new 2-night experience where you are the hero,” according to Walt Disney World’s website. “You and your group will embark on a first-of-its-kind Star Wars adventure that’s your own. It’s the most immersive Star Wars story ever created — one where you live a bespoke experience and journey further into a Star Wars adventure than you ever dreamed possible.”

There are lightsaber experiences, interstellar entertainment, characters hanging around and an overall feeling that you’re closer to being in Star Wars than you’ve ever been in your life.

The idea is that you’re staying on a luxury space cruise, so immersive that the hotel’s windows look out into “space” and you never leave the property unless it’s to “board a transport” to Batuu, the land where Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge takes place. Admission to Hollywood Studios is included in the price, as is all of your food and non-alcoholic beverages. But really, for $4,809 for two nights’ accommodations for two guests in a studio, they could throw in a space beer or two.

Prices go up to $5,299 for that same room if you add a kid, and up to $5,999 if there’s a kid and a third adult in the room. Suite accommodations are even higher.

An artist rendering of Disney's Galactic Starcruiser
Courtesy of Disney

By comparison, Disney’s most technologically advanced cruise ship, the new Disney Wish, includes an “aqua coaster” waterslide ride, a Star Wars bar and a Marvel restaurant where you can eat foods from Black Panther’s Wakanda and the Scarlet Witch’s Sokovia. When it sets sail next summer, prices will be about $1,000 a night for two people in an ocean view room with a balcony.

According to TripAdvisor, the average nightly rate at Disney’s Grand Floridian Hotel, the most expensive hotel at Walt Disney World, is about $675, and just slightly under that for Disney’s Grand Californian at Disneyland.

But then again, for some Star Wars fans, you can’t put a price on total immersion in the fandom, from cast members acting as though they’re really intergalactic travelers to the ability to make infinite Wookee jokes free from the harsh judgements of people who wouldn’t spend $4,000 to sleep in a “spaceship.”