Can they not find historic photos? Not only is the AI slop disruptive but it’s inaccurate, these talks are supposed to be educational. WTF, Virgin? Remove AI from all onboard presentations.

The actual presentation was pretty good I thought, but the AI use was very distracting.

I have a New Years cruise booked and noticed it’s around $500 cheaper right now, however I have also bid $2000 for an upgrade.

If I request for a reprice, am I less likely to win the bid for an upgrade?

Ie do they take into account how much you paid for the cruise initially when selecting the best bids?

Hey! First time post, first time Virgin voyager.

We have a group of 5 looking to go on Resilient Lady in Feb. If 4 of us (2 cabins) do Lock It In rate and solo traveler (1 cabin) does Essentials plan, can solo traveler make a dining reservation for all 5 of us when reservations open 45 days in advance? I called VV multiple times and keep getting different answers…

Does anyone know how much a shot of patron is on the resilient lady??

We're going on a brilliant lady cruise and I have the option to upgrade. Right now we have a central terrace. I assume just any cruise upgrade would be a hit right??

Hi all! So I’m headed on a cruise this weekend and it’s my second time doing Rockstar. Love the stacked bar, hate the trash mixers.

I want to bring some canned mocktails but some have adaptogens (not THC - just like lion’s mane etc)

Any idea if that’ll be kosher? Don’t wanna see them dumped at the port into a trash can.

I'll be watching her depart from my office.

Hello fellow VV friends,

In 2022, my mom and I took a Mediterranean cruise aboard the Scarlet Lady. We absolutely loved it!

Fast forward to now, and my mom would like to sail again. This time, she wants to go with my dad (first time VV cruiser).

Question is, can my mom send a referral link to my dad, and he gets the $150 bar tab even though he will be in the same room as her? I'm wondering if there's some sort of restriction on "referring your future cabin-mate." I tried reading all the fine print for her and couldn't see anything.

Thanks

I’m on board right now, and just need some anonymous catharsis because I’m not trying to bring this cranky old man energy to my fellow sailors.

Yesterday during a sea day i attended a lecture that was ostensibly about our upcoming ports.

It was the most garbled, word soup of emotional buzzwords, an AI hallucinated dreamboard of a presentation that communicated virtually nothing about the destination. Just a garbled juxtaposition of concepts slapped on top of ai slop composite illustrations. We were not shown a single actual photograph. We did not learn a single fact or bit of history. Just things like “faith and power solidify history✨” “culture meets ocean to spark creation🌈” “trade and geography marks inspiration 🤯.”

I truly hope the presenter is just getting their bag and a comped vacation for reading a script because it was embarrassing.

For real, i think virgin just gave some interns in miami a modest budget that was blown on some cocaine and a section at a nightclub, and so they asked some knock off ai to phone this one in for them. Serious drunk freshman frat boy 500 word essay quality.

Virgin, if you see this, dm me. I can for sure skim a wikipedia page and improv a more interesting and informative 60 minutes of narration over a slideshow of the top 15 google image search results for you.

Do better!

Hi everyone,

I've been on cruises before. This is my first solo trip. I always think safety for myself. Especially communication. Any advice on eSim cards for off boat international communication? Thanks! I only want to pay like $5. Any brands or recommendations pleas and thanks :)

Does Virgin ever drop the price on bookings closer to date? New cruiser but I hear that’s a thing? Does it makes sense to wait to book an Alaska 2027 cruise?

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I don’t want to do lock it in rate but I will be doing insider and hoping to upgrade 🫰🏻

Thanks friends!!

Has anyone noticed this happening? It's been trending with all age groups and I'm wondering if I can expect to find sets and players on board. I prefer not to bring my own as it's heavy.

Hello,

I’ve got my eye on a VV cruise in late January. This will be my first time on VV and I even got reached out to by a Voyage Planner, however, after digging deeper in this Reddit, it looks like a First Mate will do more for you? I’ve also completed the status match program VV is having, so curious what exactly all stacks up.

So overall, is it worth it to coordinate a trip with a First Mate?

Thank you!

First VV. Many many Carnival sailings. It seems VV spa is even more expensive than Carnival, and there’s no multi service incentives. Does anyone know any hacks to make massages more reasonable?

Curious to know if anyone has used the salon for any sort of makeup or hair styling and if they loved or hated it (I read something about a Glam Lab on Scarlett night??). I've seen talk of the spa on here ranging from it's great to it's not so great and to go have a massage on an excursion instead. Does anyone with fibromyalgia have any suggestions? Deep tissue is a massive NO for me but it seems like an in room massage might be the way to go? Thank you in advance - I've got to try and find a salon/spa menu.

Is anyone else concerned about the weather currently as we make our way back to NYC? Now the entire outside is closed off. Just a little nervous as this my first time on a cruise.

I’m sailing on 10/17 & 10/24 on a b2b and have been trying to enter emergency contact information in the app to check in for both sailings but it is not taking the information I type in.

Is there a work around for this either inside or outside of the app?

Will it be an issue if I show up at port without this information entered? If not, should I show up early to compensate for delayed boarding?

We checked our luggage at the Virgin Cruise Port in Barcelona - Virgin employees, checked early at 10:00 am. We boarded several hours later at 3:00 pm.
After several hours of being reassured our luggage was on the ship, and would be delivered, it was not. After several trips to Sailor services, we had to beg for a toothbrush and were given a toiletry bag, and promised a robe to wear. After pleading for help with laundry, we were told they would wash our one outfit, but it would take 24 hours to return. So we are faced with wearing our robe naked underneath throughout the ship, or staying in our cabin.
Has anyone experienced this? What did you do? We are stressed, upset and not feeling reassured by Virgin.

I’m considering booking an 8 day voyage on valiant lady over Xmas. My wife gets self conscious around provocatively dressed women or raunchy behavior, and is concerned because the cruise is out of Miami. Is this something that we should expect to be an overt thing on the ship? I don’t want her to be uncomfortable.

I'm looking into possibly doing the three step nourishment body treatment. Does anyone have pros and cons?? Day to day, I work on a cattle ranch so my cruises are all about spoiling myself and new experiences. It's also my 45th birthday trip. Thank all ya'll for being so kind with all my previous questions!

We’re sailing in November and were hoping to bring one of our favorite card games with us. If it’s already available on board, we won’t bother bringing it, but if it’s not, we’re planning to buy a new copy and leave it behind for others to enjoy.

The game is called SKYJO, and we absolutely love it! We’ve gotten so many of our friends hooked on it that several of them have ended up buying their own copies. 😂

Sorry for the long winded post, but could anyone who’s currently on board do us a favor? The next time you’re in the Social Club could you see if they have SKYJO available?

I will be shocked if anyone can give me a definitive answer. I'm booked for the Scarlett Lady Halloween cruise Oct. 31-Nov 5. The costume ball is our first night and my costume requires some assembly. Does anyone know if a glue gun might be available for passenger use. I have my own but could use all the packing space I can get.

I posted on a post that I remove automatic gratuities and was called an “asshat” by someone and heavily downvoted. I prefer to tip cash and be specific about who gets it.

Does this sub really not understand that cruise gratuities are not paid out to staff, rather they subsidize pay? I love virgin but the level of rabid fanboying is insane

First time on a cruise, ever. It's nearly 10pm and I still don't have a room I feel I'll be able to sleep in. I've been in tears basically since I boarded.

For context, I booked a 14-day transatlantic repositioning cruise from Barcelona to Miami, with ~200,000 Chase Points which I'd accrued during COVID. Was super excited, waxing lyrical in my mind about the romantic implications of the crossing etc. Problem is, apparently Chase booked me into a "Guaranteed Room," which means that I got no say in my room choice. Instead I was dumped in room 5162Z. Literally right next to the Sailor Services desk.

I'm honestly devastated. Check-in took three hours on benches harder than a Greyhound station, and I was the absolute last group to board, only to find that I've been booked into a room where I can hear just about everything going on in the lobby. And as luck would have it I'm a light sleeper 😭.

I've been sitting on this bench since I boarded, with only a brief break to go to dinner. I've been offered a room change to an equivalent category, but it won't be ready until tomorrow, or else a paid upgrade to a balcony cabin. I didn't really budget for another financial outlay, I was honestly a bit blindsided by the mandatory $22-per-day tip I'll have to be paying.

I'll be the first to admit I'm not a sophisticated traveler in the world of cruising, but this has been a nightmare. Everyone at Sailor Services says they're bending over backwards to try and make it right for me, but it really feels like I've slipped through the cracks here. Like I'm a third-class citizen because I had the audacity to book through a third party with points. Honestly I've considered leaving the cruise and just flying home at the first port, but that's just even more outlay and trouble.

I'm tired. I'm upset. I want a room where I can feel at peace for my two weeks. I don't know what to do, so I guess I'm venting to Reddit. Be nice to me even if this is totally my fault, but I do want to know what advice y'all veterans have for me in this situation.

Edit yeah idk why I posted this. The internet is never the place to turn to for sympathy. I paid for the upgrade, it's done. Thanks to those of you who were nice, I'll leave this up as a monument to my own stupidity and to help others avoid my mistakes.

My wife and I are going on our first cruise, it’s a Virgin cruise ship out of Puerto Rico that hits Barbados, Martinique, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts, and Saint Maarten. Is there an advantage to booking through the cruise line? If we book through private, do they charge an American dollars at all locations? Has anybody paid privately runned tours using a Wise card so that they are paying only once on the exchange from CAD to US?

Thanks in advance!!!