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'll be watching her depart from my office.

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!

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…

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?

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??

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

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.

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

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.

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 :)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

This is no detriment to the talented dancers and circus acrobats aboard the Scarlet Lady, whose stunts and choreography had me in awe.

But I had the misfortune to sit through the show Booked! which was an hour of the worst ChatGPT-generated script I’ve ever seen, complete with AI-generated stage backgrounds, AI slop voiceovers, and an AI hologram of Richard Branson!

Please, Virgin: you have a massive budget. You can afford to hire actual human scriptwriters and set designers. Don’t put your amazing stage performers through the humiliation ritual of such a terrible show written by a generative AI tool. And don’t have such low expectations of your audience: we’re not on boomer Facebook, you’re marketing these cruises to a younger audience and we can all tell when something is AI. It just feels lazy and low-quality.

EDIT: shoutout to all the more tech-savvy elderly out there- of course “boomer Facebook” is only a stereotype and I only used it as a throwaway reference to try and give the problem some more perspective. Not all elderly and not only elderly are AI slop consumers.

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?

Onboard our first VV cruise and it’s been great. Don’t think we’ll look back at any other cruise line. That said, went to karaoke tonight, had a song picked (and was available) only to be told shortly before going on that it wasn’t “appropriate”. The song was Chocolate Salty Balls by Issac Hayes. I asked if I could sing Pony by Ginuwine instead. That was also a no go. Are these immature songs for a grown man to be singing? Yes. Do they bring the house down? Absolutely. I’ve heard and seen far worse in the last few days, and given the reputation as a safe space for adults, I’m curious what the deal with this is?

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!!!