Fall 2026 itineraries

[SnowWhite2]

DCL cruise bookings are so soft that my DD is on the Magic, in the prime of summer vacation, and the ship is pretty empty. Her CM discount was ridiculously low, she was able to get into Palo on pirate night and a have a table for 2 in the MDRs. This itinerary goes to both private islands. If we were in FL we wouild have gone too!

 

[dreamer17555]

DCL cruise bookings are so soft that my DD is on the Magic, in the prime of summer vacation, and the ship is pretty empty. Her CM discount was ridiculously low, she was able to get into Palo on pirate night and a have a table for 2 in the MDRs. This itinerary goes to both private islands. If we were in FL we wouild have gone too!

That is concerning. DCL really is starting to out price their guests and keeps adding on more and more inventory. Also DCL just keeps hitting the Bahamas on these short cruises over and over again which is a turn off for repeat cruisers.

I hope your daughter has the best sailing and if she has an amazing dining team (which she hopefully will) I would love to know who so I can request them in Sept (assuming they are still there). We have a go to sever request on most ships but not the Magic.

 

[lois00525]

Maybe they forgot to release them. Has anyone emailed and asked them?

time to get my hopes up for today. Please DCL just release them already. You could have a lot of peoples money ( Deposits ) sitting in your bank account. Everyday you wait is less interest you are earning.

 

[ShaneDJ]

DCL really is starting to out price their guests and keeps adding on more and more inventory.

Bingo!!

 

[Disneyworldlocal]

That is concerning. DCL really is starting to out price their guests and keeps adding on more and more inventory. Also DCL just keeps hitting the Bahamas on these short cruises over and over again which is a turn off for repeat cruisers.

I hope your daughter has the best sailing and if she has an amazing dining team (which she hopefully will) I would love to know who so I can request them in Sept (assuming they are still there). We have a go to sever request on most ships but not the Magic.

Any recommendations for the Wish. We are going end of August

I also agree. They are for sure experiencing soft bookings these days. The Florida Resident rates are really good on some cruise options. I think the Wish and Dream are going to struggle for a bit especially when the Destiny is sailing

I noticed the Destiny has 3 night options next September and they are much cheaper than the Wish was when it first sailed. And they haven’t gone up much since the bookings originally came out

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

Genuinely curious if Disney can pull better money doing less-than-full 3, 4, 5s versus offering at least one more ship out of either Florida port doing 7 nights consistently.

We all know that the price per night is much higher on the short cruise, so maybe 75% 3/4s just pull in more money than full 7s (excluding the Treasure with her new ship smell, of course).

 

[peder]

DCL cruise bookings are so soft that my DD is on the Magic, in the prime of summer vacation, and the ship is pretty empty. Her CM discount was ridiculously low, she was able to get into Palo on pirate night and a have a table for 2 in the MDRs. This itinerary goes to both private islands. If we were in FL we wouild have gone too!

We have approx 163 cabins still available (I used Chrome Dev Tools to spit out the JSON data for cabin availability for our sailing... these do not take into account Guarantee cabins that eat into this number) for our Disney Dream sailing in late September. Out of 1,250 cabins, it doesn't seem out of line for 13% of them to still be available a couple months before sailing.

Obviously, Disney would prefer each sailing be sold out, but I'm even more interested in knowing what % sold they think they need to hit for their Concierge customers to feel justified in spending significantly more. Concierge customers might feel it's a waste on an empty ship; the benefits increase as the ship becomes more crowded. So they do run a pretty dangerous game of losing out on high-margin Concierge sales if they don't keep demand consistent. That's just speculation on my part, but I don't think every Concierge customer is "ride or die" with Concierge.

 

[dreamer17555]

Any recommendations for the Wish. We are going end of August

I also agree. They are for sure experiencing soft bookings these days. The Florida Resident rates are really good on some cruise options. I think the Wish and Dream are going to struggle for a bit especially when the Destiny is sailing

I noticed the Destiny has 3 night options next September and they are much cheaper than the Wish was when it first sailed. And they haven’t gone up much since the bookings originally came out

Sent you a PM with their full name!

 

[jwalk03]

That is concerning. DCL really is starting to out price their guests and keeps adding on more and more inventory. Also DCL just keeps hitting the Bahamas on these short cruises over and over again which is a turn off for repeat cruisers.

I hope your daughter has the best sailing and if she has an amazing dining team (which she hopefully will) I would love to know who so I can request them in Sept (assuming they are still there). We have a go to sever request on most ships but not the Magic.

We had Adi as our server on our Magic cruise in March and he was absolutely FABULOUS!! He was so much fun. I highly recommend him especially if you are traveling with kids. Every night he had brain teasers for us to try and solve at dinner and he made so many cool origami things out of the menus for my kids. They even insisted on trying to take several of them home.

Ralph was his assist server on our cruise, but he was a temp in that role so not sure if it would still be him or someone else with Adi.

 

[Cfabar1]

Treasure bookings are solid...

I personally am skeptical that if Disney can't fill 3 or 4 nights that they will easily fill the long itineraries - which are less profitable.

 

[yowcruiser]

We have approx 163 cabins still available (I used Chrome Dev Tools to spit out the JSON data for cabin availability for our sailing... these do not take into account Guarantee cabins that eat into this number) for our Disney Dream sailing in late September. Out of 1,250 cabins, it doesn't seem out of line for 13% of them to still be available a couple months before sailing.

Obviously, Disney would prefer each sailing be sold out, but I'm even more interested in knowing what % sold they think they need to hit for their Concierge customers to feel justified in spending significantly more. Concierge customers might feel it's a waste on an empty ship; the benefits increase as the ship becomes more crowded. So they do run a pretty dangerous game of losing out on high-margin Concierge sales if they don't keep demand consistent. That's just speculation on my part, but I don't think every Concierge customer is "ride or die" with Concierge.

...but then again, how many of those empty cabins are Concierge?

 

[DCLMP]

There are quite a few of us who won’t be very excited about it. I hope they do not try to jack up the price even more. They might end up having to offer deep discounts again.

Maybe if they change up the itineraries and offer something unique it will make up for the bad ship. If they went to Istanbul, Montenegro, Croatia or headed up north to Helsinki, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia etc......any of those combinations I'd suffer through the Wish.

 

[Skippyboo]

Maybe if they change up the itineraries and offer something unique it will make up for the bad ship. If they went to Istanbul, Montenegro, Croatia or headed up north to Helsinki, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia etc......any of those combinations I'd suffer through the Wish.

Didn’t they remove Turkey from sailings? Can’t really see it coming back with the war going on in the middle east and Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia are currently high alert for an invasion from Russia.

 

[Mommb]

Didn’t they remove Turkey from sailings? Can’t really see it coming back with the war going on in the middle east and Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia are currently high alert for an invasion from Russia.

Yes, the stop in Turkey was removed this year. The Dream is scheduled to go to Dubrovnik, Croatia, and spend 2 days in Valletta, Malta along with some Greek Isles next summer.

 

[asgur5]

Wow still not yet. Suggests dcl has no idea what to do with all the extra ships they built and only starting to realise they have an over supply problem and need to generate new demand.

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

Treasure bookings are solid...

I personally am skeptical that if Disney can't fill 3 or 4 nights that they will easily fill the long itineraries - which are less profitable.

Maybe it's just me conflating my preferences with what other people want, but I feel like there's a lot of folks who prefer a longer cruise. We've taken shorter ones of late simply because there wasn't a long non-Treasure option available and she's still $$$.

Plus, don't forget, you need about half as many families to fill a 7 as you need to fill a 4 *and* a 3. Sure, there are a few who will back to back, but it's around twice as many people sailing that same 7 days if you turn it over halfway through.

 

[Moonspinner]

DCL cruise bookings are so soft that my DD is on the Magic, in the prime of summer vacation, and the ship is pretty empty. Her CM discount was ridiculously low, she was able to get into Palo on pirate night and a have a table for 2 in the MDRs. This itinerary goes to both private islands. If we were in FL we wouild have gone too!

I wonder if that is specific to the Magic. I think a lot of people canceled their summer cruises on the Magic because of the water issue. It was all over the news that entire areas of the ship were closed including the atrium at the beginning of last March which would be right before the last opportunity for people to cancel their summer cruises. Lots of people on these boards were doing just that.

 

[jwalk03]

I wonder if that is specific to the Magic. I think a lot of people canceled their summer cruises on the Magic because of the water issue. It was all over the news that entire areas of the ship were closed including the atrium at the beginning of last March which would be right before the last opportunity for people to cancel their summer cruises. Lots of people on these boards were doing just that.

It wasn’t the beginning of March- it happened the last week of March. And it was literally 2 days of a single cruise that the atrium was closed. No other public areas were impacted.

“All over the news”? Really? The number of people who visit these sites is a small fraction of the actual Disney cruise population and I certainly didn’t see any stories about it on the Today show or CNN…

 

[holula]

Maybe it's just me conflating my preferences with what other people want, but I feel like there's a lot of folks who prefer a longer cruise. We've taken shorter ones of late simply because there wasn't a long non-Treasure option available and she's still $$$.

I definitely think a lot of repeat sailors want longer cruises. I know for me 7+ is preferable, 5-6 is okay, anything shorter isn’t worth it unless I’m doing a b2b. There are also people who really don’t like the Wish class and therefore don’t have 7 night options unless you want to do Alaska/Europe.

I’m surprised Disney didn’t try the Dream even doing some 7+ night cruises from PE to test the waters. I’m not saying do a whole season but they definitely need to do something. They are having the Destiny to two 7 nights next year so they clearly aren’t averse to it fully.

 

[croschek05]

Is today the day? Haha. NYC baby let's goooo!!!