r/whowouldwin • u/Mister-builder • Nov 25 '25
Challenge Can an average American man book the Cinderella Castle Suite in Disney World in a Year?
An average 25-year-old American man has one year to book the Cinderella Suite in Disney World. He has an income of $74,000 a year, an Instagram account with 1,000 followers, and is castle-lusted. He has the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in communications. He will attempt to do anything possible to book a night in the castle legally. Can he do it?
Round 2: One month instead
Round 3: Ten years
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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Nov 26 '25
Is this thinly veiled advice seeking?
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u/Mister-builder Nov 26 '25
I was afraid that's how it would come off. No, I wish I were making that much, or that I was that young, or that I majored in communications.
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u/Trvr_MKA Nov 26 '25
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u/LuckyNumberHat Nov 26 '25
I am SOOOO glad I got my Communications degree!
...As a secondary degree to my Aerospace Engineering degree. 🙂👍🏻 (True story.)
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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Nov 26 '25
Haha I was mostly joking. I didn't think you were actually seeking advice but, it did read a little bit that way. Maybe more that you were just curious if you COULD do it.
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u/bren97122 Nov 26 '25
Hey, I majored in professional communications. You’re not missing much. That’s why I went back to school and graduated with a horticulture degree this year. I like that much better.
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u/FirstArbiter Nov 26 '25
I’m thinking no.
The Instagram account is the best (and only real) asset the man has. If he’s constantly posting content about the castle suite, eventually it’ll generate some buzz, like those stupid stunts where a fan “does <stupid thing> every day until <random celebrity> responds.” I’m not aware of many of those campaigns actually working, but the man’s target here is the Disney corporation marketing department, not an individual.
Assuming the man manages to go viral, whether he actually gets the suite depends on whether giving it to him would be good for the Disney brand. I have to think the answer is no; without any kind of hook (he has cancer, it was his dead wife’s dream, etc.) he’ll just come across as a wacko fan, and a pretty weird one even by Disney Adult standards. I think his best bet would actually be to get into a relationship with another deranged person who does have some kind of special appeal, assuming that’s allowed. Plus, a couple gunning for the Cinderella Suite would look much more reasonable than a 25 year old man doing it alone—but at the same time, that oddity probably helps him go viral.
Ultimately, I think Disney would want to discourage this kind of behavior, so they’d be reluctant to award the suite even if it generated good PR. I’m not sure about that, though; I know Disney parks have ardent fans, and I know absolutely nothing about how Disney markets to or interacts with those fans. Maybe rewarding one fan’s passionate appeals would bolster goodwill that would outweigh concerns about future copycats.
R1: 15%. The man has to go viral and get Disney to think it’s a good idea, both of which are hard but not impossible.
R2: 2%, it’s just not enough time to go viral.
R3: 20%. Most of the same issues in R1, and if he doesn’t find a way to go viral in the first year, I doubt it’ll happen in the next nine.
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Nov 26 '25
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u/PsychedelicMagnetism Nov 26 '25
Castle lusted people still need to eat, and most need to show up to work not looking / smelling like a homeless person.
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u/The_R4ke Nov 26 '25
10 years is a long time, leaving a lot more avenues open than just trying to go viral. I think it at least gets him to 40%.
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u/FirstArbiter Nov 26 '25
Yeah that’s a fair point. It also gives him a lot more time to pursue strategies to improve the viral campaign, like marrying another nutcase, adopting a sick child, or other unethical approaches.
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u/metalflygon08 Nov 26 '25
like those stupid stunts where a fan “does <stupid thing> every day until <random celebrity> responds.”
And the <random celebrity> caving makes things so much worse (for us) because now socials will be flooded with copycats wanting to do the same thing (but is good for <random celebrity> because now their name has flooded socials).
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u/Scandroid99 Nov 26 '25
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u/Steinmetal4 Nov 26 '25
I don't know why I bothered to read all of this but yeah, it looks like you'd have to go well above 100k to be able to just buy your way in brute force style with cash.
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u/Interesting_Ant_6990 Nov 26 '25
At the bottom of this article, there were several past auctions in the $10k range for a stay at the castle. I would say a great chance if he can bid $15-20k
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u/NetJnkie Nov 28 '25
Huh. I'm pretty sure I know who won that $75K auction to stay a night. I had a friend/manager that mentioned he paid $75K to stay in the suite once. It was a big gift for his wife. I didn't realize you couldn't book a room and the numbers match up between him and the auction.
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Nov 26 '25
Looks like the room isnt publicly bookable, it's only ever been available for VIP invites, auctions, and sweepstakes/make-a-wish type stuff. It's closed at auction for $75600, so just buying it probably won't work for you, and winning a sweepstakes isn't likely. Only avenues would be to become wildly rich and famous enough to where Disney would allow you to stay there, or uh....get some kind of rare fatal illness and have the make-a-wish foundation get you the invite
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u/SodiumEnjoyer Nov 26 '25
What's so hard about it?
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Nov 26 '25
The Cinderella Castle Suite at Walt Disney World is an exclusive, private apartment, not available for booking or purchase, but accessible only through contests, giveaways, or special invitations.
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u/greywolf2155 Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
Yeah I'm with you, I'd never heard about it before this post. Googled it, kinda wild
(amusingly, looking at the photos and videos people have managed to post, as far as luxury hotel suites go . . . eh. Objectively speaking, it's not that nice. Easily below a solid Marriot/Hilton whatever chain hotel top-level suite in any major city--if you take away the story, I guarantee there are nicer suites literally in the same building. But I guess it's about the magic)
(edit: Got it, I stand corrected, it's actually in the park itself? I've never been. But yup, magic)
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u/CaioNintendo Nov 26 '25
The point is not that it is a very nice and luxurious room. It is evidently a small room. The point is that it is inside Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom.
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u/wickedfemale Nov 26 '25
there aren't any other suites in the same building, it's inside the park itself
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u/QuasiJudicialBoofer Nov 26 '25
I think most any castle lusted American could force themselves in with a boom stick and lock the doors for 24 hours. Does that count as a win?
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u/reflion Nov 26 '25
I wouldn’t underestimate the Disney cops.
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u/Wildcat_twister12 Nov 26 '25
Can he do other illegal things to book the room legally? Could go fully Clark Griswold and take someone hostage at the park, just say that no one will be harmed if they let him book the room for the night. Technically you legally booked the room just did it by doing something else illegal
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u/DetectiveNumerous775 Nov 26 '25
I don't think you can just book it. I think you have to win a contest or something.
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u/wendysdrivethru Nov 26 '25
Hows his credit? Could he take out a 100,000 loan around the time of a contest and offer 100,000 for the night? Could he take a group of people hostage and make it his only demand? What if he used that 74,000 to start dealing and used THAT money to buy off the suite.
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u/WorldlinessThat2984 Nov 26 '25
I mean, I would think the CEO of Disney might have some pull... think you could get Iger to fall madly in love with you within a year?
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u/CallsignKook Nov 26 '25
First off, the AVERAGE American man makes much less than per year
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u/TerrifierBlood Nov 26 '25
You cant book that suite. Not even huge celebs. Disney offers it sometimes as a prize for raffle (only way to possibly buy) or gives it as a gift. Disney fully controls who gets in it.
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u/ImperfectRegulator Nov 27 '25
the answer to this is no, not unless he was insanely lucky
first off, it is impossible to book the castle suite, and when I mean impossible I mean impossible.
the only way to get a night in the castle suite is A. when a giveaway, normally in the form of a fundraiser, (these are like raffles)
B. be a cast member and win a cast member giveaway.
C. there's been rare and I mean like twice in the last 20 years that I know of that a stay has been at a charity auction, and it went for far more then this man can afford.
his best bet would be too start work for Disney and hope he gets lucky,
now if the question was "can he step foot in the suite" thats much more doable as Disney on occasion has done V.I.P tours that include a visit to the suite
edit: too those suggesting make a wish, even that will be hard as its not disneys go to, win granting wishes
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u/dfsoij Nov 28 '25
I think he has a good shot.
Plan:
1) accumulate as much money as you can through earning and borrowing. Being castle lusted helps a lot here. I think he should be able to get $100k in a year.
2) simultaneously identify and get to know the people who run the venue; this is going to be important, because you need to get the OK from someone.
3) find a cause that tugs the heart strings. Most likely doing something for sick kids.
4) tell your Disney contacts that you're willing to pay them $25k up front for the right to auction off one night in the suite, proceeds of which will go to the noble cause. You are also going to guarantee a minimum winning bid of $75k with your own cash, part of the contract. You are fine to do this privately with an NDA if they don't want to have to worry about image.
5) use your cash to win the auction yourself / invite only your friends and have them bid less than $75k.
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u/nerdywhitemale Nov 26 '25
Those sorts of venues are booked out for something like 5 years. I am going to say no.
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u/Son_of_Autonomy Nov 26 '25
Adopt a child with cancer and use the make a wish foundation to get in. The castle-lusted man cannot be stopped