You could be paying around $6,000 total for a single room at Disney World’s new Star Wars-themed hotel. So that cost should cover all possible expenses during your stay, right? Apparently not.

One of the reasons a stay at the Galactic Starcruiser is so expensive is that it’s more like a cruise experience rather than a hotel. Most meals and activities onboard are included in the price. But not quite everything is included — let’s take a look at what will cost you EXTRA during your visit to a galaxy far, far away.

The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is an immersive experience that takes guests into the Star Wars universe. The concept is that guests are boarding the Halcyon — a luxury cruise spaceship — and traveling around the galaxy. The ship will dock in Batuu (Galaxy’s Edge in Disney’s Hollywood Studios) for an excursion there as well.

For 2 days and 2 nights, guests can actively participate in a storyline on this ship that involves interacting with characters, going on secret missions to fight (or aid) the First Order, taking part in lightsaber training, learning to fly the ship, and more.

All of those activities are included in the cost of your stay, as are most of the drinks, snacks, and food on the ship. A breakfast buffet, lunch buffet, and family-style dinners are all included. So what does that $6,000 price tag NOT cover?

Alcohol

First of all, alcoholic drinks are NOT included in the cost of your stay (for the most part). If you want to grab a cocktail at the Sublight Lounge, you’re more than welcome to — but you’ll have to pay extra.

Most of the drinks cost between $13 and $23 for a cocktail, beer, or wine on tap (with most cocktails in the $15 to $18 range). Getting a bottle of wine will cost more, with options at $55 up to $140 per bottle.

This is also true if you want to get an alcoholic drink at dinner. Cocktails and other drinks are available at dinner time, but they are not free. 

The only exception that we’ve seen to this rule is in Galaxy’s Edge. Guests are each given a quick service meal credit (kind of like a Dining Plan credit) to get lunch at any quick service location in Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

This lunch is included in the cost of your Star Wars hotel stay — you won’t have to pay extra for it. For our meal at Docking Bay 7, we ordered a beer as our beverage, and it was included in the quick service credit.

Most guests go to Docking Bay 7 or Ronto Roasters (the quick service locations in Galaxy’s Edge), but you could really use that credit at any quick service (NOT table service) location in the park.

Nothing is stopping you from escaping space for a while to grab Totchos from Woody’s Lunch Box!

Read more about what’s INCLUDED during your trip to Batuu here! 

Specialty Drinks

Some other specialty drinks are not free, such as mocktails at the Sublight Lounge. However, you can try out the Cantina Chronicles experience for free, which is basically a flight of mocktails (although you only get a small taste of each one). Each drink has a backstory, so it’s interesting to hear where they came from and test out the different flavors.

But if you want a full mocktail, you’ll have to pay between $7 and $8 extra.

The drinks that ARE included in your stay are soft drinks (such as Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta Orange, etc.), Blue and Green Milk, and some juices during breakfast time (orange, cranberry, apple, and grapefruit).

Note that Blue and Green Milk are unlimited during breakfast and lunch hours, but even if you wanted some at a different time, you can ask a Cast Member and they will likely bring it to you. We did this at the Sublight Lounge in the evening, and the Cast Member was very kind to get us some.

We were also surprised to find that certain drinks at Galaxy’s Edge (during our Batuu excursion) were free as well. We purchased a Thermal Detonator Diet Coke from a snack stand, and the Cast Member included it in our meal credit even though it wasn’t part of our lunch (it was at a separate location). So we did not have to pay for that bottle of Diet Coke.

We aren’t sure if this is an official policy or not, but it was our experience during our visit to Galactic Starcruiser. We’ll let you know as soon as we can confirm this information. If it is the policy, then soft drinks may be free at Galaxy’s Edge for Starcruiser guests during their excursions.

Read MORE about our experience at the Lounge on the Star Wars Hotel HERE! 

Captain’s Table Experience

Although both multi-course, sit-down dinners were included in the cost of our visit to the Starcruiser, there was a special dinner experience that cost extra. The Captain’s Table is a special table in the Crown of Corellia Dining Room (the same dining room as where everyone else eats) that is located at the front of the room, near the stage.

You can pay $50 per person to have dinner at the Captain’s Table on either night of your stay. Guests there get some special interactions with certain characters (such as the Halcyon’s captain) as well as extra courses in their meal that aren’t available to other guests.

This table will still get the normal courses served to the rest of the guests, but there are a few extra dishes and drinks here. The additional drinks include a red or white wine pairing with your meal and champagne (to raise during the Captain’s toast).

There are some additional appetizer options, such as the Red Fruit Pillow (which is almost like a Caprese salad).

The Intermezzo is also unique to the Captain’s Table, and we had a Miso Shooter for this course.

Additional entrées for this experience include Lee Rosemary Seared Scallops or Lobster Tail (these may be different during your visit).

Finally, there is a specialty dessert called Umi Yumi Chocolate with Caramel and Yuzu.

So if you’re looking for a particularly VIP experience on the Starcruiser, you can book the Captain’s Table for some extra-attentive service and additional dishes. Keep in mind that the seating at this table is very limited, so reservations for the experience may be difficult to get.

See our full review for the Captain’s Table here.

Merchandise

There is a gift shop on the Galactic Starcruiser with special merchandise made for this experience. There are pins, keychains, t-shirts, and other normal souvenirs as well as Sabacc games, model Halcyon ships, and replica Star Wars weapons.

You can also find a lot of costumes in this shop, which you can use during your stay at the hotel.

This merchandise will cost extra if you want a souvenir from your stay at the Star Wars hotel.

Click here to see all the merchandise available at the Star Wars hotel.

Memory Maker (Photos)

There were some special photo spots onboard the Galactic Starcruiser, as well as PhotoPass photographers to take your picture. However, we were informed that those pictures are not included in the cost of your visit.

PhotoPass here works the same as in other areas in Disney World. You can get your picture taken for free, but if you want to download any of the images, you will have to pay for them. You can purchase Memory Maker for unlimited photo downloads during your trip if you’d prefer that.

A Cast Member also told us that there would be an extra, individual photoshoot available for purchase (like the Capture Your Moment photoshoots in the Disney World parks). We will share more on this as Disney shares more information.

Anything You Buy in Galaxy’s Edge

In addition, you’ll need to pay extra for anything you buy in Galaxy’s Edge during the Batuu excursion (except for your lunch and possibly other soft drinks).

If you want to visit Oga’s Cantina, you can do that (with a reservation), but you will have to pay for your drinks.

Any special experiences like building your own lightsaber or droid will also cost full price. These are not included in the cost of your Starcruiser stay.

Note that if you do buy a souvenir during your excursion to Galaxy’s Edge, you can immediately take it to the Cast Members outside the Starcruiser entrance (where you came in for the excursion), and they will take it back to your hotel room for you. That way, you won’t have to carry it around in the park.

Tips

Some tips are included in the cost of your stay, such as gratuities for food service.

However, other gratuities such as for valet parking or housekeeping are not included in the cost.

Disney encourages guests who want to tip Cast Members for these services to do so at the time of service. Guests will not be asked to include a full gratuity for these services at the end of their stay.

That’s it for the things you’ll have to pay extra for at the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser! Stay tuned with DFB, because we’ll be bringing you ALL of the information about this new experience.

Read Our ULTIMATE GUIDE to the Star Wars Hotel HERE!

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Disclosure: In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend a preview as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. Recently, we were invited by Disney World to attend their media preview of the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. We later visited on our own accord during the inaugural “sailing.” Some of the photos in the post above are from the media event, some are from our own paid trip. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink.You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ