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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 303.

After months and months of anticipation, I finally had the chance to visit Perfect Day at Cocoa

K and check out many of the new activities and offerings that Royal Caribbean recently added.

I'm sharing what I thought about this private album, the makeover, and what I love the most in this episode.

Here we go.

This past weekend, I got to go on a three-night Royal Caribbean cruise on Navigator of the season.

Usually when I go on a cruise, I come back and tell you all about the cruise.

But this time, I'm not even going to talk about it except for right now and now, and now.

But we're going to start talking actually about Perfect Day at Cocoa.

This is Royal Caribbean's brand new private destination that just opened up.

They had their grand opening May 4th. So this time around, I know I've been there before with some of the earlier changes that we talked about on this podcast, but this time

it's all about the grand opening and what the bulk of what Perfect Day I co- is all about.

Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I need to mention that Royal Crimean did invite me to

this sailing, which means that I was their guest on board. And so some of the experiences I had, both on board Navigator, as well as Perfect

Day Coco K, were complementary to me, so keep that in mind going forward. Now, Perfect Day Coco

K is what Royal Caribbean is calling Cocoa, right? That's a private island in the Bahamas. It got

redone. They basically took the island and added a bunch of new

experiences to it. Now, not to worry, there's still the classic beach experience. But we'll get to that

in a little bit there. Luckily, for my sailing, we were there for 12 hours. From the 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Not granted, there's a bit of time that's missing for, you know, getting cleared for when the ship first arrives. And of course, you're all aboard times a little earlier than that.

But at the same time, there was still plenty, plenty of time to check out everything at perfect

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