Disney Cruise Line Reveals New Disney Believe Details

Disney Believe, Disney Cruise Line's newest ship, due to set sail in late 2027, had its full reveal on 7th October 2026 during a livestream on the Disney Parks YouTube channel, and we now know where it's sailing from and what's on board. The maiden voyage is on 18th December 2027, starting a run of 4 and 5-night Caribbean and Bahamas cruises from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, with the first Encanto stage show. General bookings open on 19th October 2026.

Fort Lauderdale is the part UK guests need to know about. Disney doesn't provide transport from Walt Disney World to Fort Lauderdale, so anyone hoping to add a Disney Believe sailing to a park holiday will need to make their own way down there, either on the Brightline train from Orlando International Airport (MCO), which takes about 3 hours, renting a car, or by flying into Miami and visiting Walt Disney World before or after the cruise.

When Does The Disney Believe Set Sail?

The maiden voyage departs Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday 18th December 2027. From there the ship settles into 4 and 5-night cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas, calling at one or both of Disney's island destinations, Disney Castaway Cay and Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point.

It's the fourth Wish-class ship, following the Disney Wish, Disney Treasure and Disney Destiny, and the details revealed on 7th October 2026 add to what Disney had already shown, including the Moana statue in the Grand Hall and Woody and Buzz on the stern, with Tinker Bell on the bow. Disney is posting updates on its official Disney Believe Ship's Log.

When Can You Book The Disney Believe?

Bookings open in stages over a week, starting with Disney Cruise Line's most frequent cruisers. Castaway Club is Disney Cruise Line's loyalty programme for past guests, and your tier depends on how many sailings you've completed, from Silver after your first cruise to Pearl after 25. Disney Vacation Club members, who book with points through Disney's timeshare programme, and Adventure Insiders get access alongside Silver members, and everyone else can book from Monday 19th October 2026.

Every booking window opens at 8am US Eastern Time, which is 1pm UK time. Castaway Club members can book online through their MyDisney account or through a travel advisor.

For UK guests the opening time works in your favour, as each window opens at 1pm UK time rather than in the middle of the night. If you're a Castaway Club member, log in to your MyDisney account before your booking date so you're ready the moment your window opens.

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How Do UK Guests Get To The Disney Believe In Fort Lauderdale?

This is where the Believe is less convenient for a Brit than the ships sailing from Port Canaveral. Walt Disney World guests can get Disney transport (or drive themselves) to Port Canaveral, but Disney doesn't provide transport from Walt Disney World to Fort Lauderdale, so a park and cruise combo means sorting the journey south to Port Everglades yourself.

The three main options are the Brightline train from Orlando International Airport (MCO) to Fort Lauderdale, which takes about 3 hours, renting a car and driving, or flying into Miami and travelling up to Walt Disney World before or after your cruise. Virgin Atlantic flies to Miami from London Heathrow, and you can compare flights to Miami and Orlando from UK airports here.

If you're building the park side of the trip first, Walt Disney World packages with Disney Holidays and Virgin Holidays both fly into MCO, which keeps the Brightline option open at the end. Our guide to Walt Disney World offers for UK guests covers the current deals.

What Restaurants Are On The Disney Believe?

Disney cruises use rotational dining, which means you move between the main restaurants on different nights while your serving team moves with you. Two of the three return from the Believe's sister ships. 1923 celebrates Disney animation with more than 1,000 drawings, props and animation tools from the Walt Disney Archives, while Worlds of Marvel serves dinner alongside Marvel Celebration of Heroes: Groot Remix, a show starring Rocket and Groot.

The new one is Oaken's Table: A Frozen Family Feast, a Frozen dinner show in the same mould as Arendelle: A Frozen Dining Adventure on the Wish, but telling a brand-new chapter of the story. It's set in a summer house courtyard deep in the forest, where Oaken, Anna and Kristoff host dinner while Oaken's cousins play their own versions of songs from the Frozen films.

For adults, Palo Steakhouse and Enchanté return as the premium dining options, with The Rose lounge next door for drinks before or after dinner. Up on the top decks, the Mickey and Friends Festival of Foods food court gains a stall you won't find on any other ship, Pluto's Pita Platters, serving Mediterranean-style kebabs and pitas.

Disney Believe Bars, Lounges And Coffee Shops

The Haunted Mansion Parlor is coming aboard, making the Believe the third ship with the adults-only Haunted Mansion bar after the Disney Treasure and Disney Destiny, with a new cocktail and mocktail menu created only for this ship.

The pub is Skygazers, an observatory-themed space with towering bookshelves, astronomical instruments and celestial maps hiding nods to classic Disney stories. It doubles as the place to watch live sport, with craft brews and light bites on the menu.

The Wish's piano bar, Nightingale's, becomes Sea Notes on the Believe, inspired by Ariel's grotto from The Little Mermaid, with a pearlescent piano as the centrepiece.

Wishing Well is the Believe's Snow White lounge for adults, set in a castle courtyard under white blossoms and red apples, with a stage framed to look like the Seven Dwarfs' cottage and a stained glass piece above the bar. It takes the central spot filled by The Bayou on the Wish and hosts activities and live music throughout the cruise.

For daytime caffeine there are two new cafés. Big Hero Sips is inspired by San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6, and Café Kakamora is named after the coconut pirates from Moana and themed to Moana's home island of Motunui.

The rest of the adult line-up includes Quiet Cove with its infinity pool at the stern, Senses Spa and a Tangled-themed hair salon called Untangled Salon, next to Hook's Barbery, which comes with its own hidden bar.

Disney Believe Family Venues And Kids Club

The Grand Hall is themed to Moana, with a statue of Moana, Pua and Heihei, an ocean-coloured carpet and a chandelier modelled on the movement of the sea that hides the heart of Te Fiti.

Gazelle is the Believe's Zootropolis-themed entertainment hub (Zootopia outside the UK), filling the same role as Luna on the Disney Wish. By day it hosts family trivia, games and character encounters, with Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps doing meet and greets, and in the evening it switches to adult entertainment, silent discos and variety acts. Judy and Nick will also star in a new family show, the first time they've appeared on Disney Cruise Line.

The sweet shop keeps the Inside Out: Joyful Sweets name from the Wish but adds characters from Inside Out 2, with sculptures of Joy, Sadness, Anxiety and Envy alongside the Sense of Self structure, and nearly 20 flavours of gelato and ice cream.

Disney's Oceaneer Club for ages 3 to 10 has the same five themed areas as its sister ships, but the entrance is exclusive to the Believe and themed to Monsters, Inc., complete with 2319 caution tape and a Mike Wazowski figure holding his laugh canister. Older children have Edge for ages 11 to 13 and Vibe for ages 14 to 17, while It's a Small World Nursery offers babysitting for children from 6 months to 3 years old.

What Is On The Disney Believe Upper Decks?

The AquaMouse water ride returns, running for 760 feet (about 232 metres) and taking riders into a Mickey Mouse cartoon. On the Believe, Mickey and Minnie head off on their own Port Adventures, with storylines including Swiss Meltdown and Sing a Silly Song.

The family pool area is themed to Mickey and Friends, with seven pools across tiered decks and a big screen showing films and live sport. Younger children get a Toy Story-themed water area with a splash zone, a wading pool and a family waterslide, plus a smoothie bar.

Returning favourites include the Hero Zone sports arena, the Pirate's Rockin' Parlay Party with fireworks at sea, Disney Uncharted Adventure, which you play on your phone around the ship, and the Wonderland and Never Land Cinemas showing Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm films.

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What Shows Are On The Disney Believe?

Three Broadway-style shows will run in the Walt Disney Theatre. The headline is Disney Encanto, the world's first stage adaptation of the film, following Mirabel's quest to save her family and their home with songs including We Don't Talk About Bruno and Surface Pressure. It's exclusive to the Believe.

Tangled: The Musical moves across from the Disney Magic with a reworked set and special effects only found on the Believe, and Disney Seas the Adventure, the original Wish-class show featuring Disney and Pixar characters, completes the line-up.

Disney Believe Staterooms And Suites

The Believe Tower Suite sits in the forward funnel and is themed to Magic Kingdom. It's a two-storey suite of nearly 2,000 square feet (about 186 square metres) that sleeps eight, with two main bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms. Each room is modelled on a different land of the park, and the living room has an art piece of Cinderella Castle.

There are four Royal Suites across two themes. The Royal Reef Suites take their look from The Little Mermaid, with teal and coral colours and scalloped shell details, while the Royal Rose Suites are themed to Beauty and the Beast, with one bedroom styled for Belle and the other for the Beast.

Concierge guests get a lounge themed to Alice in Wonderland and a private sun deck, while the concierge staterooms and suites are themed to Peter Pan.

Seven special oceanview rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows are themed to Toy Story.

Standard staterooms feature papercut-style artwork inspired by Moana, Coco and The Lion King.

How Does The Disney Believe Compare With The Other Wish-Class Ships?

The Believe follows the same layout as the Disney Wish, Disney Treasure and Disney Destiny, so most venues have an equivalent on each ship with a different story behind it. Some themes have been used before, as Zootropolis already appears on the Treasure at Jumbeaux's Sweets, and the Wish has its own Frozen dinner show at Arendelle.

Disney Believe details from Disney Cruise Line's announcement on 7th October 2026. Venues and homeports for the Disney Wish, Disney Treasure and Disney Destiny correct at the time of writing.

Should UK Guests Book The Disney Believe Or Another Wish-Class Ship?

If Oaken's Table or the Encanto stage show is what's drawing you in, the Disney Believe is the only ship with either, so you'll need to book a sailing from 18th December 2027 onwards. If not, the Disney Wish and Disney Treasure both sail from Port Canaveral in 2027, and Disney's transport from Walt Disney World makes them the easier ships to pair with a park holiday.

The Disney Destiny sails from Fort Lauderdale for now, but it moves to Port Canaveral in early 2028 when the Disney Wish heads to New York. That gives Walt Disney World guests a second Port Canaveral ship with the Haunted Mansion Parlor, alongside the Treasure.

If you'd rather not fly at all, the only option so far is the Disney Wish, which is sailing from the UK in summer 2027. Disney hasn't yet announced which ship will sail from the UK in 2028.

If you go for the Disney Believe, here's what to plan for.

• Castaway Club members can book from 12th October 2026 depending on their tier, and everyone else from 19th October 2026, with each window opening at 1pm UK time.
• A Walt Disney World and Disney Believe combo needs your own transfer, since Disney's transport doesn't run to Fort Lauderdale.
• Flying into MCO keeps the Brightline option open, with about 3 hours on the train to Fort Lauderdale and a short transfer to the port at the other end.
• Flying into Miami puts you closer to the ship, with a trip up to Orlando for Walt Disney World before or after the cruise.

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Disney Believe: Your Questions Answered

When do Disney Believe bookings open?
General bookings for the Disney Believe open on 19th October 2026 at 8am US Eastern Time, which is 1pm UK time. Castaway Club members can book earlier, from 12th October 2026 for Pearl members to 15th October 2026 for Silver members.

When is the Disney Believe maiden voyage?
The Disney Believe sets sail on its maiden voyage on 18th December 2027.

Where does the Disney Believe sail from?
Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship will sail 4 and 5-night cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas, calling at Disney Castaway Cay, Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point or both.

Does Disney provide transport from Walt Disney World to the Disney Believe?
No. Disney does not provide transport from Walt Disney World to Fort Lauderdale, so you'll need to arrange your own, such as the Brightline train from Orlando International Airport (MCO), which takes about 3 hours.

Is the Haunted Mansion Parlor on the Disney Believe?
Yes. The Disney Believe will be the third ship with the Haunted Mansion Parlor, after the Disney Treasure and Disney Destiny, with a cocktail and mocktail menu created only for the Disney Believe.

What is Oaken's Table on the Disney Believe?
Oaken's Table: A Frozen Family Feast is a new Frozen-themed dinner show restaurant starring Oaken, Anna and Kristoff, similar to Arendelle: A Frozen Dining Adventure on the Disney Wish.

Is there a Zootropolis venue on the Disney Believe?
Yes. Gazelle is a Zootropolis-themed entertainment hub, similar to Luna on the Disney Wish, and Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde will star in a new family show onboard.

What shows are on the Disney Believe?
Three Broadway-style shows will run in the Walt Disney Theatre, with Disney Encanto joined by Tangled: The Musical and Disney Seas the Adventure.

What are the Disney Believe suites themed to?
The Believe Tower Suite is themed to Magic Kingdom, and the four Royal Suites are themed to The Little Mermaid (Royal Reef Suites) and Beauty and the Beast (Royal Rose Suites).

What are the Disney Believe staterooms themed to?
Standard staterooms feature papercut-style artwork inspired by Moana, Coco and The Lion King, concierge staterooms are themed to Peter Pan, and seven special oceanview rooms are themed to Toy Story.