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I don't remember ever being able to search by the specific port in the regular cruise search or in the calendar view search either. Only by general area like "Caribbean".

Hi ! @Chrish2 Thanks so much for doing this ! Would you please add mine to the spreadsheet . . . Anyone using this, let me know if you need any of my info to use it. (hit quote and/or link my name by typing the @angela12345 and waiting a moment for the dropdown menu to pop up, then click my name). Yay, Loot !!!! Fire & Sunset Soirees JANUARY 25-29, 2023 Scarlet Lady https://virg.in/JSDR Here's the roll call . . . @MaJo22 https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2897276-virgin-voyages-scarlet-lady-january-25-29-2023/ January 25th Jan 25 Jan. 25

Did you have any slots play at all, or all tables ? Was the 4000 you only or you + your SO combined ? Would you mind sharing your table(s) of choice, average bet, and hours of play to get to 4000 points on Virgin table play ? Thanks !

Lots of reasons ... mobility issues even if not full handicap needs, "fluffy" cruisers wanting to make sure they will fit comfortably, comparing bathroom/showers to other cabins or suite categories, comparing bathrooms/shower to different cruiselines, wanting to make sure the shower in the new house you're building is definitely bigger than the one on the ship(haha!), etc, etc . . . . By the way ... still looking for an answer on actual dimensions if anyone is onboard or has measured in the past. Thanks so much to those giving their best guesses ! That certainly helps narrow it down.

Another vote for craps because its FUN !! If you are winning, typically everyone at the table is winning, its a fun group, cheering for the wins. And if you're losing, everyone is losing, so its not like blackjack where the person next to you might be winning but you're losing every hand. Bummer. Craps have the absolute best odds in the Carnival casino (least house edge) if you're playing passline with 2x odds. On Carnival, minimum bet is $5, so you put $5 on the passline, and $10 (2x your original bet) behind it after the point is established. Here's the easy explanation of what that means ... put $5 chip in the strip that says "Pass Line" directly in front/closest to you ... on the first roll if the roll is 7 or 11 you win $5 - you can pick up your $5 in winnings and leave the $5 bet on the table if you want to keep playing or pick up all of it and leave; or if the first roll is 2 3 or 12 you lose your bet; and if its any other number rolled its the Point (the numbers in the boxes across the top in the pic - 4 5 6 8 9 10). If there is a Point number, there will be a black & white puck placed on one of those numbers that says ON so you can remember what the Point number is (note: if you have just walked up to the table, wait until that puck is flipped to OFF before placing your $5 passline bet). After a point number is established, place $10 in chips in the space right behind your passline bet (where it says no call bets in the pic), so now your total bet is $15. On every roll after the first roll you want the shooter to roll the Point number BEFORE rolling a 7 ... if the point number rolls you win, if 7 rolls you lose the $5 and the $10, and if any other number rolls the shooter keeps rolling until they roll 7 or the Point. THAT's THE BASICS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CRAPS !!! If anyone wants to know more, I can post more tips and information ??

Also, Blue Iguana is still open I think ? We LOVE their huevos rancheros.

Please come back to this thread and add what you find out re: casino offers ! Very interested to know as well. edit: By the way, Hi !! I think I recognize you guys from Carnival casino threads from years past.

What date is your cruise ? I think this link is actually for Scarlet Lady, but it will give you an idea. Change the dates in the URL for your cruise. If your cruise is too far out, no events will show up yet. https://spark-aws.virginvoyages.com/api/v1/ext/ddp/5a3193a0af8e4c3fb714386b/2022-11-30#events

Oh ! I bet you're talking about the Passenger Vessels Services Act But that's a totally different topic than Passports Yes that's true, as part of the PVSA, cruises to Alaska & Hawaii (and everywhere else) on a foreign-flagged ship (which is almost all cruise ships that sail to/from US) must stop in a foreign port before returning to the same US port. That's why you don't find cruises sailing and stopping in only US ports, there's always at least one foreign port. Lucky for us, the cruiselines make sure their cruises are in closed-loop compliance and we don't have to worry about this stuff, so we can travel all of these closed-loop cruises without a passport, including Alaska and Hawaii However, if its a repositioning cruise, for example from Florida to California, the ship must stop in a distant foreign port, which is a more stringent requirement. And also, you ARE required to have a passport on these type cruises because its not a closed-loop cruise. There is only one large cruiseline ship that I know of that doesn't fall under the PVSA ... Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America sails Hawaii without stopping in foreign ports. Because ... It is an American-flagged ship ! Subject to US labor laws, taxes, consumer laws, and etc. There are some smaller cruise ships that are also US-flagged that cruise rivers, just Alaska, just Hawaii, etc

I don't understand, are you saying you think you ARE required to have a passport to cruise to Alaska & Hawaii, or that a passport is NOT required ? I'm saying you do NOT need a passport when taking cruises to Alaska or Hawaii, because of course you don't need a passport to travel to another US state. But also . . . stopping at foreign ports in Mexico and Canada are fine because . . . The US rule is if you are sailing a cruise from a US port and you start and end at the same US port, while traveling to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean/and Central America, Bahamas, or Bermuda, a passport is not required (with few exceptions). And again, this does not apply to Virgin, because VV requires passports, even for US citizens. https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-74?language=en_US

This is just a PSA / FYI .... (public service announcement / for your information) Passports are required to sail on Virgin Voyages, even for US citizens. I know many people routinely sail without a passport on other cruiselines (myself included), so this may come as a surprise when booking Virgin. This is Virgin's own personal rule, it is not a USA requirement. The US rule is if you are sailing a cruise from a US port and you start and end at the same US port, while traveling to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean/and Central America, Bahamas, or Bermuda, a passport is not required (with few exceptions). This is called a "closed-loop" cruise. US citizens will need to bring a government-issued photo ID (i.e. driver's license) and proof of citizenship (certified copy of official/government birth certificate with raised seal - hospital birth record certificates don't work, baptismal certificates don't work, and photocopies don't work). If your married name/drivers license is different than your birth certificate, it's advisable to bring along your marriage license as well. If you ARE sailing with a passport instead of DL + BC, your U.S. Passport book must be valid for at least 6 months after your cruise ends. Always requires passport: Open-ended or one-way sailings that begin and end in different US ports, or voyages that depart from US but end in a foreign port or vice versa like transatlantic, transpacific, and repositioning cruises to and from the US. edit: also Alaska & Hawaii cruises usually qualify to cruise without a passport, although Virgin does not currently cruise to those locations. Certain islands in the Caribbean – Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Barts, Barbados and others, currently require a passport for entry, but these are the exception rather than the rule.

Thanks @groundloop and @PortSideCruzan ! Yep, I did a search on here for "shower" in the post title and did not find the answer, but did find a couple "quess-timates", I also searched on Google and almost all results were for the mini-tub junior-size tub at 28x46. That 3rd pic looks more like 30x42. These are great pics, thanks ! I did find the post linked but its more guessing ... one guessed 30x30 another guessed 36x36. If the shower was 66x66 then actually being 60x60 is not a noticeable difference. However ... there's a huge noticeable difference in 30x30 vs 36x36. Also, HOW did you find the other link from 2012 ?? When I searched on this board, only 9 threads were about showers ... https://boards.cruisecritic.com/search/?q=shower&type=forums_topic&nodes=133&search_in=titles

LOL ! As OCD as the cruise critic crowd is, there's no doubt in my mind that there's someone (or many someones) who have this information.

I'm just sayin' . . . . (if you can't see the picture, its multiple ways Kate & Leo would have BOTH fit on the board)

How about anyone NOT on board, but who has measured it in the past ?? Surely someone knows these dimensions !

All I have ever seen on Carnival for craps is $5 minimum, and 2x odds

Carnival has been doing most(all?) casino offer bookings this way since way before Covid. I think lots of people were booking bunches of casino offers then canceling bookings at their leisure. There was no penalty, now there's a little bit of skin in the game. Only book casino offers that you know you are going to take. RE: your cruise getting canceled, I'm sure they can get it figured out and fixed. What's the status on this ?

Anyone on board right now who can measure and give the inside dimension dimensions on the size of a standard bathroom shower stall ? Also, I'm trying to remember, seems like I remember the showers are not perfectly square. So may need up to 4 dimensions (back wall, shower curtain side, shower head wall, and opposite of showerhead wall) or whatever works to convey the measurements correctly. What ship are these measurements from, and what cabin category ? Thanks in advance !!! : )

Great ! I am able to click on the pics above and then click on them again (+ in magnifying glass) and enlarge them. I can read the cabin numbers overlaid pretty easily, especially once they're enlarged, can everyone else read the cabin numbers and can figure out exactly which ones are glass, partial glass/metal, and metal ? Here are the deck plans as well ... https://www.virginvoyages.com/dam/jcr:057dce8f-801a-40b6-96db-aafd987bce65/Scarlet-Lady-Deck-Plans.pdf I asked Virgin about the hammocks because originally one of our cabins was 11346. The CSR said almost all sea terrace and XL sea terrace have glass railings and hammocks, and same exact size balconies. If they have metal railings they do NOT have a hammock, and also have a metal railing, not glass, for the balcony. The hammocks have to be able to support 330 pounds and that part of the ship its a structural issue why they cannot have the hammock, according to the CSR. Someone suggested for the terrace cabins currently unable to have hammocks because of ship structural issues in those locations, how about a hammock stand of some sort for those few cabins. Many of these cabins with metal railings have slightly to much larger than regular balconies, so it should be possible. This is a Great idea ! ... If balconies were super important to me and the hammock was a selling point, $50 OBC instead would not make me very happy. We should ALL start sending that suggestion in to Virgin and maybe they would implement that idea. (I did send that suggestion to them already : ) Here is a pic showing the difference in the layout of Regular terrace vs XL terrace that I made. The main five differences are the location of the closet, the length of the bath counter, the size of the shower, the toilet in a separate cubby, and the XL cabins do NOT have a door to the sink area (doors only on toilet cubby and shower stall). The regular terrace cabins do have a door to the sink area of course, because this is also the door for the toilet. The closet in the XL appears to be verrrrry slightly smaller/shorter, but so little difference that I don't think this is a deciding factor. And also here is a pic of a partial glass/partial metal railing cabin # 10358 posted by @Lustate where you can clearly see this cabin has partial glass, partial metal. (I flipped the pic so it looks like A side, but this was Z side on Scarlet Lady). 10358 is listed as NOT having a hammock, but clearly it does. I had read somewhere that some of the cabins they hadn't installed them yet when they first started sailing, but they have since installed some additional hammocks, so the list I posted above may be older/not totally accurate info.

I have overlaid the cabin numbers over these pics. I hope they post big enough to see them. If they don't I'll try posting again tomorrow a different way. Here is a list quoted from ... https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2874021-cabin-11346a-on-valiant-lady/#comment-63773847 At least on Scarlet, these are the no-hammock cabins- Valiant is her twin, so I'd guess it's the same: DECK 9: 9366 A AND Z 9370 A AND Z 9374 A AND Z DECK 10: 10354 A AND Z 10358 A AND Z 10362 A AND Z 10366 A AND Z 10370 A AND Z DECK 11: 11286 Z 11346 A AND Z 11350 A AND Z 11354 A AND Z 11358 A AND Z 11362 A AND Z 11366 A AND Z 11368 A AND Z DECK 12: 12338 A AND Z 12342 A AND Z 12346 A AND Z 12350 A AND Z 12354 A AND Z

Hi nelblu, thanks so much for the info ! I ended up getting through after being on hold for 1:45 and made payment at 4pm with just an hour to spare. I found it so odd that I received the PDF invoice and literally no information on how to actually pay it, other than a mailing address for guests who want to mail or overnight a check. Also, the agent was able to confirm the booking is showing up in my account, however its not showing up for me, so I guess a call to tech support is in my future, ugh. Thanks also for your input on the CP vs OV balconies. Yep, agree on OV balconies, we stopped booking balconies years ago for three reasons ... mostly because of price, secondarily because of sunlight waking me up too early in the morning ! haha. And thirdly, when I did the balcony math and figured out we were paying like $500 per hour for the very short amount of time that we actually used the balcony. There's just so much fun stuff to do all over the ships, we are literally only in our cabin to shower and sleep. My favorite cabins are porthole where I can close the porthole plus close the drapes and get it really dark, but then open it for daylight or to peek out at the port or ocean during the day. Of course, if its free anyway then sure I'm totally happy with a balcony ! But I'd much prefer interior with freeplay than balcony and no freeplay. : )

How do I make payment ? I received the email from the casino dept with attached PDF of the reservation. But can't figure out how to pay for it. Have been on hold for 1:20 already It's currently 3:35 and I have until 5pm to make payment.

Any idea how far in advance they booked ? How far in advance did you book ? Just wondering if that has anything to do with it. Maybe there's not time to have the bands custom printed and mailed if you book less than XX days in advance of the cruise ??

The room service Nutella French Toast that I'm talking about ? Or regular/plain french toast ? I don't see it on the Razzle menu.

Great, thanks. Yeh, we have 10 connecting cabins, so lots of coffee, lol ! Awesome to know about the Nutella french toast at Diner & Dash, yay. Do you know if its the same as the room service one with the roasted bananas etc.