After 7 days on the Viking Spirit, we transferred to the Viking Hermod. Our room was a french balcony and we were quite surprised that it seemed much smaller than our window room on the Viking Spirit. Our friends on the Hermod had a verandah cabin and it was much more spacious than our cabin. But not a big deal, as we were not in our cabins much.

Here are the two big negatives of the Hermod:

1. On our cruise down the Rhone River from Chalon-sur-Saone to Avignon, the top observation deck was closed the entire cruise due to low bridges. Read more