Disney Fantasy Facts

Disney Fantasy is the fourth ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet, joining

• Disney Magic (maiden voyage in 1998),
• Disney Wonder (maiden voyage in 1999) and
• Disney Dream (maiden voyage in 2011).

Birthplace

Meyer Werft – Papenburg, Germany

Maiden Voyage

March 31, 2012

Home Port

Port Canaveral, Fla.

Ship’s Registry

Bahamas

Tonnage

130,000 gross tons

Length

1,115 feet

Beam

121 feet

Draft

28 feet

Height

216 feet

Speed

22 knots cruising speed (maximum 23.5 knots)

Crew

1,458

Passenger Decks

14

Capacity

4,000 passengers

Staterooms

• 150 Inside Staterooms (12%)
• 1,100 Outside Staterooms (88%)
  • 199 ocean view
  • 901 verandah (includes 21 suites)

Main Public Areas

• Atrium Lobby – Deck 3 (atrium spans three decks)
• Walt Disney Theatre (1,340 capacity; live original productions) – Decks 3 and 4
• Buena Vista Theatre (399 capacity; motion pictures) – Decks 4 and 5
• Preludes theatre concessions – Deck 3
• Bon Voyage atrium lobby bar – Deck 3
• Vista Café – Deck 4
• Shutters (Capturing Memories) photo gallery – Deck 4
• Vista Gallery - Deck 4
• Guest Services – Deck 3
• Port Adventures – Deck 5

Family Areas

• D Lounge – Deck 4
• AquaDuck water coaster – entrance on Deck 12
• AquaLab water play area – Deck 12
• Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique – Deck 5
• Goofy’s Sports deck – Deck 13
• Donald’s Pool - Deck 11
• Mickey’s Pool - Deck 11
• Nemo’s Reef water-play area – Deck 11
• Arr-cade – Deck 11
• Mickey’s Mainsail, Sea Treasures, Whitecaps retail shops – Deck 3
• Whozits & Whatzits retail shop – Deck 11

Youth Areas

• It’s a Small World Nursery – Deck 5
• Disney’s Oceaneer Club – Deck 5
• Disney’s Oceaneer Lab – Deck 5
• Vibe teen club – Deck 5
• Edge tween club – Deck 13

Adult Areas

• Europa - Deck 4
  • Skyline
  • Ooh La La
  • The Tube
  • La Piazza
  • O’Gills
• Senses Spa & Salon – Deck 11
• Quiet Cove Pool – Deck 11
• Satellite Sun Deck – Deck 13
• Cove Bar – Deck 11
• Cove Café – Deck 11
• Meridian bar – Deck 12
• Waves bar – Deck 12
• Currents bar – Deck 13

Dining

• Enchanted Garden main dining (696 capacity) – Deck 2
• Animator’s Palate main dining (696 capacity) – Deck 3
• Royal Court main dining (696 capacity) – Deck 3
• Remy adult-exclusive fine dining (68 capacity) – Deck 12
• Palo adult-exclusive fine dining (128 inside / 16 outside capacity) – Deck 12
• Cabanas casual dining – Deck 11
• Flo’s Café: Luigi’s Pizza, Tow Mater’s Grill, Fillmore’s Favorites quick service – Deck 11
• Eye Scream ice cream – Deck 11
• Frozone Treats smoothies – Deck 11

Disney Fantasy Fun Facts

The Disney Fantasy’s horn, a prominent element of the “Sailing Away” deck party at the start of the cruise, is quite the musical talent. It’s able to perform not just the first musical line of “When You Wish Upon a Star” but also the second line of the song (“makes no difference who you are”) plus, several measures of “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me),” “It’s a Small World,” “Be Our Guest,” “Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor’s Life for Me)” and “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.”

The characters Dumbo and Timothy on the Disney Fantasy’s stern weigh in at more than 2,300 pounds. Dumbo is a little over eight feet long from head to tail with an “ear span” of seven feet. Timothy sits 2’6″ tall on Dumbo’s hat and is holding a paint brush that’s about 3’10″ long. Dumbo was sculpted from large foam blocks by Walt Disney Imagineering artists in Glendale, Calif. The sculpted pieces were then shipped to Florida where Disney craftsmen and artists created him in fiberglass and paint over a frame of marine-grade stainless steel. The duo was installed in Papenburg, Germany.

Looking upward in the ship’s atrium lobby brings guests eye-to-crystal with a glowing piece of “Art Nouveau-inspired jewelry” – a cascading chandelier flowing downward from a massive, illuminated stained-glass flourish on the ceiling in peacock hues of greens and blues. The chandelier itself is more than 10 feet in diameter, a one-of-a-kind work of art evoking a peacock in stained glass and more than 60,000 clear Swarovski crystal beads.

Every Disney Cruise Line ship has an atrium lobby statue celebrating a classic Disney character. The Disney Fantasy’s bronze-cast pièce de résistance is Mademoiselle Minnie Mouse, dressed in vintage fashion with a parasol and steamer luggage at her side – inspired by travel of the 1920s and 1930s. She will be the subject of as many memorable vacation photos as her counterparts: Mickey at the helm (Disney Magic), Ariel sitting pretty (Disney Wonder) and Admiral Donald striking a pose (Disney Dream).

Walt Disney Imagineers elevated the AquaDuck water coaster in order to maximize space on the deck. And with the AquaDuck in place, they had room for their imaginations to concoct yet another “ducky” family activity – AquaLab! This 1,800-square-foot get-wet area on Deck 12 is filled with pop jets, geysers and bubblers … and ultimately a lot of silly laughter!

Sips, sights and sounds of the diverse cities, countries and cultures of Europe – that’s what’s in store all in one evening and all in one place aboard the Disney Fantasy. The adult nightlife district Europa features five clubs and lounges that treat the senses to a taste of Ireland, England, France and Italy plus stunning skylines and signature cocktails inspired by Russia, Greece, Hungary and Spain.

Two huge mosaic walls based on the Disney•Pixar animated film “Finding Nemo” are showcased in Cabanas casual-dining restaurant. Created for the Disney Fantasy by Italian artists, each wall is more than 25 feet wide and more than 8 feet high and contains approximately 194,500 tiles in 200 colors of hand-crafted Venetian enamel. A team of nine artists created the mosaics based on Pixar designs depicting the underwater world of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and characters featured in the motion picture. While similar scenes also appear on the Disney Dream, Walt Disney Imagineers note that each wall is a hand-crafted, unique work of art.

Guests can settle into luxurious comfort in staterooms and suites featuring plush bath towels and deluxe bed linens by Frette. Founded in 1860 in France and now based in Milan, Italy, Frette created custom-design bath towels and bed linens for the Disney Fantasy with what is regarded as the world’s finest cotton, from El Amria in Egypt. Elsewhere on Disney Fantasy, the two adult-exclusive restaurants, Palo and Remy, use all Frette dining linens.

A “light point” is shipbuilders’ lingo for “anything that’s a light.” There are approximately 80,000 light points on Disney Fantasy – “double the normal number for a ship this size,” according to Meyer Werft, the shipyard in Germany where Disney Fantasy was built. The large number is the result of Disney’s flare for theatrical experiences – accomplished primarily with LEDs and other environmentally friendly lighting.

The Disney Fantasy was worth the wait! From cutting the first piece of steel on March 16, 2010, until the Maiden Voyage on March 31, 2012, it was just over two years in the making. That’s 747 days, and to get technical, that’s 17,928 hours.

When the Disney Fantasy sailed into New York for her christening on March 1, 2012, the ship made the Statue of Liberty look slender. At 130,000 gross tons the Disney Fantasy is more than 500 times heavier than Lady Liberty. While the baby elephant Dumbo serves as the ship’s stern character, in real life he would have to gather 24,266 adult male African elephants to match the weight of the Disney Fantasy.

At 1,115 feet, the Disney Fantasy is longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (1,063 feet) and longer than the height of New York City’s famous Chrysler Building (1,047 feet).