Canadian Firm to Handle Payments on Virgin Voyages...

Virgin Voyages is the newest model in Sir Richard Branson’s world conglomerate to signal on with Nuvei, a Montreal-based cost processor that may energy the cruise line’s Sailor app.

Like just about all cruise traces, Virgin Voyages permits visitors to obtain a free app they’ll use to pay for companies and merchandise.

The brand new settlement with Nuvei, introduced on June 25, 2025, expands a partnership that already exists at different Virgin Group manufacturers, together with the airline Virgin Atlantic and the tour operator Virgin Holidays.

Invisible to visitor customers, the cost processing system permits cruisers to e book and pay for shore excursions, spa therapies, and bar tabs, as an example, serving because the spine of the so-called digital wallets that cruisers have turn out to be accustomed to utilizing.

“Partnering with Nuvei brings one of many world’s prime cost suppliers into our nook,“ stated Michael Litwin, vp and controller at Virgin Voyages. 

“Their tech provides us the boldness to ship easy, safe transactions — whether or not Sailors are reserving a Shore Factor, toasting with a glass of bubbly, or eating at Gunbae. It’s quick, seamless, and helps preserve the Virgin Voyages expertise as easy appropriately,” Litwin added.

Apart from the Virgin manufacturers, Nuvei works with different journey and hospitality firms similar to Radisson Lodge Group and Lastminute.com, and gives cost options to further industries like video and on-line gaming, monetary companies, and retail.

“We’re thrilled to increase our partnership with Virgin to one more of its iconic manufacturers,” stated Phil Fayer, chair and CEO of Nuvei. 

“Whether or not it’s reserving a sundown catamaran tour or topping up a Bar Tab, we’re proud to energy the cost moments that make a Virgin Voyages journey unforgettable,” added Fayer.

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All cruise traces that provide visitor apps contract with a back-end cost supplier. Apps personalized for cruise traces had been launched to the business roughly a decade in the past and have been steadily improved over time. 

Carnival Cruise Line’s app is the favored Carnival Hub, Princess Cruises’ is the well-known Princess Medallion app, and Holland America Line gives Navigator, for instance.

Cruise Line’s Fourth Ship to Debut in September 2025

Virgin Voyages at the moment operates three cruise ships, every accommodating 2,700 visitors: Scarlet Girl, which debuted in 2021, and Valiant Girl and Resilient Girl, each launched in 2022.

A fourth ship, Sensible Girl, is beneath development at a Fincantieri shipyard in Italy and set to enter service in September 2025. She’s going to, presumably, additionally use the Nuvei-powered app.

Her maiden cruise — make that her “MerMaiden” cruise, in Virgin Voyages converse, is ready for September 5, 2025, a 5-night Bermuda sailing from New York. After crusing a number of Bermuda and Canada/New England voyages, Sensible Girl will reposition to PortMiami for her inaugural winter season within the Caribbean.

The brand new-build will sail 7- to 12-night cruises to locations that embody Turks & Caicos, Antigua, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica.

When it launched in 2021, Virgin Voyages launched new ideas in cruising that set it other than different traces. Its ships don’t have any fundamental eating rooms, as an example, and as an alternative provide a collection of themed eating places which might be all included within the cruise fare.

The adult-only line additionally gives extra facilities lined by the bottom cruise fare, similar to WiFi, crew gratuities, and wellness applications.