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Disney Cruise Line Adds 2 New Ships

Chris Lange

Published: March 3, 2016 12:45 pm

Last Updated: January 13, 2020 12:24 pm

Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) first set sail with its Disney Cruise Line in 1998, providing a family cruise vacation combined with the magic of the Mouse House. Now the company announced that it is adding a couple additional ships to its fleet.

Disney entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany. The schedule calls for the new ships to be completed in 2021 and 2023.

Each new ship will be roughly 135,000 gross tons — slightly larger than the newest Disney Cruise Line ships — and each is currently planned to include about 1,250 guest staterooms. While design plans, ship names and itineraries are still in development, the Walt Disney Imagineering team already is dreaming up exciting new ways to create the world’s most magical oceangoing adventures.

Previously Disney launched a couple of ships in 2011 and 2012, the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy respectively. At that time the company introduced several firsts for the industry, including a water coaster at sea (AquaDuck) and virtual portholes in interior staterooms (Magical Portholes) that provide real-time views of the sea as well as sightings of animated Disney characters.

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