This was a chance to travel with my wife and her sister. The ship was very nice and it was easy access to everything. They had great areas to relax and read, visit, or knit (in my wife's case) It had great venues for meals and all the food was fantastic. But with three of us, dinner reservations could not be made until we got aboard the ship - a slight inconvenience. The cruise had very interesting shore trips and wised we could do more. The pre cruise in Rome and post cruise in Barcelona were OK, but it would have been better if we could pre arrange some of the tours, or at least have some idea of what we could expect. I give Viking high marks in almost everything. I can't comment on the Fitness, since I didn't use it with all the walking on the shore excursions. We only saw some of the entertainment and went to bed early.