Disney Cruise Line to split time in Florida, Puerto Rico and California for early 2019

So once again, the fleet for the most part continues to stick close to home, aka Walt Disney World, with its four ships: the smaller 2,713-passenger sister ships Disney Magic and Disney Wonder, which debuted in 1998 and 1999, and the larger 4,000-passenger vessels Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy, which began sailing in 2011 and 2012. The fleet is slated to grow to seven ships by 2023 with the first of three new ships coming in 2021. Down the line, those new ships will be powered by liquefied natural gas, and Port Canaveral is preparing to be able to handling LNG ships by 2021, so it’s a good bet the new ships will call Port Canaveral home first. In the meantime, all four of the line’s ships have had overhauls since 2013. Disney Fantasy is the most recent to receive dry dock upgrades having debuted this past May new Star Wars and Marvel spaces in its Oceaneer Club, a new ice cream and sweets shop and the first Tiffany & Co. store in the fleet. The cruise line has also be revamping its on-stage offerings having debuted "Tangled: The Musical" on board Disney Magic and "Frozen, a Musical Spectacular" on board Disney Wonder and is set to debut “Beauty and the Beast” on board Disney Dream next month.

Disney Cruise Line will have all four ships based in Florida for at least part of the first half of 2019, but Disney Wonder will also be visiting Puerto Rico and California.

The cruise line revealed plans for its fleet for sailings from January-May with bookings open to the public beginning Nov. 2.

Once again, the line’s largest and newest ships will keep sailing from Port Canaveral, but will be joined in February by Disney Wonder after a series of sailings from San Juan, Puerto Rico in January.

Disney Wonder will then make its way via a 14-night Panama Canal cruise to begin two months of sailing the Mexican Riviera and Baja, California out of San Diego.

Disney Magic will continue to sail from PortMiami on four- and five-night Bahamas cruises, some with stops in Key West, and five-night western Caribbean cruises, some with stops in Cozumel, Mexico; Grand Cayman; and Falmouth, Jamaica.

Disney Fantasy will continue seven-night alternating eastern and western Caribbean cruises from Port Canaveral while Disney Dream will sail three- and four-night cruises to the Bahamas.

All sailings from Florida will include stops at Disney’s private island Castaway Cay.

Disney Wonder’s January sailings to and from Puerto Rico include its five-night shift from Galveston, Texas on Jan. 9 that includes a stop in Falmouth, Jamaica. Its three round-trip voyages from San Juan will be either six- or seven-night southern Caribbean sailings, and there will be one four-night repositioning sailing from San Juan to Port Canaveral on Feb. 3.

In Port Canaveral, Disney Wonder will sail three- and four-night Bahamas cruises similar to Disney Dream.

When in San Diego, Disney Wonder will offer two-, four-, five- and seven-night voyages hitting Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.