Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
"Star Wars": Galactic Starcruiser is a "Star Wars"–themed 2 night live action role playing, choose your own adventure experience, aboard a simulated cruise in outer space within the Star Wars galaxy. Disney's Hollywood Studios, in the Epcot Resort Area of the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, which opened on March 1, 2022. The hotel accompanies the themed area in Disney's Hollywood Studios. History. In April 2017, Disney contracted the website "Swagbucks" to survey visitors in order to gauge interest in a possible "Star Wars"-themed hotel. As a result of the survey , Disney decided to approve such a hotel, with a visitor experience based on the "Star Wars" storyline. Definite plans for the "Star Wars" hotel were first announced at D23 Expo 2017 in Anaheim, California. The proposal was announced as part of the unveiling of 23 improvements and additions to Disney parks around the world. At D23 Expo 2019, it was revealed that the hotel would be called the Halcyon and would be a two-night immersive experience where all guests arrive and depart together, similar to a cruise line. Description. The "Star Wars" hotel was originally scheduled to open in  2021 according to the "Orlando Sentinel", but opened on March 1, 2022. According to renderings, the new hotel will be shaped like a "Star Wars" starship. The rooms will have full size bunk beds, a queen size bed and in some rooms a pull down to sleep a 5th guest in the style of "Star Wars" bunkers, with each room fitting 4 to 5 people. Renderings also show a lobby in the style of a "Star Wars" spaceship interior. Bob Chapek, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, stated that the "Star Wars" hotel would be Disney's "most experiential concept  ever" when it opens. Chapek described the hotel as a "100% immersive" experience that "will culminate in a unique journey for every person who visits.” Some examples of the planned features included creatures and droids acting as certain hotel staff such as butlers; guests wearing "Star Wars" costumes; and an ability to interact with features of the hotel as if visitors were really in the "Star Wars" universe. Visitors would also be able to have lightsaber training and duels (an extension of the in Disney's Hollywood Studios); explore and pilot "Star Wars" spacecraft; and go on "secret missions" personalized  toward the visitors' experience. One writer for "The Verge" called the planned hotel a "Westworld for "Star Wars" fans," noting the different hotel amenities that would allow the immersive-hotel experience to occur. "Mic" compared the planned hotel to Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge and Universal Orlando's Cabana Bay Beach Resort, both of which are existing hotels containing immersive experiences, though to a lesser extent. On May 30, 2018, it was announced that the hotel would be located just south of Disney's Hollywood Studios, to the east of World Drive. That July, it was revealed that the hotel 's direct entrance to Disney's Hollywood Studios would be located between the "Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run" and "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance" attractions in "Star Wars": Galaxy's Edge. Valet parking is available for guests arriving in personal vehicles, but no self parking options are offered. A driveway connects the Starcruiser's main terminal to the parking lot of Disney's Hollywood Studios. Guests at the hotel travel directly to "Star Wars": Galaxy's Edge by a shuttle-pod transportation system. This system is made so the interior resembles a shuttle spacecraft that ferries guests between the hotel  and the land while maintaining the illusion of traveling from space to the planet's surface and back. The outside of this transport resembles a standard box truck.