This was our second Viking cruise. The first was the cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. It was wonderful.
"Portraits of Southern France" was disappointing. We had also booked the extra three days in Paris Our hotel the Marriott Rive Gauche was fine, but it was in a remote area of Paris. Our guide gave us a very perfunctory tour of the hotel neighborhood on our first afternoon. He must have spent all of an hour with us.
On our own, we arranged a Grey Line tour of Normandy and amused ourselves on the third day.
Very disappointed in transportation to boat, We were subjected to a guide who felt compelled to talk for the entire six hour coach ride from Paris to Lyon. I thought they had high speed rail in France.Everything else was fine.