Peaseblossom36
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2018
Do they only do the longer cruises from Galveston during Spring Break and Christmas time? That's what is looks like but wasn't sure if scheduling was still kind of abnormal?
I thought I had remembered there being more options! That’s the itinerary I was hoping to see.There were more longer (7-night) sailings out of Galveston a few years ago - around 2016 and 2017. I don't think they sold particularly well. Factors likely included Galveston being a new market for DCL and people local to the area not wanting to spend the vacation time or money to take a long cruise for their first time, and Galveston not being a huge draw for experienced DCL families. (People seem to strongly prefer cruising out of Port Canaveral over anywhere else due to the proximity to WDW.)
I think that since those early years in Galveston, Disney has switched to mostly much shorter sailings, and very few if any of them go to Castaway Cay.
We did the 7-night Bahamas itinerary from Galveston in mid-December 2017 and it was great! I'd love to see that itinerary come back, but I don't think Disney was able to price it high enough for their liking.
Oohhh, from your mouth to the mouse's ears. I would love that!But, perhaps if they did that with an additional stop at Lighthouse Point it would get more people to Galveston.
This is what I was thinking too, I just don’t think there are current enough ports to draw people as they no longer stop in KW.We sailed a Key West itinerary from Galveston also. I would guess that with Key West limiting ships, Disney does not see a 7-night with stops in CC and Nassau as marketable. But, perhaps if they did that with an additional stop at Lighthouse Point it would get more people to Galveston.
That would be great! We love sea days, honestly if we did one that just stopped in Mexico we wouldn't be getting off.I agree with others that for whatever reason, they seem to have shifted to shorter cruises out of Galveston in recent years. In 2017 we did a 7-day NYE cruise to Nassau, Key West, and Castaway Cay that was awesome (although there were rough seas coming back). Now they hardly ever go to CC from Galveston, and that is really disappointing for us.