Virgin Voyages - Scarlet Lady - Day 2 - Sea Day

 Virgin Voyages First Mate Familiarization Trip

Day 2

If you didn't see yesterday's blog post, I was lucky enough to be offered a chance to experience the Scarlet Lady with a familiarization trip in order to better assist my clients interested in cruising with Virgin Voyages.  

As a reminder, Virgin Voyages is an adult only cruise line with amazing food, entertainment, staff and accommodations that ensure you have the most wonderful vacation.

Their cruises always includes the following:

• Dining at 20+ eateries

• Tips

• Group fitness classes

• WiFi

• Essential drinks

• Shows & Entertainment

Here is some info about their lady ships:

• Yacht-inspired, mid-sized ships with 17 decks total

• Scarlet Lady: Year-round 4 & 5 night Caribbean itineraries out of Miami with a

late stay at The Beach Club at Bimini, Bahamas.

• Valiant Lady: 7 night itineraries to the Mediterranean with late stays and

overnights in Ibiza, Spain, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and Cannes, France. The

ship will spend summers in the Med, but head to the Caribbean for the winter.

• Resilient Lady: Summer 2023 - 7 night Mediterranean itineraries from Piraeus

(Athens), Greece, with late stays and overnights in Mykonos, Greece and

Dubrovnik, Croatia. Winter 2023-24 South Pacific voyages from Melbourne,

Australia and Auckland, New Zealand to ports including Hobart, Tasmania and

Tauranga, New Zealand.

• Brilliant Lady: to come in 2023.

Virgin Voyages offers ADA accommodations across all of their Lady Ships, in all

cabin categories. Their Sailors are Rockstars, and they are committed to ensuring that

they deliver an epic onboard experience for all.  Experiencing this cruise line made me realize first hand how truly inclusive it is.  You felt comfortable being yourself and having fun no matter your age, race, sexual orientation, gender or physical ability.

Over these 5 days, I am going to tell you all about my trip and the amazing reasons why I literally LOVED sailing with Virgin Voyages and highly suggest everyone checks it out!

On day two I was up early for First Mate training with other TravelOnly agents also sailing on the ship.  Angela woke up and enjoyed breakfast at Razzle Dazzle.  Razzle Dazzle is the vegan restaurant on board, which ironically has the BEST bacon.  Yes, they have a "Naughty" Menu and at breakfast, they manage to serve the most amazing bacon!  After training, Angela and I spent some time roaming around the ship and exploring.  There is so much to see that you can't possibly experience it all during one sailing.  We headed to the back of the ship to The Dock which has an amazing view and yummy smaller portion meals that you can enjoy outside on the deck while listening to some live music.  After a bite to eat we threw on our bathing suits and headed towards the pool area to lay out in the sun and listen to the DJ playing music.  For dinner we enjoyed the meal at "It's a Ship Show".  They transform The Manor into a supper club, and guests enjoy a delicious 4 course meal while watching an old-school variety hour meets late-night talk show mash-up. It was a great show with humour and very talented acts. 

We then enjoyed a second show called "Duel Reality" which took place in The Red Room.  I absolutely LOVED this show so much that it literally brought tears to my eyes.  It is a show created by The 7 with  the use of ethereal technology and electrifying choreography.  This edgy and beautiful production explores the significance (or insignificance) of incidental connection while on our own personal journeys.  The dancing was beautiful and the singing was spectacular.  I love how it also bends traditional gender roles and has men wearing female clothing while women wore suits.  Love it! A show you definitely can't miss.

After both shows, Angela and I went to The Manor for some dancing.  Upon entering The Manor, you obviously have to take photos within the iconic hallways of mirrors and lights.  One of my favourite spaces in the ship!  The dancers from the Duel Reality show arrived in style, all wearing silver and dancing with umbrellas and whips and other items covered in bright neon led lights. So fun! They really brought the party.  I ended that evening with a Corona and All Day Breakfast at 1:30 am up in The Galley.

Enjoy some photos from Day 2.  Tomorrow we have our first on shore day as we head into Cozumel.

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Here I am at training... super tired from staying up late at the PJ party the night before.

Angela's Breakfast at Razzle Dazzle

The hammocks on the balcony are super comfy and the perfect place to catch up on a little bit of work.

"It's a Good Day to Drink on a Boat"

Sitting at the very back of the ship at "The Dock"

Mmmm... the ice cream was so yummy and each day they had different and interesting flavours.  This one is Raspberry Beet.

This restaurant is The Test Kitchen.  We were not able to get a reservation here.  But I highly suggest you do if you can.  It is a laboratory-like eatery that is party cooking lesson and part eatery.  The menu is fixed and you don't actually get to see the menu in advance.   You simply get to see the main ingredient that each course is made out of.  It is definitely for the curious sailers with boundary-pushing taste buds.  Each sailing usually has one menu for the first half of the cruise and a different menu for the second half.

This is the moment I saw this hat in one of the shops and absolutely had to have it.  I wore it the entire rest of the time when we were on board the ship.  It was so fun and staff would always refer to me as "Captain" which was hilarious.  I didn't see them available again after this evening and there was only a handful of people on board that had them.  So, if you see them... grab one as they are such a great souvenir and fun to wear while on board!

Inside the iconic hallway into The Manor

My It's a Ship Show Meal

Tomorrow is Day 3 where we spend our day in Cozumel