The final word information to Virgin Voyages cruise ships and itineraries

If a child-free cruise expertise with decadent meals, an upscale seaside vibe and bingo hosted by a drag queen feels like one thing you’d take pleasure in, Virgin Voyages may be your new favourite cruise line.

The brainchild of quirky enterprise mogul Richard Branson, Virgin Voyages promised to shake up the cruise trade — and it delivered by banning kids from crusing, including loads of risque leisure, scrapping the normal buffet and inspiring cruisers to embrace enjoyable and self-care by means of its “detox and retox” philosophy. Its three (quickly to be 4) midsize ocean ships embrace upscale cruising with all of the accoutrements that allow passengers to search out their internal kids.

What you possibly can count on from the road is a fun-yet-classy vibe with stylish decor, each day events and video games and an inclusive really feel that encourages everybody to return as they’re. Plus, nearly the whole lot — gratuities, primary Wi-Fi and all however one restaurant — is included within the value. (You’ll pay further for alcohol and shore excursions.)

Right here’s the whole lot you want to find out about Virgin Voyages’ ships, the place they sail and their onboard points of interest, together with eating, leisure and lodging.

3 issues TPG loves about Virgin Voyages

• Glorious exhibits that rival the most effective exhibits you’d discover on land
• Inclusivity that makes everybody really feel welcome
• Standout delicacies with almost each restaurant included within the cruise fare

What we may do with out

• Cabins that really feel cheaply furnished with bogs which are too small
• Excessive-demand actions that overlap; you need to choose, select and schedule prematurely

The Virgin Voyages fleet

Virgin Voyages — which debuted in 2019 with its first ship, Scarlet Woman — operates a fleet of three almost similar vessels: Scarlet Woman, Valiant Woman and Resilient Woman. A fourth, Good Woman, is about to start crusing in fall 2025.

All the 110,000-ton, 17-deck ships provide 1,330 cabins and 78 suites. At most capability, they’ll carry 2,770 friends. It offers the facilities of a bigger vessel however with out being so massive that it’s tough to handle. (For context, Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, which is at present the world’s largest cruise ship, carries almost 3 times that variety of passengers.)

If I needed to evaluate Virgin Voyages to its different mass-market rivals, I’d say it’s a hybrid of Superstar Cruises and Disney Cruise Line (however with out the youngsters). It options an upscale however not luxurious onboard vibe and boundary-pushing leisure, and it appeals to younger professionals. It additionally encourages cruisers to let their internal kids free with dodgeball tournaments, board video games, arcade play and almost 24-hour entry to free ice cream, sweet and pizza — and all of the enjoyable is supposed for grownups.

Locations and itineraries

Virgin Voyages’ focus is the Caribbean, Bahamas and Mediterranean, with all 4 ships catering to a number of of these areas.

Through the spring and summer time months, Scarlet Woman sails round-trip from Barcelona, providing weeklong voyages within the Med. Within the fall, it repositions to its winter dwelling port of Miami, from which it runs weeklong cruises to the Western Caribbean.

Valiant Woman sails year-round from Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, providing four-, five- and seven-night Bahamas, Caribbean and Mexico itineraries by means of the spring of 2026. In the summertime of 2026, it’s going to reposition to Barcelona and finally Portsmouth in the UK to supply Mediterranean and British Isles voyages, respectively.

Resilient Woman gives seven- to 11-night voyages from San Juan to the Caribbean and Bahamas throughout the winter months. In the summertime, it heads to Europe to do Athens, Greece-based cruises to the Greek islands, Turkey, Croatia and Montenegro.

When Good Woman begins crusing in late 2025, it’s going to dwelling port in Miami and provide longer voyages of seven to 12 nights to the Jap and Western Caribbean.

As a result of Virgin Voyages is so centered on bringing unique experiences to its friends, it has developed a personal seaside membership on the Bahamian island of Bimini in partnership with Resorts World. A lot of its ships’ Caribbean sailings name there.

The Seaside Membership at Bimini options twin lagoon swimming pools with complimentary lounge chairs, enjoyable pool floats and for-fee cabanas. It offers Virgin vacationers with seaside entry, waiter-served lunch and actions like paddleboard yoga, volleyball and cornhole. Native shore tour choices can be found for an additional price, as are poolside non-public cabanas.

Who sails Virgin Voyages?

Virgin Voyages cruises attraction to adults — “sailors” in Virgin Voyages phrases — who prefer to have a superb time, no matter age. They are usually stylish, prosperous and nicely traveled. They love a superb occasion and luxuriate in posting their newest whereabouts on TikTok and Instagram.

They’re snug with who they’re, and so they’re simply as snug permitting others to be themselves, too. Anticipate your fellow passengers’ vibes to run the gamut from laid-back and informal (however at all times trendy) to simply plain further (assume: tutus, fishnets, neon hair and make-up; something goes). You’ll end up among the many likes of seaside bums, rock stars, mermaids and others who will doubtless grow to be your finest mates on the dance ground or over a late-night recreation of Mouse Entice or Mall Insanity.

Cabins and suites

All 4 ships provide the identical varieties and lessons of cabins: the Insider (inside cabins with no home windows), the Sea View (outdoors cabins with home windows), the Sea Terrace (balcony rooms) and quite a lot of RockStar Quarters, that are suites with names just like the Candy Aft Suite, the Severely Suite, the Cheeky Nook Suite and two TPG Award-winning, 2,147-square-foot Huge Suites, plus a number of others.

The Huge Suites every provide two bedrooms, an ordinary one with a king-size mattress and one other with a pullout sofa, in addition to quite a lot of guitars and an amp, in case you are feeling like a jam session. In addition they have file gamers with an in depth music library; non-public sundecks with eating tables, scorching tubs, loungers and outside showers; premium linens; butler service for issues like specific swimsuit drying and stocking the complimentary minibar; luxurious toiletries; temper lighting; two full-size closets; and precedence embarkation and disembarkation, plus transfers.

The ships’ RockStar Quarters, together with the Huge Suite, give their occupants entry to the unique keycard-protected Richard’s Rooftop. The stylish however enjoyable outside bar and lounge space gives a free each day Champagne blissful hour, in addition to non-public scorching tubs and cozy couches for lounging.

Of the fleet’s cabins, 93% have ocean views (that means solely 7% are insides), and 86% have balconies. That’s a powerful quantity. Forty-six solo cabins are unfold throughout the within and out of doors classes on every ship.

So far as accessible staterooms, 29 exist on every vessel, in almost all classes. They’re divided into two varieties: absolutely accessible cabins (for customers of wheelchairs) and ambulatory accessible cabins (for customers of canes, walkers and scooters).

Good in-cabin touches embrace a digital pill that permits cruisers to open their curtains, flip the lights on and off and even name a cabin attendant or contact the entrance desk. Moreover, all balcony rooms have hammocks that permit passengers to nap outside whereas having fun with the ocean breeze in their very own semiprivate areas.

In normal cabins, Virgin Voyages launched an L-shaped couch setup that converts right into a mattress at evening — both two twins that take the identical L form because the couch (which may make sleeping awkward if you’re sharing the room with a buddy) or a queen when the 2 twins are mixed. (Solo cabins do not need the L configuration and, as an alternative, provide a stationary full-size mattress. Cabins that sleep 4 passengers have the L setup with pull-down bunks.)

The road deserves props for making an attempt one thing progressive, however switching between the 2 is usually cumbersome for the room stewards. For that purpose, passengers typically decide to maintain the furnishings as a mattress during the voyage, however which means there’s nowhere to take a seat besides a single chair within the nook of the room.

One other miss is the lavatory setup in normal lodging. They’re concerning the measurement of an airplane rest room, plus an enclosed bathe. There’s so little room in there that passengers typically complain of whacking their palms and elbows on the bathe door whereas making an attempt to make use of the lavatory sink or self-importance space.

Eating places and eating

Virgin Voyages’ eating is in a category of its personal. It’s uncommon {that a} nonluxury (learn: not all-inclusive) cruise line has such a variety of complimentary meals. In truth, passengers can dine at each single onboard restaurant free of charge — one thing you received’t discover on different mainstream ships. (The one exception is a dinner theater-style eating expertise, which takes place within the nightclub on Resilient Woman.)

As is the case with most of its cruise-related endeavors, this model doesn’t do meals and drinks like the opposite strains do. First, it scrapped the concept of an onboard buffet and changed it with a complimentary meals court docket. Then, as an alternative of a foremost eating room, it developed greater than a dozen free eating places that includes all varieties of delicacies, in addition to a for-fee dinner theater — all of that are completely skilled at catering to dietary restrictions like vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free.

Consider Virgin Voyages’ eating venues as upscale land-based eating places. The atmosphere and theme are completely different at every, and so they all serve completely different specialties. One different similarity: You’ll want reservations, and also you’ll wish to make them ASAP. In any other case, you may miss out, as widespread instances are likely to replenish shortly.

The range can also be spectacular. Virgin Voyages’ restaurant menus function a variety of cuisines.

Standouts embrace vegetarian-forward New American restaurant Razzle Dazzle, The Wake restaurant for seafood lovers, Korean barbecue at Gunbae (which entails a somewhat raucous conventional ingesting recreation), intelligent and mouthwatering molecular gastronomy at Check Kitchen, Further Virgin with Italian meals so spectacular it’ll have you ever making appreciative hand gestures and Pink Agave with its delicious Mexican menu.

Passengers with a hankering for late-night pizza ought to head to The Pizza Place for really scrumptious pie choices, and anybody with a candy tooth will recognize ice cream from Lick Me Until … Ice Cream and sweet (Swedish Fish, gummy bears, saltwater taffy and Purple Vines) from The Social Membership.

Room service is offered for a charge through the Virgin Voyages app.

In relation to alcohol, gone are the times of drink packages. On Virgin sailings, you prepay your bar tab earlier than you set sail, and the quantity is debited out of your closing onboard invoice. In the event you go over it, you pay per beverage like at any shoreside bar. Though you don’t should prepay, the road will typically offer you further funds in case you do.

Leisure and actions

All through the day, cruisers can chill out by the pool, take a shore tour or select from all kinds of enjoyable actions which are designed to be nostalgic. Play within the arcade, problem your journey companions to a recreation of Hungry Hungry Hippos or pose for photographs in one among a number of social media-worthy spots in your approach to seize an ice cream cone.

At evening, the road’s next-level theater and nightclub exhibits entice massive crowds of passengers who then transfer on to theme events till the wee hours of the morning. Though every of Virgin Voyages’ ships has its personal exhibits, they’re constantly wonderful throughout the board, that includes top-notch singers and dancers and storylines with sexual innuendo befitting the Virgin model and the fleet’s adults-only atmosphere.

It’s necessary to know that, with the variety of each day actions supplied, you possibly can’t presumably see and do the whole lot on a voyage that’s per week lengthy or shorter. (That’s intentional as a result of Virgin needs your FOMO to drive you to e book one other crusing.) You’ll have to decide on which actions with overlapping time slots to prioritize. Additionally, in case you don’t join nicely prematurely, you may miss out as a result of many actions e book up shortly.

Theaters and exhibits

A high-energy dance and acrobatics present, an immersive nightclub activation that options three hours of burlesque in a library and an S&M-heavy dinner theater (full with a metaphorical threesome) are just some of the latest leisure choices passengers can expertise on Virgin Voyages sailings.

Most of the line’s choices are the product of partnerships with well-known high-end manufacturing corporations and choreographers, equivalent to The 7 Fingers (“Water for Elephants” on Broadway), famed Brooklyn nightclub Home of Sure and the Weiner Leisure Group, whose proprietor labored on New York’s model of “Sleep No Extra” — an interactive “select your individual journey” efficiency that splits you off out of your group and lets you wander by means of a number of flooring of the previous warehouse the place it takes place.

Not all ships have the identical exhibits. Resilient Woman gives a plethora of unique leisure, together with an anthology-style nightclub activation that takes place in a “library” (the ship’s nightclub), plus an added-fee dinner theater that {couples} a improbable present with out-of-this-world delicacies.

For lovers of Greek mythology and superb acrobatics, dancing and feats of power, “Persephone” is the don’t-miss onboard present. Tying in with Resilient Woman’s Greece voyages, it tells the story of the goddess’ torrid love affair with Hades, the god of the underworld.

Discovered on Valiant Woman and Scarlet Woman, “Duel Actuality” is a contemporary tackle “Romeo and Juliet” that’s punctuated by rival “gangs” and jaw-dropping stunts like aerial acrobatics, hula-hooping and juggling. It’s so well-liked that it’s going to tour on land. This marks the primary time a present created particularly for a cruise vessel has gone from ship to shore.

Different passenger favorites embrace “Miss Behave,” a wacky and wild recreation present centered on the concept that nothing actually issues, together with the factors that the viewers earns (on Valiant Woman and Resilient Woman) and “Miss Titty Kaka,” a racy and hilarious selection present hosted by a resident drag queen (discovered fleetwide on rotation).

Pageant Stage gives a sequence of exhibits that rotate and continuously change all through the fleet, bringing among the most mind-boggling expertise on board for a restricted time solely. Examples have included an Irish comic who turns cruisers’ lives into hit songs by means of freestyle rap proper on the spot and an “America’s Bought Expertise” finalist who does a complete comedy routine along with his mouth taped shut.

Dwell music is one other sturdy level. Virgin ships haven’t historically had as a lot reside music as ships from different cruise strains, however that’s altering. You possibly can count on stellar nightly performances within the Champagne bar and in every vessel’s atrium space.

Different inside points of interest and actions

Trivia is scheduled a number of instances a day, however it goes on for greater than an hour, and members spin a wheel to find out the subject. Bingo is hosted by a drag queen. Afternoon tea is obtainable for a charge and comes with a aspect of Champagne.

Extra uncommon pastimes accessible on board embrace bar crawls, espresso tastings and mixology lessons (all for a charge). Free actions vary from board recreation play and summer time camp arts and crafts to karaoke and ’90s boy band dance lessons.

In the event you’re prepared to pay for enjoyable, you may as well go to the onboard on line casino or make an appointment for a service on the spa, nail salon, hairdresser or barber. Feeling further daring? Schedule a tattoo or piercing session on the onboard Squid Ink physique artwork parlor.

Or, select from one among your ship’s free health lessons — one thing for which different cruise strains cost a charge. You’ll discover the whole lot from ‘80s-themed aerobics and bungee lessons to yoga, spin and HIIT.

High-deck points of interest

In the event you’d somewhat chill out or be lively alfresco, choices abound for that, too. Virgin’s ships all provide two swimming pools (the primary pool and the Health club & Tonic pool, which has two scorching tubs and an overwater web for lounging), outside Muscle Seaside-style exercise equipment and a jogging observe.

For yoga or topless sunbathing, head to The Perch on the topmost deck of every vessel. Or, in case you’re booked in a set, head as much as Richard’s Rooftop, an unique sundeck that options loads of lounge house and its personal bar with a cheerful hour every night.

Organized outside actions may embrace health lessons, dodgeball on every ship’s sports activities court docket or stargazing at evening when situations permit.

For extra enjoyable and stress-free pursuits, the ship additionally has a collection of clamshell loungers and an space that may deliver you again to your childhood with see-saws, swings and large Tornado and chess.

Youngsters’s packages

Virgin Voyages is an adults-only cruise line, which implies nobody youthful than 18 is allowed to sail. For that purpose, no youngsters golf equipment or kids’s programming can be found.

What to know earlier than you go

Required paperwork

For worldwide voyages, in case you’re a passenger who’s additionally a U.S. citizen, you’ll want a passport that’s legitimate not less than six months after disembarkation day to be able to cruise. Inexperienced-card holders and non-U.S. residents might want to test necessities based mostly on locations visited.

In the event you’re crusing round-trip from Florida or Puerto Rico and headed to the Caribbean or the Bahamas, you’ll have the ability to board utilizing your authentic delivery certificates and a government-issued photograph ID, equivalent to a driver’s license. (Nonetheless, we extremely suggest utilizing a passport.)

Additionally, you will should do some on-line prep forward of time to be able to test in and choose a time to reach on the embarkation port on the day of your crusing.

Gratuities

Suggestions are constructed into Virgin Voyages’ fares, so that you received’t see a each day service cost in your onboard invoice. You’re welcome to tip further to crew who go above and past, however it’s neither required nor anticipated.

Come ready with some small payments to tip porters on the pier once they take your suitcases. It’s additionally acceptable to tip anybody who delivers room service (or Champagne) along with tour guides on shore excursions.

Wi-Fi

Once you sail, you’ll obtain free primary Wi-Fi entry for 2 gadgets per individual. Speeds are first rate, however in case you’re anticipating to stream films or TV or make video calls, you’ll should pay to improve to the ships’ premium Wi-Fi choice.

Carry-on drinks coverage

Every passenger is permitted to deliver as much as 12 sealed 12-ounce (or smaller) cartons or cans of nonalcoholic drinks like juice, water, soda and sports activities drinks. Every individual of authorized ingesting age (see under) might also deliver two 750-milliliter bottles of wine. Cruisers will not be allowed to deliver their very own liquor or beer on board.

Any drinks you deliver on board have to be transported in your carry-on baggage. Drinks in checked baggage will likely be confiscated and returned on the finish of your crusing. Liquor purchases made ashore will even be held till the top of the voyage.

Smoking coverage

Smoking and vaping are solely allowed within the Deck 6 smoking room outdoors the Purple Room and in a chosen outside space on the starboard aspect of Deck 16 by the doorway to Richard’s Rooftop.

Passengers smoking of their cabins or on stateroom balconies are topic to a $500 high quality and potential disembarkation with out a refund.

Laundry

Virgin Voyages’ ships do not need self-service laundry rooms. As an alternative, cruisers have the choice to ship their garments out for urgent, washing and folding, or washing and urgent. Particular person gadgets price $4 every for press solely, $5 every for wash and fold and $6 every for wash and press. Or, you are able to do a complete bag of washing and folding for $30.

Eco-cleaning (moist washing however with much less water and eco-friendly detergent that’s simpler on materials) is offered for $7 per merchandise. Specific turnaround (returned by 5:30 p.m. the identical day when picked up earlier than 11 a.m.) is $20 further for each common washing and dry cleansing. Nonexpress gadgets will likely be returned the next day by 5:30 p.m.

Electrical retailers

All cabins are outfitted with a mixture of retailers, together with North American, USB and common (for European locations, the UK and lots of different international locations).

Customary balcony cabins have two USB ports close to the beds, together with a North American outlet. Desk and self-importance areas every have two extra USB ports (one among which is taken up by the charging cable for the cabin’s pill that controls the TV, curtains and temperature), two extra North American retailers and one common outlet.

The bogs aren’t outfitted with retailers, so that you’ll should fashion your hair and use any electrical razors on the self-importance.

Most of the public areas — together with The Grounds Membership espresso bar and The Galley meals court docket — even have tons of retailers accessible for charging.

Foreign money

All Virgin Voyages ships function on {dollars}. Hyperlink a bank card to your account (which you are able to do through the app previous to embarkation day), or put up a money quantity from which you’ll be able to debit for purchases made on board.

As an alternative of keycards, passengers will every obtain The Band — an adjustable twine bracelet that serves as your room key and system to make onboard purchases. The one time you’ll obtain a card is in case you’re booked in a set that features entry to Richard’s Rooftop, an unique non-public sundeck.

Ingesting age

Though Virgin Voyages’ ships permit anybody 18 and older to sail, the ingesting age on board is 21 years when ships are docked within the U.S. In worldwide waters and in locations like Europe, the place the ingesting age is eighteen, the onboard ingesting age is eighteen.

Gown code

Virgin Voyages has no official costume code and advises passengers to return as they’re, whether or not it’s a shiny costume or denims and a T-shirt. Nonetheless, the typical passenger enjoys trying stylish and classy, even when dressed down. The ships haven’t any formal nights, however most individuals do grow to be one thing a little bit nicer for dinner.

Be sure you deliver one thing crimson for Scarlet Evening — a mixture atrium spectacle, pool occasion and nightclub rave that occurs as soon as per crusing. Different themed nights embrace a pajama occasion and an ’80s bash, so pack accordingly.

Virgin Voyages’ loyalty program

Virgin Voyages’ Crusing Membership is a loyalty program completely for Virgin Voyages cruisers. It has three primary ranges. Solely the very best gives perks which are tremendous noteworthy, however a few freebies stand out with every tier.

Factors are earned by taking full-priced cruises; one voyage, no matter value or size, earns you 1 level, so long as you haven’t acquired a big low cost. Once you attain Crusing Membership standing (after one crusing), you’ll get reductions on cruises and early entry to promotions. On the Blue Extras stage (after two voyages), you’re entitled to 1 free specialty espresso every day of your crusing and a free bag of laundry.

However it’s cruisers on the Deep Blue Extras tier (after 4 cruises) who actually see the advantages. They earn the whole lot from Blue Extras, plus an extra specialty espresso each day, free urgent for 2 clothes gadgets and one free specialty laundry merchandise. Actually spectacular facilities embrace a $100 bar tab credit score, a free improve to limitless premium Wi-Fi and precedence boarding for themselves and their cabinmates.

Don’t confuse this program with the Virgin model’s different loyalty schemes, equivalent to the final Virgin Purple rewards membership and Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership. Observe that these are separate from Virgin Voyages Crusing Membership, and cruises is not going to earn you factors in both of them. Nonetheless, in case you’ve earned sufficient factors with Virgin Purple or Flying Membership, you possibly can redeem them for Virgin Voyages sailings.

How a lot does a Virgin Voyages cruise price?

As a result of Virgin Voyages contains a lot — primary Wi-Fi, gratuities and meals in any respect however one restaurant — in its cruise fares, you possibly can count on its sailings to be a bit pricier than you’d discover with most different mainstream cruise strains. Nonetheless, that is really a case of getting what you pay for, because the expertise Virgin gives is a lower above different nonluxury merchandise.

Pricing for essentially the most primary cabins normally hovers round $200 per individual, per evening, with suites ranging from roughly $600 per evening. On the time of publication, costs for Resilient Woman sailings begin from $814 per individual ($163 per evening) for an inside cabin on a five-night Mexico crusing, round-trip from Miami. Suites can be found from $2,067 per individual ($517 per evening) for a four-night Bahamas voyage, additionally round-trip from Miami.

On Valiant Woman, Mediterranean sailings in an inside cabin begin at $1,589 per individual ($227 per evening) for a weeklong cruise, round-trip from Barcelona, calling on ports in France, Italy and Spain. For a set on a seven-night itinerary with the identical ports, additionally round-trip from Barcelona, passengers can count on to pay not less than $4,416 per individual ($631 per evening).

For Resilient Woman’s Adriatic and Aegean Sea cruises, you’ll shell out a minimal of $1,617 per individual ($231 per evening) for per week in an inside cabin. The ship travels round-trip from Athens and visits ports in Greece, Croatia and Montenegro. For a set on the identical weeklong itinerary from Athens, the going charge is $4,572 per individual ($653 per evening).

The way to e book

You possibly can e book Virgin Voyages sailings immediately by means of the cruise line. You possibly can both buy a cruise your self on the line’s web site or name 954-488-2955 to talk with a Virgin Voyages agent who might help you. In case you have sufficient Virgin Purple or Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership factors saved, you should use them to pay on your cruise.

You may as well e book a Virgin Voyages cruise by means of a journey agent in case you favor the extra personalised service they provide.

Some third-party journey corporations, equivalent to United Cruises, additionally promote Virgin Voyages sailings.

Backside line

Virgin Voyages gives a lighthearted-but-upscale adults-only expertise that’s dearer than what you’d pay for different premium cruises. Nonetheless, passengers obtain their cash’s value through inclusions like gratuities, Wi-Fi, wonderful eating and phenomenal exhibits that push numerous boundaries.

The road’s midsize ships cowl areas in Europe, the Bahamas and the Caribbean, and so they entice a crowd that’s laid-back and accepting however which prides itself on feeling and looking good.

If drag queens, merpeople, boy band dance lessons and video games of large Tornado attraction to your sense of enjoyable and journey, Virgin Voyages may simply be the cruise line for you.

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