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Disney to base cruise ships in Europe, Miami
The Walt Disney Co.’s cruise line will send one ship back to Europe and try sailing another out of Miami next year, as it spreads out its soon-to-expand cruise fleet.
As expected, the 2013 schedule announced Tuesday for Disney Cruise Line calls for the company’s two newest ships the Disney Dream, which launched in January 2011, and the Disney Fantasy, which begins cruises this March to sail out of Port Canaveral. The ships, each of which can carry approximately 4,000 passengers, will sail a variety of Caribbean and Bahamian itineraries from the Brevard County seaport, Disney Cruise Line’s home base.
Disney will rotate its older ships through a variety of other ports, from Alaska to Venice.
The company’s original ship, the 2,700-passenger Disney Magic, will spend the first five months of 2013 sailing Caribbean voyages out of Galveston, Texas. But that June, it will shift to Europe, where it will spend the summer selling Mediterranean cruises out of Barcelona, Spain.
One of the ship’s ports of call: Civitavecchia, Italy, near Rome.