Four New Ships Joining Disney Cruise Line Fleet Between 2027 and 2031

Aug 11, 2024 in "Disney Cruise Line"

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Posted: Sunday August 11, 2024 10:11am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney Cruise Line is set to undergo a significant expansion, with four new ships joining its fleet between 2027 and 2031. This announcement was made during the Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase by Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro.

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Currently, Disney Cruise Line operates five ships: the Disney Magic, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, and the Disney Wish. With four additional ships already in development, these newly announced vessels will bring the total fleet size to 13. While specific details such as the ship names, designs, and itineraries are still under wraps, this expansion underlines Disney’s commitment to growing its successful cruise line offerings and providing more options for travelers to experience their brand of entertainment and service at sea.

This development marks a strategic move by Disney to continue its investment in the cruise industry, where the company has built a reputation for its family-friendly atmosphere, themed entertainment, and high-quality service.

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BrianLoOct 01, 2024

Ya, that’s sort of the heart of it. The end points have the same design flaws. Both trying to keep up with industry trends but made their ship smaller in NCL’s case or didn’t increase it to accommodate in Wish Class case. The reasons they got there are a bit different (inexperience in DCLs case and major downsizing in NCLs), but both of the design flaws are attempting to do too much at the end of the day. In doing so much they let down too many. For what it’s worth I don’t mind either class, personally. But know there’s a vocal contingent with similar complaints for both. Micro venues and down sizing guest spaces that they actually want to use.

HauntedPirateOct 01, 2024

I don't know about the criticisms leveled at NCL's ships, but a lot of the criticisms aimed at the Wish are mainly design-related - Poor choices by an architect who had never sailed on a cruise ship that were approved by the Master Ship Builder himself. Can't argue there weren't too many things crammed in, because there absolutely were. But the Wish, to me, feels like revolution instead of evolution. And it failed.

BrianLoOct 01, 2024

@monothingie - this order book also affirms a discussion we were having several months back. The wish class wasn’t as expensive as I think you thought it was. DCL treasure/destiny is 900. Though Adventure is 1.8.

BrianLoOct 01, 2024

Excellent. This puts them in the wheelhouse of Royals Quantum Class and NCL’s Breakaway Class. Two classes I think highly of. Notably, both NCL’s Prima Class and DCL’s Wish class seem to have the same vein of criticisms - that they tried to tack on too many venues to a ship that wasn’t quite big enough to support them all. Leading to micro venues. That said, Celebrities Edge Class runs 130-140k tonnage and is quite well regarded. So it was more of a cramming in too much problem than something inherently off with the tonnage.

HauntedPirateOct 01, 2024

Indeed, a great find. If the listed price is accurate, there’s $5.2 billion of that $60 billion they’ve talked about spending in the next 10-20 years.

DisoneSep 30, 2024

The detail of 160 ton is a good find.

StripesSep 30, 2024

Apparently, it’s a new class of ship. 160,000 GT vs the Wish class 140,000 GT. https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-ship-orderbook/

Two EarsSep 24, 2024

i didnt start with the wish. wish is just superior in terms of what i value about a disney cruise.

DisoneSep 21, 2024

Snip...... A recreation of the space called Luna on Disney Wish, Sarabi aboard Disney Treasure is named for the lioness matriarch from Disney’s 'The Lion King.' Decked out in design touches reflecting the African savanna, this multipurpose lounge will be a central hub for daytime family activities such as games and competitions. Sarabi is inspired by 'The Lion King' At night it transforms for adult entertainment. End snip..... Now adding So I thought that meant it was in the same location but being treated different than Luna.... However it turns out you're absolutely right. For the Disney wish it also describes Luna as an adult's only lounge during the evening. Oh well....

peter11435Sep 21, 2024

Not really. Sarabi is just the Treasures version of Luna.

DisoneSep 21, 2024

Oh actually I forgot about that. Doesn't the treasure have a more dedicated adult area with sarabi? I think I forgot that was one of the reasons why I was okay with the treasure 🙂

HauntedPirateSep 21, 2024

The bars don’t interest us at all, since we don’t spend any time in them, but the adult area does. If the D23-announced ships don’t move back to a more Magic/Dream style of adult area, we will have no interest in those, either.

DisoneSep 21, 2024

I am booked on the treasure so I will retain my "been on all the ships" title until the destiny. Honestly I don't know about the destiny. I booked the treasure because I like the bars. Although Aristocats seems a bit themed only by signage, the others look pretty good. The jungle Cruise, the 20K, and the haunted mansion. But the Distiny is not calling my name and agree, The general bones of the design of the wish class is not great.

HauntedPirateSep 21, 2024

The Magic was very nice. I am extremely happy we sailed on her. It also completes at least one sailing on every ship, which will end once the Treasure and Destiny debut. We have less than zero desire to sail on any more Triton-class ships based on the design of the Wish.