The Eagles, led by coach Daisy Pearce, chose to remain in Victoria between Sunday's loss to Essendon and Saturday's clash with St Kilda to avoid unnecessary additional travel and maximise training time.
"We're really grateful for the opportunity to spend some time together, minimises a bit of travel for us, and it's a great opportunity," Pearce told AAP.
"We tried to set it up, acknowledge that it makes it a bit of an abnormal week, which we try and minimise with how we approach training and our high performance.
"But we embrace that it's a bit different, spend some quality time together that you don't otherwise get when you're back in your busy lives and got to rush off to families and jobs and uni and that kind of thing.
"... I think it's a sign of the growth of the comp."
West Coast have taken their whole squad on the road, bar those recovering from injuries.
"This is time that most other teams aren't getting. I think we might be the only team that are doing this one week trip away, little hub in season," veteran Dana Hooker told AAP.
"So it's such a great opportunity for us as a group to really galvanise our connection amongst the playing squad, to find opportunities within the schedule to not only home in on our high-performance aspects, but also just how we connect as a team.
"We've got more time than we usually get back in Perth, so we can really get after it this week, train really well and hopefully execute well against a really good side in St Kilda."
The playing group varies from teenagers who are studying while on the road, to older players spending time away from their normal work-life juggle in Perth.
Then, there's the babies.
Hooker has eight-month-old baby Zara and her husband Mark on the road with her, while older daughter Alice, nine, remains in WA as she has school.
Defender Emma Swanson has her fiancee Andrea and son Joey travelling.
"It's always interesting to see the little groups that form and sometimes they're surprising, but I love that about this group, that there's always connection across the ages," Pearce said.
"And to have two babies on the road adds to it as well - the different dynamic in the group that has been really special and good to come together."
Hooker hasn't had to look far for volunteers to help with Zara, either.
"All the girls are always more than willing to grab the babies and take them when they can," she said.
"They're like 'do you mind if I just pick her up and do this?' I'm like 'go for your life.'
"Like the babies love it. We love it. And I think it just makes for a really authentic connection amongst the team as well."
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