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My wife and I train in Krav Maga and this will be the longest that we have been away from our training since we started over 6 years ago.  We're pretty stoked to see that Virgin has a boxing ring on Deck 16 where we could potentially practice sparring.  But we would rather not fill our luggage with our sparring gear.  Does Virgin offer gear for this?  If so, do they clean them?  Or are you expected to bring your own gear?  We have 12 sea days on our upcoming cruise so being able to train and spar some would be awesome. Thanks!

1 minute ago, garycarla said:

With the limited seating vs the larger showrooms on other ships - I think this might be a fail.  Making folks line up is nuts.

 

Then again, Bingo is first come, first served as we found out last time we tried to play.

I think it's going to depend a lot on the length of the cruise.  On shorter cruises where shows will only be performed once, might be a bit crazy trying to get in.  But on longer cruises with shows being performed multiple times, it will probably work as the crowds will be spread across the shows.  This is how it always was on Carnival when we cruised with them and it always worked out well.  There was a lot less stress trying to book everything and planning your whole vacation out as soon as you boarded.  We really prefer to go with the flow while on vacation so we're looking forward to this change.

14 minutes ago, afurman said:

Per Person

Thank you.  I was afraid you were going to say that.  That's pretty steep.  I took my daughter on one of these years ago on Carnival and it was the same places on the ship.  Neat to see but not sure it's $200 worth of neatness!

7 hours ago, afurman said:

I did the tour a few months ago on Scarlet Lady.  It was $200.  The places you went to are the following.

 

Red Room (behind the stage also)

6th Floor Kitchens

Provisioning/Storage

Engine Control Room

Environmental Room

Laundry

Bridge

 

I don't recall any other places that we went to.  Pictures weren't allowed anywhere except the bridge.

 

Hope that helps

 

 

Is it $200 per person or per cabin?

They are testing it out currently on the Auckland to Sydney cruise that is going on right now on the Resilient Lady.  You only have to book paid events like Another Rose.  All other shows are first come, first served.

I use both Photopills and The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE).  I use Photopills on my phone and TPE on both my computer and phone.  I tend to use Photopills more for calculations and TPE more for planning out my shots in advance when traveling.

43 minutes ago, cantgetin said:

Wow!  I thought I was the only one having a "I'm over it" with VV in more ways than one.  Trying to keep an open mind till we are on board again, but we'll see.  It is really sad to see newbies that I referred to VV saying things like, "Well, if nothing else, we can eat pizza every night." I know that isn't realistic, but she was serious!

I used the chat function online and got VV to book all of my restaurants for me.  No sense banging my head against the wall.  Got all my restaurants booked at the times I wanted in about ten minutes.  Easy peasy.

We have Gunbae booked on our first full evening onboard the Resilient Lady and again a little over a week later.  From what I've been seeing on various YouTube reviews, it appears that they just bring everything out to you to eat amongst the table.  So that has me wondering if it is worth doing it more than once if you are going to be eating the same meal again.  Or does the food change up?

15 minutes ago, Jamesv281117 said:

Just requested the same, how long did it take to get confirmation out of interest?

We changed to the same itinerary and received confirmation back about 4 hours later.  I thought that was pretty good compared to the week for our Brilliant Lady cancellation.

I wonder if they would cancel the Singapore to Dubai leg as well and sail it straight across the Indian Ocean towards South Africa instead of sailing it north to Dubai and then backtracking south along East Africa.  Would that give them enough time to make the extended run to the Med without impacting any of the Med cruises?

I hear that there is a lot of talk in Israel on starting to scale down the war in Gaza.  I wonder if that would be enough to make the Houthis simmer down some or if they would continue until Israel completely left Gaza which probably won't happen for quite some time.

Thank you aqlollipop, that was very helpful!

1 hour ago, jon81uk said:

Probably best to message Squid Ink directly on Instagram.

Tried that too.  I have not been able to reach anyone at Squid Ink's email, website or Instagram. Hence why I'm asking here. 

Does anyone happen to know what the hours are at Squid Ink?  I tried to send them a message on their site and of course, in true Virgin Voyages fashion, the app errored out.  I'm wondering if they are open in the evenings on port days (essentially, is it possible to book an appointment after you return from spending the day in port).  I'm planning on waiting in line early on departure day to try and grab one of the first choices of available slots and I'm just trying to get an idea of what days and times I want to try and grab if I can.  Thanks!

I travel to India regularly for work and have stopped carrying INR as most places accept credit cards.  The only ones I've found that only take cash are street vendors (sugar water - yum!) but I would not recommend eating food from street vendors (Delhi Belly).  A few tourist sites will accept INR but almost all now accept cards too.  You can export a small amount of INR out of the country legally (essentially left over spending money).

It wasn't there for me either.  As soon as I entered the credit card, that was it.  The screen looked different that what neverendingcruising showed.  However, once I deleted the card and went back in, I could now select my previously entered card to use (since it was now on file) and then my screen looked like neverendingcruising.  Thank you!!  Now if I could just get this bloody screen #2 (Travel Documents) to work for my wifey, then I'd be golden!

On 9/20/2023 at 8:55 AM, cantgetin said:

I have never had a problem adding the other person in my cabin to my credit card during the on line check in.  THere is a box to click when you are doing the check pre-cruise check in on the app.  It asks whether the credit card applies just to me or to the entire cabin.  Then on the other person's check in, it shows that "someone else is responsible for your bill."  There was nothing to need to be done after boarding.  As usual....don't believe at least half of what Sailor Services Shoreside says.

Where is this mysterious box to check?  I'm having the same problem as tbmrt.

On 9/14/2023 at 10:12 PM, wintrev said:

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I am having with entering travel documents.

We are sailing on Resilient Lady December 23rd and have paid in full and filled out all the other details. When I click on travel documents it comes up with this message

"we're still getting ship ready before you can upload your travel documents. Please check later".

 

I contacted the chat line and they said to keep trying and if I have no success just bring my documents with me - have also uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Not really happy that I will have to spend extra time for them to check this at the terminal - surely it should be working? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I'm getting the same thing for my wife.  No problem getting mine entered, but can't complete hers.  I also can't figure out how the bloody hell to attach her to my payment method.  This shouldn't be this bloody hard!!

2 minutes ago, Yinster said:

In our app it is showing as bar tab but in my email confirmation it is loot

When I got the hold confirmation, it was listed as bar tab but once I got the final confirmation and log into their website, it shows it as sailor loot.

We got our email confirmation and the $600 is showing up as Sailor Loot.

1 hour ago, def0715 said:

Looks like there’s a 14-day Singapore to Dubai.

 

What is supposed to be released Monday? More Caribbean sailings? Other itineraries?

All of the new itineraries that have already been announced will be available for booking.

18 minutes ago, herdfans4 said:

what cruise is a 14 night that is available to book right now?

I just booked the 14 night Dubai to Athens cruise.

13 minutes ago, Freelancer3 said:

In San Juan, ships depart from a different port than when they have a stopover.

Not necessarily.  I have sailed out of San Juan multiple times.  Different cruise lines have contracts with the 2 different ports so it depends on the line.  Now occasionally, they have to change their normal port due to scheduling conflicts, etc.  I was informed by VV as well as read in a couple different news articles from San Juan that Virgin has contracted with Carnival to use their dock space and port facilities in Port 4.

We had an XL Terrace on the TA.  We choose the Dubai to Athens leg of the RL repositioning cruise which is only a few days difference in the dates and sent in the rebooking form.  Hopefully this one will work out!

3 minutes ago, B747Purdue said:

My January was moved to Valiant...is OK.  My April being cancelled...is also OK.  Being able to switch to a 14 Day Transatlantic, in the same XL Sea Terrace, for no extra charge is amazing. 

 

I thought I had reached the end of my literal wave, considering I booked a single cruise in a Solo Sea View in 2020 and now I've ended up with five sailings in XL Sea Terrace's for no extra $$ out of pocket, I can't complain. 

 

I realize not everyone is in the same boat (another pun), although many likely are.  The Virgin Saga continues for us that have stuck with it since the beginning.

There are no XL Terraces available on the other TA.  They sold out a long time ago.  I tried to move over when BL's TA disappeared and was told no joy.  Only standard Terraces are available on the other TA.

58 minutes ago, aviators99 said:

You have to look at the dates. Some have to be BL because they are within the past few months. But you think pictures from beside the boats are satellite?? They are not and do not get cleaned up and they are user-submitted. 

I was referring to the top down view, not the street level view.  The top down general view is old and is a satellite.  The street level views are as you said, user uploaded so the dates will range from new to old.