Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Mark. Give Mark a big round of applause.
So, you've actually got three cruise directors this cruise. I used to be a cruise director over 10 years ago for 27 years. I don't know if some of you remember that.
Now I'm the... It's my pleasure, though, right now to introduce you to, of course, the main man, the host of this wonderful event. Will you please put your hands together and help me welcome the president and CEO of Royal Caribbean, Mr. Michael Bayley.
Okay, Mark, so there's only two cruise directors, so don't bring your suitcase. I just want to welcome you all aboard this beautiful, stunning ship, Icon of the Seas. Thank you.
Wait, excuse me. Who's talking? Sometimes I forget I'm a mind reader and I need to talk to all of you at the same time. You know what I'm saying? We've got a huge week planned for you. Hopefully you'll have a lot of fun. We're planning on having a lot of fun. If you see us misbehaving, you know, just go with the flow. We've got lots of parties. I think we've got lots of drink. We've got cooling the gang some stuff planned.
We've got a giant party in St. Martin, which should be a lot of fun. We are going to drink heavily and design the next class of ships for Royal Caribbean.
So, that should be a lot of laughs. And I think we'll just dress up and do stupid things most of the time. Tomorrow we have Colin Brown. And every day we've got lots of activities, so don't be shy. Have fun, enjoy yourselves, and thank you for coming on the ninth President's Cruise of Royal Caribbean. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Enjoy.
Michael Bailey in the house.
We got some prizes tonight. You don't have to be here. I hope you are, because it always makes it a lot more fun when we see that somebody's here. But you don't have to get the prize here right now. We're going to have it delivered into your stateroom. Right now we're going to give away five different prizes, starting off with a nice specialty dinner for two at Giovanni's during this cruise. So what we have is this little raffle ticket, which is a laptop, but it's got what we call a randomizer on there, and every single guest on board this ship has got their name in there. Can you push the button?
Yes, I can. Can I push the button? Okay, the winner is Ken Rush.
And Michael Bailey. Sorry. You're not going to win both of them. Lurky Sun Barbosa. From deck 11? Deck 11, Lurky Sun Barbosa. Are you here? Make sure you're here. You are? Okay, you're not here. Well, it's okay. You know what? There's a thing I always say this at every one of these prize drawings. Does anyone know Lurky Sun? Okay, let's go for number two.
Make sure you give everybody a big round of applause to that good partner. Okay, here we go. Prize two is going to be a specialty dinner for two at Chops this time. All right, I want to go there. Do you want to push it or do you want... I'll let you do the honors. Come on, Michael. Here we go. Shout out if you want your name read.
All right. This is really cool machine. It is Ananda Nebula from deck four. Ananda. Ananda. Ananda, where are you? Ananda, are you... So, so sorry. Maybe, maybe, maybe this machine's connected to one of our other ships. Are you sure, Kenny? You got it right. This is, this is an Icon machine.
This is Icon machine, for sure. And this one is going to be for a deluxe beverage package. A lot of people already a future sailing. Is it for one or two? Uh, it's two dollars. One, one, one person. Okay, here we go. We got to hope somebody's actually here in this massive huge room, now. And the winner is Ernest Bowles, the second. Congratulations, Bowles. Here we go. Ernest, are you here? Ernie? I called you, man. It don't look like there's nobody here. Uh. Nobody here? Ernie? Ernie? You already have a drink package. They have a drink package right now for a future sailing. We got to, we got to go, we're going to keep going until somebody in this audience wins.
All right. Otherwise, we're losing all confidence here, Kenny. Okay, who's going to... All right, who wants to win this beverage package? You got to hope, you got to pray that somebody's in this room. You can pretend. It is Tucker Robertson, from cabin 8. Tucker Robertson, it was so close. Tucker Robertson, good job.
Okay, do you got more prizes? We have one more prize and I want to talk to everybody about it. It is a... Are you ready for this? We need to talk about it. I'm going to give you the details. Well, which one is it? Oh, it says seven-night Caribbean. I want that. On any Royal Caribbean ship. Like so, I want to tell everybody you can go on our new Legend. They can go on the Legend of the Seas. They can go on Hero if they wait for Hero. They can go on All the Seas. They can go on Star. They can go on Icon or they can go on the Rhapsody of the Seas. Rhapsody of the Seas. Okay. And, and it's a grand suite. I had said it last two weeks. All right, so let me make a note about that. Okay. Let's focus, please. Okay. I'm going to push the button this time. Okay. Come on. But I want you to announce it, okay? Okay. You want me to sit here? Okay, think positively. Gregory Potts. Deck 14. Gregory Potts. Gregory Potts.
But I'm going to, but I'm going to keep going because we're going to be giving away more and more free cruises. We're going to be away some more prizes tonight, tomorrow, all throughout the cruise.
Gregory Pace will win that cruise. We know he's not here, but we're going to do one more. If this person's not here, are we going to keep going or we're done? Let's, let's pray. Pray to the heavens that somebody in this audience wins this last one. Time to win your ass. Come on. The winner is... I don't know how to pronounce this one. I'm going to call him Laponam Jr. Laponam Jr. from Deck 12. Gregory Pace is in the... Is that him? And all he did was came in and paid a lot of other people. That's all. We'll bring it to your room. Don't worry. Thank heavens, Gregory is in the room. Let's give Gregory his prize. Nearly a hundred thousand dollars. We could have been just keep on rolling. Okay, who is this Laponam here? I don't think Laponam is here, though. No? Laponam? He's not here, but we're going to make sure he wins it as well. All right? Give me another one. All right, everybody. Again, more prizes coming. We're going to turn it back over to some more music. Never mind, people were just asking, so we're going to do a quick little picture with Laponam. And then let's keep the party going.
