Get Ready So Cal and the West Coast!!

Get Ready So Cal and the West Coast!!

To all our So Cal. Clients, Friends and Family. If you love Disney Cruise Line and want to get in on some local DCL magic get ready!!! Disney Magic and Disney Wonder with possible new ships are coming!!!

 

Starting Fall 2027 DCL will have Preferred Anchorage when in port at Catalina! They made an agreement to bring more guests to Catalina. This agreement will allow DCL to port there a possible 84 times a year! It starts as a 5-year agreement with 2 possible 5-year extensions. Summers DCL will port at Catalina on Tuesdays. Fall, Winter and Spring they can port Tuesdays and Saturdays! What this means from 2027 to 2042 DCL will be very active on the West Coast!!! The first of these dates should be announced sometime around June of 2026. These cruises will include Halloween on the High Seas and Merrytime Cruises!!!

 

What makes this more exciting is DCL has ordered 3 ships, from Meyer Werft that are between the size of the Classic-Class Disney Ship, Disney Magic and Wonder and the Dream-Class ships, Disney Dream and Fantasy. They will be 20% bigger than the Classic ships and significantly smaller than the Dream ships. They will carry between 400-600 more guests than the Classic ships and 1,000 less than the Dream Class. They will carry 3,000 guests. From the information I have been able to find the new ships should be able to go through the Panama Canal! West Coast could possibly have one of the new ships ported here!

 

For those of you who wonder why the larger ships can’t go through the Panama Canal here is the answer. All Disney Ships were built so they “fit” in the Panama Canal. The problem is they are too tall to go under the Bridge of the Americas. They would need to remove part of their height to make it possible. Take off a funnel to get through the Canal?? I don’t think that is going to happen.

 

Home porting in either Los Angeles or San Diego would be wise for DCL. They could take advantage of Land/Sea packages with the Disneyland Resort. There is also a significant increase in the Cruise Industry out of the West Coast within the last few years.

 

It is possible there will be a Christening and Maiden Voyage of one of the new ships out of San Diego or Los Angeles. I suggest putting some money aside, I think putting the funds on a Disney Gift Card. This could be saved and used for this cruise! If you have $23.75 or $25 per month you could save part the deposit up!! I’m thinking the ship for 2029 will start booking in the Summer of 2028.

 

How do you get ahold of Discounted Disney Gift Cards??? Do you have a Target Circle Debit or Credit Card?? You have a way to save 5% on Disney Gift Cards!! Yes, you heard that right. Purchase Disney Gift Cards at Target or Target online and get at $25 dollar card for $23.75. $47.50 gets you a $50 card. A $100 card costs $95. You can combine cards up to $1,000 on one card.

 

I recommend getting 1 $25 physical card. Then purchase eGift Cards that you can add to that card. Just go to DisneyGiftCards.com and log in using your Disney log in. You can combine the cards into $1,000 Cards. I’ll explain more in my next post.