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Out of curiosity, is it something they can make after breakfast? I'll still certainly get one, but it seems heavy for me for my normal breakfast. I guess if they serve it "up till 11am" I could do an early lunch...

It's not free, but another option that I used on our last cruise was the international day pass that AT&T has (Verizon has something similar as well). It's not necessarily "cheap", but at $10 a day for unlimited data/voice/text it's convenient. Plus it's just $5 more for a 2nd phone if you have two people that could use access. As for the Google Translate App, I just pulled that down for our upcoming trip. I knew of it, but didn't know about being able to download the languages. The one down side is that it doesn't currently support Moroccan Arabic for our upcoming Casablanca stop. I went ahead and downloaded Arabic and French but I'm curious how that will work since neither is the "dominant" language. When my wife and I were there before the language barrier was a little bit of a challenge since not a lot of people spoke English.

Yeah, I was on a cruise for 15 nights and never ran across this burger (and I'm a huge french toast fan). I will definitely try it on my upcoming cruise.

I'll be curious how the experience compares for you. We'll be "regular" Rockstars on the same September cruise. After being in an aft suite on our first cruise I was figuring we might not be able to do it again given prices going up, but I ran across a couple of decent deals so we're sticking with it. We really did enjoy the experience. Our agent was fantastic. We requested him again for the September cruise if he's available, but he was saying he was in line for promotion to a mega agent so that will probably not work out. I hope you have a great time as a mega Rockstar!

We were on RL last year for the repositioning into Sydney. During peak times the Galley could get busy, but we never really encountered an issue with it taking very long to at least order and get the buzzer puck from anyplace. That said, the Burger Bar was generally the busiest of the places (perhaps a line of 5-10 people) and took the longest for your food to be prepared when we did order there for lunch. We generally didn't use table service since we liked to browse the options and once we found what we wanted, the wait wasn't long enough at any place to justify not just ordering at the counter when we found what we wanted.

The Virgin site shows May 8 for the New York and Los Angeles sailings, and May 22 for Miami. Then Alaska is late summer.

I'd agree. I prefer waffles that are crispy outside and airy inside, not soft and cakey. But, it's all personal preference.

On our cruise I booked Test Kitchen twice, once during the first week and once during the 2nd since I wasn't sure when they changed over. After the first time there I asked them when they switch to the other menu and found my 2nd booking was the same menu, so they rebooked us for a night when they were switched over. That said, I believe they change it something like every 4 days so I'll plan to factor that in when scheduling things for the TA I have booked next year.

Or a dress code at the restaurants....👔

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if this means a first timeer would actually be set to the "blue extras" level for this and their next cruise, or just BE on one of these cruises they would be booked on? If the former, that would be annoying as both a person with airline status but not cruise status...yet and, as mentioned, annoying to someone with legit cruise status. If the latter, then it's just another silly marketing campaign with a "value" of around $130 per sailor (if you book one of the trans-atlantic cruises). With my next two cruises booked with bonus bar tabs, neither this nor the bonus $300 they offered for people using MNVV are of any value so all these "gimmick" deals are getting a bit old.

Yeah, I was on a 15 night cruise and never ran across this. I obviously need to do a little more exploring on the next cruise. I knew some of the bars had food options outside of what we got at the restaurants and the Galley, but got a little lazy and never got around to exploring them.

RE: Room service coffee, the examples stated of how it was delivered is definitely different than what we got last year on Resilient Lady. It was in a stainless steel thermal flask as others mentioned, but had ceramic cups with cream in, I believe, small stainless steel containers (basically the same thing they used for things like syrup for the french toast I ordered). Certainly nothing disposable like paper or plastic.

Did you put your KTN off the global entry cards into your personal travel info for the flights?

I'm curious what the transportation setup will be like in Lisbon for the cruise my wife and I are on this year. I don't know that we would want to stay out until 3-4am but still seems like a "late night town".

When we stopped in Bali last year we stayed overnight in the city. Basically left the ship at 8am and didn't get back until around 4pm the next day. They don't care as long as you're back before the ship leaves.

I've been somewhat chasing deals on RS suites, so my wife and I will be on the RL transatlantic next year. First transatlantic for us both, but we did the Singapore to Sydney cruise last year. So same # of nights and just one more day at sea. I'll look forward to reading the updates from this cruise.

I wouldn't want to spend my time on a ship with 5000 people, let alone a small island with 10,000.

One of the Iceland routes also has Bergen as a stop, so Norway will be covered somewhat. There's also a cruise around Scotland and Ireland so the British Isles are in there. There's some hope for Alaska also at some point. Someone else posted a port schedule for Oregon with Brilliant Lady on there for May 2026, so that could be on the way to an Alaska route.

Honestly, I wish they would just add support for making shore things and restaurant reservations from a web browser. It would be substantially easier for me to just book things on my PC pre-voyage than it would my phone or tablet. The web site isn't exactly blazingly fast, but it's substantially faster than the app on my phone.

We had an aft suite on the 9th deck on our cruise last year and I have to say, sitting out on that balcony watching the wake lit up in blue at night was really nice.

I wasn't certain how that worked either. I can only guess that maybe they booked the excursions with the fraudulent card, then swapped the card on file with a different one (debit card perhaps) so the excursions went back to that? I don't know if that's even possible since, by default, it should go back to the original card but maybe there is a loophole in Virgins process there?

Anything is possible. Maybe, given the number of shorter, cheaper Caribbean cruises, the profit margin on allowing someone to walk off with what's left on the bar is tighter so they don't allow it on cruises in that general area?

Given what I've seen with pricing on a few cruises and rooms, I've assumed Virgin has some demand based pricing algorithm at play. So I'm curious to see if, eventually, the lower price of the Resilient Lady TA cruise drives demand and subsequently it's price up, and then maybe lower demand or lost bookings for the Scarlet Lady TA cruise drives it's price down.

This is true. The Singapore to Sydney had almost the same number of days at sea and the same number of destinations, but it was two day blocks at sea. I've not spent this many consecutive days at sea, so it'll be interesting to see what that's like.

Yeah. I ended up booking this with a 2nd MNVV I had because it was hard to pass up the rates on this one. It'll be my 3rd time on Resilient, though, so I'm going to know the shows on that ship by heart by the time we finish that cruise.