Summer 2024 Announcement Coming Soon - per DisneyParksUK on Instagram

[Louise97]

I haven't seen this on any other Disney socials, but DisneyParksUK on Instagram has shared a story saying a Summer 2024 announcement is coming soon!

https://www.instagram.com/stories/disneyparksuk/3059788425378687407/

I grabbed a screenshot of the coordinates but haven't worked them out yet.

 

[Flossbolna]

Ok, I got ambitious.

43°15'46.8"N 2°56'06.0"W is Bilbao

will continue to search...

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[Flossbolna]

42°14'26.2"N 8°43'14.6"W is Vigo, Spain
43°22'14.6"N 8°23'45.1"W is A Coruña, Spain
the two coordinates left over get me to a village close to Canterbury it seems. Rural Kent. That does not make sense...

But I guess it is a northern Spain cruise from the UK they are hyping with this post.

 

[gilsan]

I saw someone post that the coordinates listed above are not in order, and they match Vigo, Spain; A Coruna, Spain; Bruges, Belgium; La Rochelle, France; and Bilbao, Spain.

 

[Niclovesdisney]

The Dream is showing on the port schedule for Zeebrugge on 17th and 18th August plus 4th and 7th September 2024

 

[Flossbolna]

Ugh, I just realized that I should have opened up the screen shot picture. I only had 8 lines of coordinates to work with, but it is 10. That explains why the last ones didn't match... But it's bedtime here in Europe, so someone else can verify and I guess @gilsan has the correct info.

 

[holula]

The Dream is showing on the port schedule for Zeebrugge on 17th and 18th August plus 4th and 7th September 2024

I thought the same initially but two of those dates are 2023.

The 2024 dates are 17th August and 7th September.

 

[Niclovesdisney]

I thought the same initially but two of those dates are 2023.

The 2024 dates are 17th August and 7th September.

Ah yes. Thanks for that!
It makes more sense because it would have been strange to have the same port two days running.

 

[Louise97]

I saw someone post that the coordinates listed above are not in order, and they match Vigo, Spain; A Coruna, Spain; Bruges, Belgium; La Rochelle, France; and Bilbao, Spain.

Oh, interesting! The 4-night cruises to Bilbao and La Rochelle this year were really popular, I wonder if they could be expanding the line-up for those shorter sailings.

 

[Darren1969]

the two coordinates left over get me to a village close to Canterbury it seems. Rural Kent. That does not make sense...

But I guess it is a northern Spain cruise from the UK they are hyping with this post.

That's about 10 miles from Dover so possible either a tease of mis-typed.
Kinda hints that the Magic will be back in Europe for 2024 as I don't believe the Dream can fit in there. This summer the Dream is operating out of Southampton.

Looking at this year it seems that most of the European cruises have staterooms available in the 4 main categories. I have also read elsewhere that they haven't sold as well as expected for a variety of reasons, cost, inflations, Ukraine etc. If true, it would make sense to bring the Magic back.
Time will tell.

 

[holula]

That's about 10 miles from Dover so possible either a tease of mis-typed.
Kinda hints that the Magic will be back in Europe for 2024 as I don't believe the Dream can fit in there. This summer the Dream is operating out of Southampton.

The port schedule for Bruges specifically lists the Dream so I don’t think the Magic is coming back to Europe.

The sailings haven’t sold great this year because the prices were insane. For an inside room on the same cruise 2022-2023 (Fjords) there was a 50% increase.

The *GT rates are a lot lower than opening day prices on most itineraries.

 

[Chipmunkmaniac]

The port schedule for Bruges specifically lists the Dream so I don’t think the Magic is coming back to Europe.

The sailings haven’t sold great this year because the prices were insane. For an inside room on the same cruise 2022-2023 (Fjords) there was a 50% increase.

The *GT rates are a lot lower than opening day prices on most itineraries.

The price changes 22/23 werent on all cruises over the Summer and mostly if the cruise moved from a non UK Summer holiday time to a UK Summer holiday time. Some were even cheaper... (some of the Med ones) What bothered me more about this year were the change in ports for the Northern European part of the Summer: the actual ports are not the most exciting ones anymore and the routes sometimes boring (1 exciting port combined with 3 boring ones) From what I understood some of the fun ports can't accommodate ships the size of the Dream and/or don't allow the Dream for the pollution standards...

 

[holula]

The price changes 22/23 werent on all cruises over the Summer and mostly if the cruise moved from a non UK Summer holiday time to a UK Summer holiday time. Some were even cheaper... (some of the Med ones) What bothered me more about this year were the change in ports for the Northern European part of the Summer: the actual ports are not the most exciting ones anymore and the routes sometimes boring (1 exciting port combined with 3 boring ones) From what I understood some of the fun ports can't accommodate ships the size of the Dream and/or don't allow the Dream for the pollution standards...

The fjords on in September was initially about 50% extra of what I paid last year for the same cruise on the same week.

 

[Dailymeel]

The port schedule for Bruges specifically lists the Dream so I don’t think the Magic is coming back to Europe.

The sailings haven’t sold great this year because the prices were insane. For an inside room on the same cruise 2022-2023 (Fjords) there was a 50% increase.

The *GT rates are a lot lower than opening day prices on most itineraries.

Are the opening day prices always lower, excluding guaranteed with restrictions. (Is that GY?) we want to book with the best prices and of course with children in tow, we prefer being able to cancel in case anything happens because with young babies you just never know…

 

[Chipmunkmaniac]

The fjords on in September was initially about 50% extra of what I paid last year for the same cruise on the same week.

for a 7a that was def not the case if you compare opening day prices.

Opening day platinum for this year without any discounts was just over 5000 USD (we ended up switching cruises to the TA though cause the September fjords itinerary is not our cup of tea this year) and last year it was accordingly the sheets here available on disboard 5213 usd once gold could book. Because of the sheet of last year we were expecting it to be somewhere between 6k and 7k so it feel like a great deal until we realised how little fjord there is in that particular September itineray this year.

 

[Chipmunkmaniac]

Are the opening day prices always lower, excluding guaranteed with restrictions. (Is that GY?) we want to book with the best prices and of course with children in tow, we prefer being able to cancel in case anything happens because with young babies you just never know…

not always, mus majority of the time. As long as you are outside the penalty period you can have fares adjusted to current prices. a GTY would require you to cancel and rebook

 

[holula]

The fjords on in September was initially about 50% extra of what I paid last year for the same cruise on the same week.

For an inside it was about 50% more which is what I said earlier in the thread. I know the Dream has fewer inside rooms but that doesn’t mean put a 50% up charge on them (and then they don’t sell anyway.)

I didn’t love the itinerary this year either so ended up booking something else.

 

[Marc D]

Are the opening day prices always lower, excluding guaranteed with restrictions. (Is that GY?)

DCL offers two types of guaranteed bookings : GTY and IGT/OGT/VGT. The first one is not a discounted rate and has no restrictions. It also guarantees a minimum category - for example a 5B GTY will get you a 5B verandah stateroom or better - and is offered per category when that category is filled to a significant percentage, to allow life boat capacity management. A category can therefore switch to GTY on opening day.

A *GT rate is a discounted and non-refundable rate offered to fill the last remaining staterooms on the ship or if DCL finds a particular cruise isn‘t selling well enough. Most often, *GT rates are released after most cruisers have to pay their cruise in full, and once DCL knows who has confirmed their vacation. You only pick a type of room and not a minimum category. A VGT rate will therefore get you any type of verandah room.

 

[Flossbolna]

For an inside it was about 50% more which is what I said earlier in the thread. I know the Dream has fewer inside rooms but that doesn’t mean put a 50% up charge on them (and then they don’t sell anyway.)

I didn’t love the itinerary this year either so ended up booking something else.

The Dream Class ships have always priced the insides higher. I guess because of the virtue porthole. That’s why none of my cruises on this class were ever in an inside stateroom while we regularly book them on the Magic class. So, I think it might be more of a result of applying that pricing structure.

 

[Flossbolna]

The port schedule for Bruges specifically lists the Dream so I don’t think the Magic is coming back to Europe.

The sailings haven’t sold great this year because the prices were insane. For an inside room on the same cruise 2022-2023 (Fjords) there was a 50% increase.

The *GT rates are a lot lower than opening day prices on most itineraries.

I made a mistake. I oversaw two coordinates. So, it’s La Rochelle and Bruges as mentioned above.