Brilliant Lady Review to Bermuda 2025 | Virgin Voyages
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Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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A review of the second cruise on Virgin Voyages Brilliant Lady. This was a five-night Bermuda cruise from New York City.
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| 0:20.2 | Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this weekend's |
| 0:23.9 | edition of Cruise Radio with staff writer Richard Sims. I'm going to talk about our first |
| 0:29.0 | sailing on Virgin Voyages's Brilliant Lady. And before we get to Richard, I want to tell you |
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| 0:45.5 | Okay, jumping right into it here with staff writer Richard Sims. |
| 0:48.4 | Richard, you were initially, well, you had the Carnival Venetia book, which was the ship docked right next to Brilliant Lady the day we embarked. |
| 0:55.3 | What made you want to change it up last minute? |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah, I had already done that ship, the Venetia, and I really liked it. |
| 1:02.7 | I thought it was a cool blend. |
| 1:04.5 | You know, it is the whole carnival Italian style or Italian carnival style, whichever you want |
| 1:09.1 | to say. |
| 1:09.8 | And I liked it, But then when I found out |
| 1:12.0 | that Virgin was doing sailings out of New York City, and they were only doing like five |
| 1:16.2 | sailings before the ship relocated. And I was like, okay, you know what? I'm going to jump on this |
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