I want to apologize before we get started because as I was looking through the footage
I didn't realize that using my 360 camera selfie stick as a way of hitting some of the
fun pool party balls was causing some drinks to be spilled so let's Dive In
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create helpful travel videos to help you to travel smarter so in this Vlog I really want
to share with you what a day is like on Virgin voyage's Scarlet lady with tons of helpful tips
so that you can plan your day and really just see what it's like on the ship so let's dive in
with why my day started the way it did and that's because I was really hungover from Scarlet Knight
the night before and not so much because they don't serve good alcohol they serve great alcohol
on this cruise but because we were drinking Soju and if you don't know what Soju is it's it's like
a very sweet version of sake with lower alcohol content and that's because at gun Bay one of the
best restaurants on the ship you play drinking games with all the people you were sitting with
and it's a really really really freaking fun time but drinking Soju has too much sugar and
made me feel very hungover because then that went straight into drinking champagne again at Scarlet
night which is a night in which everyone dresses up in red and there's just a really fun pool party
a really fun after party an entertainment all over the ship it's very much like if you've ever
been to New York City sleep no more where every person on the ship has a different experience
with the entertainment and so Scarlet night was really fun but I woke up the next morning feeling
not the best so one of the places I love to get coffee and by I love I mean I love meatball to
go get me coffee is in the galley and that's upstairs and like the food Hall type area and
they have really delicious coffee and he gets me a flat white every morning so normally one
of two things would happen I would either take that coffee and enjoy it on the Terrace and the
majority of the rooms on this Cruise have a Terrace you can get inside rooms or solo
rooms but majority of the rooms have a Terrace so normally I'd be out here drinking my coffee
or I would go to and this is kind of a secret that a lot of people don't know about is that
a couple of the restaurants do brunch so Razzle Dazzle does brunch especially if you like a more
sweet brunch you can get like really delicious French toasts and other sweet items or if you like
something a little bit more Savory you should go to the wake which is the steak restaurant
they also have an amazing Seafood Tower but the Wake has a more Savory brunch where you can get
steak and eggs or a pork belly Benedict super delicious but I didn't want to eat this morning
because I may have been eating pizza at 2 A.M last night and I'm pretty full from that and the
reason why there's no time for coffee on the Terrace is because we were gonna go be Muddy
Buddies uh we went to the thermal Suite so what's cool is there's a really beautiful Spa experience
on Virgin voyages Scarlet lady so this morning we everyone on the ship has an option of booking
a three-hour time slot at the thermal suite and this is something that's available to people with
a VIP band The Black band instead of the Red Band meaning you're a VIP rock star or you've booked
one of the Rockstar or mega rock star Suites and so we went to the thermal Suite because we
got three hours of time as a result of being VIP and so inside of there you have a couple things
you've got like the sauna the steam room and you can basically jump back and forth between hot and
cold there's also unique things like there's the funeral Salt Room which is super cool and
they also have hot and cold tubs which is really nice but the really unique thing is you grab they
have these little cups of mud and you grab the mud cups and you go into the special mud room
where you like apply the mud and it feels like a steam room in this area and so you sit in the mud
room and enjoy and then they have like showers everywhere they also have a cold hose [Laughter]
so normally it's 39 for a three hour booking at thermal Suite but to get over a hangover
priceless but we had places to be because today we pulled up at Bimini Island this is in the Bahamas
and if you're sailing with Virgin out of Florida out of the Miami port then they always stop on
this island and the reason for that is because their private beach club is here and it is super
duper sexy but what's interesting about Bimini is that this port isn't like normal ports and that
it's not like really humongous with all the cheesy pork things that they have you know with all like
the chotskis and like the Trinkets and stuff like that like there's really nothing at the Port you
can walk across the bridge and enjoy the beach that's over there but generally most people are
getting onto the free shuttle and because we were VIP rock stars we got a separate shuttle that took
us over directly to the beach club otherwise the shuttle will stop at a few places where you can
do different kinds of Tours whether you go to the Hilton's Resorts World some people like to gamble
some people like to go like rent jet skis or boats there's a drop off for that there's a drop off for
an area where you can pick up a golf cart and just drive all over the island but we wanted to
go straight to the beach club and there's a reason why so the way I like to time things for the beach
club is one to three p.m this is like the Poppin part of the party this is when the DJ comes on we
had DJ Leo Medina spinning he did a fantastic job but it's when they like have the whole happenings
cast which is their entertainment crew coming out and like really hyping up the crowd they
were there in their mermaid outfits with water guns and it was just super fun they bring out
all of the pool floaties and it's the part of the party where it's just like everyone's in the pool
and it's really really fun so one to three is a time to be at the beach club but aside from just
the pool area there's so so much more right you have the entire Beach area which is so beautiful
they have chairs available and out for everyone obviously you can rent um private Cabanas either
by the pool or by the beach but they have just beautiful spaces to hang out in but we chose to
spend after the pool party we spent the afternoon in the VIP Rockstar area which is just a little
bit of a separate area away from the beach and they provide food and also free Wi-Fi so the free
Wi-Fi that you get on the ship also extends out there so you got free food free Wi-Fi free water
obviously you gotta pay for drinks all over but in the VIP area they have servers and so David was
really awesome he took care of us and we ate oh I love the food you have to get the crispy cassava
it's like quadruple if not more than that fried and it's like so crispy so delicious and I also
had the two different curries they had they had a Pumpkin Curry and a chicken curry and so David was
our waiter we had some really nice drinks I was drinking Moet that was fantastic and that is one
thing to know is there is no drinks package with Virgin voyages there's a full video on
that in the description below but the drinks are reasonably priced obviously you can get glasses
of Moet at 21 but you can also get glasses of sparkling rose at nine dollars where you can get
um chandoned Brut at 11 totally fair so I think pricing wise and again if you're comparing this
to where I used to fly on the private jet to Bentonville Arkansas when I used to work at
Walmart corporate obviously those drinks are significantly cheaper but when I lived in New
York City in San Francisco yo drinking on this ship is cheap so we had a fantastic time in the
VIP area but then we would normally do the beach games and the beach games are super fun so the
whole happenings cast the entertainment crew will bring people out onto the sand and you do things
like build inappropriate sand castles or do relay races or just like really ridiculous fun games and
then everyone gets drinks together afterwards it's really fun but there was a rain cloud coming in
and I wanted to peace out of there because we had something to do later that was very sexy VIP which
I'm excited to talk to you about but first we wanted to get back so we got back to the boat um
and one of the spaces that I love to go eat at is at the dock house so it's helpful to know that all
the specialty dining is included so unlike Royal Caribbean or who we're sailing with next week at
MSC you have to pay additional for specialty but here it's all included and so we love going to the
doc house because it's little Tapas style plates of things like steak and chicken and shrimp and
octopus and it was super delicious so we did Doc house for a little while Alex the service here is
fantastic Alex took care of us we had a really good time there ooh an Insider tip and I have
a whole Secrets video of like things that a lot of people don't know about on this ship that are
really helpful because I've been on this a bunch of times if you're getting some value out of this
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this ship anytime soon my friend can hold you up with insane deals so make sure you check out
that info in the description below there's also a Secrets video in there for you as well because one
of the things a lot of people don't know about is at the doc house they have a whole outdoor
area also the dock which is filled with daybeds with a view of the back of the boat so you can
look out into the ocean and enjoy one of these day beds without having to fight everyone else
for the day beds at the normal pool area which can get super packed and they have a new limit of 40
minutes so in other words if your stuff is left by the pool area for more than 40 minutes unattended
they will take that to Lost and Found basically to prevent people from holding the day beds all
day because it's so hard to get one anyway go to the doc get a daybed watch the secrets video below
and the reason why we couldn't spend too long there because there's other day beds to hang out
at and so going back to what VIP will get you as a rockstar access to Richard's rooftop is one of
them so Richard's rooftop is an exclusive space on the front of the ship it's actually very very
large and there's day beds here and just beautiful spaces to hang out but every day from five to six
they have their sail away party or rather their cocktails party in which they are just pouring out
free glasses of Moet and so we were there drinking tons and tons of champagne and by we I mean me and
it was fantastic and so we were supposed to get a tour from our friend of the mega Rockstar Suite
um but that friend was busy so we didn't get to see it just yet but we went back to the room to
get ready because Carlos puts on an amazing show Carlos Carlos the Uber driver is a drag queen on
this ship and if you're not aware of this there's a lot of like edgy really awesome entertainment
on this ship and that's because it's adults only it's just a different vibe and so Carlos the Uber
driver is a phenomenal drag queen that we've seen on this ship before but she did a little bit more
of a private show on the Rocks which is one of the bar areas on Scarlet lady and it was just
really was really cool Carlos is super talented did some singing did some q a with the audience it
was super fun and so we went and had some drinks and watched Carlos for a little bit before heading
over to an evening show and so this show was actually something different that wasn't on the
previous previous ceilings we've been on before it was really cool it was actually a variety show
which is different for Virgin voyages but they had everything Actually I don't even noticed how
to describe what we saw we saw everything from like acrobats to singing to dancing
um to fund audience interaction but it was different because they served dinner with
the show and so it was held in the manor and we had actually dinner was really fantastic we had
different appetizers from like beets to Parada and then they brought out some really delicious
main dishes and like that's one of the things is like it's not just and you can you can a lot
of people talk I don't know why a lot of people talk about how like oh my God I was starving on
this ship like the portion sizes are too small the portion sizes are fine but the other thing
is you can ask for as much additional servings as you want but we had the chicken and we also had
the fish which was super delicious and perfectly cooked they attention to detail on the die dining
really is there and really does make this ship very special in that sense but we had a fantastic
dinner and a show at the ship show and after that um well meatball passed out he totally passed out
in the room the night is not over he took a power nap um I took a power nap for a while and I got
some of my own stuff done but it was time to get dressed because it was disco nights and a circus
show and one of the things I just really love about this ship is the parties are really fun
and I really like how it feels like you're in a New York City where South Beach Miami nightclub
but you don't get that pretentious Vibe and too many people think like oh is this ship like just
a party ship and they have really fun parties but it's not it's not it can be wild but not always
um it really is for everyone and so the the Disco Night in my opinion was a perfect example of what
it's like because this ship is not a bunch of 20 year olds in fact more people are here celebrating
their 40s and really this this ship caters to mostly people who are 55 and up and everyone
was out there dancing to disco and we had freaking fantastic time they had some really fun acrobats
in acrobatics and circus style stuff in the beginning so there was a show in the beginning and
then it just opened up to the dance floor and we had a great time dancing with everybody oh and one
helpful tip so the pizza spot is open until 2 A.M but that buzzer so once you order your pizza you
get a buzzer it will reach from the seventh floor all the way down to the sixth floor in the manor
so in other words I love to go upstairs order my pizza go back to the nightclub enjoy myself for
the 30 minutes it takes while everyone's pizzas are being made and then I go back and pick it
up and then have late night pizza so yo that's what a day on this ship looks like it's fun and I
mean today will be different because we're at Sea today and we'll do more active things I love the
whole detox to retalks mentality on this cruise and today we're going to do things like play
dodgeball and do a 90s boy bands dance class and do a bungee class later oh my gosh this ship is
so much fun and so there really is something for everyone tons of entertainment on the ship really
delicious dining and you should check out this is one of many videos links in the description below
for you and yo if you got some value cheers that like button tell me if you have a helpful tip and
something you did on your day at Sea if you've been here I'd love to know in the comments below
but I'm Christine Lozada connect with me make sure you check out my friend's amazing discount
he'll get you a ton of free sailor loot I've been paid for a single glass of champagne not
just because I've been in the VIP area but I will see you in the next adventure ciao [Music]