What Households Must Know

Cruises have lengthy been intergenerational experiences for households searching for all-inclusive bonding time with actions everybody can take pleasure in. With that in thoughts, Disney Cruise Line (DCL) has launched the latest ship to its fleet: the Disney Treasure.

Adorned with Peter Pan and Captain Hook, the seven-day celebration is filled with pixie mud, journey, and first-of-its-kind points of interest. 

The Treasure debuts on December 21, 2024, and this is what households can anticipate.

The Disney Treasure Particulars

Setting sail from Port Canaveral, Florida, the ship has itineraries that go to the Jap and Western Caribbean, together with Disney’s Castaway Cay within the Bahamas. 

Accommodating as much as 4,000 passengers and 1,555 crew members, it is the identical measurement because the Disney Want however provides vacationers an entire new expertise, together with a Broadway-quality manufacturing of Moana, amongst different treasures. 

“All people has their very own particular person id; the identical is true for our ships,” says Yolanda Clark Cade, Vice President of Disney Signature Experiences. “We’re purpose-built for households. I speak about multi-generational journey as we take into consideration all of our audiences. We all know some audiences are very predisposed to multi-gen journey, so we’re bringing grandmas, aunties, nieces, and nephews—this expertise offers one thing for everyone to take pleasure in.”  

The Treasure boasts 4 forms of staterooms—inside, ocean view, verandah, and concierge plus royal suites. There’s even the Tomorrow Tower Suite, a two-story room contained in the ship’s funnel. 

There are eating and bar experiences galore, rigorously curated artwork items all through, DCL’s signature fireworks and pirate occasion, the Aqua Mouse coaster slide, intriguing spa choices, and a particular place for the littlest family members crew. 

With reserving open for numerous choices, households seeking to sail away can plan for an journey the place the ocean meets land, and Disney magic reigns supreme. 

As soon as You Enter the Disney Treasure Cruise

As soon as aboard the ship, passengers are greeted within the Grand Corridor by a life-size bronze statue of Aladdin and Jasmine taking a magic carpet trip with the lamp shut by framing the curved stairwell. On the entrance of the Corridor, there is a theater the place households can relish briefly retellings of Disney classics, comparable to Aladdin, informed in a skit-style trend, full with voices, props, and jokes. 

The characters from Aladdin additionally set the tone for the journey theme of the ship, however they do not carry the tune all on their very own. The weeklong journey brings households up shut and private with Spider-Man, Captain Jack Sparrow, Mickey and his friends wearing crusing and adventurous gear, and different thrilling characters. 

“Disney Treasure is sort of a residing floating theater the place you are residing with the characters, you are floating with them, experiencing it,” Clark Cade says. 

What Children Will Take pleasure in on the Disney Treasure Cruise

Linked to the Grand Corridor by a spiral tube slide is the Oceaneer Membership. There, young children not solely get each day care from educated professionals but in addition a number of alternatives to play with characters like Mickey, who engages in rock, paper, scissors battles, amongst different video games with younger passengers. 

Between 9 a.m. and round midnight, youngsters can slide all the way down to the Jungle Ebook-adorned membership and luxuriate in their very own experiences. Oceaneer Membership employees are extensively educated to work with potty-trained youngsters, ages 3-12. 

In accordance with Plan Disney reps, “the advisors all endure a background examine and obtain specialised coaching.” 

The Membership options an Imagineering Lab the place youngsters can have interactive inventive experiences, together with designing a curler coaster they will trip nearly. Different themes embrace Marvel, Disney princesses, Star Wars, and Mickey and Minnie. 

For these youthful than 3, a nursery is out there. For pre-teens, there are a number of thoughtfully curated experiences occurring all through the ship to maintain them captivated, together with basic and nonetheless in theater motion pictures, events, and dessert areas. 

The Haunted Mansion Parlor additionally serves non-alcoholic drinks so younger folks can benefit from the themed bar-esque location. 

And for all courageous youngsters, there’s the Aqua Mouse water coaster, a mild tube water slide that runs above the highest deck. 

Extra Surprise for Households on Board

With superb and themed memento buying, a barber store with liquor add-ons, a full-service magnificence parlor aptly Tangled-themed, and a next-level spa with a “rain forest,” the Treasure provides passengers wonderment all through. 

The Rain Forest portion of the spa options heated seats, a relaxing room for cryotherapy, and an outside portion with swings, day beds, and a scorching tub. As an add-on, friends can escape the hustle and bustle of crusing amongst 1000’s to a relaxed ambiance for decompressing earlier than rejoining their households for extra adventures. 

Apart from add-ons, the ship offers visually alluring vibes with art work that includes characters and tales. Commissioned artists got alternatives to reimagine their initiatives. 

“My favourite a part of working with these artists is giving them our inspiration, what we wish the area to convey, after which seeing it [come to life],” says Katrina Alvarez, Principal Inside Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Be entertained when you dine 

It would not be Disney with no magical dinner or drink. There are a number of themed eating experiences, together with the Haunted Mansion Parlor, which mirrors the film and theme park attraction with altering household pictures that sing with the snap of a thundering lightning strike. 

Plaza de Coco brings friends to Santa Cecelia, the place Miguel performs together with his band and ancestors. A movie-quality ofrenda, together with different acquainted gadgets, adorns the massive restaurant.

Worlds of Marvel, considerably hosted by the character Groot, is an interactive dinner with trivia and on-screen actions. 

The meals throughout eating places provides every visitor a number of choices from appetizers to desserts, starting from child favorites like rooster fingers to grownup delights like lamb chops.

Benefit from the present 

There are a number of film theaters aboard, and some story retellings happen on the Grand Corridor theater. A Broadway-style Magnificence and the Beast manufacturing affords a theater expertise within the two-deck Walt Disney Theater. 

The ship can be the one place on the planet the place followers of Moana can witness a first-of-its-kind Broadway-quality efficiency of the beloved character’s story. The Story of Moana begins in fashionable instances along with her grandmother returning to relate the bravery and surprise of her beloved granddaughter, who efficiently restores the center of Te Fiti after studying why she was at all times so drawn to the ocean. 

Choreographer Peter Rockford Espiritu says authenticity was necessary to these concerned within the manufacturing.

“I really feel like the most important factor to get authenticity is to not have ego and permit the collaboration to occur and provides the area that you might want to actually be inventive and perceive the storytelling,” explains Espiritu. 

For the lead of Moana, illustration was a staple of her involvement. 

“This present means lots to me and to our solid. It is such a particular story that we get to share,” says Kaenaonālani Kekoa, who performs Moana. “I am from Hawaii, so it is superb to see little Brown women and boys simply obtain this story so properly. And our hope, our dream is that they are going to take our tales and share it with the world. So it means lots to have the ability to have our ancestors holding us up.”

Maintain the Social gathering Going 

For households who need to journey to Port Canaveral to participate within the cruise, including a pre- or post-cruise keep at a Disney resort may very well be a good way to kick off the celebration or preserve the occasion going upon return. 

Disney Trip Membership (DVC) not too long ago unveiled its extremely awaited Island Tower on the Polynesian. A nod to the Polynesian Islands, sustainability is king. In accordance with DVC reps, the brand new Tower is anticipated to make use of roughly 30% much less power than comparable resorts. The Tower is part of the Florida Division of Environmental Safety’s Inexperienced Lodging program. 

“We’re telling Disney tales, and we’re telling sustainability tales,” says Brian Haulter, Senior Architect with Walt Disney Imagineering. “We’ve these unimaginable preserved moss columns that even have storytelling moments. We even have these lovely rugs and carpets within the Tower which can be constituted of recycled plastics. And there are a number of sustainable artwork installations constituted of ghost fishnets that may’ve been ocean waste.” 

The ten-story, 268-room addition to The Polynesian, which is one among Disney’s authentic resorts, has lodging as massive as penthouses to quite a lot of family-style rooms that embrace a number of sleep choices, full kitchens with stoves, dishwashers, microwaves, and fridges. There are even en-suite washers and dryers with complimentary detergent, good for cleansing every week’s price of clothes for the entire household.

However for the Moana followers in your crew, it is one other alternative to relish in a spot the place her magic lives on, as everybody will certainly develop into endeared to her aboard the Disney Treasure.