In case you’ve ever wished it was doable to sail to Fiji, Samoa or New Zealand with Disney Cruise Line, your want is about to be granted. Disney Cruise Line simply made some main bulletins about its upcoming sixth ship, new itinerary plans for the present fleet and what’s going on at its deliberate second island within the Bahamas.

As was simply introduced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Merchandise Chairman Josh D’Amaro on the huge D23 expo occasion in Anaheim, California, the sixth ship coming to the Disney fleet shall be often called Disney Treasure.

This is what we have discovered about that forthcoming ship and different main information from Disney Cruise Line.

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What we learn about Disney Treasure

Presently scheduled to hitch the fleet in 2024, Disney Treasure will be a part of Disney Want because the second in a trio of ‘Triton Class’ ships coming to Disney Cruise Line.

Primarily based on renderings, Disney Treasure will function a Grand Corridor that leans right into a palate of deep blues, turquoise and gold, with a design impressed by gilded palaces from faraway locations corresponding to Asia, Africa and, sure, even the fictional metropolis of ‘Agrabah’ from Disney’s Aladdin.

Fittingly, the statue within the Grand Corridor will function Jasmine, Aladdin and Magic Carpet who’re able to go on an journey, which is the theme of this subsequent ship.

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Disney units sail for the South Pacific

With the current addition of Want — and ultimately Treasure — to the fleet, Disney is able to set sail for brand new ports.

For the primary time ever, Disney Cruise Line will sail to new locations within the South Pacific on the Disney Surprise. The repositioning cruises for Disney Surprise may have stops in ports in Fiji and Samoa. The ship will then serve locations in New Zealand and Australia starting in late-October 2023.

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Work resumes on Disney’s second island within the Bahamas

Disney first introduced a brand new non-public island vacation spot in Eleuthera, Bahamas, often called Lighthouse Level, again in 2019. Nevertheless, progress on that venture was stalled not solely presumably by the pandemic, but in addition reportedly by native and environmental considerations.

Nevertheless, the venture is once more underway as D’Amaro shared new renderings of the island that can embody some related facilities to the present Castaway Cay vacation spot, however in a method that’s stated to guard and protect the pure setting and showcase Bahamian tradition and styling.

The official web site for Lighthouse Level states that the island is at the moment slated to start operations within the first half of 2024, although that was assuming an early 2022 building begin date. It is doable the present timeline will fall a bit later than that, relying on precisely when growth resumed.

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Backside line

Till Want set sail this 12 months, Disney Cruise Line had not expanded its fleet in 10 years. This meant it was restricted within the variety of completely different itineraries it may provide with simply its preliminary 4 ships. Nevertheless, the brand new chapter for the cruise line has arrived with all-new ships, itineraries and locations, which supplies extra probabilities for households to set sail.

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