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Thank you @Rogueperson for taking us along and sharing this live journey! One week until I board SL and I cannot wait! Safe travels home!

One week of work left until we are flying to Barcelona via Toronto (Air Canada) for a week on the Scarlet Lady! We have the French Daze & Ibiza Nights itinerary booked. I cannot wait... I officially have holiday brain at work.... spending too much time on here checking the VV page for updated posts from a couple of folks doing the TA to Barcelona. I am hoping and crossing all the fingers and toes that this trip goes smoothly. Our last cruise in October - we flew Westjet via Calgary to Fort Lauderdale and WJ somehow sent DH's luggage to Toronto... we had to do a super fast shopping trip in Miami the day before the cruise as his bag did not make it in time. Thankfully we were able to get full reimbursed for all the expenses for the new wardrobe for the week. UGH but it was a stressful start to the holiday. Hoping for an easy travel experience this time around. I will say the AirTags were worth their weight in gold on that trip... we knew in flight on our way to Florida that the bag did not make it and were able to land fully prepared on our next steps and plans as we did not have a lot of time to remedy the situation. This will be our first VV cruise after primarily cruising Carnival. Looking forward to an all adult experience!!!

Wow. As noted you sound like a real treat. people who do this during prime meal times are just plain rude and beyond selfish.

Ok ignore that earlier quote post lol. I was going to ask about the set up and then found my answer and could not get rid of the quote. Was just wanting to say thank you for the menus and everything you are posting. I board in 2 weeks and can not wait!

Have a day and a half coming up next month on board the VV Scarlet Lady. DH and I are looking for a nice spot with beach chairs, drink service and great food. The problem is there are TOO many options that fit this description lol. We are 50 so not looking for foam party clubs nor ones with a ton of kids running around. Recommendations?? Also as it’s early in the summer season is it necessary to prebook with a place? Thank you!

Did you have to request this? I had read in some other reviews that the room attendant did not want to convert the day to night options

This is my #1 most favourite cruise of all time - same ship & itinerary a couple years ago. looking forward to reliving it - although we did completely different activities lol Aruba - Eagle Beach morning, lunch, casino visits in Aruba, sunset catamaran Bonaire - DH scubaed, then local lunch and walked around Curaçao - rainy day - walked around on our own and a cab over to an AI we’ve considered booking. So many amazing things to do and see

I read about this on his page. We’ve played this game with my in-laws for years - using the game pieces it comes with. You don’t need to play with real money. How anyone thought playing with real money with strangers in the lido was an acceptable idea is beyond me. Why not just start up a poker game then?! Also it’s people doing this hogging up space in the lido when others want to eat that drives me crazy. The whole situation is all kinds of wrong. SMH

We always start out cruises with a night in the upcharge restaurant. On our Celebration sailing we booked Rudi’s and really enjoyed it. Food was great service as well until they did the oddest thing… the dining room was quite empty when we were there but near the end of our meal - but before our dessert - they sat another couple in the table directly next to us when there was empty tables everywhere. We were seated along the long banquette with two tops side by side Mina’s space between tables. If the room had been packed I get it but when the entire row was empty to put us so close was strange. We are heading back to the Celebration in February and I already have our cruising starting with another night at Rudi’s

I was only booking for two but when I started just as it opened I had all the choices. i did go into making my reservations with a plan in mind. I knew what time we wanted and an idea of the order of restaurants that we wanted to book. The only variable was when scarlet night was…. I had to go back in and adjust one booking to make sure we were able to be done early enough for all of the scarlet night events. FYI - I booked all our dinners at 8:00.

We are planning on this next month for our sailing. I’ve already booked the first tender to get us ashore early so that we can be on a train to Monaco in the morning and to ensure lots of time heading back - we are there until 9 so I want to be back in Cannes by 3/4 at the latest to give some time there as well. Glad to see others have had this idea as well. Looking for some posts /. Moments from those who have done this adventure!

Ok had my first annoying glitch lol - looking at « Shore Things » and on a couple of the days it kept bringing up the wrong port info. Lol. So if I was seriously looking to book a VV excursion on those days I would be annoyed. I was just having a peek as I get twitchy on the days leading up to our sailing. Lol

Well I will report back in a month! it’s wild to me that our usual line - ye old Walmart of the Seas lol - has a fantastic app that is really quite functional when on board. Will be an interesting comparison I’m sure!

We are sailing next month on the French Daze Ibiza Nights itinerary and I was just reviewing the app - things to do - shopping, spa info etc. and noticed these hours listed for the casino. This isn’t correct is it? Is the casino only open a tiny amount??!