The immersive Galactic Starcruiser hotel experience opened in March 2022 and closed just 18 months later in September 2023The Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser hotel is being repurposed more than a year after it made its last voyage.

Walt Disney World’s “Star Wars hotel” as it was often referred to, was a multi-day experience that attempted to make guests feel like they were part of the galaxy, far, far away to a degree never even attempted before.

Disney’s extraordinarily expensive Star Wars hotel isn’t coming back. The building that housed the Galactic Starcruiser is being converted into office space, scuppering hopes that it could be reborn or repurposed into a new interactive attraction.

Disney World’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a themed hotel experience, might have only opened in 2022, but it’s already closing, with sources familiar with the project noting the hotel will be converted into Walt Disney Imagineering offices.

Starcruiser, which opened in March 2022 and closed in 2023, was billed as a two-night immersive experience, although some people referred to it as the “Star Wars hotel.”

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The Walt Disney World Resort Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is set to become an office space for Disney, according to sources. The building is slated to become an office for Walt Disney Imagineering. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.

Disney World is converting the shuttered Star Wars hotel into office space for the famous Imagineers who will be designing new lands and projects at the theme parks. The hotel’s update was reported by The Wrap and confirmed by other media outlets.

And Disney certainly did try to make its most ambitious project of all time successful. But now its fate has been revealed: the $1 billion Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, located in a building behind Disney’s Hollywood Studios,