| IMO | 9808986 |
|---|---|
| Gross tonnage | 208,108 GT |
| Length | 342.7 m |
| Beam | 46.4 m |
| Builder | MV Werften |
| Hull number | NB-125 |
| Launched | 2025 |
| Class | Global-class cruise ship |
| Operator | Disney Cruise Line |
| Status | Active |
| All names | Disney Adventure; Global Dream |
Overview
Disney Adventure is the strangest origin story in the modern Disney Cruise Line fleet. She was not ordered by Disney, not designed by Disney, and not begun as a Disney ship at all. She was ordered in 2016 by Genting Hong Kong for its Dream Cruises brand as Global Dream, laid down in Germany in 2018, left unfinished when Genting and its shipbuilder MV Werften collapsed in January 2022, and bought by Disney in November 2022 for €40 million — a small fraction of her original valuation — at roughly 60 to 80 per cent complete. Meyer Werft, Disney's usual builder, then completed her at Wismar as a Disney ship.
The result, at 208,108 GT in the dataset, 342.7 metres long and 46.4 metres in beam, is by far the largest ship in Disney's fleet — about 45 per cent larger by tonnage than the Wish-class ships — and, in her article's description, the largest cruise ship ever built in Germany. She is also, remarkably, the first four-funnelled ocean-going passenger vessel since the retirement of Aquitania in 1950, although two of her four funnels are dummies in the Disney tradition of decorative funnels.
She was conceived for Asia: Genting designed the class for China and Southeast Asia, and Disney kept that logic, basing her in Singapore — its first ship homeported outside the United States.
Key specifications
The dataset records 208,108 GT, 342.7 m length, 46.4 m beam, builder MV Werften and hull number NB-125, with a launch year of 2025 and no maiden-voyage, capacity, crew, speed or class fields. Published figures in her own article fill those gaps as non-dataset figures: 19 decks, a draught of 9.5 m, six MAN engines driving three ABB Azipod XO thrusters, a service speed of 23 knots and a maximum of 24.3 knots, 4,222 passengers at double occupancy and 6,700 maximum, and a crew of about 2,300.
Her class is the Global class. Her final cabin count, after Disney's redesign, is given in her article's history as 2,111 passenger cabins — reduced from the original Global-class plan of about 2,350 cabins for up to 9,000 passengers — with a maximum capacity in the region of 6,000 to 6,700 depending on the stage of the redesign being described.
The dataset names list records only Disney Adventure; her original name, Global Dream (also referred to in reporting during the sale process as Global One), is documented in her article and in the table below.
Design and construction
Genting ordered two Global-class ships on 11 May 2016, initially through Lloyd Werft for Star Cruises; a July 2016 reorganisation created MV Werften, and in March 2018 the ships were assigned to Dream Cruises. Steel was cut at Wismar and Rostock on 8 March 2018 and Global Dream's keel laid at Rostock on 11 September 2018. A large Rostock hull section was towed to Wismar in November 2019 for final assembly.
The design as ordered was for the Asian market at very high density, with AI and robotic passenger-service systems among Genting's announced features. Delivery was planned for late 2020.
COVID-19 closed the yards in 2020, delayed the programme and helped precipitate Genting's collapse. MV Werften filed for bankruptcy in January 2022. The second, far less complete hull found no buyer and was sold for scrap.
Completion under Disney was overseen by Meyer Werft at Wismar, leased from TKMS, with interiors by LTH-Baas of Estonia. Her article describes a conversion far more complex than a normal completion: steel supports removed and relocated, galleys expanded, venues enlarged, and a gambling-oriented layout reworked for families. Final cost is estimated at about US$1.8 billion.
Naming, launch and maiden voyage
She was Global Dream during construction (2018–2022). Disney announced Disney Adventure on 8 September 2023 at Destination D23. Captain Mickey is the bow character, Snow White the atrium figure, and Captain Mickey and Minnie the stern characters.
She was floated out — launched in the dataset's term — on 19 April 2025, within the dataset's launch year of 2025. Sea trials began in September 2025. A maiden voyage originally planned for December 2025 was postponed on 10 September 2025, and she was completed on 12 December 2025 and delivered on 13 December 2025 (16 December in some trade reporting ). After a positioning voyage that included a Panama Canal transit described by the Canal Authority in February 2026 as a Neopanamax cruise-ship record by tonnage and capacity, she arrived in Singapore on 3 March 2026, was christened on 4 March 2026 by godparent Robert Downey Jr., and made her maiden voyage on 10 March 2026 — a date after the dataset's freeze, which is why the dataset's maiden-voyage field is blank.
Career by operator
| Name | Operator | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Global Dream (under construction) | Dream Cruises (Genting Hong Kong) — ordered, never entered service under this name | 2016–2022 |
| Disney Adventure | Disney Cruise Line | 2026–present |
Strictly, she has had one operating career, as a Disney ship; the Genting period was a construction project, not a service career. The dataset's operator history, which lists only Disney Cruise Line, is accurate for her service life and incomplete only as a construction history.
Her Singapore basing, planned in her article to run until at least early 2031, is recorded here as the announced programme at entry into service, not as an itinerary: the concept described by Disney is of short voyages in which the ship herself is the destination. This directory does not publish present sailings.
Onboard character
Her character is scale organised as a theme park: seven themed areas — Imagination Garden, Town Square, San Fransokyo Street, Marvel Landing, Discovery Reef, Wayfinder Bay and Toy Story Place — parallel to a Disney park's “lands,” not to earlier ships' neighbourhoods.
Imagination Garden contains a Storybook Castle, described by Disney as its first physical castle aboard a ship, rising three decks. Marvel Landing contains the Ironcycle Test Run, described at launch as Disney's first roller coaster at sea and, at over 820 feet, the longest at sea at the time. Water slides in Toy Story Place take the role of the AquaDuck/AquaMouse fitted to earlier Disney ships.
The four funnels are design, not trivia: the inherited profile allowed four, the first on a passenger vessel in over seven decades, the forward pair decorative.
Major refits and incidents
She has had no refit: her “refit” was her completion under a different owner and design brief, described above — the most extensive pre-service reworking in this batch.
The principal adverse event in her pre-service record was delay: the postponement of her maiden voyage from December 2025 to March 2026, announced in September 2025, which required the cancellation of a series of inaugural-season sailings and the rebooking of affected passengers, as reported in trade coverage. No casualty or major incident is recorded in the sources used for this guide.
Sister ships and class
She is the only completed Global-class ship: her planned sister, begun in 2019, was sold for scrap in June 2022 after the bankruptcy. She stands apart from Disney's Dream- and Wish-class ships — larger, completed by Meyer rather than designed with it.
Fate and where she is now
The dataset records her as active and operating, and her own article records her as in service from her 10 March 2026 maiden voyage, based in Singapore under the announced multi-year programme. No sale, renaming in service, or withdrawal is recorded. She is, at the time of the sources used, Disney's largest and newest ship and its first based outside the United States — a status acquired not by design from the keel up, but by the rescue of another company's unfinished giant.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cruise_ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Adventure, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global-class_cruise_ship