Disney Cruise Line will be sending its new ship Disney Destiny to Port Everglades instead of Port Canaveral when it debuts in 2025.

The sister ship to Disney Wish and Disney Treasure, both of which call Port Canaveral home, will sail from the South Florida port starting in late 2025 after the line takes delivery from the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenberg, Germany, where construction began on the ship earlier this year.

DCL announced the first details about the ship Tuesday as part of a three-day reveal event on the Disney Parks Blog for the 144,000-gross-ton, 4,000-passenger vessel. Exact itineraries and when people can book them will be announced later this week.

Among the spaces coming to the ship will be a dining venue themed to “The Lion King” and a dessert shop themed to “The Incredibles,” leaning into the heroic side of the ship’s overall theme.

“For the Disney Destiny, we will introduce brand-new cruise experiences inspired by the legends and legacies of some of Disney’s most iconic heroes and villains,” said Sharon Siskie, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Cruise Line. The spaces promise to pull from Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies.

Technically, it will be the second time a Disney ship debuts at a port other than its close-to-Orlando mainstay as Disney Adventure, also set to sail in 2025, will debut out of Singapore.

Disney Cruise Line opens 2nd Florida home at Port Everglades

DCL began sailing from Port Everglades as its year-round second Florida home in late 2023, taking over Cruise Terminal 4 that sits adjacent the Broward County Convention Center. The 104,000-square-foot terminal has so far hosted older ships Disney Magic and Disney Dream.

“Disney Cruise Line continues to turn up the magic at Port Everglades with Disney Destiny,”  Port Director and CEO Joseph Morris said in an emailed statement. “In less than a year, Disney has made a significant contribution to our local economy and to our youth through career-building opportunities in partnership with Junior Achievement of South Florida. We are looking forward to their continued success.”

Disney Destiny will be the first of Disney’s Wish-class vessels to call on South Florida. DCL moved operations to Port Everglades after sailing from PortMiami seasonally since 2012. It’s in the first of a 15-year commitment to Port Everglades that guarantees 10.6 million passengers over the term of the lease.

That means both year-round sailings with at least one ship and at least seasonal sailings with a second. The port and Disney can agree to extend the lease in five-year increments for an additional 15 years as well, bringing in another 11.25 million passengers.

The port also became the first for DCL to get regular visits to its new private Bahamas destination, Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point on the southern end of Eleuthera, that opened this summer. Port Canaveral-based ships don’t begin regular visits there until this fall.

As far as the interior space details for Disney Destiny, the big announcement was the restaurant the line is calling Pride Lands: Feast of The Lion King. Taking the same space as the “Frozen”-themed and “Coco”-themed dining venues on its sister ships, “The Lion King” restaurant will be a dining theater in the round.

A savannah-inspired design will combine lighting and special effects along with a window-lined back wall that will progress from sunrise to sunset during the meal, which will be themed to celebrate main character Simba’s heroic journey and the ever-present Disney theme of family.

The performances during the meal will include storytelling and songs such as versions of the film’s hits “Circle of Life,” Hakuna Matata,” “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” and “Be Prepared.”

For the ship’s sweet shop, the fashion designer character Edna Mode is tapped for Edna Á La Mode Sweets, which is taking the similar spaces themed to “Inside Out” on Disney Wish and “Wreck-It Ralph” on Disney Treasure.

The venue, which will feature sculptures of Edna and the baby Jack-Jack, pulls specifically from the Pixar Animation Studios’ “Auntie Edna” short film in which Edna’s sewing equipment, made to create superhero suits in the films, is reconfigured into machines to make sweets. The venue will sell handmade gelato, ice cream, cookies, candies and specialty treats.

The line also announced two walk-up cafes off the Grand Hall, one called Café Megara after the heroine from “Hercules” and Café Merida themed to the star of Pixar’s “Brave.”

In addition, the line details some of the features for the staterooms and suites coming to the ship, with each space displaying heroic artwork. Most staterooms will feature the line’s split-bath concept along with connecting-door options for families to share connecting stateroom spaces.

Concierge guests will get a premium space with exclusive areas including their own lounge and private sun deck. Several will be themed to Disney’s “Fantasia” while seven special oceanview suites located directly above the ship’s bridge will be themed to “The Incredibles.”

Four royal suites are either dubbed Hero Suites, designed in Greco-Roman styles themed to “Hercules,” or IncrediSuites, with a streamlined midcentury modern aesthetic seen in Pixar films.

Disney Treasure is the third Wish-class ship and will be powered by liquefied natural gas just like Disney Wish and Treasure. It’s only the second LNG-powered ship slated to home port at Port Everglades after the debut this year of Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess. LNG is a cleaner burning fuel that cruise lines have been using among efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

It will become the eighth ship in the DCL fleet and fourth in three years. Disney also recently agreed with Oriental Land Co., Ltd., which runs Disney’s Japan-based theme parks, to bring on a ninth ship in the fleet, also a Wish-class vessel, that will sail from Japan beginning in 2029.