Any news on the Disney Fantasy vibration issue?

[Hegemon]

Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about how the Fantasy's dry-dock went. I know that shipyard specializes in vibration issues, but I haven't heard anything in months about whether (a) that's what they actually worked on and (b) it was successful. Any updates? Thanks!

 

[BartmanLA]

Actually the Fantasy re-entered Dry Dock a few days ago after conducting sea trials for a couple of days off the coast of France. So she's back out of the water, Hull inspection and repainting I believe is slated for this turn around, but no word on the vibration issues.

 

[Hegemon]

Thanks!

 

[amapro65]

Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about how the Fantasy's dry-dock went. I know that shipyard specializes in vibration issues, but I haven't heard anything in months about whether (a) that's what they actually worked on and (b) it was successful. Any updates? Thanks!

We sailed on her 9/19 and had an aft facing stateroom. The vibration was horrendous, especially at speed at sea. To think I paid a premium for that stateroom. I would hope they would get that fixed.

 

[Vovin]

Yes, fixed.

 

[tarheelz]

Yes, fixed.

Can't tell if kidding.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Yes, fixed.

Sadly, I'll have to see (feel) it to believe it. We sailed twice on the Fantasy, once after she was "fixed" the last time, and both times the vibration was awful.

 

[Clojel]

Are the vibration issues just on the aft side? I’m cruising fantasy for the first time (hopefully!) next December but I’ll be deck 12, forward....

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Are the vibration issues just on the aft side? I’m cruising fantasy for the first time (hopefully!) next December but I’ll be deck 12, forward....

We've been in the starboard side aft, port side mid-ship, and starboard side mid-ship.

The first cruise was the worst. The second, better, but you could still feel the vibrations. Those two cruises were B2B, so a fairly equal comparison.

The third cruise was after the vibration was supposedly fixed, and, while it wasn't noticeable so much midship, it was still there in the aft (could feel it quite a bit in the dining rooms).

 

[jenushkask8s]

Are the vibration issues just on the aft side? I’m cruising fantasy for the first time (hopefully!) next December but I’ll be deck 12, forward....

We sailed on deck 12, forward in February 2019 and did not feel any vibrations but YMMV.

 

[Hegemon]

Can't tell if kidding.

Based on Vovin's other posts I'm going to assume that (a) they're not kidding and (b) they have access to info that most of us don't. Either that, or they're incredibly confident!

 

[KashasMom]

We sailed on her 9/19 and had an aft facing stateroom. The vibration was horrendous, especially at speed at sea. To think I paid a premium for that stateroom. I would hope they would get that fixed.

Same here. And ours was a DVC cruise so we were already paying a big premium! So noisy we couldn't even sleep. Couldn't wait to get off that cruise. We had rooms in other parts of the ship, no issues but you couldn't give me another aft facing for free!

 

[insureman]

Can't tell if kidding.

Looking at his other posts seems to be a marine engineer from the UK. Also knows another engineer for DCL. Great to have someone like that on this forum.

 

[Vovin]

I am a marine engineer who went to college a few years ago with an engineer who is employed by DCL.

While he didn't explicitly say that the vibrations issues have been fixed he has told me that the entire two deck high propulsion motor had been refurbished over the span of a month or so.

I'm just putting two and two together on that one but I am confident in my assumption. If I am wrong I apologise in advance for getting your collective hopes up

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

Honestly, I wouldn't risk booking the aft. Not worth it. I really don't think they have any intention of fixing it, it's been a problem for an extremely long time.

 

[AquaDame]

Honestly, I wouldn't risk booking the aft. Not worth it. I really don't think they have any intention of fixing it, it's been a problem for an extremely long time.

I think its something they would like to do, but it takes time and money.

 

[ajo]

Maybe this is a "bright side" of Covid. They finally had the time to fix the vibration issue!

 

[Hegemon]

I'm just putting two and two together on that one but I am confident in my assumption. If I am wrong I apologise in advance for getting your collective hopes up

Honestly Dr. Vovin, I'm totally cool if you're wrong. I'll take informed reasoning over wild speculation any day!

Thanks for the update, and even more so for the details!

 

[Intr3pid]

Honestly, I wouldn't risk booking the aft. Not worth it. I really don't think they have any intention of fixing it, it's been a problem for an extremely long time.

I think its something they would like to do, but it takes time and money.

I think they have had to price those aft rooms consistently at a discount or as *GT.

It did require sending Fantasy over to a European shipyard - and possibly giving up a couple of months of revenues.

 

[yowcruiser]

I guess we won't know until we know... On the plus side, those AFT rooms have been moved from Category 5E to 4E for 2022. They are now more expensive and considered "premium", so one should expect that this has been fixed, or somehow dealt with. On the down side, and not trying to read to much into this, the Fantasy appears to be crossing the Atlantic at a fairly moderate speed of 12kn but sea is rough today and it is still through the Channel. Crossing is expected to take exactly 14 nights, this is a bit on the long side for a TATL - but could be so that they spend exactly 14 days of quarantine at sea... Going slow would not be a good sign re: vibration... but this may have absolutely nothing to do with vibrations