In late 2024, we opted not to renew our DLR Magic Keys to trade in our DLR trips/year for as many cruises as we could muster. We have a great line-up and decided I need to put up a planning thread of all things DCL for us 2025.
The Sailings
Feb 12-16 4N Bahamian Disney Fantasy from Port Canaveral to Nassau/Lighthouse Pt
Apr 7-11 4N Baja Disney Wonder from San Diego to Catalina Island/Ensenada
June 7-14 7N E. Caribbean Disney Treasure from Port Canaveral to USVI/BVI/Castaway
Nov 20-24 4N Maiden Voyage Disney Destiny from Ft. Lauderdale to both Disney islands
Also, it wasn’t my design to do this, but when we step off the Treasure in June, we’ll have done every ship available to sail in Disney’s fleet and because we’re doing a maiden voyage will still get to say that once the Destiny sails (knock on all the wood).
The Disney Adventure will depart from Singapore on its maiden voyage in Dec 2025 and will end our claim to having sailed every Disney ship, but with the size their fleet is growing to, we’re happy to have had any time at all with that claim.
Staterooms Booked
Fantasy in February
Oceanview Family Deluxe Split Layout (Category 8A)
I am so stoked for the room we booked for February. It’s a unique layout to only a few rooms on the Disney and Fantasy. The room takes up a square space spanning two floor-to-ceiling portholes. Then, as you see pictured there is a dividing wall to portion off the wide space into two sections (there are some others that are in the same 8A category that are the same size but instead of the wall have a column or pure open wide space, but we were able to get 2 of the very few that have the wall dividing the spaces).
There are a few tradeoffs, mainly that you lose the split bath, and some of the bathrooms in the 8A rooms are built to look like but aren’t fully accessible bathrooms (so no separation from the shower floor to the rest of the bathroom floor). You also only have room for 3 to sleep as you don’t have a bunk that comes out of the ceiling, so only the queen bed and sofa that converts to a bed. With 6 of us we always need at least 2 rooms, so we’ll have 2 of these connecting over a total of 4 portholes. One porthole per kid
For a full room tour to conceptualize this unique layout you can click here.
Wonder in April
Oceanview Deluxe (Category 9B)
This is a much more standard category being a rectangular room with a large but not gigantic porthole window, the standard sofa bed with bunk above that pulls down from the ceiling, a curtain to close off the sitting area/bunk from the bed area and the DCL popular split bath (one bathroom has a sink and toilet and a second bath has a sink and shower/tub). This will be the first oceanview room we have that doesn’t have a ledge to sit in the porthole so we may have a couple of kids who will miss that feature. But we liked the price & location (deck 2 midship), so I’m sure we’ll overall be happy with it and definitely be happy to be on a cruise at all.
Treasure in June
Oceanview Deluxe (Category 9B)
Being the same category as the Wonder above, the layout is very much the same. The porthole though will have a ledge (where at least the smaller kids can) sit in the porthole. And of course, the decor/theming will all be fresh/updated/new compared to the Wonder.
We’ll be midship deck 2 again with this cruise. On the Treasure (and the Wish where we also had a deck 2 midship room last year), this will mean being close to both the Oceaneer Club and just the one set of stairs from our hallway to the Walt Disney theater above. I loved both those things about the location on the Wish, so expect to love it on the sister Treasure ship too.
Destiny in November
Deluxe w/ Verandah (Category 5C)
Again a standard layout like the Wonder and Treasure rooms, but with a verandah/balcony instead of a porthole. We booked the very soonest minute we could with the Destiny but we had to wait for those with higher loyalty status than us to book, so by the time our window opened, the majority of Inside and Oceanview rooms were booked and none connecting.
There was a great selection of verandah rooms, especially on the middle decks and port side (which less people book since the views of Castaway Cay when docked are on the starboard side). So we’ll be deck 6 forward (but right by the ‘forward’ elevators which in my view are more in the middle of midship & forward so bordering on midship). With the 2 connecting rooms we may be able to get the divider removed to have one longer balcony space which has always been so fun & nice the 2 times we’ve done verandahs before.
And so there’s the bare bones basics of the sailings. Hope you love following along and any questions you have ask away!