this video is not a rant or is it I'm sharing with you 14 things that are genuinely pretty
annoying about Virgin voyages so that you can know what to expect and also helpful tips tons
of helpful tips around how I navigated these and did things pretty differently on my second
sailing versus my first and how I'll do things differently on my third fourth and fifth coming up
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the full playlist let's jump into the first two actually which have to do with the food
number one is that you can only dine at each restaurant for dinner once in theory so when
you're signing up on the app for your dinner you can only book each restaurant one time and I mean
it's awesome that the specialty restaurants are included but if you really like one of them and
you don't really like a couple of the others and you want to keep dining at it you can't
book that you can only book it once you can go standby I definitely went standby plenty
of times eat the same place two and three times but you can only book each Place once
and one thing I wish I knew that I didn't know about until I was on this ship is that some of
the restaurants the wake and Razzle Dazzle they serve brunch and a lot of people don't
know that and just go straight upstairs to the galley and eat a regular breakfast when
they're completely missing out on something very very awesome at both of these spots so that's
numero dos is the timing of the food and what I mean by that is things are not necessarily open
or closed when you want them to be let me give you a couple examples if you like to go to the
nightclub and if you're like me and you like to eat pizza after the nightclub that's a fantastic
thing except the nightclub doesn't necessarily close at 1am and the pizza spot does so you might
be running to the pizza spot at 12 55 pm to grab your little buzzer put in your order and run back
to the nightclub so you can wait the 20 minutes on the dance floor that is and then go back and
get your pizza and then eat it and then go back to the nightclub anyway the late night food options
are just okay so you have the upstairs Diner in the galley which has some decent options and then
you have the ramen spot which does not necessarily serve all the different Ramen items and it's not
24 hours but I just always felt like I wanted to eat something late night because virgin voyages is
such a fantastic ship to enjoy the the Nightclub at and I didn't necessarily have those options
also on weird timing that poke spot oh my gosh I completely missed it on my first
sailing because it's not open every day and it's open in a very small window of time so
if you are on Scarlet lady make sure you look at the hours because the Poke is amazing and
it's hidden on the top and the back of the boat but you've got to try it out anyway there are
certain restaurants with certain hours and they might not fit to your schedule
on the topic of food numbers three four and five have to do with drinking number three
it it kind of bothers me it really bothers my boyfriend meatball that
there's no open bar on this cruise and so there are times in which like oh yeah like
but they're like oh I don't know like it's weird to be on a cruise thinking about the additional
things you're paying for when it's traditionally something where it's like paid and you're all set
and so it's more of a mindset thing because the drinks really don't pay that much unless which
here's number four the drinks that you might want may or may not be available so let me give you an
example I was drinking the 21 glasses of Moet which are fantastic love it it's only worth it
but it really adds up and so I really wanted to be drinking Chandon a winery in California that
I used to be a wine club member at love that place amazing bubble room you should totally
go to that Winery by the way I digress but glasses of Chandon are 11 on the cruise and so 21 11 it's
kind of a big price swing and there isn't anything else that's comparable to these two things in a
different price range so because they were out I was a little annoyed about that nah super annoying
oh helpful tip don't forget you can bring two bottles of wine per stateroom and so since they
are a cruise that is partnered with Moet I brought love on board and that was fantastic you get two
bottles per room number five is something that you would think would be an advantage for you
but might work against you depending I don't know I guess it depends on how much you drink
but we had friends that went on the cruise who pre-paid their bar tab and they couldn't spend
it all I mean I was happy that they were buying me lots of drinks that's fantastic but one thing
to consider is be because a lot of people have a misperception around how much drinks cost on
the cruise except that example on the glasses in Moet it's not something that's as expensive
as you think and so they pre-made a huge bar tab and they were nowhere near that so you
know let's pop more bottles by the way if you're getting some value out of this video cheers that
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out number six and seven have to do with well detoxing before you re-talk I love that mentality
on this cruise by the way but it has to do with working out number six is about missing out on the
workout classes and this kind of happens in a few ways so actually hold on first of all if you sign
up for a workout class and you don't show up you have to pay actually it's not even paying you're
donating money toward a charity of their choice which I actually think is kind of fair because
you're holding someone else back from being able to sign up and signing up let's talk about
that for a second you have to do it on the app everything on this Cruise you have to do through
the app and it's really important especially for the like popular classes you're signing up for
them on like hour one of your cruise otherwise they fill up super fast and you completely miss
out on them and so a lot of times I would go standby and I would just wait at the clock
you know 10 15 minutes before it starts to see if I could get in and sometimes I could
do that but you really got to be on top of it so you can get into the classes otherwise
and number seven is something that was different on my second sailing versus my first sailing I
really loved on my first sailing that I could take tons of Fitness classes in the afternoon
because I would sleep in all morning after going to the nightclub all night and then I would go
work out in the afternoon on my second sailing just about all the workout classes were in the
morning so do you want to know how much I worked out on my second cruise I didn't I worked on
my liver brought it to new levels so there were inconsistencies with the workout classes but in
general I mean this is a newer Cruise Line I think there are some things they're still figuring out
numero ocho is about the misperceptions of this cruise I can't tell you how exhausted I am by some
of the questions that people ask me repeatedly simply because they have the wrong idea about
what virgin voyages is so let's talk about it is this a swingers cruise is this a sex cruise is it
a gay cruise and there's all kinds of people on this boat just like there's all kinds of people
everywhere you travel but because the internet is always right just kidding I'm going to read you
something that I found that is a statement from Virgin voyages I'll link it in the description
below if you want to dive into it but I think this is kind of interesting the average age of a virgin
Voyage Cruiser is 47 years old over half of them are married and only 25 percent of them say they
are new Cruisers translation this is also not a millennial or super young Cruise you get people
all ages on this cruise but I will say there is one thing in common amongst all of them is that
they are definitely more contemporary or modern or open to trying new things these aren't the
older Cruisers who are stuck in their ways like I definitely saw a lot of older women
looking 10 million times more hip than I do I guess a lot of people look more hip than I do
my dad thinks this hat is weird let's move on the music I have some things to say about the
music I'm also very picky about music I mean I dated DJ number nine is the lack of it and so
this is something that really bothered me and I did something different on my second Cruise
which is I packed a portable speaker in the room you have your TV you have your sexy lights but
you don't have music in your room there's no playlist of music there's tons of movies and
shows and stuff like that but I was like whoa Virgin Records with Virgin voyages shouldn't
there be music in the room and so that's something you might want to pack which is a portable speaker
oh which by the way there's a whole helpful pack list specific for Virgin voyages that
I put together for you leave the description below if you want to grab that not everyone
cares about having music in their room but let's talk about music on the rest of the
ship number 10 is about the inconsistency of the music and specifically from the DJs and so
the first time I cruise with Virgin voyages I didn't expect to hear hip hop I mean I
pop a lot but I wasn't surprised that it was more like house music and stuff like that but one thing
I learned on my second sailing because there was a lot of awesome hip-hop going on is that the
DJs rotate every couple weeks or so and you get completely different Talent each time and so there
is kind of like a set of 20 songs I would say that you will consistently hear every single time like
clockwork but you get inconsistency in the DJs and the other thing is a lot of their sets are
pretty short so here's two examples on C day if you go up to the pool I timed it to be there soon
as he started his set because the set was only an hour and a half otherwise it's just normal music
playing or even at the beach club the set is only a couple hours long and it's definitely the best
and most vibey part of the day at the Bimini Beach Club up but the DJs are inconsistent and when they
have their sets they are they're never as long as I want them to be I get it that not everyone
cares for a good DJ set I know you guys exist out there that's okay but number 11 is around live
music so yes you can get some very talented live musicians especially the solo musicians or even
in the manor they have really great bands that they're bringing in and rotating but when I'm
around the you know that beautiful water of the Bahamas I I really want to hear that live reggae
band at the pool like that's one of my favorite things about sailing with Royal Caribbean is that
you got the live reggae bands like on repeat you can just kind of guarantee it's going to be there
and and that that just doesn't exist here I guess that's what headphones are for and YouTube videos
this next one might surprise you maybe I don't know it depends on if you've been traveling lately
or not so this one is around capacity I know I am going to be so annoyed on my later cruises with
Virgin voyages because it's going to be way more busy so the first time I sailed with them there
were 800 people on board this Cruise fits 2770 passengers I'm not talking about crew there's a
whole set of crew also but it fits 2770. there were only 800 people on my first ceiling it was
amazing there was a lot of space there was a lot of room and I was surprised because on my second
sailing I was like wow this feels this feels so busy oh my gosh like it's packed everywhere guess
how many people were on the cruise 960. that's only a little bit more like a little bit more it
already felt like oh my goodness like oh this is like really busy and packed and if there are 2 770
people on this boat and it's actually at capacity it's going to feel really really different so
maybe the tip here is go cruise with them before the hordes of people go ooh or maybe avoid you
know holiday sailings number 13 is one that you'll care about more if you are sailing with them
sooner versus later which is the app still needs some improvement again you're doing everything
in there you're booking Your Entertainment your workout your dinners your everything everything
happens in the app and so and well nothing will happen on your cruise if you're not using the
app by the way and a lot of times app was crashing or it wasn't working when we were using it I saw
a little bit of improvement on my second sailing but I don't know it's kind of annoying when you're
just like what time is dinner tonight and it's like permanently loading and number 14 you're
not allowed to bring drones on this cruise I love drones I have a whole drone Channel by the way you
should check it out Oh So Christine how'd you bring a drone I was on the security list for it
those are my 14 things if something was helpful in here choose that like button consider subscribing
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