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May Virgin Voyages Be Planning Itineraries Out of the West Coast?

Virgin Voyages is within the midst of adjusting schedules for a few of its ships. And a few web sleuthing signifies that its roster may embrace the west coast in 2025. A person on the Virgin Voyages subreddit posted a screenshot from Ports America in Los Angeles, which seemingly signifies that the port plans to have a Virgin Voyages ship on the schedule in 2025.

The screenshot exhibits turnaround requires Scarlet Girl on Saturday, Might 31, 2025 and Tuesday, June 17, 2025 on the port. A turnaround name implies that the cruise shall be starting and ending in that port. The screenshot was from February 21, 2024. Nevertheless, on the time of this writing, the schedule now not exhibits the Virgin Voyages calls.

Nevertheless, different reddit customers point out confidence that it might be credible. Consumer xjaspx mentioned “Port of Los Angeles has a behavior of placing ships on the port schedule earlier than the cruise line publicizes something… solely to delete it and some months later an announcement is made by the cruise line that they’re crusing out of that port.”

Xjaspx continued, “Most notable instance was after they had Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas on the schedule for a pair days earlier than deleting it… and than [sic] a 12 months later they introduced Navigator of the Seas goes to Los Angeles… utilizing the identical slot they’d for Voyager. I believe as a result of they leaked it, they’re in all probability in talks with Virgin about having a ship going out of San Pedro.”

Different customers speculated that though the slot named Scarlet Girl, the road’s latest ship Good Girl may truly be the ship that homeports there. It has the flexibility to transit the Panama Canal (which Virgin Voyages’ different ships can’t do). Customers have been additionally discussing what itinerary the ship would possibly function. Guesses embrace Alaska or Hawaii as a result of massive variety of days between the 2 calls in LA.

Whereas that is purely only a rumor based mostly on a now-deleted itemizing on Los Angeles’ cruise name schedule, it does present a glimmer of hope that Virgin Voyages is contemplating voyages out of southern California.

Different Virgin Voyages Information

In different Virgin Voyages information, the cruise line has simply canceled its 2024-2025 season in Australia, citing considerations with safety within the Purple Sea as the rationale for the cancellation. Resilient Girl was deliberate to transit the Purple Sea to get from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean to finally arrive in Australia. Impacted visitors could have the choice to rebook on one other crusing or obtain a full refund.

Now, the ship will go from her Mediterranean season, which ends this October, to San Juan, Puerto Rico for the winter. From there, she is going to sail seven to 11-night Caribbean voyages.

Virgin Voyages has mentioned that it’s at the moment engaged on potential plans to return to Australia and the Asia Pacific area sooner or later. If it is ready to return in 2025, those that have been booked on the now-canceled Australia voyages could have precedence in the event that they select to e book on the brand new sailings within the area.

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