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This article is about the Disney cruise ship. For the magazine, see Disney Adventures.
Disney Adventure is the upcoming seventh cruise ship owned and operated by Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, due to enter service on December 15, 2025.
Disney Adventure is the first and only ship of the Global class, with her then-planned sister ship, the Global Dream II, scrapped due to Genting Hong Kong, Star Cruises, Dream Cruises, and MV Werften all filing for bankruptcy in 2022. She will enter service in December 15, 2025. The other six ships in the entire fleet are the Disney Magic, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, Disney Wish, and Disney Treasure.
History[]
Genting Hong Kong ordered two ships of the class in May 2016 from its subsidiary Lloyd Werft Group for service in the Star Cruises fleet, with delivery of the first vessel planned for 2019. In July 2016, Genting Hong Kong reorganized Lloyd Werft Group, resulting in the formation of MV Werften as a builder of large cruise ships; accordingly, the Global-class order was transferred to Dream Cruises.
At the time they were ordered, the design of the ships had not been completed, and as a result construction did not begin until March 2018, when ceremonial steel cuttings for the first ship in the class were held at shipyards in Wismar and Rostock. Major components of the ships were constructed at both shipyards, with assembly taking place in Wismar. Construction was scheduled to take just under three years, with the first ship to be delivered in late 2020 and the second in late 2021.
In March 2018, Genting Hong Kong announced that the two planned Global-class ships would be operated by Dream Cruises upon delivery, sailing from Chinese ports during the summer season and further afield in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and the west coast of the United States during the remainder of the year.
The construction of the first ship, Global Dream, started on 8 March 2018 at the facilities in Wismar and Rostock. The keel was laid on 11 September 2018 in Rostock. A big part of the ship left the drydock in Rostock on November 22, 2019 and was towed to Wismar, where it entered the drydock on November 23, 2019.
Due to the temporary closure of the shipyard in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the delivery of both Global-class ships was expected to be delayed. On November 16, 2022, Disney Cruise Line purchased the Global Dream for €40 million, a discount from the original value of €1.8 billion. The ship has a capacity of 6,000 and is powered by green methanol. Disney plans to work with the shipbuilding company Meyer Werft to complete the unfinished ship by the time it enters service and embarks on its maiden voyage on December 15, 2025, and it will be the first to be based outside of the United States market, with the ship being set to be homeported in Singapore.[1] On September 8, 2023, the seventh ship was officially announced as the Disney Adventure at the Destination D23 Expo.
Design[]
The ship was originally planned to measure 201,000 gross tonnages (GT) but were increased to 208,000 GT in the final design. They are 342 meters (1,122 ft 1 in) in length, with a beam of 46.4 meters (152 ft 3 in) and a draft of 9.5 meters (31 ft 2 in). They are powered by six MAN Diesel & Turbo 48/60CR diesel engines, which make a total of 96,000 kilowatts (129,000 hp) and power three ABB Azipod XO thrusters via ABB electrical generators. ABB also supplied major control components and software.
The ships were planned to use artificial intelligence and robots for many customer-facing services, with extensive use of voice and face recognition. The pre-Disney design provided for 2,350 passenger cabins allowing for 9,000 passengers, 4,700 of those in lower berths. Her crew was to be 2,200. Disney's announcement of the acquisition stated her expected passenger capacity to be around 6,000 passengers, with a crew of approximately 2,300.
Areas and Attractions[]
- Disney Imagination Garden
- Disney Discovery Reef
- Toy Story Place
- Woody and Jessie's Wild Slides
- Marvel Landing
- Ironcycle Test Run
- Groot Galaxy Spin
- Pym Quantum Racers
- Wayfinder Bay
- San Fransokyo Street
- Town Square
Trivia[]
- The Disney Adventure will be the first ship in Disney Cruise Line that:
- has not made a maiden voyage from any U.S. port.
- was not initially designed by Disney and was purchased from another cruise operator.
- has different themed areas.
- has center outdoor areas named Imagination Garden and Discovery Reef, similar to The Boardwalk and The Central Garden on Oasis class ships by Royal Caribbean.
- has multiple outdoor stages.
- has two Funnel Vision screens at the top deck, both located at Toy Story Place.
- has non-water attractions, all located at Marvel Landing.
- has a "Let's Sail Away" party not held at an outdoor stage, but instead at a grand hall (Imagination Garden).
- has two dining places, one restaurant and one café, both named Palo.
- has all three main dining rooms separated by two themes.
- has prices-included restaurants that do not belong to any main dining rooms, buffets, and outdoor dining areas.
- has all-ages extra-price restaurants, as all older ships only feature adults-only extra-price restaurants.
- The Adventure is the only ship in its ship class, as its practically-built sister ship, Reunion Dream, was scrapped after Dream Cruises' closure and was later reused and renovated.
- Disney Adventure will be the first ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet since Disney Wish that:
- does not have World of Marvel and 1923 restaurants.
- has an Animator's Palate restaurant.
- does not have a Marceline Market buffet restaurant, which is being replaced by a Pixar Market Restaurant.
- Palos does not serve French cuisine and instead serves Italian cuisine, similar to the first four ships.
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References[]
- ↑ "Disney Cruise Line's Former Global Dream New Homeport Revealed". CruiseRadio.net (March 29, 2023).