Before the launch of Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Wish ship in 2022, the line's fleet consisted of only four ships. That number is to more than triple to a total of 13 by 2031.
We’ve compiled a guide to the various classes and vessels to help you keep track.
Disney Cruise Line’s Magic Class
The Disney name may have started with a mouse, but Disney Cruise Line began with Disney Magic in 1998. The ship’s bow and stern halves were built at two different Fincantieri shipyards in Italy (Ancona and Marghera). In comparison, sister ship Disney Wonder was built in its entirety at the Marghera facility in 1999.
Magic was designed in art deco style, while Wonder was designed in art nouveau, and each ship has received several dry-dock refurbishments over its years of operation. The most notable distinction between the pair is Magic’s AquaDunk free-fall waterslide.
Magic and Wonder both measure in at 84,000 gross tons, with a guest capacity of 2,713 passengers across 875 staterooms.
Disney Cruise Line’s Dream Class
It wasn’t until 2011 that a new ship joined Magic and Wonder. Disney Dream launched that year, followed by Disney Fantasy in 2012. Both were built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. Like Magic and Wonder, Dream and Fantasy were designed in art deco and art nouveau styles, respectively.
These class of ships are larger than the Magic Class, adding space for the AquaDuck water coaster and Remy, a second adults-only specialty restaurant. Outside of specific venue theming differences — such as The District on Dream versus Europa on Fantasy — Dream and Fantasy are structurally identical.
Both ships have gross tonnage of 130,000, with a guest capacity of 4,000 passengers across 1,250 staterooms.
Wish (Triton) Class
Thirteen years separate the Magic and Dream classes, and it was another decade before the Wish Class (sometimes referred to as “Triton Class”) first came online. Its namesake Disney Wish, also built by Meyer Werft in Germany, launched in 2022 with a theme of “enchantment,” reflected in large part in the castle-style central Grand Hall atrium.
Wish is the only ship in the Disney fleet without an Animator's Palate restaurant among its rotational dining rooms. Instead, it features Worlds of Marvel, along with Enchante instead of Remy. For all ages, AquaDuck was upgraded to AquaMouse — the line’s first-ever Disney attraction at sea — and Hero Zone encloses the ship’s hybrid sports court indoors. Wish also features two cinemas, unlike all its predecessors, which have just one.
Disney Wish measures in at 144,000 gross tons, with a guest capacity of 4,000 passengers across 1,254 staterooms. Specifications are expected to repeat for the new Disney Treasure (2024) and upcoming Disney Destiny (2025) and unnamed fourth in the series (2027), with only theming changes planned.
Treasure — themed to “adventure” — and Destiny, themed to “heroes and villains,” will highlight The Haunted Mansion Parlor in lieu of Wish’s Star Wars: Hyperspace Lounge. And instead of Wish’s Arendelle: A Frozen Dining Adventure, Treasure will have Plaza de Coco, while Destiny will have Pride Lands: Feast of The Lion King. Furthermore, the Grand Hall on Wish will instead be styled after Agrabah from “Aladdin” on Treasure, and Wakanda from “Black Panther” on Destiny.
A fifth Wish Class ship has also been scheduled for 2029, to be operated in Japan by Oriental Land Company (OLC) under a license agreement with Disney. (OLC owns and operates Disney parks in Tokyo, such as Tokyo Disney Resort.)
Adventure (Global) Class
Another bit of an outlier in the fleet will be Disney Adventure, which is slated to launch in 2025 as the only ship for the brand not built from scratch. The vessel was originally under construction as Global Dream before Disney bought it from bankrupt owner Genting Hong Kong; it will be finished by the Meyer Group in Germany. The ship is planned to cater to the Chinese market, sailing roundtrip from Singapore with “voyages to nowhere” — which are sailings designed to focus on days at sea and the ship as the sole destination.
With a split-hull, open-core design (akin to Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis and Icon Class ships or MSC World America from MSC Cruises), Adventure will offer several distinct theme zones: Disney Imagination Garden, Disney Discovery Reef, San Fransokyo Street, Wayfinder Bay, Town Square, Marvel Landing and Toy Story Place.
It will be the largest ship in the fleet at 208,000 gross tons, set to feature a guest capacity of approximately 6,700 passengers serviced by some 2,500 crew.
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Also arriving from 2029 to 2031 is a set of three additional smaller ships, sized between the Magic and Dream classes. These ships will bring the fleet total to 13.
