Disney Cruise Line is delving once again into the nostalgia vault with a bar inspired by the Haunted Mansion theme park attraction coming on board new cruise ship Disney Treasure when it debuts from Port Canaveral in 2024.
Haunted Mansion Parlor is a new concept that will serve up macabre drink concoctions in an expansion of the stories told at Disneyland, Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and other Disney parks around the world.
It joins previously announced venues on the new ship inspired by the Jungle Cruise and 20,000 League Under the Sea, further carving out an identity closely tied to Disney’s original theme park attractions.
The next chapter involves “a jovial captain who entered the ghostly realm after a disastrous dinner with his beloved fiancé,” according to a Disney Cruise Line press release.
Those who venture into the darkly lit venue will encounter glowing apparitions appearing within the massive mirror behind the bar while music inspired by the theme park ride’s score will set the mood.
Promised to appear are “an ever-escalating anthology of illusions that immerses guests into the mysterious lore of the Haunted Mansion,” mixing old favorites from the ride with new characters that “will come out to socialize in mysterious ways throughout the experience.”
Its styling will be tied to the Disneyland version that opened in 1969 “reminiscent of a first-class drawing room from the classic cruise liners of the golden age, invoking inspiration from the original Haunted Mansion with a nautical twist.”
Throughout the bar will be tributes to the theme park attractions amid purple wallpaper with wooden finishes. That includes a portrait gallery and mantel clock that strikes 13 that will be sitting over a fireplace near a purple armchair.
Among the libations will be themed alcoholic and nonalcoholic cocktails including the Sympathetic Libations, a drink that mixes blood orange and sour cherry served in a specialty mug. The Ghoulish Delight will have ube fudge, oat milk, tapioca pearls mixed in a purple liquid garnished with a gummy eyeball. Another drink will be a margarita with swirling smoke that has a secret message that can be read under a black light.
Along with the experience, the cruise line will offer exclusive merchandise tied to the venue including a music box, the mantel clock and parlor mirror with its own hitchhiking ghosts.
Disney Cruise Line queues up old and new features for new ship Disney Treasure
Disney Treasure is the sister ship to Disney Wish that debuted out of Port Canaveral in 2022, the second of three in what was originally called the Trident class of ship, slightly larger than the older Disney Dream and Fantasy coming in at 144,000 gross tons, but sticking with the 4,000-passenger capacity also on Dream and Fantasy.
It’s currently under construction at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany and will begin sailing alternating seven-night, eastern and western Caribbean itineraries out of Port Canaveral with its maiden voyage Dec. 21, 2024. A third unnamed ship in the class is due in 2025.
Previous highlights unique to Disney Treasure that have been revealed include a new stage show based on “Moana,” a dinner theater experience based on the Disney Pixar movie “Coco,” a new dessert venue themed to “Zootopia,” and a high-end suite inspired by Epcot.
Like Disney Wish, it will have a version of the combination dark ride and water coaster AquaMouse, the children’s play area Oceaneer Club with venues tied to Marvel, Star Wars, Disney Imagineers, Disney Princesses and Mickey and Minnie; and new iterations of both the Worlds of Marvel and 1923 restaurants.
The Haunted Mansion Parlor takes the place of the Star Wars-themed bar found on Disney Wish.
