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Resilient Lady’s Transatlantic & Miami 2024/2025 Sailings On Sale March 14th

Following the cancellation of the Australian season, Resilient Lady's latest sailings include new transatlantic routes and a stop in Miami.

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Resilient Lady sails across the ocean © Photo by Virgin Voyages

Following the cancellation of the Australia season and subsequent linked sailings the rest of the itinerary has been discovered. New itineraries feature two Transatlantic sailings and a Miami debut for Resilient Lady, marking her entrance into the US market. The previous announcement of San Juan sailings are now on sale.

The new itineraries will be available for booking starting March 14th. You can book via the Virgin Voyages website or your preferred First Mate (Travel Agent).

Resilient’s First Time in Miami

Marking a first for the ship that launched in May 2023 Resilient Lady will be setting sail from Barcelona to Miami on a few shorter sailings. This will introduce the US market to some of the new onboard entertainment. The well received shows include the greek god inspired Persephone show and Another Rose, a captivating acrobatic love story.

She will then travel to San Juan on November 30th for approximately three months. Resilient Lady will return back to Barcelona from San Juan and on to Athens for the May 4th seven night sailing Dubrovnik Days & Mykonos Nights also on sale.

Terminal V in Miami
Terminal V in Miami© Photo by Virgin Voyages

New Transatlantic Itineraries

Starting October 20th, the Resilient Lady will set sail for a 7-night journey to Barcelona. Then followed by a 14-night crossing to Miami, with stops in Casablanca, Morocco, and Tenerife.

Returning from San Juan to Barcelona on April 12th, 2025, she’ll make stops in Casablanca, Morocco,  Mallorca, and Valencia. Finally, an 8-night sailing via Cannes, Rome, and Mykonos will bring her back to her summer homeport of Athens.

Additional Itinerary List

It is worth noting that this itinerary list is still in the works with some itinerary names still to come, there may be changes to this list before it goes on sale March 14th.  Make sure to join the newest Facebook groups dedicated to the latest itineraries. If you decide to create a new group, please inform us!

 

 

Resilient Lady Transatlantic & Miami 2024 Itineraries
Dates Itinerary Name Destinations
20 October 2024 (7 Nights) Glorious Greek Isles to Spanish Sunsets Piraeus (Athens), Mykonos, Sailing Day, Catania, Sailing Day, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Barcelona
27 October 2024 (14 Nights) Transatlantic – Spain & Morocco to Miami Barcelona, Sailing Day, Casablanca, Morocco, Sailing Day, Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Sailing Day (8 Days), Miami
10th November (5 Nights) Miami – Costa Maya & Cozumel Charm Miami, Sailing Day, Costa May, Cozumel, Sailing Day, Miami
15th November (6 Nights) Grand Turk, Puerto Plata & Bimini Miami, Sailing Day, Grand Turk, Puerto Plata, Sailing Day, Bimini Beach Club, Miami
21st November (9 Nights) Unknown Potential Charter Sailing
30th November (6 Nights) Miami to San Juan – One Way San Juan Sojourn Miami, Sailing Day, Grand Turk, Puerto Plata, Sailing Day, Basseterre, San Juan

Resilient Lady Transatlantic & Spring 2025 Itineraries
Dates Itinerary Name Destinations
12th April (14 Nights) Transatlantic – San Juan to Barcelona (Spanish Island Nights) San Juan, Sailing Day x 7, Tenerife, Sailing Day, Casablanca, Sailing Day, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia
26th April (8 Nights) Barcelona to France, Italy & Greece Barcelona, Sailing Day, Cannes, Rome, Sailing Day, Valletta, Sailing Day, Mykonos, Athens

Conclusion

The additional Resilient Lady itineraries complete the overhaul of the Australian Season, which was canceled on Monday. Virgin Voyages aims to make a comeback in the Australian market soon, sailors can explore these new routes in the interim.

These itineraries will be available for booking on March 14th, contact your preferred First Mate or Virgin Voyages. Bookings will go quick to mark Resilient Lady’s inaugural visit to Miami!

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12 Comments

  1. Rhonda Markham says:
    10 March 2024 at 16:21

    “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” As a citizen of the US, I very much look forward to the possibility of cruising on one of the Resilient Lady’s voyages in November. While I hope VV will make right the monetary situation for those whose sailings were cancelled, I hope to be able to travel on RL this fall out of Miami.

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  2. justine searle says:
    10 March 2024 at 09:06

    We unfortunately chose the UK to Australia sailings, 5 back to back for our first VV experience. I had been a loyal Royal passenger and gave up an Alaska land cruise tour to do this absolute bucket lister itinerary. To say I feel let down by VV is an understatement. We paid in full when we booked, around 30k, we are seeing if we can cancel the remaining two voyages as we will be left in Greece if we do not. The offer of booking any other sailing of equal or less length just doesn’t sit well when you have to fly from Australia. The cancelled legs all had extra sailor loot and there is radio silence as to whether we can transfer this to the two remaining sailings and also if can we cancel the remaining sailings as its going to be a real let down getting on the ship thinking of what could have been and I just don’t want to give VV any of my funds at this time. There are A LOT of sailors that VV has ruined the plans of, many of us are unlikely to book with them again so much future revenue lost. At least other cruise lines have as a gesture of goodwill given some kind of compensation when they have cancelled sailings, yes I know its not their fault but they could have sailed around Africa like they are doing to get the ship back to Europe.

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    1. Jon says:
      13 March 2024 at 17:59

      Although you state the Athens to Austrailia is a bucket list trip for you and I think many others felt the same taking in Dubai and Singapore, whereas I don’t think Cape Town and the other African stops offer the same bucket list ticks. If you had been just moved onto going round Africa to get to Australia then I don’t expect that would have met the bucket list needs of most people.

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    2. janette mobbs says:
      13 March 2024 at 20:52

      Agree
      Goodbye vv

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  3. John says:
    6 March 2024 at 02:16

    Add another notch to VV record of cancelations. Truth is the Australia/NZ itineraries did not sell well. Only after VV engaged “My Cruises”, with very low rates did cabins start to move. I give the idea that VV will return to Australia/NZ soon, a very likely no.

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    1. Drew says:
      12 March 2024 at 09:14

      Sounds good business sense, in that case. If people didn’t buy, no point going around the world to sail half empty.

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  4. JohnB says:
    6 March 2024 at 02:15

    Add another notch to VV record of cancelations. Truth is the Australia/NZ itineraries did not sell well. Only after VV engaged “My Cruises”, with very low rates did cabins start to move. I give the idea that VV will return to Australia/NZ soon, a very likely no.

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    1. Karen Houston says:
      13 March 2024 at 23:28

      I completely agree. Sailors confirmed low occupancy levels on the ships and there just aren’t the range of interesting itineraries in Oz/NZ to sustain a full programme of appealing cruises to the aduly only market. Restricting the cruises to adults only shuts out such a huge sector of the Australian market . Melbourne to Burnie is hardly a page turner itinerary, and the price points were so low as to be barely break even. Many industry pundits are of the view that this whole escapade down under has been a bit of a financial low point in their short cruising history. VV’s hook up with MyCruises produced a swathe of bookings but after the disaster of the late cancellations and hidden costs/lack of refunds by MyCruises I doubt any of us (I’m on the repositioned RL cruise now going round Africa) would touch MyCruises with a barge pole again!

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      1. Con Vallis says:
        21 March 2024 at 18:50

        I was on a Sydney to Burnie and back in a Cheeky Corner Suite Rockstar suite (biggest terrace) and it cost A $3,850 for 4 nights. Bought direct from Virgin Voyages. Interesting you say prices were reduced as I’ve compared the same type of cruise cost out of Piraeus Athens and it’s like double out of Europe. Would love to go on it again but would have to factor in airfares so the whole idea gets pretty costly now. I know the route is not exactly exciting but we went for the ship experience. If bookings were down, some people have said having RL based in Melb could have also been a mistake as it may have been better if the ship was homed in Sydney also.

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  5. TheBigM says:
    2 March 2024 at 15:00

    “Interim” is when you have something between something else defined.

    There is no return date, and in all likelihood VV won’t return to Australia.

    That’s just verbiage to make it sound better, and they have nothing to gain if they were ever to return to Australia to say they won’t now i.e. keeping options open.

    But given the willingness to cancel when it wasn’t required, there’s no likelihood of a foreseeable return.

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    1. JohnB says:
      4 March 2024 at 06:29

      Yeah, I agree. Cruises downunder were not selling until VV gave inventory to a firesale travel agency. Given that the sailings had to be significantly discounted to move cabins, I cannot possibly see how VV would go thru this again. The cruise market really isn’t as large as the US or Europe.

      VV is the “we cancel for any reason” cruise line. I know people that the March 27th Resilient Lady sailing was their 4th cancelation by VV.

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      1. Jon says:
        13 March 2024 at 18:01

        I wouldn’t say that “avoiding the war in the Red Sea” is really “cancel for any reason”

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