Comments on: Disney Cruise Lines to open London Office http://thedisneyblog.com/2008/04/14/disney-cruise-lines-to-open-london-office/ Disney News and Information -- by fans, for fans Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Keith http://thedisneyblog.com/2008/04/14/disney-cruise-lines-to-open-london-office/comment-page-1/#comment-7541 Keith Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:55:27 +0000 http://thedisneyblog.com/?p=3761#comment-7541 The agreement ensures that some combination of Disney's four ships will remain based at Canaveral until at least 2023, making a combined 150 calls every year. The two new ships do have to make Port Canaveral their home for a few years after coming into service, but Magic and/or Wonder will be free to relocate. With the large number of Vacation Club and other repeat cruisers who are looking for varied itineraries, I bet that Disney is looking at a number of different options... The agreement ensures that some combination of Disney’s four ships will remain based at Canaveral until at least 2023, making a combined 150 calls every year. The two new ships do have to make Port Canaveral their home for a few years after coming into service, but Magic and/or Wonder will be free to relocate.

With the large number of Vacation Club and other repeat cruisers who are looking for varied itineraries, I bet that Disney is looking at a number of different options…

]]> By: Michael Jones http://thedisneyblog.com/2008/04/14/disney-cruise-lines-to-open-london-office/comment-page-1/#comment-7509 Michael Jones Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:06:22 +0000 http://thedisneyblog.com/?p=3761#comment-7509 I doubt that Disney will be committing to basing a ship permantently in Europe since they just signed a deal with Canaveral for them to be homeported there for some number of years as part of the package Disney worked out with the Port Authority in lieu of the stiff fine they were facing for not meeting their required number of sailings. Maybe they might make more frequent trips, or the small print in the deal allows them to move around in such a fashion as to have a ship in the Med. area during high Europe travel seasons, but my guess is it will, like lasts years inagural trip, be seasonal at best. I doubt that Disney will be committing to basing a ship permantently in Europe since they just signed a deal with Canaveral for them to be homeported there for some number of years as part of the package Disney worked out with the Port Authority in lieu of the stiff fine they were facing for not meeting their required number of sailings.

Maybe they might make more frequent trips, or the small print in the deal allows them to move around in such a fashion as to have a ship in the Med. area during high Europe travel seasons, but my guess is it will, like lasts years inagural trip, be seasonal at best.

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