Good news for DCL's "Dream"

[k5jm]

Look's like DCL is maintaining it's footprint in Port Canaveral.

New Disney cruise ship sails with a full house
July 10, 2011|By Jason Garcia, Orlando Sentinel

The Walt Disney Co.'s newest cruise ship is sailing with big crowds aboard so far this year.

Passenger data from Port Canaveral shows that the Disney Dream, the 1,250-room cruise ship that arrived in Brevard County in January, has averaged nearly 3,800 passengers per voyage during its first five months of sailing. That's just a shade under the ship's maximum capacity of approximately 4,000 people.

Occupancy aboard the ship, which has been sailing, three-, four- and five-night itineraries to the Bahamas, averaged 150.7 percent, far higher than on ships operated by industry giants Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which do not carry nearly as many families with children. Two people per cabin is considered 100 percent occupancy, and the Disney Dream is averaging just more than three people per cabin.

The Dream is sailing as full as the Disney Wonder was last year when the older ship was sailing similar short-term Bahamian cruises — and the Dream is more than 40 percent larger than the Wonder, which has since been moved to the U.S. West Coast.

 

[disneyholic family]

not surprising!

didn't the port manager say that all the port enhancements (for the dream) would be paid back within one year if the dream sailed at full capacity? so i guess they won't have any trouble achieving that target...