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djgifford · 02-22-2007, 02:48 PM

Disney Announces Expansion of Successful Cruise Business
Two New Ships will More than Double Passenger Capacity

The Walt Disney Company plans to expand its successful cruise business by adding two new ocean liners, President and CEO Bob Iger announced today. Scheduled to launch in 2011 and 2012, the ships will more than double the passenger capacity for Disney Cruise Line® to meet the sustained demand for Disney's family cruise vacations. The new 122,000-ton cruise liners will be two decks taller than the existing 83,000-ton ships, the Disney Magic® and the Disney Wonder®. Each ship will have 1,250 staterooms. Specific design plans and itineraries for the yet-unnamed ships are still in development and will be unveiled at a later date.

Blizzard · 02-22-2007, 02:58 PM

This is not a big surprise. After bringing a ship to the west coast for a 2nd summer season. I expect that they will end up with one new ship and one older ship on each coast. One doing 3/4 day and the other doing 7 day.

djgifford · 02-22-2007, 07:39 PM

Yeah, when I was on the Wonder in September, they gave a seminar for us...they said they "wanted" to build new ships...lol...but nothing was planned yet...LOL...

They didn't mention in our letter what the exact itineraries were going to be of course...but they did mention alot of interest for their Med cruises this summer...and the West coast cruises.