Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a week weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 305.

Royal Caribbean has once again changed the landscape of what a cruise vacation can offer,

with its $250 million transformation of perfect day at Cocoa Key.

Royal Caribbean sought to offer its guests a combination of thrill and chill,

and over the courses of many months,

created an entirely new private island experience.

But how did we get from Cocoa Key to Perfect Day, Cocoa Key?

And what kind of work went into the project?

I'm honored to have joining me this week,

Claudia Diaz Gonzalez,

who spearheaded this project for Royal Caribbean and took some time to share the stories behind making Perfect Day at Cocoa a reality.

Here we go.

If you've been lucky enough to visit Perfect Day at Cocoa, then you know exactly how impressive

Royal Caribbean's transfer animation of its private island truly is.

In continuing Royal Caribbean's tradition of innovation and introducing new concepts of the

cruise industry, Perfect Day at Cocoa ups the cruise line private island game to a place we've

really never imagined before.

Not only are there changes and additions eye-catching, but they really capture the imagination

of so many guests who instantly find an oasis of relaxation and fun rolled into one.

And a project of this magnitude is no simple task, and certainly not something that comes

out of a mail-order catalog, to offer a peek behind the curtain of the hard

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