I don't see how the Starcuriser can be worth it for any price. Even if it were amazing, it'd be like living inside Smuggler's Run for 2 days role playing, no outside grounds, no pool, no fresh air except for the 4 hours allotted time. I can see doing that for 2 hours as a LARPing attraction, but 2 days? With your little kids and teen daughter and grandma?
Ah, I didn't think of that. But vloggers don't let their videos get edited - I wouldn't if I were a vlogger! But in any case, some of the non-vlogging, fully paying customers will be making videos discreetly, and there's nothing Disney can do to stop that. If I were a regular guest on March 1, I'd post a video that day, at around 2 pm. Well, OK, if the hotel is as boring as the promo videos show then I might not bother because I'd be too busy listening to the family complaining: "I don't want to be stuck in the horrible Star Wars hotel! I want to go on a ride!"
Very good. A Galactic Road trip kind of like a coast-to-coast road trip in a bus w the family but in outer space. Depending on the amount of actual living space there is inside for 300 or so passengers and crew the Halcyon claustrophobia may just creep in. The port of call to Batuu may be an attempt to avoid that.
Children can be very blunt. Honest and blunt.
It's just too expensive and short an experience to bother with if you think you're going to be sick/masked. There's plenty of stuff to do outside at Disney World and if you have a longer stay, omicron supposedly isn't that rough so maybe it's worth it to go now in general but the Starcruiser setup is like a big petri dish (and I wouldn't want to be stuck in those tiny rooms if I wasn't feeling well). Plus wearing masks all day would ruin the immersion.
Yeah, the full on immersion for two days certainly limits audiences.
YES, the price is a turn off for what, to us, is an unknown.
Disney's idea of immersion is to make fanfiction. Just look at Avengers Campus and Galaxys Edge, they dont represent their source properties well at all.
People working there have already revealed that the role playing and character interaction is very involved with every guest being encouraged to participate with a lot of role play. The complaints about how it looks have been many after the adverts aired. However even a vlogger hammering the visuals has said a person working there has told him about the immersion with actors and even he seemed to think that part sounded good.
The "good news" is with booking being done over the phone, people can't easily compare price changes. Disney could in theory lower prices and unless someone has booked for later this year, then called and requested a booking for the exact same, they wouldn't know.YES, the price is a turn off for what, to us, is an unknown.
I remember when the dessert parties started at a low price then once they got folks hooked, the prices were raised over time.
The Starcruiser cruises should have been priced reasonably to begin with, get folks hooked and raise prices over time.
We WDW fans are accustomed to prices going up, no need to start over priced
Even if it's great, how long do you think that level of interactivity and immersion will last? Three months? Six months? A year?
I wondered about that, ignoring the calendars in the site, If you call at random and can get booked for a two day “cruise” the day before “departure“ and get a low price to fill a cabin?
Sadly I have no crystal ball so can't answer that, perhaps years or decades even? It's a new venture for Disney so who knows, if people like it they may decide to keep it as it is. Alternatively they may have already decided to change stories every 6 months or so to freshen it up? Perhaps it will fail, who knows?
I doubt Disney does that. It would be better to eat the cost of room and staff than to have last minute filler discounts. Plus, when word gets out then lots of people will wait until last minute to see if there's a massive discount and not many would book early. It's like the Lexus model in the early 2000s into now, they'd rather sell less cars for more cost than more cars at lower prices. The profit margins are higher and keeps demand high.
