Viking Atla Review
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Introduction: Tulips and Windmills was our third Viking cruise (Cities of Light, Viking Sky, 2012 and Romantic Danube, MS Vienna, 2013). We booked about a month before the cruise on a Viking “free air” deal.
Viking Atla
The Atla is a Viking longship, and differs little from the other longships. It is built to maximize passengers on board and their comfort. The design is modern and generally pleasing. It has no exercise rooms, salons, hot tubs, etc. As others have noted, the lounge does not have seating for everyone, so at many of the events, folding chairs were brought in to provide room for everyone. There were only two daytime sailing times. One of these was too cold for people to sit on the Sun Deck, but the other day people did use the top deck and a few played shuffleboard.
Cabin Review
We stayed in cabin 202, a 135 sq. ft. French balcony stateroom. The location was great—just one stateroom away from registration. The stateroom was small but comfortable. There was not a lot of room to maneuver. Although there was a stool at the counter, I generally just sat on the bed when working with my computer sitting on the counter. The space between the bed and desktop was just enough for one person to walk through at a time. There were plenty of outlets in the room—110V outlets on either side of the counter and on one side of the bed and 220V outlets on either side of the counter and on the other side of the bed. One of the counter outlets is used to charge the QuietVox listening devices. The bathroom is small, and the shower enclosure is smaller than we’ve experienced on other Viking ships. There is a mirror at the counter in the stateroom where my wife would do her makeup while I showered. Viking furnishes a 220V hairdryer.