Disney Cruise Line opens up its new Lighthouse Point to Port Canaveral sailings
When Disney Cruise Line’s new private Bahamas destination Lighthouse Point first welcomes customers next summer, they’ll be sailing from South Florida. But in the fall, the line will finally allow one of its Port Canaveral-based ships to visit as well.
The cruise line announced Tuesday its fall 2024 itineraries including several visits from Disney Fantasy sailing out of the Orlando-area port while also keeping two ships sailing out of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale with normal visits to Lighthouse Point.
Also announced were special sailings to Hawaii and the South Pacific as well as a return to Puerto Rico and Galveston, Texas.
For Port Canaveral, the line’s newest ship Disney Wish that debuted in summer 2022 will continue to keep Disney’s original Bahamas private island Castaway Cay as a primary stop among its three- and four-night itineraries.
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But starting Oct. 12, Disney Fantasy will sail the first of seven four-night sailings that include the new Bahamas destination currently under construction on the tip of Eleuthera. Four of the seven sailings will visit both Lighthouse Point and Castaway Cay with the other three visiting Nassau and Lighthouse Point instead. Fantasy also has two six-night sailings on Oct. 20 and Nov. 10 with visits to Lighthouse Point, Nassau and two days at Castaway Cay.
Disney Fantasy will also sail its normal spate of seven-night Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries, all with stops at Castaway Cay.
For Port Everglades, which is slated to welcome Disney Dream beginning this fall and officially make it the line’s new long-term second home in Florida, it will continue to hit Lighthouse Point on most of Dream’s sailings, but also feature a second ship when the line’s original vessel Disney Magic comes to town.
Both ships will offer a variety of three-, four- and five-night sailings from the port including some that visit both Lighthouse Point and Castaway Cay.
Disney Magic, though, will branch out including a five-night Western Caribbean trip to Cozumel, a reposition cruise to San Juan, from which it will also sail a seven-night Southern Caribbean voyage, and another reposition from San Juan to Galveston.
It also will arrive to South Florida via a transatlantic voyage from Southampton, England leaving Oct. 20 on a 13-night sailing that visits Vigo, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Ponta Delgada, Azores and its first visit to Lighthouse Point before arriving in Fort Lauderdale. Its Galveston sailings begin Nov. 21 when it will begin a series of four-, five- and six-night offerings to the Western Caribbean.
Several of the fall sailings fall into the line’s two holiday-themed makeovers, Halloween on the High Seas or Very Merrytime cruises.
On the west coast, Disney is opening up four longer sailings that feature a trip to Hawaii that then keeps going to Australia via the South Pacific on Disney Wonder, which then will return in early 2025.
The two outbound trips in 2024 start with a 10-night voyage from Vancouver to Honolulu leaving Sept. 23 followed by a 15-night South Pacific sailing leaving from Honolulu and ending in Sydney, Australia on Oct. 3. That trip features stops in Pago Pago, American Samoa; Suva, Fiji; and Noumea, New Caledonia. The return trips in early 2025 start with a 15-night voyage from Sydney to Honolulu leaving Feb. 10 and a nine-night trip from Honolulu back to Vancouver leaving Feb. 24.
Wonder’s time in Australia and New Zealand will feature two- to seven-night offerings sailing from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. It’s a repeat of what is planned to be Disney’s first South Pacific visit this year with Wonder, which still has some limited bookings available.
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The forthcoming sixth ship in the fleet Disney Treasure could also begin sailing in late 2024, but the line has yet to announce where and when the under construction vessel will debut.
Bookings for the fall 2024 sailings will be open to the public on June 26 with details found at disneycruiseline.com.
