2027 Disney Summer Cruises

[asgur5]

In my opinion all beaches are boring.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe people do spend thousand of dollars on Disney cruises to go to beaches in the Med. If anyone does that raise your hand.

I raise my hand. Haha.

Admittedly i also add on a land component to the trip before or after (mostly hiking in the alps or going to paris/tuscany).

 

[DCLMP]

The entire point is that the cost of everything in Europe will be higher because the Euro is currently strong against the dollar. That includes restaurants, hotels, shops, excursions, admission to tourist sites, souvenirs, etc. So, even if Disney eats the extra costs and doesn't increase cruise fares this year, everything else about a European cruise will cost more.

I'm not going to reiterate that point a third time, so I consider this discussion to have run its course.

Disney has been sailing in Europe for twenty years. If you can prove that pricing has anything to do with usd/ Euro exchange rate that fluctuates daily l’ll concede.
No one including Disney knows what the exchange rates is going to be next month much less in the Summer of 2027. Any geopolitical event could send money running back to the dollar safe haven.

If you’re so concerned about a lower dollar than the WHY should be as you said…not irrelevant.

You’re also ignoring supply and demand, inflation and the overall economy in Europe and the US.

Demand will drive DCL pricing more than anything.

 

[DCLMP]

I raise my hand. Haha.

Admittedly i also add on a land component to the trip before or after (mostly hiking in the alps or going to paris/tuscany).

Don’t you live in the land of beautiful beaches and sharks.

 

[o&smom]

Exactly. Many people would agree it would be "better" to spend a lot of time in each city to fully absorb the culture. That's why my family typically spends time in the embarkation and/or debarkation city when we cruise in Europe. But that doesn't mean there is no value in visiting countries for just a short time.

On our first Med cruise, over the course of 7 days my 10 year old and 14 year old kids went to a Marc Chagall museum (with dozens of his works), the ruins at Herculaneum, a Galileo museum (with equipment from his time), the Uffizi Gallery, the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, the Pantheon, and the Coliseum. Did that give them a strong understanding of life in France and Italy? Of course not. Did that help them understand the context when things they saw were mentioned in later science, history, and art classes? Of course it did. Yes, we could have flown to Rome, stayed a few days, taken the train to Florence, stayed a few days, then gone on to see Naples and Nice on our own. But given the limited options for finding rooms with 3 beds in Barcelona, I didn't want to do that in 4 other cities too, and I didn't want to drag our luggage on trains, planes, and cars every few days. My husband and I also didn’t want to take off more than 2 weeks of work.

Disney Cruise did have a cruise scheduled to stop in Tunisia in June 2011, but the stop was changed to Sicily around February. That same cruise stopped in Corsica and Malta. I think there was a cruise stop scheduled for Turkey a few years that was changed several months in advance. I am not sure if Disney has plans to try again for the southern Mediterranean, but Malta, Sicily, Corsica, and Croatia have been showing up once or twice a year.

We have been lucky enough to catch most of those ports on our Disney cruises. We went to Tunisia, Malta and Corsica in 2010 on our very first cruise. We stopped in Sicily in 2023. Croatia is definitely on my list!