120 pickleball and basketball, as well as a jogging track, splash pad, and shaded areas for relaxation. Disney Cruise Line has also suffered delays to its plans for fleet expansion, but these are now firmly back on track with the arrival of Disney Destiny from German shipyard Meyer Werft set for November 2025 (from an original delivery planned for 2023). Following quickly in its wake, Disney Adventure will be delivered in December. Both 140,000gt, 6,000-passenger ships are part of the company’s Wish class and experienced delays related to shipyard closures and supply chain issues caused by Covid-19. Like the other vessels in the Wish class, Destiny and Adventure will be LNG powered. This November, Celebrity Cruises will welcome the fifth ship in its Edge Series, Celebrity Xcel. Built at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique yard in France, the vessel continues the relationship with the yard for this ship class that kicked off in 2018 with Celebrity Edge. Celebrity Xcel will initially sail seven-night itineraries from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to The Bahamas, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Puerto Plata, St. Thomas and St. Maarten. In January 2025, the brand’s parent company Royal Caribbean Group announced a further order with Chantiers de l’Atlantique for a sixth Edge Series ship, which will be delivered to Celebrity Cruises in 2028. The trend for repeat versions of successful ships is evident in the river cruise market too. American Cruise Lines’ American Patriot set sail on its maiden voyage, a ‘Grand New England Cruise’, in June 2025. It is the first of two ships the company will welcome this year from Chesapeake Shipbuilding. Set for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2025, sister ship American Pioneer will join Patriot in the US small-ship market. The 125-passenger vessels represent its new Patriot class of small vessels and are the fifth and sixth in the company’s 12ship Project Blue series. Both will offer itineraries along the US East Coast. The company says the construction of the ships has been enhanced with a deeper draft than on comparable vessels “ The trend for repeat versions of successful ships is evident in the river cruise market” CRUISE ORDER BOOK American Cruise Lines’ new vessel, American Patriot
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