{"id":106147,"date":"2026-01-05T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106147\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:11:07","slug":"disney-ships-meet-in-fort-lauderdale-cruise-industry-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106147\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Ships Meet in Fort Lauderdale &#8211; Cruise Industry News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Disney Cruise Line ships, the Disney Destiny and the Disney Dream, met at their homeport in Fort Lauderdale earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>According to an update shared by Port Everglades, the double visit took place on December 26, 2025, marking the first in a series of dual Disney sailings from the port this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Destiny was in port to kick off a four-night cruise to the Bahamas that featured visits to Nassau and Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point.<\/p>\n<p>Offering a similar itinerary to the Bahamas, the Dream docked in Port Everglades to start a three-night cruise that included visits to the same ports of call.<\/p>\n<p>Spending its inaugural season sailing from Fort Lauderdale, the Disney Destiny welcomed its first paying guests at Port Everglades in November.<\/p>\n<p>As a sister to the 2022-built Disney Wish and the 2024-built Disney Treasure, the LNG-powered vessel was built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruiseindustrynews.com\/cruise-news\/2025\/11\/disney-cruise-line-christens-disney-destiny-at-port-everglades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Following a naming ceremony<\/a> that included drone special effects and ship projections, the 2,500-guest ship kicked off a series of four- and five-night cruises to the Bahamas and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney Dream returned to Fort Lauderdale in late 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/cruiseindustrynews.com\/cruise-news\/2024\/05\/disney-cruise-line-2024-capacity-breakdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after operating a summer deployment in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011-built vessel then kicked off a year-round program of short cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas from Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>The itineraries of both ships are highlighted by visits to Disney\u2019s private island destinations in the region, including Castaway Cay and Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Disney Cruise Line is now getting ready to add the new Disney Adventure to its fleet in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Set to become the company\u2019s largest ship, <a href=\"https:\/\/cruiseindustrynews.com\/cruise-news\/2025\/12\/disney-cruise-line-takes-delivery-of-new-adventure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 208,000-ton vessel was recently delivered by the Meyer Werft shipyard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With its maiden cruise scheduled for mid-March, the 6,000-guest ship will offer year-round departures from Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Disney Cruise Line ships, the Disney Destiny and the Disney Dream, met at their homeport in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-106147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}