Disney's New Star Wars LARPing Hotel Inspires Memes And Mockery As People Express Their Disappointment With The Décor

Disney World's new immersive Star Wars themed hotel, which offers a two-day live roleplay Star Wars experience for $5,000 a night, officially opened today and the internet was equal parts amused and aghast.

The hotel is called the Halcyon, and in the world of the roleplay game that takes place there, it is supposed to be a luxury spaceship. Initial reviews of the hotel, however, pointed out the lack of windows, the cramped quarters, and the roleplaying game’s overreliance on a smartphone app. Twitter had plenty to say about all of that.

"Liminal spaces, like hallways and stairwells, feel particularly sterile, like wandering around a suburban junior high school built in the mid-1970s." https://t.co/kqVK3LVWfg

— SFGATE (@SFGate) February 27, 2022

Some users were struck by the high cost of a stay at the hotel and the overall bizarreness of its vibes, especially with what many considered to be lackluster accommodations given the price.

if you actually consider spending $6,000 or however much to stay at that Star Wars hotel, you should have your entire bank account frozen for your own safety

— FinFett (@FinFett) February 28, 2022

Absolutely screaming at how the new Star Wars hotel in Disney World just looks like the Big Brother Canada house pic.twitter.com/V05mwPhPzX

— Erica F. 🌙 (@ericaeff) February 25, 2022

How does one make me NOT wanna go stay in a Star Wars hotel? Put line dancing in it. Like, if I go, I don’t need that much of a reminder that I’m really in Florida. https://t.co/MBOpI17X4b

— Eric Ansley Diaz 🏳️‍🌈 (@GeekBoyEric) February 25, 2022

Others fantasized about what they would like to do in the Star Wars hotel when not participating in the storylines of the two-day live theater experience that's available to guests.

imagine having the freakiest sex of your life in the new Disney Star Wars hotel

— cosmonaut meg: simp sovereign (@meghanstheworst) February 26, 2022

What the Star Wars hotel represents for the culture was debated as well. Some seemed to see it as an example of inequality, of rich people rehearsing the sort of space bunker lifestyle that the wealthiest in our society would purportedly resort to in case of an apocalypse of some sort.

Luckily we survived nuclear fallout due to the thick walls of the Star Wars Hotel. A man dressed as Sebulba brings rations from the wastes to the Hoth themed cafe once a weekhttps://t.co/hm5WOvRhZI

— ALEX PTAK’S TEST KITCHEN (@PtakTestKitchen) February 28, 2022

The amount of people that can afford the Star Wars hotel and will make it are a waitlist of several years is already making me preemptively sad for the state of the American economy and economic inequality

— tim 🎩🐢 (@urbane_turtle) August 28, 2019

The only thing I’m gonna say about the Star Wars hotel is that I think it’s hilarious that the best they can consistently do for special curated theme park “galaxy far far away exotic rare alien dishes" is quite literally just Asian food

— Kels 🌸 (@Kelseyummm) February 25, 2022

The Star Wars hotel finally answers the question we’ve all been making ourselves: what would a cosplay show inside a Cheesecake Factory look like?

— david corby-tuech (@JoinTheSchwarz) February 23, 2022

The Star Wars hotel offers those who can pay the possibility of opting out of reality for two days, while the movies themselves offer the same possibility for two hours. Twitter’s reaction to that prospect was mixed, and the discourse zigged and zagged throughout the day, apparently becoming (like many other viral memes of the past) a persistent and unavoidable subject on the feeds of many users.

Everything I’ve learned abt the star wars hotel has been against my will

— catboy thrawn (@kenutbi) February 26, 2022