Hard to comment on Copnhagan.  The ship tardyness and poor docking location meant we lost about 3 hours of our day there.  I'm sure it was very nice - it would have been nice to have got to go to Tivoli.
If the ship gets to dock near the town then its easy to look around.  But we docked way out and had to rely on a shutle service that had a queue the length of the ship (and Ventura is a big ship).  


Copenhagen

Excellent city - shame it rained all day which menat we concentrated on indoor activities - a covered boat ride and visiting the royal palace and cathedral.  The use of tenders worked well as we arrived directly in the core of the city.
There would have been plenty else to have seen.  Beautiful city and the views as you sail away are great.


Stockholm

We loved walking round Helsinki.  The Rock Church is well worth a visit - beautiful place.  We thought it well worth the walk to the Olympic Stadium and up the tower there for great views of the city. 


Helsinki

Rained most of the two days which was a shame.  This was the only place we did organised excursion.  Everywhere else we preferred to do our own thing - giving us more time on the things we wanted to see.  All were easy to get around.  But at St Petersburg its not worth the hassles and the visa costs.  We chose to visit Catheine and Peterhoff palaces and The Hermitage.  The latter is a given for anyone visiting St Petersburg.  The palaces were well worth a visit.  We were warned about over crowding and long queues.  But we saw none of that.  The visits all went very smoothly.  There was great discrepency in the included lunch though.  Ours was particularly average but the same trip on the second day had a great meal with bottle of fizz, wine and vodka! 


St. Petersburg

Very attractive place.  Lovely medieval city.  Easy to walk round with churches and wall towers to visit.  We were fortunately to have good weather and to arive at the time of a festival.  So we had a lovely show of traditional folk dancing in the town hall square.   


Tallinn

Another easy place to walk around or use the tram.  The sculpture park was excellent - quite  a different scale than anything we've seen elsewhere.  Walk back via the royal palace park and if you are lucky like us you'll see the changing of the guard.




Oslo

Good middle-ish location. Quite a lot of engine noise but probably the same in all cabins.Good hanging space.Shower good.Excellent to have tea/coffeee in roon - filer coffee, refreshed each day.  Also good size fridge.

Another itinerary, with better weather and no stomach virus going around, maybe others will think the ship is great.Overall, great places to go, but there's got to be a better ship to see it from.

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