Disney Cruise Line Showdown: Ranking the Disney Ships

Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning

Dan and Leslie Lowry

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4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On today’s Disney Podcast, we are talking about the similarities and differences between all six Disney Cruise Line ships and then ranking all of them. We’re covering the best benefits and some drawbacks with each class of ship and combining that with the theming of the spaces and entertainment offerings you will find on each. In the end, we will give you our favorite Disney ships in order. Which Disney cruise ships are your favorite? Enjoy!

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0:00.0	It has been a minute since we talked Disney Cruise Line, and I am excited to get back to it.
0:04.6	Hello and welcome to Addict of the Mouse.
0:05.9	Today is Wednesday, October 15th.
0:07.5	You're listening to episode number 737, and today we are going through all existing six Disney Cruise Line ships and ranking them top to bottom.
0:16.1	Hello! Hey, everybody, Dan Leslie here. Thanks for joining us today. I am excited to talk about DCL as well. I mean, we are headed out in like 20 something
0:39.2	days. I don't know. I know. And I wanted to do this now because about a year ago, right before we
0:45.0	went on the Disney treasure for the preview cruise, we ranked and we basically did a podcast of which
0:51.2	Disney cruise line should your family choose. So that was over
0:55.0	five ships, essentially. Now we're going to do one over six ships. And then at some point,
0:58.8	after we go on the Destiny here in a month, we can do another one and include the Destiny.
1:04.9	Yes. Oh, my gosh. I love, I love Disney Cruise Line. I just love it so much.
1:14.4	And the only little piece of news that I have is actually about Disney Cruise Line as well.
1:17.7	The Destiny has an update as of today.
1:23.7	They celebrated the ship's delivery into like the fleet.
1:28.8	So they welcomed, they had a little ceremony welcoming the Disney destiny to its fleet during a ceremony in Eameshaven, Netherlands. I was just about to ask, where does one do a ship's
1:35.1	delivery celebration? Yeah, it is, it is a maritime tradition that marks the completion of construction
1:40.2	and the transfer of ownership from the ship builder Meyer Werft to Disney Cruise Line.
1:44.9	It is interesting because we do talk to cast members while we're, I guess crew members technically,
1:48.8	but cast members on the Disney ships when we're on them. And it's interesting to hear their
1:52.6	takes because some of them absolutely love the whole like transatlantic crossing once they pick
1:59.3	up the ship because it's the crew it's
2:01.5	disney employees that sets up the ship i'm talking like unpacks the silverware it sets up the
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