You're right but their incredibly stupid mindset behind it is that it's more like a "cruise ship" than a "land based hotel", even though cruise ships physically take you to another place on a boat on the open ocean and you can't leave. On the Starcruiser you dick around in a hotel (you know, those places people generally only eat and sleep at before they go somewhere else to actually enjoy their vacation) unless you want to waste your money and leave.
It just seems like it'd be annoying.
People pay for the expensive hotels at Disneyworld because they're nice environments to be in. The theming is nice, but no one pretends they're actually 100 years in the past at the Grand Floridian. Or that they're in the South Pacific at the Polynesian. They're nice to wake up in, get breakfast and to return to in the evenings. They're also nice if you want to stay around and take a break from the parks. Go to the pool and relax. Look at a Giraffe out the windows. They're also big and spacious.
None of that seems to be the case at the Starcruiser. It's some weird LARP that seems like it'd be annoying. Also who actually LARPs? For some reason, this niche activity is portrayed as something mainstream by people who like "geeky" stuff. When it's not mainstream at all, and I'm pretty sure how it's portrayed on The Big Bang Theory isn't how it is actually done. There's some weird fictional portrayal of this activity.
The Starcruiser is an experience, but everyone who isn't retarded will be rolling their eyes. Also, where do you relax? There isn't even a pool. The rooms certainly don't look like a nice place to hang out.
The stupid thing is, a Star Wars hotel would be fucking easy to do. The Grand Jewel Palace of Naboo Hotel. Take the Naboo style architecture, make a luxury hotel. Charge a premium rate. Have areas for character meet and greets. It'd be a nice hotel to be in, even if you didn't give a fuck about Star Wars.
Then do a more budget Star Wars hotel. "Star Wars Worlds Hotel." Make a big moderate budget hotel, where the different sections are divided by worlds. Just theme the buildings and areas to different planets and you're done. People will want to stay there. They get all the benefits of a proper hotel with a quirky theme and style.
The whole "cruise ship" thing for the Starcruiser is also not apt because a Cruise Ship is a place you relax. You also do stuff which is up to you and not some lame role-playing game.
Also, what is it, two days? So you then have to also be booked at another hotel if you want to properly experience Disneyworld.
