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Galactic Starcruiser: DLR Opinions
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Mac Tonight
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Other attraction-based environments I'd rather spend a 2-night "immerseive" experience at include:
The Haunted Mansion
Pirates of the Caribbean
Big Thunder Mountain
Jungle Cruise
Matterhorn
Indiana Jones Adventure
Professortango1
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I mean, that's one of things I can't stand about the new Star Tours. They set a timeline and then constantly break it. I'd love for them to show the original ride video remastered for a few months. That version was great.
With how they designed GE, it made sense to have a timeline. However, since the immersive elements were basically all cut before the land opened, it doesn't matter anymore. I'd be fine seeing Vader walking around while ROTR focuses on NT elements.
No Name
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Well I’m not sure there’s a big enough audience for living in a haunted hotel… it goes against everything people want in a hotel design and you’re stuck in a haunted role play for two days and nights? Maybe I’m projecting my own distaste but I really don’t think it would work.
Professortango1
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CaptinEO
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I agree, all the interactive and storytelling elements were cut, yet they still decided to neuter the land with a locked in timeline?
I love the original Star Tours, but if timeline stuff concerns you, it features the "death star 3" and tie fighters even though vader and the empire is gone.
D.Silentu
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I like the sound of this, but seeing what Disney is willing to do for an immersive hotel I feel like we'd end up discussing the same criticisms all over again.
TP2000
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I am looking forward to checking out their Utah location about six months from now. This thread has reminded me of how much I loved the Tokyo visit, so I might even add a night onto the Utah stay this fall. Admittedly, I will temper my expections to an American level of service, even for Aman.
Aman has hotels all around the world, but only a handful here in the USA. None in California. But my Tokyo stay there a few years ago was beyond belief, and I've stayed in some nice places before. It's on the top floors of a skyscraper near Tokyo Station, but it might as well have been on a different planet. A Japanese planet, but a different planet.
The Aman staff lady who called me to confirm my emailed selections ahead of my short stay in one of their lesser rooms was incredibly gracious, treated me like I was a Kardashian arriving with an entourage, and in under 5 minutes she got exactly the info she needed to make my stay perfection; from Nutella on my morning toast, to the preferred temp of the lava rocks for my massage, to my preferred sushi flavor profile, to the exact brand of gin I prefer in a martini at the moment of sundown, to a selection of the right pillows placed in my room for my weirdo American sleeping habits.
Then when I got there the Aman staff took that info and sent it into orbit. Beyond incredible. I wasn't a Kardashian or Russian Oligarch arriving with an entourage, I was just an American tourist arriving in a Toyota taxi from the train station, but that didn't matter. The service was the same.
When I had only checked in a few hours prior, but the lobby bartender (a perfect stranger 6,000 miles from home) greeted me by name and offered me "an extra dry martini made with The Botanist?" my mouth dropped open and I was sold.
Everything at Aman was perfection. It really makes you realize how far behind Disney has fallen, while they have the gall and the idiotic nerve to claim they offer "World Class Guest Service!" at their expensive theme park hotels that have only devolved and degraded into an average Airport Sheraton in recent years.
Meanwhile, at the Aman in Tokyo, 50 stories up...
Luxury Hotel in Tokyo, Japan - Aman Tokyo
Discover Aman Tokyo, a luxury urban hotel inspired by Japanese design tradition and situated near the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo, Japan. Enquire today.
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No Name
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There’s a TV in each room that starts out as a thematically appropriate space map but can be changed to all of our earthly channels. This got me thinking, I really think they should’ve created a Star Wars version of a news channel with like two days worth of prerecorded stuff. They could totally play off of the style of evening news and ridiculousness of stuff in the US in a way that gives people a good laugh.
Wow: 75,000 yen per night in Tokyo about $650. Not bad for the level of service you're talking about.I am looking forward to checking out their Utah location about six months from now. This thread has reminded me of how much I loved the Tokyo visit, so I might even add a night onto the Utah stay this fall. Admittedly, I will temper my expections to an American level of service, even for Aman.
Aman has hotels all around the world, but only a handful here in the USA. None in California. But my Tokyo stay there a few years ago was beyond belief, and I've stayed in some nice places before. It's on the top floors of a skyscraper near Tokyo Station, but it might as well have been on a different planet. A Japanese planet, but a different planet.
The Aman staff lady who called me to confirm my emailed selections ahead of my short stay in one of their lesser rooms was incredibly gracious, treated me like I was a Kardashian arriving with an entourage, and in under 5 minutes she got exactly the info she needed to make my stay perfection; from Nutella on my morning toast, to the preferred temp of the lava rocks for my massage, to my preferred sushi flavor profile, to the exact brand of gin I prefer in a martini at the moment of sundown, to a selection of the right pillows placed in my room for my weirdo American sleeping habits.
Then when I got there the Aman staff took that info and sent it into orbit. Beyond incredible. I wasn't a Kardashian or Russian Oligarch arriving with an entourage, I was just an American tourist arriving in a Toyota taxi from the train station, but that didn't matter. The service was the same.
When I had only checked in a few hours prior, but the lobby bartender (a perfect stranger 6,000 miles from home) greeted me by name and offered me "an extra dry martini made with The Botanist?" my mouth dropped open and I was sold.
Everything at Aman was perfection. It really makes you realize how far behind Disney has fallen, while they have the gall and the idiotic nerve to claim they offer "World Class Guest Service!" at their expensive theme park hotels that have only devolved and degraded into an average Airport Sheraton in recent years.
Meanwhile, at the Aman in Tokyo, 50 stories up...
Luxury Hotel in Tokyo, Japan - Aman Tokyo
Discover Aman Tokyo, a luxury urban hotel inspired by Japanese design tradition and situated near the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo, Japan. Enquire today.www.aman.com
But:--Utah=$3650/night...more-what-I-expected--(spacebar-on-my-brand-new-laptop-stopped-working--
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TP2000
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Wow: 75,000 yen per night in Tokyo about $650. Not bad for the level of service you're talking about.
Utah=$3650/night...more-what-I-expected--(spacebar-on-my-brand-new-laptop-stopped-working--
Just to annoy my accountant more; the prices for hotels in Japan have collapsed the last two years, as they are still basically cut off from the world. And the exchange rate for the Yen has become very favorable the last few months.
While prices in Utah are increasing by the week, as they are in the rest of the USA.
But when I was there in '18, the cost was still comparable to a few nights at the Grand Californian. Which is the real crime.
Who of my Disneyland comrades has been evaluating this as though it was supposed to be a Disney hotel? @TP2000? @mickEblu? @CaptinEO? @Practical Pig? @Mac Tonight?
No one’s been doing that. We simply don’t agree that the experience justifies the large amount of money being asked of patrons.
I’m not even cool with TP like that, but I’d rather join him and his OC friends for a martini than drink the Mickey Mint Kool-Aid some of the shills here continue to drink.
GimpYancIent
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To the point. No window dressing. The SWGIE is G rated.
CaptinEO
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I don't get what a movie rating and set dressing have to do with eachother at all.
I'm saying the design looks wrong for the ship/machinery, I'm not saying there needs to be a live decapitation of ewoks in front of children.
mickEblu
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said. Except for not being cool with TP like that haha
SuddenStorm
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I am looking forward to checking out their Utah location about six months from now. This thread has reminded me of how much I loved the Tokyo visit, so I might even add a night onto the Utah stay this fall. Admittedly, I will temper my expections to an American level of service, even for Aman.
Aman has hotels all around the world, but only a handful here in the USA. None in California. But my Tokyo stay there a few years ago was beyond belief, and I've stayed in some nice places before. It's on the top floors of a skyscraper near Tokyo Station, but it might as well have been on a different planet. A Japanese planet, but a different planet.
The Aman staff lady who called me to confirm my emailed selections ahead of my short stay in one of their lesser rooms was incredibly gracious, treated me like I was a Kardashian arriving with an entourage, and in under 5 minutes she got exactly the info she needed to make my stay perfection; from Nutella on my morning toast, to the preferred temp of the lava rocks for my massage, to my preferred sushi flavor profile, to the exact brand of gin I prefer in a martini at the moment of sundown, to a selection of the right pillows placed in my room for my weirdo American sleeping habits.
Then when I got there the Aman staff took that info and sent it into orbit. Beyond incredible. I wasn't a Kardashian or Russian Oligarch arriving with an entourage, I was just an American tourist arriving in a Toyota taxi from the train station, but that didn't matter. The service was the same.
When I had only checked in a few hours prior, but the lobby bartender (a perfect stranger 6,000 miles from home) greeted me by name and offered me "an extra dry martini made with The Botanist?" my mouth dropped open and I was sold.
Everything at Aman was perfection. It really makes you realize how far behind Disney has fallen, while they have the gall and the idiotic nerve to claim they offer "World Class Guest Service!" at their expensive theme park hotels that have only devolved and degraded into an average Airport Sheraton in recent years.
Meanwhile, at the Aman in Tokyo, 50 stories up...
Luxury Hotel in Tokyo, Japan - Aman Tokyo
Discover Aman Tokyo, a luxury urban hotel inspired by Japanese design tradition and situated near the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo, Japan. Enquire today.
At $2600 a night I'd expect the hotel to be pretty spectacular.
Disneyland's hotel offerings are overpriced and get customers solely based on the Disney name. No one who values hotels chooses The Grand Californian over the many luxury hotel options nearby in Anaheim.
Exactly. None of the DLR hotels are worth the prices Disney charges.
mickEblu
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You re really paying for the convenience of being on property. We ve done the Marriott and other hotels on Harbor many times but as close as they are it’s still not convenient to make that mile long walk at the end of the night or having to fold the strollers with all the bags and hop in a crammed shuttle. When the rates are “low” like when I stayed there last month I’d say the extra money is worth it. The vast majority of the year however I’m staying at the Marriott (or more likely driving home) as I’m not paying $800 to stay at the Grand Californian. My sister and bro in law have been staying at the Westin and really like it. It’s now there Go to. They say for the price range it’s made the Paradise Pier hotel obsolete.
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SSG
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After watching a few videos, I've revised my opinion of the Starcruiser just a bit. I initially thought the experience would be lame and there was no way I would pay that ridiculous price. I now think some of the activities --the roleplaying, the lightsaber training, etc.--look like they'd be fun and there's still no way I would pay that ridiculous price.
If Disney made this a 3-4 hour experience where you do some of the activities and then have a meal and the show, I could justify spending maybe $200-300 on it just have the experience one time. But five grand? Not a chance.
If Disney made this a 3-4 hour experience where you do some of the activities and then have a meal and the show, I could justify spending maybe $200-300 on it just have the experience one time. But five grand? Not a chance.