| IMO | 9834739 |
|---|---|
| Gross tonnage | 144,000 GT |
| Length | 341.0 m |
| Beam | 39.0 m |
| Builder | Meyer Werft |
| Hull number | 705 |
| Launched | 2022 |
| Maiden voyage | 2022-07-14 |
| Class | Wish-class cruise ship |
| Operator | Disney Cruise Line |
| Status | Active |
Overview
Disney Wish is the lead ship of Disney Cruise Line's Wish class and the line's fifth ship, delivered in June 2022 as its first newbuild in a decade. She was a reset for Disney at sea: the first Disney ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), slightly larger than the preceding Dream class at 144,000 GT in the dataset, and designed around a new interior motif — enchantment, expressed as a fairytale castle — rather than the Art Deco and Art Nouveau ocean-liner references of Disney's first four ships.
Where Dream and Fantasy quoted the golden age of liners, Wish quotes the park castle: a castle-like Grand Hall with a bronze Cinderella, an atrium stage and a “wishing star” chandelier, plus AquaMouse, billed as the first Disney attraction at sea.
She entered service from Port Canaveral, Florida, in summer 2022, after pandemic delays had pushed her debut back twice. Her sisters, Disney Treasure (2024) and Disney Destiny (2025), followed to the same basic design, making the Wish class Disney's standard large-ship platform of the 2020s alongside the very different, acquired Disney Adventure.
Key specifications
The dataset records 144,000 GT, 341.0 m length, 39.0 m beam, builder Meyer Werft, hull number 705 (recorded in full as S.705 in Meyer practice), launch year 2022, a maiden-voyage date of 29 June 2022 and Wish-class designation. Published sources give a closely matching gross tonnage of about 144,000 GT and about 1,250 staterooms — the figure Disney and Meyer used when the class was announced.
The dataset leaves capacity, crew and speed blank, and this guide does not fill its spec box from other sources. For scale, Disney's own class announcements described the Wish class as slightly larger than the Dream class's roughly 130,000 GT while carrying a similar number of guest cabins, and as LNG-powered — the machinery point being the class's principal technical advance.
A date caution applies to the dataset's maiden-voyage field: 29 June 2022 was her christening date, not her maiden voyage.
Design and construction
The Wish class was ordered on 3 March 2016, when Disney announced two new ships from Meyer Werft at Papenburg, Germany — the yard that had built Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy. A third ship, which became Disney Destiny, was added later. During development the class was known by the project name Triton class, a name still used in some sources for the same design.
Construction began with a floating engine-room unit from Neptun Werft, Rostock, followed by keel-laying at Papenburg on 8 April 2021. She floated out on 11 February 2022 and left by River Ems conveyance on 30 March for Eemshaven for outfitting and trials. Delivered at Bremerhaven on 9 June 2022, she crossed the Atlantic empty and reached Port Canaveral on 20 June. Reported cost is about US$1.1 billion in published sources.
Her LNG dual-fuel machinery allows operation on liquefied natural gas or conventional fuel, reducing air emissions compared with a conventional oil-only plant of her size. Propulsion is podded in the modern Meyer manner, following the practice of the Dream class.
Naming, launch and maiden voyage
The name fits the enchantment theme, with Cinderella presiding in the Grand Hall. Rapunzel and Pascal form the stern sculpture, appearing to paint the filigree, while Captain Minnie appears in the bow filigree — a first for a Disney ship.
She was christened at Port Canaveral on 29 June 2022. In a deliberate break with the single-godmother tradition, children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation were named as godchildren of the ship collectively. That ceremony date is the date the dataset records as her maiden voyage.
Her actual maiden voyage sailed on 14 July 2022 from Port Canaveral, a five-night Bahamas voyage in contemporary reporting, after pre-inaugural preview sailings. The July date followed two postponements: an original plan for delivery in late 2021 and a maiden voyage in June 2022 (first 9 June, then delayed again in February 2022), both slips attributed by Disney and the yard to pandemic disruption of the shipyard and its supply chain.
Career by operator
She has had a single name and a single operator.
| Name | Operator | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Disney Wish | Disney Cruise Line | 2022–present |
Her early service, recorded in contemporary reporting, took over Disney's programme of short cruises from Port Canaveral previously operated by Disney Dream, which moved to other work. That deployment detail is history; this directory does not publish present itineraries, and her career table is significant for its simplicity: a ship designed, built, named and delivered for one line, still in that line's service.
She is flagged in the Bahamas and registered at Nassau, in common with the rest of the Disney fleet — an administrative fact recorded in Meyer and CruiseMapper delivery reporting, not a change of operator.
Onboard character
Her character is the castle at sea as immersive design: Gothic, Baroque and Rococo detailing, Cinderella and carriage-and-slipper metalwork, and an atrium stage that made the entrance hall a performance venue — a Disney first. Children reach the Oceaneer Club from the Grand Hall by a slide, a “secret entrance” emphasised at the design reveal.
AquaMouse is the other defining gesture: 760 feet of tube carrying two-person rafts through the animated short Scuba Scramble, with over 60 water effects. It developed the Dream class's AquaDuck into a narrated attraction.
Dining followed Disney's rotational system with three themed rooms: Arendelle (Frozen), Worlds of Marvel (Avengers), and 1923, named for the company's founding year and decorated with animation art. A Star Wars Hyperspace Lounge was among the most publicised adult spaces. These are founding concepts only, not a current venue list.
Major refits and incidents
She is too new to have had a major refit, and no major casualty is recorded in the sources used for this guide. Her material history to date is a construction and delivery history, dominated by pandemic delay rather than by incident.
Two delays frame that history: the slip from late-2021 delivery into 2022, and the February 2022 push of the maiden voyage from 9 June to 14 July, which did affect booked sailings. Both are programme events, not shipboard incidents.
Routine dry-dock maintenance will form part of her later record, but no specific refit scope is claimed here where the sources used do not state it.
Sister ships and class
The Wish class (project name Triton) comprises Disney Wish (2022), Disney Treasure (2024) and Disney Destiny (2025), all Meyer Werft-built at about 144,000 GT, LNG-powered, with about 1,250 staterooms. Further related orders followed, including a Wish-class ship for Oriental Land Co. in Japan.
Each sister applies a distinct theme — enchantment, adventure, heroes and villains — to a common platform. Disney Adventure is not a sister: she is the acquired Global-class hull in her own guide.
Fate and where she is now
The dataset records Disney Wish as active and operating, and that remains her documented position: in service with her original and only operator, as the lead ship of her class, with her two sisters now also in service. No sale, renaming or withdrawal is recorded in the sources used. Beyond that recorded status, this directory makes no claim about present position or future deployment.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cruise_ships, https://disneycruiselineblog.com/ships/disney-wish/, https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2023/06/disney-wish-to-complete-first-year-in-service/