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Disney announces its huge Star Wars hotel will CLOSE just a year after opening...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By HOPE SLOOP

The expensive and immersive Star Wars hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida is closing after just one year of taking guests on a two-night 'voyage' that could cost up to $20,000. 

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser was originally sold as an experience rather than a hotel and costs around $1,200 per person per day. One 'tricked out' suite has been reported to come in at a whopping $20,000 for the trip. 

The immersive lodging, which is based in Orlando - and does not have any windows - will carry out its final 'voyages' in September, four years after it was announced at D23 Expo in 2019 as part of the park's $1 billion Star Wars land. 

The news of the closure comes just months after DailyMail.com reported that Disney was struggling to fill up bookings and had reduced availability for the fall. 

Disney, under reinstated CEO Bob Iger, has made a multitude of cost-cutting choices including axing thousands of jobs to lowering ticket prices to attract more guests. 

While news of the axing of the Star Wars hotel comes on the same day that Iger pulled the plug on the company's new $1 billion housing complex for staff in Orlando, in a move that many see as a possible slight against Gov. Ron DeSantis.


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