Today, Jeff Vahle, President, Walt Disney World Resort, posted photos of some of the guest rooms on the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel.
Along with Josh D’Amaro, Chairman, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Vahle toured the uniquely immersive resort and showed fans what some of the guest rooms will look like.
Vahle posted on his Instagram account, “Josh D’Amaro and I enjoyed a sneak peek into the great progress the @WaltDisneyImagineering teams are making on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser here at WDW. Inside we visited The Atrium and looked out The Bridge windows to what will be a galaxy far, far way. We even checked out the cabins in progress, including their windows to space seen in these renderings.”
“Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is a completely new type of experience,” says Ann Morrow Johnson, executive producer for Walt Disney Imagineering. “You’re going to live onboard a star cruiser…and you can get wrapped up in the larger Star Wars story.”
The arrival at the porte cochere may seem like any other hotel entrance, but that is where the similarities end. Guests will be ushered into a launch pod where they will “blast off” into space and head towards the Halycon star ship. When the doors open, guests will find themselves in the atrium of the ship and their two-day, two-night adventure begins.
In order to completely immerse guests into the experience, the hotel will have no physical windows either in the public spaces or in the guests rooms or cabins. Instead, large video screens will continuously project scenes from outer space.
The bridge will have multiple interactive stations where guests can test their skills, as well as man the stations as the ship comes under attack from the First Order.
It is also reported that there will be massive tubes projecting holograms of individuals who may interact with guests and a lobby chandelier that will fall or collapse during a battle with Kylo Ren.
The there are two categories of cabins, or guest rooms, a regular cabin and a larger Captain’s Quarter cabin. It is reported that each of the three floors will have 34 guest rooms total (32 regular rooms and 2 Captain’s Quarter cabins).
Guests will be able to participate in a number of unique activities such as wielding a lightsaber while facing off against a training remote. In addition, guests will be given a tour of the bridge, where the ship’s defense systems are located. Getting to Batuu is easy as guests will be shuttled to the land (at Disney’s Hollywood Studios) on an exclusive transport and they will emerge straight out into the land.
