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What was arguably probably the most surprising announcement of the night time on the Walt Disney Company’s D23 fan event final night time in Anaheim, California, wasn’t a few theme park (though there have been tons of these, too).
As a substitute, we now know that the Disney Cruise Line’s current fast enlargement, the place it went from simply the identical 4 ships it had operated for about 10 years to a complete of 9 now both on the water or beneath development, was just the start.
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The Disney Cruise Line will welcome 4 extra ships to its fleet of 5 at the moment in service and the 4 already introduced and beneath development within the coming years, bringing its fleet dimension to 13 ships by 2031.
That is in the end greater than triple the variety of ships it had on the water for a few years, till Disney Wish set sail in June 2022.
Disney introduced that whereas ship names and itineraries for the just-announced 4 further ships are nonetheless beneath improvement, it should welcome them between 2027 and 2031.
For these retaining depend at dwelling, Disney Treasure will first set sail later this 12 months as the road’s sixth ship.
Then, in 2025, two extra ships will be part of the fleet. Disney Destiny will set sail from Florida’s Port Everglades. Disney Adventure, a large 9,000-person ship that Disney Cruise Line bought mid-construction from Asia-based Dream Cruises, will set sail from Singapore.
After which there’s what we thought was going to be the ninth ship, a Tokyo-based ship, which was introduced only some weeks in the past and can start development in Germany in 2025 and set sail in 2029.
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However with the just-announced timeline for 4 further ships starting in 2027, it seems like at the least a kind of ships, if no more, might be prepared earlier than the beforehand introduced Japan-based ship that’s being created together with the Oriental Land Firm that owns Tokyo Disney.
There’s a lot we do not but learn about these newly revealed 4 further Disney Cruise Line ships, together with their dimension, if they’ll make the most of a brand new or present footprint and the place these further ships will dwelling port and sail to. There are at the moment just a few U.S. ports, resembling Galveston, that the road serves solely throughout a portion of the 12 months.
Nevertheless, Josh D’Amaro, the chairman of Disney Experiences, did maybe give a clue to the plans for at the least a number of the ships, saying, “Increasing our fleet provides extra folks, in additional elements of the world, the alternative to expertise a trip at sea like solely Disney can present.” Maybe hinting that the ships will serve some elements of the globe which are new to Disney Cruise Line. For instance, the road at the moment doesn’t sail to or from South America, a market that’s necessary to the corporate in some ways. In reality, the primary D23 fan occasion to be held in Brazil will happen there in November.
Disney has additionally shared that the present ships are experiencing each excessive demand and excessive satisfaction charges, hitting 97% occupancy in Q2 2024.
For comparability, Royal Caribbean at the moment has 28 ships. So, whereas 13 eventual ships would nonetheless be a considerably smaller fleet than Royal Caribbean, a line that additionally caters to households, it places them in a way more related place for fleet dimension than when there have been simply 4 ships solely a few years in the past.
On an investor name just a few days in the past, a Disney govt shared that the cruise ships are inclined to “pay again in a short time,” and it is clear that Disney is betting large on the ocean and on its means to draw ‘voyagers’ to its ships for many years to come back.
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