Disney Cruise Line is bringing its first new ship to Florida in a decade when it debuts next summer, and has now announced plans for its five-ship fleet for fall 2022.
Disney Wish will make its debut at Port Canaveral in June, and plans are for it to keep serving the Orlando market through the end of the year. Alongside it will be Disney Fantasy, which debuted in 2012, while 2011’s Disney Dream will stay in Florida as well, sailing from PortMiami. All three will sail a variety of Bahamas and Caribbean itineraries.
Disney Wish will take over the short three- and four-night Bahamas visits currently assigned to Disney Dream while Fantasy will do six-, seven- and eight-night Eastern and Western Caribbean voyages. Disney Dream, which is leaving Port Canaveral for the first time when it migrates to Miami, will juggle four- and five-night Bahamas voyages while also doing some five-night Caribbean cruises to either Grand Cayman or Cozumel, Mexico. All three Florida-based ships will make stops at Disney’s private Bahamas island Castaway Cay.
Meanwhile, the line’s first two vessels, Disney Magic and Disney Wish, which debuted in 1998 and 1999, respectively, will be sailing out of New York, Puerto Rico, Texas and California.
“With five ships setting sail in fall 2022 from different homeports around the country, we are excited to offer more ways than ever before for families to make special memories with Disney Cruise Line,” said line President Thomas Mazloum in a press release.
Disney Magic will come back from its planned European duties docking in New York in September for a series of five-night Bermuda sailings and one six-night Canada voyage. The Canada trop will stop in New Brunswick; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Bar Harbor, Maine. It will then travel in November to Puerto Rico for a pair of special sailings, and then migrate to Galveston, Texas.
The two Puerto Rico trips will be in early November, with a seven-night Southern Caribbean itinerary with stops in Antigua, St. Lucia, Aruba and Bonaire as well as a six-night voyage that includes St. Thomas and Falmouth, Jamaica. It will then move to Galveston for five- and seven-night voyages hitting ports that include Cozumel and Progreso, Mexico; Falmouth; and Grand Cayman.
Disney Wonder, which debuted in 1999, which performs the line’s Alaska duties in summer, will stay on the Pacific Coast sailing out of San Diego on three-, four-, five- and seven-night sailings to the Baja Peninsula.
All five of the ships will be putting on their holiday spirit for both Halloween on the High Seas in September and October and Very Merrytime Cruises in November and December.
Disney Wish is the first of three new vessels for the line set to debut with a special five-night sailing from Port Canaveral on June 9, 2022. The ships will all be larger than its existing fleet, coming in at 144,000 gross tons, but will have the same number of staterooms as Dream and Fantasy: 1,250.
All three will be powered by liquefied natural gas, a cleaner burning fuel than the diesel most ships use now. When it arrives, Disney Wish will be second LNG-fueled ship to home port at Port Canaveral after Carnival’s Mardi Gras. Disney Wish is currently under construction at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.
The line’s sixth and ship eventual ships, part of what is known as the Triton class, are due in summer 2024 and summer 2025.
Details about what’s on board the new ship were revealed in April including immersive spaces from Star Wars, Marvel and “Frozen,” plus a marquee attraction starring Mickey & Minnie Mouse that the line is calling its first attraction at sea, a 760-foot-long water ride that combines aspects of a Disney dark ride with both fast sections and a lazy river.
Also coming are three new restaurant concepts, including a “Frozen”-themed dinner theater experience called Arendelle; an interactive Worlds of Marvel restaurant; and a venue called 1923 that pays homage to Walt Disney’s animation studio. Also coming on board is the bar, Star Wars: Hyperspace Lounge.
Bookings open to the public on June 24. Specific details on the itineraries can be found at disneycruise.com or by calling 888-325-2500.
