When you think of a Disney cruise, you probably picture hordes of children and frazzled parents. But after spending four nights aboard Disney Cruise Line’s new ship, the Disney Destiny, for my 32nd birthday, I was reminded that Disney's cruises have quietly become one of the company’s best experiences for adults.
That’s partly thanks to the rise of the “Disney adult” — a label given (sometimes affectionately, sometimes mockingly) to grown-ups whose love of Disney never faded after childhood. Many are millennials who grew up during Disney’s so-called Renaissance era of the late 1980s and 1990s, when films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King dominated cinemas. Today, that generation has spending power, and Disney has increasingly catered to it with adults-only experiences that extend far beyond the parks.
