Beautiful old town! Possibly my favorite; excellent shopping and dining. The only downside is the travel time from the port. I wish the cruise spent longer in port and skipped the next port (Klaipeda) ...
Wonderful tour of this Teutonic Knights HQ castle, the largest brick castle in the world. Very interesting history, architecture and reconstruction history. ...
We didn't stop in Gdansk, and Viking's explanation about why, didn't pass the smell test. Our ship was sitting still outside the port waiting, and 2 other cruise ships passed us and went into port. Our captain came on the public address system and told us that the ship had been held up by wind and rough water, and there was too much cargo traffic coming out of the Gdansk harbour, and so we ...