Rare sid_9169 Posted May 22, 2021 #1 Share Posted May 22, 2021 After a year and a half of booking, getting cancelled on, booking again, ect, I won another Virgin Voyages cruise in the Shipload Of Love contest... A fellow Cruise Critic forum member, ceilidh1 and her kids produced and submitted a video months ago, and I just got the good news this week. To tell you the truth, I knew that the submission was a winner the second I saw it, due to their hard work and creativity. Now, I'm hoping that things start to head in the right direction with the pandemic, and we can all get back to sea sooner than later... I'm currently looking at the September 26 2021 cruise out of Miami, which appears to be only the second sailing from the US following Scarlet Ladys' Atlantic crossing. I've actually been working on my Review since I booked back in January 2020. Now, hopefully I'll finally be able to step on board and experience it for myself... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meskel503 Posted May 22, 2021 #2 Share Posted May 22, 2021 Congratulations! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ceilidh1 Posted May 22, 2021 #3 Share Posted May 22, 2021 (edited) Can't wait to read all about it... And it was really a Tribe effort! Edited May 22, 2021 by ceilidh1 typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroozFanatic Posted May 23, 2021 #4 Share Posted May 23, 2021 I'm sure you get criticized endlessly, but the bold text works for me. Don't let the haters win. Shake for Champagne! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare sid_9169 Posted May 23, 2021 Author #5 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Officially booked for September 26th, on only the second sailing once Scarlet Lady hits Miami!... I went a little bit beyond the scope of the "free" portion of the prize, and went for the XL Sea Terrace. I had a bunch of future voyage credit leftover from my past bookings, so that covered the couple of hundred extra dollars... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kesali Posted May 29, 2021 #6 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Congratulations! I won a cruise with Virgin Voyages through Virgin Radio 99.9 in June 2019. My friend & I had booked for late August 2020, but of course we all know what happened to that. We had upgraded to a regular Sea Terrace so we have that little bit extra spent doubled as future voyage credit. I still have not rebooked as I'm in Canada. Besides not knowing when cruises would be allowed again, we are still waiting to have more of our popuation vaccinated and the border to re-open. At the moment I have until February 2022 to rebook, so still a bit of time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFOflyguy Posted May 30, 2021 #7 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Hey Sid, First off, congratulations! My nominee (my husband) won this contest as well. I was notified by email on April 27th that he had won. He had to DocuSign and return a release/acceptance of prize form, which was accomplished the day we were notified of winning. Since then, neither of us has heard anything by email/snail mail/phone. Would you kindly let me know how quickly you were notified, and how you were notified, how to proceed, after completing the DocuSign document? Thanks so much, and enjoy your cruise! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl281 Posted May 30, 2021 #8 Share Posted May 30, 2021 @SFOflyguy DocuSign April 27 Book Now email May 18 from "reply@shiploadcontests.com" - it would have gone to your husband's email. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoptom Posted May 30, 2021 #9 Share Posted May 30, 2021 15 hours ago, SFOflyguy said: Since then, neither of us has heard anything by email/snail mail/phone. Would you kindly let me know how quickly you were notified, and how you were notified, how to proceed, after completing the DocuSign document? My wife had to email requesting the Docusign and then email again requesting the winner code to book her cruise. They were pleasant about it, but nothing arrived on it's own like it was supposed to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare sid_9169 Posted May 31, 2021 Author #10 Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 5/29/2021 at 8:08 PM, SFOflyguy said: Hey Sid, First off, congratulations! My nominee (my husband) won this contest as well. I was notified by email on April 27th that he had won. He had to DocuSign and return a release/acceptance of prize form, which was accomplished the day we were notified of winning. Since then, neither of us has heard anything by email/snail mail/phone. Would you kindly let me know how quickly you were notified, and how you were notified, how to proceed, after completing the DocuSign document? Thanks so much, and enjoy your cruise! After I filled out the docusign, it was a few more weeks. Actually, it ended up in my Spam folder, and I never knew it was there for several days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFOflyguy Posted June 2, 2021 #11 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Thank you, shoptom, PL281, and Sid (GodSaveTheQueen!) for your replies. I emailed the reply@.... and the marketing rep emailed me in less than 12 hours with the booking code. Hoping to book the cruise departing MIA on 2/13 or 2/217/2022. Thanks for all the good advice CC Boards! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFOflyguy Posted June 2, 2021 #12 Share Posted June 2, 2021 That end date was 2/27/2022 and want to meet any other "sailors'" on either cruise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70KToM Posted June 28, 2021 #13 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Congrats! I won the cruise for my friends as well, and we have decided to join them. We were pleasantly surprised that you actually get a balcony room and could pick a 5-day not just a 4-day. Great competition; it has certainly increased our sense of loyalty to Virgin and if all goes well on this cruise, I can see us sticking with Virgin for most of our future cruises as long as the itineraries are interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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