Disney Parks chairman Josh D'Amaro comments on Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser closure

May 22, 2023 in "Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser"

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Posted: Monday May 22, 2023 9:51am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

As part of today's JP Morgan Global Technology, Media & Communications Conference, Disney Parks Chairman Josh D'Amaro addressed the recent announcement that Disney will close the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser later this year.

Josh said, "It didn't perform exactly like we wanted it to perform. Despite the fact it was a never before seen experience and raised the bar, we thought it was time to sunset this in September."

According to D'Amaro, Disney will accelerate depreciation on the Starcruiser hotel by $150 million in both Q3 and Q4 2023.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

The final voyage for Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser will take place September 28-30, 2023, and has already sold out. Disney is contacting guests booked on the cancelled Starcruiser voyages and says it hopes to relocate Cast Members to other roles at Walt Disney World.

Carrying a lofty price tag of around $5200 for the two-day, two-night experience, Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser launched on March 1 2022. After stronger-than-expected initial sales, Starcruiser bookings quickly stalled, forcing Disney to look to save costs and boost reservations.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

Most recently, Disney began canceling voyages in the summer that had very few bookings, moving guests to other dates with a 50% discount for the inconvenience. Disney also offered various discounts, including Annual Passholder and Disney Vacation Club deals.

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Tha Realest17 minutes ago

This is going to be more profitable

Brian44 minutes ago

I swear that video lasted about as long as Starcruiser itself.

Sirwalterraleigh1 hour ago

That basically invalidates a lot of the take

Sirwalterraleigh1 hour ago

She’s a vlogger that focuses on Disney

cjkeating1 hour ago

Who is she? I don’t want to waste 4 hours on my life on this is she’s just some click bait vlogger.

Animaniac93-9810 hours ago

Exactly. Jenny was someone who understood the vibes, the concept, and wanted to actively participate as much as possible. She didn't misunderstand what the Starcruiser was, she was 100% open and willing to give it a fair shot. She outlines many, many things that went wrong or didn't live up to her expectations, but in the "schedule" section of the video she talks about how it also "broke my body" and made her feel sick (forcing her to leave dinner on the 2nd night and stay in her room for a bit) because of how taxing and overscheduled this "luxury vacation experience" was, even though she didn't do everything possible at every minute. "I really can't imagine doing Starcruiser with little kids, or if you had health problems...you could but you'd have to accept you'd miss a lot things to take breaks or nap" Yikes. She breaks down the cost and says it came down to $2/person/minute, excluding time to sleep, shower etc. When you're paying that kind of money, not only are your expectations high, but you can't afford to not do things. It's insane. It's a fascinating, hilarious and extremely well researched video, but also so upsetting to know what she was put through or missed out on after spending $6k and how some things only got resolved because she has a lot of followers on Twitter.

Tha Realest11 hours ago

That such a person had so much to dislike about this project tells you how far they missed the mark.

ChrisFL11 hours ago

not a big fan of hers, she loved The Last Jedi but hated Rogue One, so I call in to question her Star Wars expertise :p j/k, I'll probably watch it sometime.

Movielover13 hours ago

Jenny Nicholson just released a fantastic video about her experience onboard and the failure of the Starcruiser. As someone who really wanted to see this idea succeed its incredible to see just how much Disney blundered this concept.