We booked the cruise to coincide with our Golden Wedding Anniversary. Viking cruises are not cheap. This cruise on the Rhine worked out at over £500, per day, for the two of us. We expected, I think quite rightly, a degree of luxury for this price. we did tell Viking it would be our Golden Wedding before we left. We got an email from their head office to congratulate us. However, this information was not passed on to the ship, and when my husband mentioned it at reception, they denied all knowledge of our anniversary.. We did eventually get a cheesecake and a bottle of Cava!.

We thought that the food was OK, but no better than that The wine with lunch and dinner was also OK. It won't win any awards though.! There was not any room service, nor any beverage facilities in the room. We had to forgo our usual early morning cup of tea. We could have got dressed and gone to make our own in the bar area, but that didn't seem worth it to us.

Also there is no lift. Most of the passengers were well over 60, and many found it very difficult to climb the stairs. There are three flights of stairs between the bottom deck and the sun deck. Read more