Disney adds longer cruises from Port Canaveral in 2017
Disney Cruise Line will offer longer southern Caribbean cruises from Port Canaveral on the Disney Fantasy for the first time in 2017, the cruise line announced Tuesday.
The Disney Fantasy will sail from Port Canaveral on 10- and 11-night cruises to the southern Caribbean.
• On June 17, 2017, a new 11-night itinerary will visit Aruba, Barbados, Martinique, St. Kitts, Tortola and Disney’s private island in the Bahamas, Castaway Cay.
• On June 28, 2017, a new 10-night itinerary will call on Aruba, Curacao, St. Kitts, Tortola and Castaway Cay.
“It’s always our goal to offer our guests a variety of experiences, and we’re looking forward to presenting them with even more options sailing directly from Port Canaveral in summer 2017,” said Rebecca Peddie, a spokeswoman for Disney Cruise Line.
Peddle said Disney previously offered 10- and 11-night cruises from Port Canaveral on the Magic, but not on the Fantasy, which is a larger ship.
There will be two even-longer cruises from Port Canaveral in the spring of 2017, as Disney repositions two of its ships to new ports for the summer:
• The Disney Wonder will offer a 14-night cruise from Port Canaveral to San Diego, leaving Port Canaveral April 23, 2017, with interim stops in Cozumel, Mexico; Cartagena, Colombia; the Panama Canal; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
• The Disney Magic will offer a 15-night Atlantic crossing, leaving May 13, 2017, from Port Canaveral to Copenhagen, Denmark, with a stop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, along the way. This itinerary also includes a call on Portland, England, which is not far from Stonehenge, the ring of standing stones monument that is one of the Seven Wonders of the Medieval World.
Amsterdam and Portland are new stops for Disney Cruise Line.
The Magic — which will be based in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, in early-2017 — will offer various European sailings in the summer of 2017. It will be based at three different ports during the summer of 2017: Copenhagen; Dover, England; and Barcelona, Spain.
Disney’s two largest ships, the Fantasy and its sister ship, the Dream, will be based at Port Canaveral in the summer of 2017.
Disney said one of the highlights of the Dream’s summer 2017 schedule from Port Canaveral will be selected sailings that include two stops at Castaway Cay.
• Five-night sailings, departing June 2, 11, 16, 25 and 30 and July 9, 2017, will call on Castaway Cay twice and include a stop in Nassau, Bahamas.
• Four-night sailings, departing June 7 and 21 and July 5, 2017, will visit Castaway Cay twice, also with a stop in Nassau.
The Dream generally will offer three-, four and five-night sailings from Port Canaveral to the Bahamas during the summer of 2017.
The Wonder will offer sailings focusing on Alaska in the summer of 2017, sailing out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
It will be at Port Canaveral in early-2017, giving Disney three Port Canaveral-based ships during that time frame.
Disney said bookings for its summer 2017 cruises open to the public on Thursday.
The Dream and Fantasy are 4,000-passenger ships, while the Magic and Wonder are 2,700-passenger ships.
Disney in March announced that it will be adding two ships more ships to its fleet. The new ships — which will be similar in size to the Dream and the Fantasy — are scheduled to be completed in 2021 and 2023.