LIVE- Valiant Lady- 1/14/23-1/22/23

[MeganGC1983]

Snorkeled even in the rough tide. Beach beers… 3+ hours. 

[MeganGC1983]

Then after 3 hours at the beach… and nut JY water. Lunch. 

[MeganGC1983]

I had a rum bucket after two earlier beach beers and it was excellent. Also, lobster tacos and calamari. 

[MeganGC1983]

Headed back to the ship… saw a bunch of sea turtles. Washed off and went back into town. Town beers!!

[MeganGC1983]

Fridresrad is not much. I’m sad the US hasn’t fixed it post Marie. 

[MeganGC1983]

More of the church built in 1846

[MeganGC1983]

Found another church

[MeganGC1983]

Then we found 69. And it was fantastic 

[Saint Greg]

37 minutes ago, cantgetin said:

Yes, depending on the current promotion, for each $300 bar tab you purchase, you will receive $50-$125 applied to the tab.  So on our most recent cruise, you could purchase the tab for $300 and have $400 show up on your account to be used.   The other thing that makes a bar tab better is the ability to share it.  On Princess, all people of drinking age in a cabin need to buy a drink package or no one gets it.  They do sometimes make exceptions for medical conditions.  On Virgin, if my partner drinks alcohol but I don't, we can buy one bar tab for the cabin and I can use it for a smoothie or cold pressed juice if I wish while my partner can use the same tab for alcohol.  So we buy 1 tab at $300, have $400 applied to the account that we can share.

 

Most recently the promotion has been a FREE $300 bar tab with cruises of less than 7 days, $600 with cruises of 7-15 days, and that was on top of any other current deals like rebooking on board.  This is good on bookings made thru 1/31/2023  and applies to cruises thru 2023 as well as a few cruises in 2024!   November was declared "Food and drink month" and each cabin booked included a $300 bar tab at no cost.  If you do these bookings with the free bar tab, you can still purchase additional bar tabs with the current $50 bonus.  The bonus amount changes regularly; I've never seen it less than $50 or more than $125  (other than when totally free)

 

 

I can see where that would be helpful to some but as a solo cruiser, the sharing thing or having to buy two packages doesn't affect me. On a 7-day cruise it would be $420 ($378 for me) to get the package. 

[MeganGC1983]

So in the city.., at 69 

 we had a great time. And then back on the ship 

[MeganGC1983]

Just now, Saint Greg said:

 

I can see where that would be helpful to some but as a solo cruiser, the sharing thing or having to buy two packages doesn't affect me. On a 7-day cruise it would be $420 ($378 for me) to get the package. 

Crazy. I’m sorry

[Saint Greg]

1 minute ago, MeganGC1983 said:

Crazy. I’m sorry

 

What's crazy?

[MeganGC1983]

So here we are at test kitchen. Menu and I got the cocktail pairin

[Saint Greg]

27 minutes ago, MeganGC1983 said:

 

 

[MeganGC1983]

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by MeganGC1983

[MeganGC1983]

The CORN is my favorite always 

[MeganGC1983]

Salomon 

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by MeganGC1983

[MeganGC1983]

Shrimp

[MeganGC1983]

I asked for an alternative to beets.. I got tomato. Much better. 

[MeganGC1983]

Asparagus and strawberries…. Not as much white chocolate and wasabi… I said something 

[Hogladyrider]

@MeganGC1983...wow you have topped all your previous review with this one!  Fantastic job, lots of work, really enjoying all of this.

[_tacocat_]

2 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

I guess we’ll see how long VV survives with 800 people cruising on a 2,700 passenger ship. 

i've heard the breakeven for them is 750... so hopefully quite a while!  they do seem to get busier on holiday/summer voyages, but they pull back on the event schedule when there are not that many people onboard (presumably so they don't do a show that only 4 people show up to!)

[MeganGC1983]

Karaoke with Ryan

[Roscoe13]

2 hours ago, MeganGC1983 said:

This is a gun cocktail with corn 

Wouldn't that be a Glocktail?

[Shaded Lady]

12 hours ago, MeganGC1983 said:

I LOVE the expression on her face! Like- What is this?????