Disney Cruise Line fleet officially grows to 6 with delivery of Disney Treasure

Disney Cruise Line fleet officially grows to 6 with delivery of Disney Treasure

Disney Cruise Line now has a fleet of six ships after taking delivery of the Florida-bound Disney Treasure at a ceremony in Eemshaven, Netherlands on Thursday.

The line took possession of the 144,000-gross-ton sister ship to 2022’s Disney Wish from the Meyer Werft shipbuilding team after it completed sea trials this month in the North Sea. Its next trip will be a transatlantic voyage with an arrival at Port Canaveral expected on Nov. 12.

It will then head to New York for a christening ceremony before returning to Florida for a series of preview sailings ahead of its maiden voyage on Dec. 21 as it begins alternating seven-night Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries. Disney Wish will keep doing short three- and four-night Bahamas sailings from the Orlando-area port.

Disney Treasure had been under construction since the first steel for it was cut in January 2023. It left the shipyard in Papenberg, Germany for the 20-mile river trip to the Netherlands last month so the final seaworthiness tests could be performed.

Treasure is the second of four Wish-class vessels to be constructed at Meyer Werft with Port Everglades-bound Disney Destiny due in 2025. The fourth, ordered by the Oriental Land Co. in partnership with DCL, will sail out of Japan in 2029.

The shipyard also will construct four more ships in a new class for Disney with the first coming online in 2027. Those will bring the DCL fleet to 13 vessels by 2031.

Disney Cruise Line debuted its first ships in 1998 and 1999, the smaller 2,713-passenger sister ships Disney Magic and Disney Wonder. Ships No. 3 and 4 were the larger 4,000-passenger vessels Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy, which began sailing in 2011 and 2012.

The next ships to debut will be Singapore-bound Disney Adventure and Florida-bound Disney Destiny in 2025.

Disney Treasure is similar to Wish with 1,246 staterooms, but has unique features including bars inspired by the Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea theme park attractions as well as an Aladdin-themed Grand Hall atrium.

Its top deck will once again feature the AquaMouse water coaster-dark ride combo. One new dining venue on board will be themed to the Pixar movie “Coco” and new entertainment on board includes “Disney The Tale of Moana.”

It will become the latest cruise ship to make its debut from Port Canaveral following this past summer’s arrival of Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas.

The port in 2025 will also get the first sailings of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Aqua and the new world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas.

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