Even as details continue to emerge about Disney Cruise Line’s latest ship, the Dream, work is progressing on millions of dollars in construction and improvements at the ship’s future home base at Port Canaveral.
The company last week announced plans for a new “premier” tier of dining on the Dream, a French-inspired restaurant called Remy.
The top-deck restaurant with seating for 80 will feature gourmet cuisine from Chef Arnaud Lallement from l’Assiette Champenoise, a Michelin two-star restaurant just outside Reims, France, and Chef Scott Hunnel from award-winning Victoria & Albert’s at Walt Disney World.
The 1,250-room ship is due to start sailing out of Port Canaveral in January 2011 and signifies a continuing, and mutually beneficial, relationship between the port and the company.
Port Canaveral is spending about $7.5 million building Disney a 1,000-space parking garage and helping to finance $22 million in upgrades for its custom terminal.
Construction work is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 1.
With both projects, the financial impact on Port Canaveral is expected to be minimal.
Revenues from the parking facility will go toward repaying the port’s cost for that project. And Disney is repaying the port for the terminal upgrades.
The terminal expansion and the new parking garage are part of deal inked between Port Canaveral and Disney that keeps the cruise line sailing from Brevard County the next 15 years.
In 2012, Disney’s other new ship, the Fantasy, is scheduled to arrive at Port Canaveral.
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