Royal Caribbean International may reintroduce a second ship to the UK after a gap of several years, following the success of Anthem of Seas this summer and autumn, a senior company official was cited as saying.

 “I would say that is a given. I would say fairly confidently we will be increasing capacity in the UK… We’ve got quite a portfolio of wonderful ships so I don’t know which ship it would be, but I feel pretty good that we’ll be adding capacity into the UK,” Royal Caribbean International President and CEO Michael Bayley was quoted by Travel Weekly as saying.

The company is part of the Royal Caribbean Group.

Independence of the Seas mostly served the UK market in the previous decade, often with a second ship. However, the company had scheduled Anthem of the Seas to operate alone in the UK in 2020, a few years after the ship’s brief previous deployment on the UK market, but these cruises had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

In 2022, Anthem of the Seas will be the only Royal Caribbean International ship in the UK, but itineraries for2023 have not been published yet.

“The UK is, was and will continue to be a phenomenally important key market for Royal Caribbean, and I don’t think that’s ever going to change. Like all markets, it’s going to have its bumps in the road. I see the UK market continuing to grow and I see Royal Caribbean continuing to play a big part of that,” Bayley was quoted as saying.