One big thing rural Caribbean is doing is putting more and more ships on the West Coast.

And when I saw the news that Railway was adding quantum class ships to the West Coast and adding a new ship of San Diego,

the first person I thought about was Vicki Freed from Royal Caribbean, Senior Vice President of Trade and Sales.

Vicki, welcome to the Royal Club podcast.

Thanks, Matt.

It's pleasure to be here.

And we are actually on the ovation of the Thieves right now, so it's just perfect.

Yeah.

And I thought of you because this journey that Rail has been on has been a long time coming.

I mean, when I started Royal Caribbean Blog Blog, I think Mariner the seas had

canceled their, they really put an end to the plans for West Coast cruises with Mariner. And that was like,

oh, okay, well, they're hitting the pause button. Cool. Ten years later, we get a ship back. And that's

also with COVID in the middle of that, which probably didn't help your cause.

But talk to me about your perspective on this journey because you are from California.

And this is like, I got to imagine, this is like if you're a sports team fan and your team has been terrible for years and you finally get a chance for the team to win, like, you know, you're rooting for this.

You have a horse in the race, so to speak. Talk to me about this journey that you've been on to get,

and Royal's been on, to get a ship and more ships back here on the West Coast.

Well, it's true. We abandoned the West Coast for a short period of time, but our intent was to

always come back to the Los Angeles area and soon to be the San Diego area.

So when we come back, we come back in a big way.

And as you know, we are going to be introducing five different ships out of the West Coast.

We like to say the West Coast is the best coast.

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