correct. 10 is the terminal the bow of the ships face. if you stand in front of 8, looking at the terminal, 10 is next on the rightIIRC, Terminal 8 is the one Disney currently uses. Right? Where is Terminal 10?
And the Eastern Mediterranean.
And Asia.
And Australia.
And...there's a big ol' world out there.
Definitely
I was going to say Asia because I think they would do really well there but I know that's them entering into a new market.
Shanghai Disneyland?
I'm so confused why they are doing additional Bahamian and Eastern. Hopefully that will be ship number 2 or 3 and not the 1st new one. They really need to expand certain itineraries to happen more frequently like Hawaii..
It is certainly true that Disney has a long history of keeping information secret and used code names decades ago for certain high profile projects. But the current practice of using a code name for every project (parks, hotels, attractions, ships, islands, and even restaurants) is a more recent development.There is some truth to that but Disney has not always been open about what they are doing. Anyone in central Florida real estate in the late 60’s might tell you that. WDW operations continue to hide behind a “local government” where the public office and private corporation often are the same thing. As we know WDW land was bought using dummy corporations.
"AyefourCorporation", "Latin-American Development and Management Corporation" and the "Reedy Creek Ranch Corporation". Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U.S.A. in Magic Kingdom.
So even though the technology is new Disney is well practiced at working to keep information from the public view.
The new build project is officially known as Project Triton.Makes you wonder if that's officially how the crew refers to them or just that the CM read the same story.
My uneducated guess is DCL does not want to mess with the money machine they have in current itineraries seemingly constantly pushing the fare envelope. With the new ships, we may see an existing ship do new, longer sailings in existing regions to push even further than fare ceiling while the new ship(s) get shakedown(s) and are proven on low risk routes. Sailing more distant/longer Caribbean sailings I don't think will happen till the number of LNG ports expands in the region.Lack of imagination maybe? I've been saying it for a while now about different itins. Whe all 4 ships were in Fl it was the perfect opportunity to try out different stops and longer cruises from both PC and Miami. The DCL standard of we need San Juan for deeper trips is pure cop out Royal, Princess and Carnival all do it in 7 to 10 days, from Miami and FtL and theres no excuse why DCL cant.
My uneducated guess is DCL does not want to mess with the money machine they have in current itineraries seemingly constantly pushing the fare envelope. With the new ships, we may see an existing ship do new, longer sailings in existing regions to push even further than fare ceiling while the new ship(s) get shakedown(s) and are proven on low risk routes. Sailing more distant/longer Caribbean sailings I don't think will happen till the number of LNG ports expands in the region.
My uneducated guess is DCL does not want to mess with the money machine they have in current itineraries seemingly constantly pushing the fare envelope. With the new ships, we may see an existing ship do new, longer sailings in existing regions to push even further than fare ceiling while the new ship(s) get shakedown(s) and are proven on low risk routes. Sailing more distant/longer Caribbean sailings I don't think will happen till the number of LNG ports expands in the region.
Cruise wise it's untested. And apparently Asian families cruise very different so that is a factor.
Just off the top of my head, DCL has never been to St Lucia, Turks and Caicos, Antiqua/Barbuda among others.
I agree with much of what you've written but DCL has been to St Lucia as part of the southern itineraries. I've gone there with them twice.
I also feel like they should be very interested in the Asian market.... there is a lot of money to be had if they can figure out a way to make one of their cruise ships 'authentically Disney, distinctly Chinese' as they did Shanghai Disneyland.
For one thing they look for a casino on their ships and if I'm not mistaken from what I read they look for more bars and that type of entertainment. I'll have to go back and try and find the article that listed the difference between the Asian purpose built ship that Norwegian built versus the standard cruise shipOut of curiosity, how are they different?
Out of curiosity, how are they different?
And the Eastern Mediterranean.
And Asia.
And Australia.
And...there's a big ol' world out there.