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Valiant Lady Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 39

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5
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Valiant Lady

8 Night Eastern Caribbean Antilles (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 11, 2023

Ship: Valiant Lady

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 11322A

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

The cruise was very nice and relaxing. The ship was beautiful the entire staff, except two people were outstanding. The food was excellent. We loved the adults only with no kids because it’s very quiet and peaceful, but there was always things going on that you could do to have fun! Highly recommend Virgin Voyages to any adults that would like to cruise to have a great time

Embarkation

5 out of 5
VERY smooth

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Awesome food and drinks

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Pool was nice but too small. Games were fun and there is always something you could do

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Ship show was THE BEST!! it was a dinner show the band was awesome. The singer was awesome. The acts that they had were awesome. The game we played with the host was awesome! Highly recommend the ship show. We also went and saw dual reality that was also very good!

Children's Programs

adults only cruise

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Every one of the waiters and waitresses, bartenders and room stewards were very accommodating and went out of their way to be nice and help you! Only had one issue with Sailor services every one of the waiters and waitresses, bartenders and room stewards were very accommodating and went out of their way to be nice and help you! Only had one issue with cellular services that we had to rectify with someone else on the ship to get the issue, taken care of! most of the time they are very helpful but this one particular person and her manager were awful and the things that were sent to us we’re unforgivable

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
everything on the ship was spotless, and you would see cleaning crews coming through all day making sure that everything was clean! Very good job with keeping everything looking awesome

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
The cabin is fine it has enough room. However, we had issues with our cabin. The entire time we were on our eight day cruise, twice they came to “try“ to fix the issue, but it was never rectified. We honestly wish they would have just moved us to a different cabin! The bed is not very comfortable. It is quite hard, and the pillows also are not very comfortable, but that was not our issue with the cabin we could live with that part of it. But again, we wish the issue that we had it would have been fixed or they would have moved us to a different cabin so we did not have to deal with that but unfortunately that did not happen.

Ship tip

My advice would be for them to try each individual restaurant because they all are awesome and offer a variety of different cuisine. Also, attend as many shows as you can, because they were all great! And try to familiarize yourself with where everything is at on the ship because it does get confusing sometimes as to what restaurants and things are on each floor. Last, have a great time!

Ports of call

Miami, Florida Did not visit port

We did not go to a port there we sailed from there

Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I.

5 out of 5
We did the mutiny, vodka, tour excursion, it was an awesome excursion. Highly recommend this excursion to everybody on the ship! We learned a lot of very interesting things about how this vodka is made, and it is made very differently than most vodkas. We also got to sample three entire drinks that they made for us with their different types of vodka that were all very good and at the end of our excursion we were able to bring home a complementary 750 mL bottle of the vodka for each person on the excursion.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

4 out of 5
We did not do any excursions on this port. We just hung out and shopped and had a bite to eat and a few drinks. The port was nice lots of options of things you can do or places that you can shop and eat.

Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

1 out of 5
This port was one of our least favorites, we did go on an excursion to Coconut Beach, it was a nightmare!! We do not recommend this excursion to anybody on the ship!! We were put in Safari trucks for an hour on the way to the beach and the way back from the beach that took you on side roads that looks like they had been Blowing up! Literally, you could not go more than 10 mph for about 10 feet and then you had to slow way down because you’re going through big craters that you could barely get through without jerking your whole entire body around. It was an awful experience! do not I repeat, do not go on this excursion it is horrible! And we were at a dead stand. Still trying to get back to the ship for about 45 minutes because the locals were blocking the entire road to get back out to the main road from the beach ! We literally did not feel safe! Find another excursion to go on if you want to go on an excursion at this port honest!

The Beach Club (Virgin Voyages), Bimini Bahamas

5 out of 5
We went on the shipwreck snorkeling excursion at this port, and it was very nice when we got back we rented a golf cart and drove all over the island sightseeing and shopping and then went to the Bimini beach club and it was very nice there with two large pools and the beach and swim up bars that you can use your wristband to purchase drinks that will be charged to your ship room! The only downfall to this is I wish there were more food options at the restaurant at the Bimini resort for Virgin Voyages

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Disembarkation went very smoothly. The only bad thing, is that it was time to go home!
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6 Comments

Sogmoore     4 months ago

Thanks for sharing

pamstyle    1 year ago

Thank you for your thorough review. We appreciate it!

AuntPinkie    1 year ago

Appreciate your very detailed. Glad you mostly enjoyed your cruise.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

enjoyurdaysmile    1 year ago

Glad you enjoyed it and sorry to hear about the bad excursion.

javawoody    1 year ago

You are right about Puerto Plata. Road’s and drivers are terrible

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