spookyfudge

You will be in shock of all the changes

So I called after I made a choice to pick another cruise to get my money back. They really wanted me to pick another cruise but we specficly wanted to cruise in January and as we talked about it we just got our money back. They did say there were going to be more choices for alternative cruises after Sept 11 but I just dont want to flip our plans around just to help virgin, we just will not cruise with them again even though we truely enjoyed our previous cruises.

This would have been a third cruise with virgin, I am so angry we need to cancel our flights again. If we don’t get our recommend cruise I am done with virgin, period.

You can upgrade old package to new and get the free ice cream for me it would be $500 each for us to get the fee icecream and pizza restraunt

Free surprises no longer exist unless no one on the ship bids. Surprise yourself and bid if you are interested in upgrading

We are 33 days out on a 28 day cruise and notified of our win. When I bid I went the lowest tier I think it sai not likely. We paid $985 pp for a 28 day upgrade, happy!

Mmh

You are penny foolish! Should have kept the seats as is

I am ok with the new prices and downgrade of free stuff if my stock price continues to go up. With the new charges I think the CCL bottom line and profits will go up! Keep rising prices until you see a drop in bookings and then turn back just a bit to maximize profits and thus raise stock price!

We just booked a trip with "tours by locals" and he will pick us up at our Sydney hotel and back for just the two of us.

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Yes the quality has dropped and the number of people booking and staffing levels down. This is such a disappointment

They did set up a Gondola ride in Venice as part of the tour (extra cost) and a free tour of the glass works in November. In Rome you get in late, we ate at restraunt however down the corner is a outdoor cafee we ate at the second nite in Rome. Venince we had a full agenda.

Yes we did this last november it started in Venice and joined the ship in Rome. The six days are fairly filled with tours so you need to do additional tours before you join the land portion.

Thanks, great post

Look at the ship they are using for the WC, current onboard passangers are saying the ship has a lot of problems. Read the posts for the current WC to get what the issues are. They need to change the ship.

Thats my horse I purchased (ship colors in the back) it was fun. You bid on the horses starting at $50 and goes up. The cost was $150-$300, winner of the race gets all the money. You have a one on one with the art director to paint/decorate the horse with drinks. It was a great time, I almost won but it was still fun!

On our recent Virgin Voyage, I did wear shorts for dinner in their private restraunts, nobody cared. For some reason on Princes people get bent out of shape for wearing shorts!

The money that your wife uses, will come off your bar tab if you have her as the second sailor. No issues

But giving a criticism to me because I tip the crew above and beyond what the cruise line says, if you dont want to tip YOU may need the money more for your everyday expenses rather than wasting it on a cruise! Dont knock me because I appreciate the crews work they do on the ship.

I appreciate the work these people give. I have so much and others so little I do not mind sharing my wealth. For people who do not, they may need the money more for their everyday living expenses and not WASTE the money on a cruise vacation or tips that go to hard working people. It must be remembered it was England that developed the tip system when Dukes use to give their servents a "gratuity for cleaning their shoes or taking out their night pots". Thanks to my Brit friends starting this method of thanking the servents!

Yes on the balcony was a hammock, it was great. Also it has an ipad that controls lights, sound, temperature, curtains, ordering food, movie selections, alarm features and that is what we used on it. I think there were more stuff it could do but did not try all the features. The room was what I call like Ikea set up, different. What was nice, was power outlets all over the place with multiple USB ports next to the power outlets and on the lamps. It was a great room we had the mid ship Balcony and it was much lower cost then what we would spend on Princess.

We just completed our first Virgin Voyages cruise and we gave the room attendant(s) $50 on the first day and instructed them only do the room in the morning (they normally have day and night cleanup turn-down). We also gave them $50 on the day before the last day. I dont know if they normally get tips becuase it is stressed not to tip and it is included in the price of the cruise. The cruise price gives every passanger free wifi, crew tips and premium private dinning at all times in the cost of the cruise. What they did do is have a bar tab for alchoal and specialty coffee. (This was perfect you could buy drinks for you or anyone you wanted to from your bar tab and the drinks were $1-$3 less than on Princess). We even got comped a free bottle of wine from the restraunt manager (never had on Princess) and we got free specialty coffee on the ship and free drinks at the casino by the casino manager! We loved our trip on Virgin and no kids to boot and crew and passengers were the most happy I have ever encountered! We will be doing more cruising with Virgin in the future.

Dont be cheap, 50 or 100

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