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It is held in The Manor, book after boarding. I don't believe there is an extra cost as it replaced Ship Show which had no additional cost. The ads didn't say anything about cost.

DBE would likely apply, meaning $100 bar tab...not sure if that would be for the whole month or for each leg. (guessing each leg). Not much, but every bit helps

I'm glad it worked for you. My cabin mate disappeared from the app after one or two reservations, so after that all my reservations are 1 person only. I'm not happy with many of our times, but know I can change them. After about 16 hours, we have one reservation for each night. My point is no longer that I could find a work around--I've done that on the previous cruises. My problem is that they have a system that should work. They have a team of travel agents who have a different system that also should work. If their system isn't going to work (which it doesn't on a regular basis) then stop telling us to stay awake till midnight to have a tech snafu. My cruise partner needs wheel assist embarkation and disembarkation. This system has also failed on each of our VV cruises. Interestingly, we have completed more than 50 cruises on multiple lines and never had this issue on any other line. In fact, most of the time it has worked better than I anticipated. In Miami at terminal V, it has been unbelievably bad each time. I'm beyond frustration with them. I was on the first passenger sailing of the Disney Magic and it was a disaster. But we took them up on an offer to "try again," and by our second sailing, almost 18 months later, all the problems had been fixed. Maybe I was wearing rose colored glasses on my first VV sailing because I thought it was overall great, but I haven't seen improvement or resolution of problems on VV.

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 gave up. Got 3 ressies last night, managed to add 4 more today. Also, they knocked my cabin mate off the app so all of our ressies are for 1 person. I'm so over it.

Joy

I have Pink Agave as the first night on our next cruise....because it was one of only 2 reservations I could get before app crash and because it is my cruise partner's favorite.

It is not unethical to get the best you can out of your booking. And my sis is in the same situation of having had her sailing canceled and getting a huge amount of loot for making with switch. I have no idea how they will spend all the loot they ended up with as they started with an MNVV, gold tier agent, etc. The cleanest way to sell a reservation is to go thru your agent who can assure that the money transfer is clean. Using any other means, I'd want something like a cashier's check to be sure I actually got my money; there are too many scammers on the net!

And some days it seems like a miracle if VV can get their accounting right. At least they finally decided that I really am PIF for my next cruise. I went thru several cycles of my on line account saying I owed $2 or 51 cents after I was PIF and had documentation to prove it.

If you "sell" your reservation (as far as VV is concerned, it is a name change), then all the attachd benefits go with it--loot, complimentary bar tab, etc. I've never heard of charging the purchaser for the attached loot....although on a private sale, you can do whatever you wish. On the only sale site that I'm familiar with, you must sell for what you actually paid.

Our first time at Gunbae, we went with the servers suggestion to "just bring all the favorites," From that, we learned what we like, and the menu has not changed from our first cruise. What has changed is that now we order those items that we know we like. They will bring you as much of any item as you want, but I also feel better about not wasting so much food by trying a bite and not liking something. I'm still up for trying a new thing occasionally....but not for getting something that I know I don't like. As above, it is not a set menu--you can order whatever you wish. Much as above, we like the seafood pancake, the crispy chicken with sauce on the side, the marinated beef, shrimp, and port belly. Don't waste your money on the fancy beef upcharge (we did that once). The regular marinated beef is much better.

Never heard of a bed rolled under the main bed. The extra bed is a fold out ottoman that makes into a twin bed and folds back to an ottoman when not in use. THese have been very common in Europe for 20+ years. There may be other ways it works in some rooms.

The fee for the high tea is per person, whether you share the food or not. They bring an amount for each person but if there are 2 of you, it comes on one serving array. I have not found scones and cream on VV, THere ars chocolate scones in RD, but they need to be warmed up; I'm not a fan of them "as served." You cannot reserve shows until after boarding.Booking availability depends on length of cruise and how many people book things and don't show up. THere is a standby line and we have generally been seated from the standby line. Festival Stage is the entertainers who are brought on for one or two cruises....it may be a magician, a mentalist, or whatever. There are generally 2 or 3 per cruise. Yes, the supper club is a show with dinner served Behing the Scenes is $200 per person (or was...may have increased). Boomvang is a nightclub type event We've always had complimentary premium wifi, so can't answer about regular.

Exactly--they show up on cruises embarking in 2024. If the program is extended, VV will add it. If now, we'll see what happens.

On cruises of 7 nights or more, you can make 3 dinner reservations in advance at each restaurant. On cruises of 6 nights or fewer, you are limited to one advance dinner reservation per restaurant. Note--you can EAT at restaurants more than that by doing walk ups. Brunch reservations do not count in the totals. To Daz, the most full voyage I've been on was about 3/4 booked. So you are right, it might be very different on a full sailing.

No, but the lines move very quickly. Walk ups are either seated (if possible) or offered a time later in the evening, and leave the line. Those with reservations are promptly seated. My experience has been 30 seconds to a few minutes in line....or none.

In 43 nights on board, we've never not been able to get a reservation. On our most recent 15 night, the app crashed after I made 3 nights of reservations--my TA took over and booked the rest. But most importantly, we did not stick to those bookings. We made MANY changes after during the cruise based on which restaurants we liked, planned activities, etc. When we couldn't make the changes we wanted thru the app, we found the crew member at the restaurant podiums to be very cooperative. And we never ate as early as 5 or as late as 9. We did have days when one of us would say "I don't feel like doing X tonight," and we'd go to the app to see what else was available. We did eat at The Galley for dinner based on the special of the night, but not because we couldn't get a restaurant reservation. Good luck. I do have an issue with shows. I missed one show because I couldn't get reservations, and the next day learned that the show had been almost empty. People were making reservations for the same show multiple times. They really should fix it so that you can only make one reservation per show and after that use the stand by line if you wish to see it again.

First of all with a terminal arrival time of 4, I'd plan to show up about 3. You can expect to board sooner than your time in most cases of a late time. THe general advice is to show up 30 minutes in advance of your time, but odds are if you arrive at 3, you'll have little or no waiting. Since you were able to book late, I'd guess that the cruise is not full. We've not had trouble booking once on board, and if you are not seeing what you'd like, go to Razzle Dazzle where they can assist you. Other things for now...if you booked thru a "first mate" (VV speak for travel agent), contact them and see whether they can get anything for you. I don't know if there is a UK VV Sailor Services number, but they can also assist. Many people who have booked in advance will change bookings after boarding. For instance, if they are going to one of the dinner shows, they'll cancel their reservation for that night. Another hint--if you know the restaurant you'd like to eat at on a particular night but don't have a reservation, go down to the podium about 6 and ask if there is a time that they can work you in. THey'll usually be able to do something.

That applies to Sea Blazer status. I'm pretty sure that Sea Rover is only good thru 2024.

I choose my TA for service. Yes, she is in the top 10 again this year, but I think she is there because of her service. Sure, $100 in loot was nice, but she has saved me more than that twice by doing a cancel and rebook when VV came out with a better pricing deal, and does this automatically for all of her bookings. She re-runs the numbers and contacts those who could get a better price to verify this is OK with them. She deals with VV for me....and their shoreside service is a pain. She makes my dining reservations thru her portal when the app crashes. She loads all of our info into an app so I have everything at my fingertips--addresses, phone numbers, confirmation numbers and I can track members of my party who are flying from other places (we often do this and meet up in Miami). My first VV cruise, I booked on my own. Sure, I can do it...but her service is well worth using. The extra $100 has been nice, but VV not allowing it any more is not a reason to not use a super agent.

Why guess? VV has announced at least 3 previous ending dates for the program with the promise of launching their permanent program. There was a short time of their "tokens" thing. No one knows what they are going to do or when it will happen. We will know when it happens. THe only word from VV previously was that their program would be based on how much people spent, both for bookings and while on board, rather than number of nights or sailings. Time will tell......

You can see probable shore things on the website for each location. Unfortunately those listing don't include prices.

Interesting. On our first Valiant cruise, Premium wifi was not available and the standard was pretty awful. But once they switched to Starlink, the premium has been good. If this is better, so be it.

I agree with the above comments by Travel And Sea above. We were disappointed in the revision of the dinner menu in Razzle Dazzle as they removed several of our favorites. THe new deserts are a nice change though. Celebrity has more "normal" food done well, while Virgin has more "foodie" food, sometimes amazing, but other times the same item can be disappointing. While I don't like the buffet style where others can potentially touch food, the variety quality of the Celebrity buffet is top notch. The consistency in quality and service is better on Celebrity. BUT when VV has good service, it is GREAT service. Same with food....and really friendly crew. One issue on Celebrity--if you order a diet coke at dinner, they bring a can and pour half of it into a tiny glass; they won't let you keep the rest of the can. Then, I'm convinced that they ration you on the package by making you wait for 20 minutes or more for a refill. This did not make my cruise partner happy! And you are paying for it on their beverage package. At the buffet, they just hand you a full can.

We've done 3 VV cruises of 14 nights or longer. On each, we booked dinner in advance, but made so many changes after booking that where we ate did not resemble that initial schedule. The first time, we scheduled rotating thru the 6 twice with the additional nights where I thought our favorites would be. We discovered that places I thought would be great were "just OK" and places I didn't expect to love became favorites. Also, I followed the instructions that Shoreside Sailor Service gave as to which nights were A and B in Test Kitchen....and they were wrong, so that was changed. If you book Ship Show, that is a dinner event....another change. Bottom line, for my next cruise, I'll still book reservations for each night, but I'll also know that they won't stay that way. As far as how to book--you can curse your way thru the app as it crashes. You can contact your TA and have them book for you (their portal opens when the app does). You can call Sailor Services the next morning and do it thru them. My TA has me send her my preferences in advance. Then after the app crashes, I message her and have her finish it.