People have received these emails from a couple of TA's - thought I would share here for anybody who may be interested
I am sending you this message because we are seeing more activity lately and expect an announcement from Disney soon about the rest of 2014. Here´s what we have determined. Keep in mind that this is all speculation right now as we don´t have anything official from Disney. We are basing this on information from port calendars and from others who have been onboard recently.
We expect the Disney Dream to continue her current schedule of 3 and 4 night sailings out of Port Canaveral. We do expect a dry dock in the fall of 2014 at some point, per maritime requirements.
We expect the Disney Fantasy to continue her schedule, alternating Eastern and Western Caribbean sailings, though wouldn´t be surprised if she did more Eastern Caribbean sailings towards the end of the year, based on the port calendar from St. Maarten which shows her there each week.
We expect the Disney Magic will go back to the Mediterranean for the summer. Exact itineraries are difficult to determine right now, but we do have the port schedule for Villefranche which indicates the summer will be there. For those that have seen the port calendar, it was recently changed to add a day in July which tends to indicate the Magic will stay in the Mediterranean the entire summer, rather than go somewhere else in the middle of the summer.
We expect the Disney Wonder will go back to Alaska for the summer, which indicates another Panama Canal sailing sometime in May from Miami to California. Since the schedule is out through April, we don´t expect West Coast sailings, other than a repositioning cruise up to Vancouver or Seattle. We are leaning towards Vancouver as the embarkation port because crew onboard the Wonder have said that guests liked that itinerary better as it allowed for more time in ports. A screen capture surfaced yesterday of
DCL´s website showing 9 night Alaskan Cruise and Sitka, Alaska. We cannot confirm this but think if they do have 9 night sailings, it will be only the first or last sailing to shift the day of the week they are in the ports of call and for embarkation and debarkation. After Alaska, the Wonder will likely go to dry dock. Following dry dock, we are expecting sailings to the Western Caribbean, based on the port calendar from Grand Cayman, but the port of embarkation is a mystery.
We expect an announcement the week of February 10, but it won´t likely happen before Monday. This would mean bookings for Platinum and Gold
Castaway Club members would be no earlier than February 12. Based on recent releases, we don´t expect more than a day or two notice for these bookings. As soon as we get the scoop from Disney, we will let you know what is happening. We don´t know if they will release all of the ships at once or stagger them, but with the information we are finding, we expect at least the Magic and Wonder´s schedules will be released.
Glad it didn't come down on the house!
to the DISboards and to this cruise!I am
