Disney announces two new ships

[Mrs. Nesbitt]

Originally Posted by DisneyFan25863

Will it fit through the new canal retrofits? They are set to be done around the same time the ships set sail.

The retrofits on the canal are not scheduled to be done until 2015 and that is optomistic. I have heard one ship is supposed to be desigend to fit, but I am skeptical at that size, so I will wait until they release the actual measurements. Even if it could fit, that is an awfully large ship for this market. At 4000 passengers a week, it may be hard to fill. Disney gets a majority of its cruise business from East of the Mississipi (as they are freezing in the winter and want to go somewhere warm) so it makes more sense to have the larger ships on the East Coast. With 4 ships, I can see them doing more one time itineraries and moving the ships around during off season in the Caribbean.

It will be intersting to see what they do. They are a glut oaf new builds coming online for all the cruise lines, so it will porbably be godd for the consumer as rates for the cruise should come down.