Viking Idi Review
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From being met at the airport to boarding the ship to seeing great locations along the Rhine with very knowledgeable tour guides to great meals to a wonderful and superb staff in every location or job on the ship, this was a most enjoyable river cruise. So enjoyable that we have booked a Bergen to Stockholm cruise for next year through Viking.
If there were any draw backs they were arriving at the Amsterdam airport and not seeing or knowing where our luggage would be arriving and then a problem before arriving in Basel with getting in connection with Lufthansa to select return seats. Thankfully, a very helpful gate attendant in Frankfurt was able to get my wife and I seats next to each other as compared to being apart.
We had been told by friends who had just completed another river cruise with Viking who mentioned the drink package was recommended. As my wife and I do not drink a lot before or after meals, the cost per person was much higher than what we could see us ever using, so we elected to do ala carte for non alcoholic or alcoholic beverages.
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Amsterdam
The windmills in Kinderdyk were quite interesting
Cologne
The cathedral was amazing as were the places seen along the walking tour.
Koblenz
It was well worth having an added morning option offered to the fortress versus the castle trip. I only heard good things about visiting the fortress versus only lukewarm comments about seeing the castle.
Heidelberg
We had visited Heidelberg years ago and found it to again be a truly delightful city to have extra time for shopping and eating and looking around on our own. I was a bit dismayed to see how beautiful and interesting the old part of the city was versus the areas we saw leaving the city which were quite ordinary and filled with boring, high rise living structures.
Strasbourg
This was possibly the most beautiful morning tour we took. The city is delightful to view from both the bus and by walking.
Like all of the walking tours through the old parts of towns, I thought the guides tried to see so much that there was little time to stop and look at shop windows, to view the architecture and hear about the history of the site, especially following WWII.