{"id":210641,"date":"2026-07-29T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/?p=210641"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:37:06","slug":"virgin-voyages-debuts-its-first-ever-scandinavia-baltics-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/virgin-voyages-debuts-its-first-ever-scandinavia-baltics-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Voyages debuts its first-ever Scandinavia &#038; Baltics season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-210642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tromso-1_1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tromso-1_1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tromso-1_1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tromso-1_1024x768-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Voyages is setting a course to go where it has never gone before in the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the Valiant Lady will head to 71\u00b0 North, above the Arctic Circle, under a sun that refuses to set. Departing from Amsterdam, Valiant Lady will sail from a new homeport for the brand&#8217;s first-ever Scandinavia &amp; Baltic season. Highlights include six epic itineraries \u2013 every voyage with a maiden call \u2013 capped by a marquee Arctic Circle crossing with a midnight sun deck party under 24-hour daylight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Valiant-Lady-Credit-Virgin-Voyages-2_1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Valiant-Lady-Credit-Virgin-Voyages-2_1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Valiant-Lady-Credit-Virgin-Voyages-2_1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Valiant-Lady-Credit-Virgin-Voyages-2_1024x768-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Lovell, Board Member and Senior Advisor of Virgin Voyages, said that: \u201cPlenty of brands call an expansion &#8216;new&#8217; when it&#8217;s really the same product with a different backdrop. This isn&#8217;t that. Every voyage in this season has a new destination, and it&#8217;s new to your client too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four completely different itineraries mean four completely different clients, and each one already has their own reason to book: the Baltic buyer planning a group trip around a Stockholm overnight; the Arctic Circle buyer chasing the milestone crossing of a lifetime; the MNVV holder eyeing the highest-value placeholder on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings open\u00a0Aug. 13 at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginvoyages.com\">www.virginvoyages.com<\/a>\u00a0for loyalty Sailors and for First Mates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos courtesy of Virgin Voyages<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgin Voyages is setting a course to go where it has never gone before in the summer of 2028. That\u2019s when the Valiant Lady will head to 71\u00b0 North, above the Arctic Circle, under a sun that refuses to set. Departing from Amsterdam, Valiant Lady will sail from a new homeport for the brand&#8217;s first-ever<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/virgin-voyages-debuts-its-first-ever-scandinavia-baltics-season\/\">more &#8250;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3008,1843],"front_page":[],"class_list":["post-210641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise","tag-valiant-lady","tag-virgin-voyages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210671,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210641\/revisions\/210671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210641"},{"taxonomy":"front_page","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/front_page?post=210641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}