Disney Cruise Line has revealed its subsequent new ship, the Disney Journey, which brings the worlds of WDAS, Pixar, and Marvel to life. This provides a sneak peek on the newest addition to the DCL fleet, with idea artwork and a glance inside staterooms, plus particulars and our commentary about what it provides to the fleet.
As a reminder, the Disney Journey is the seventh ship becoming a member of the DCL fleet and it’ll be primarily based out of a house port in Singapore beginning in 2025. It can be part of the present 5 ships plus the Disney Treasure after that units sail beginning in December 2024. The one-of-a-kind Disney Journey will supply households the last word trip at sea. The primary Disney Cruise Line ship to homeport in Asia can be a vacation spot itself, crusing on voyages designed with magical days at sea (does this imply it’s not visiting ports?) and stuffed with immersive storytelling and fascinating leisure like solely Disney can do.
Starting in 2025, the Disney Journey will sail three- and four-night cruises from the Marina Bay Cruise Centre for at the least 5 years as a part of a collaboration between Disney Cruise Line and Singapore Tourism Board. Singapore’s strategic location, world-class air connectivity and port infrastructure make it a thriving cruise hub in Southeast Asia, a various area that’s residence to over 40 UNESCO World Heritage Websites.
“We’re bringing the magic of Disney Cruise Line to Asia for the primary time ever, and we need to give our friends the cruise leisure and Disney enjoyable they’ll solely expertise aboard considered one of our ships,” stated Sharon Siskie, senior vice chairman and normal supervisor, Disney Cruise Line. “After they set sail on the Disney Journey, friends will discover unbelievable, immersive areas that convey the worlds of Disney, Pixar and Marvel to life in methods like by no means earlier than – and these uniquely Disney experiences will encourage households to reconnect, recharge and make unforgettable reminiscences that they’ll cherish endlessly.”
The Disney Journey will supply friends a Disney Cruise Line trip on a grand scale, together with the hallmarks of each Disney cruise – enjoyable and leisure, unbelievable eating, world-class leisure and distinctive visitor service. All through the Disney Journey, friends will get pleasure from character encounters, dazzling stage exhibits brimming with Disney songs and characters, signature occasions, first-run movies, karaoke and sport exhibits.
Each crusing will embody an limitless array of indoor and outside enjoyable, with thrilling sights, interactive play areas, enjoyable within the solar and particular leisure, plus a lot extra for households to get pleasure from collectively. Younger cruisers can have the time of their lives with devoted areas and golf equipment for teenagers, tweens and teenagers, whereas adults loosen up and unwind with premium eating, lounge and spa experiences.
Company aboard the Disney Journey can even benefit from the distinctive eating and impeccable service that Disney Cruise Line is understood for. They’ll be accompanied by the identical devoted service staff all through the voyage, including a stage of familiarity and a focus to their eating expertise.
When it’s time to relaxation, friends will retreat to well-appointed staterooms full with particular Disney touches and family-friendly conveniences, equivalent to Disney Cruise Line’s signature split-bath idea, which permits two individuals to prepare without delay.
The Disney Journey can even function intensive concierge lodging, offering final luxurious and a heightened stage of customized service and comfort, together with entry to unique areas and facilities equivalent to a personal indoor lounge, an expansive sundeck with a pool and whirlpools, high-end procuring venues, and devoted spa and health services.
Disney Cruise Line estimates the passenger capability of the 208,000-gross-ton Disney Journey to be roughly 6,700 with round 2,500 crew members. Extra particulars in regards to the Disney Journey’s maiden voyage and onboard experiences can be introduced at a later date. For now, right here’s a sneak peek at what the Disney Journey will supply…
The Disney Journey can be each a journey and a vacation spot, a voyage of limitless prospects that brings to vibrant life the core pillars of Disney storytelling. By way of the magic of creativeness, discovery, fantasy and journey (naturally–it’s proper there within the title), friends will embark on voyages to seven uniquely themed areas, every teeming with dozens of unbelievable characters and unforgettable experiences, with out ever leaving the ship.
The ability of creativeness, which opens doorways to new adventures and emboldens dreamers to create magic of their very own, will captivate friends from the second they enter Disney Creativeness Backyard.
- Disney Creativeness Backyard would be the emotional coronary heart of the Disney Journey, an enchanted valley, charming backyard and open-air efficiency venue multi function. Impressed by 100 years of heroic and heartwarming Disney adventures — from Moana on the excessive seas to Mowgli within the jungle — this imaginative gathering house can be friends’ gateway to an unforgettable journey all their very own.
The spirit of discovery will encourage friends to chase the horizon, to see how far they’ll go, and to come across shocking worlds past their very own within the dynamic realms of Disney Discovery Reef, San Fransokyo Road and Wayfinder Bay.
- At Disney Discovery Reef, households will store and dine in an ethereal and ever-changing retreat evoking favourite aquatic characters and nautical tales from Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, together with “The Little Mermaid,” “Lilo & Sew,” “Discovering Nemo” and “Luca.”
- Impressed by the eclectic world of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Huge Hero 6,” San Fransokyo Road can be a household leisure space pulsing with the power and environment of a vibrant avenue market and boasting an assortment of interactive video games and actions, retailers, cinemas and extra.
- At Wayfinder Bay, friends can be known as by “the road the place the sky meets the ocean” to an open-air oasis below the solar, the place leisure and unique leisure await. The subtle but informal poolside retreat will mirror the Pacific Islands-inspired artistry of Disney Animation’s “Moana,” providing a number of the most gorgeous views of the ocean and sky aboard the Disney Journey.
The magic of fantasy attracts on hopes, desires and desires to create whimsical new worlds from a lot of Disney’s most beloved and timeless tales, with fairytales made actual within the enchanting and expansive City Sq..
- City Sq. can be a celebration of Disney royals — a magical land devoted to those that want upon a star hoping their desires will come true. This fantastical forest stuffed with retailers, lounges, cafes, eating places and leisure venues will exude the enchanting feeling of summer time in full bloom with nods to “Tangled,” “Cinderella,” “Frozen,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “The Princess and the Frog,” and extra.
The center of each Disney journey is the irresistible thrill and joyful delight of boldly embarking on new and thrilling experiences, a sense friends will dare to find inside Marvel Touchdown and Toy Story Place.
- At Marvel Touchdown, heroes will unite in a vacation spot for followers of all ages. As a celebration of Marvel’s larger-than-life personalities, this space will supply Avengers-level journey, with all-new sights and experiences that showcase imaginative representations of friends’ favourite Tremendous Heroes.
- Toy Story Place will encourage friends to discover, create, join and have enjoyable in a whimsical, interactive play land with themed meals venues and water play areas, the place the world of Pixar’s “Toy Story” motion pictures and shorts springs to life in shocking and ingenious methods.
By way of commentary, we’ll begin by addressing the apparent however unspoken: the Disney Journey is the previous World Dream ship. That’s why it’s so huge and the staterooms and different points of the ship are dramatic departures from the DCL norm.
Again when Disney introduced that it had acquired this partially-finished ship, the press launch acknowledged that Disney Cruise Line was in a position “to safe [Global Dream] at a good value and inside the capital expenditure steerage the Walt Disney Firm supplied on its current earnings name.” On the time, we thought that was noteworthy as a result of that’s not the kind of language that might often be included in Disney’s sometimes-overly-flowery press releases.
Just a few weeks later, regulatory filings revealed that the Walt Disney Firm solely paid ~$40 million for this ship. A staggering sum provided that the $2 billion ship was roughly 75% full when Disney acquired it.
The ship’s earlier proprietor filed for chapter earlier than finishing the vessel, and Disney was rumored to be the one purchaser after negotiations with two different events failed. This gave Disney full leverage, with the insolvency supervisor’s decisions being Disney or promoting the ship for scrap steel. There was reportedly resistance to the latter route, because it damage morale on the shipyard.
Disney Cruise Line thus acquired the ship for a tiny fraction of its unique price ticket and even worth as partially-built. Nevertheless, that got here with the asterisk that Disney would take over with out guarantee claims and would wish to spend significantly sums modifying and “reimagining” vital points of the ship with the experience of Walt Disney Imagineering. Reported estimates put Disney Cruise Line’s prices with the ship as practically $1 billion to complete and redesign the World Dream to show it into the Disney Journey.
We give Bob Chapek a lotta guff right here on Disney Vacationer Weblog, however that is what’s undeniably generally known as a “Uncommon Chapek Win.” Therefore there being no accompanying Umbrella Chapek photograph, which is as an instance “Frequent Chapek Ls.”) Again on the time, the acquisition appeared fully out of left discipline, impulsive, and possibly not what the corporate’s focus must be because it was scuffling with streaming and Chapek was already on the recent seat. It was very a lot inconsistent with Disney’s regular methodical and risk-averse approach of doing enterprise.
We brazenly puzzled whether or not Disney Cruise Line was betting too boldly on the way forward for cruising, particularly with a number of ships already below development. Even with this crusing solely in Asia and have little-to-no overlap with the present DCL ships, it felt like a giant leap. (Particularly because it stood to motive that one of many current ships could be relocated to Asia as soon as the Want-class is accomplished.)
Upon studying the worth that Disney Cruise Line had paid, all of it made full sense. It was too good of a deal to move up, with minimal draw back threat and a considerably decrease whole value even after retrofits and ending than Disney Cruise Line would pay to construct a comparably-sized ship from the bottom up.
The rumored value (and subsequent affirmation) got here proper as Chapek was being proven the door at Disney, however he and D’Amaro positively deserve kudos for pulling off this deal. Like me on the Disney Character Warehouse Outlet 90% off costs, it was a “purchase now, work out the aim later” kinda situation.
Past what’s teased above, I’ll be curious to see what’s lower and what’s stored. The Asian market may be very totally different from the home one, each with cruising preferences and data or expectations of the Disney model. Most fascinating to us is that the ship was designed by its unique homeowners to have appreciable on line casino house. I’m not stunned {that a} on line casino isn’t talked about within the teaser above–that’s most likely not one thing Disney would share with the U.S. viewers for worry of backlash–however I ponder if it’s nonetheless there.
Given the prominence of ESPN BET (which to me appears extra like a mashup of the 2 TV networks than a playing app) on each single telecast of the Stanley Cup Finals (who bets on hockey? how is that even a factor?!), it wouldn’t shock me both approach. Then once more, the ESPN and Disney manufacturers are very totally different, and I believe the corporate acknowledges that.
Finally, I’m actually intrigued by the Disney Journey–it’s most likely probably the most curious I’ve been about considered one of DCL’s new ships. I’m fairly excited in regards to the Disney Treasure given its ties to Walt Disney World and Disneyland, however I don’t just like the structure or the method of the newer ships.
As somebody who loves the nuts and bolts of how Imagineers do issues, I’m extremely fascinated by how they’ll handle to tug off reimagining an area created by a distinct firm. I believe they do a few of their finest work when backed right into a nook fairly than having a clean canvas, and the Disney Journey may very well be an instance of that. Or, maybe not. Both approach, it’ll be fascinating and distinctive on the very least.
No matter how the Disney Journey seems, Singapore has been on our journey bucket checklist for years as the subsequent new-to-us place we need to go to in Asia. It was by no means beforehand on our radar as a cruise vacation spot–extra a stopover for a number of days en path to or coming back from Japan–however plans can change. Between my need to go to Singapore and Sarah’s love for Disney Cruise Line, we’ll positively be checking this out in 2025.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Ideas on this sneak peek of the Disney Journey? Does this seventh ship curiosity you, or is being primarily based out of Singapore a non-starter? What do you concentrate on the corporate buying the partially-completed World Dream ship and reworking it into the Disney Journey? Suppose this can be a good addition to the fleet or at-odds with the present ships? Assured that Imagineering can rework this right into a ‘Distinctly Disney’ (Cruise Line) ship, or assume it’ll stand out from the remainder? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? Any questions? Listening to suggestions about your experiences is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
