Disney Cruise Line announced details for its fleet deployment for fall 2019 including ships sailing from Florida, Texas, California and New York.
Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy will keep doing what they always do, sailing out of Port Canaveral year-round, with Dream doing the 3- and 4-night Bahamas cruises and Fantasy sailing longer Eastern and Western Caribbean options.
Most sailings are seven-night affairs with eastern voyages making stops in the Virgin Islands and western options stopping in Cozumel, Grand Cayman and Falmouth, Jamaica. All of these also make stops at Disney’s private Bahamas island Castaway Cay.
Fantasy, though, has a few special itineraries including one eight-night October sailing to the Southern Caribbean with stops in St. Kitts, Antigua and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also on tap is a six-night western Caribbean voyage stopping in Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico. Again, both will also visit Castaway Cay. Fantasy will also have two distinct seven-night December sailings, one with stops in San Juan, Tortola and Castaway Cay, and a second stopping two days on Castaway Cay on top of visits to Cozumel and Grand Cayman.
Disney’s two older ships will be sailing from ports on their way back from summer duties in Alaska and Europe.
Disney Magic returning from European sailings will spend fall sailing from New York, Puerto Rico and Miami while Disney Wonder will spend time sailing the Mexican Riviera from California before settling in to Caribbean service from Galveston, Texas.
Magic’s Big Apple duties will include September sailings to Bermuda, the Bahamas and Canada. The three Bermuda cruises will be five-night affairs. Two seven-night sailings from New York will head to Castaway Cay in the Bahamas and also Port Canaveral to allow access to Disney World armed with park hopper tickets. One give-night Canada cruise will head to Saint John, New Brunswick and Bar Harbor, Maine.
A five-night sailing leaving Nov. 10 takes Magic from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico with a stop in Antigua followed by a five-night sailing from San Juan to Miami with stops in St. Kitts, Tortola and Castaway Cay. The rest of November and December has Magic sailing from Miami on 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-night voyages.
Disney Wonder will leave Alaska and spend September sailing from San Diego. Two seven-night sailings will make stops in Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, Mexico with access to Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlán.
Wonder then will traverse the Panama Canal and make its home starting late November in Galveston for two months of four-, six- and seven-night voyages. Western Caribbean options will call on Grand Cayman; Cozumel, Mexico; and Falmouth, Jamaica. Other voyages will make stops in Key West, Florida and Castaway Cay, with two voyages also visiting Nassau, Bahamas and one sailing featuring two days at Castaway Cay.
The 14-night Panama Canal transit leaves San Diego on Nov. 8 and makes stops in Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Cartagena, Colombia; Grand Cayman and Cozumel.
The new itineraries include dates for the line’s special Halloween and Christmas-themed cruises. January-April 2020 sail dates have yet to be announced.
Bookings open to the public on May 24, 2018 at disneycruise.com.
The line has rolled out enhancements and new stage shows to all four ships in its fleet in the last few years including the 2017 debut of “Beauty and the Beast” on board Disney Dream.
Disney Cruise Line has plans to grow its fleet by three ships, although construction has yet to begin and none of them have been named yet. They are slated to begin sailing in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
