This was my first Viking River Cruise. Impressive is an understatement. From the moment my spouse and I landed, Viking arranged absolutely everything. A true vacation began with professional onboard Viking staff and epic destinations.
The only real setback is the lack of a fitness center or group exercise activities. There is a walking track on the top deck, but if you are a runner like ...
The organisation and staff on the Viking cruises are very good. The only thing that mars it a bit is the food, good quality but a bit boring and really not much choice. Salmon was a little overdone on the evenings(said by quite a few people) chicken had very little sauce, so mainly plain food but perhaps this is what the American palette likes and the client was mainly American. Just not so ...
Itinerary sounds good, but that is only if you would enjoy an 8hr bus ride from Paris to the ship in Germany.
The first morning after eating a tainted breakfast and between 4-5hrs later, I came downwith the worst case of food poisoning anyone has ever had. Viking has decided not to include any medical personal in their crew, so I layed in my cabin for the next 3hrsrapidly dehydrating. When we ...
This was our first river cruise so we asked friends for their recommendation. They had no hesitation in recommending Viking and particularly the river Douro. We departed Manchester on a KLM flight, changing at Amsterdam then onward to Lisbon. The flights were comfortable and kept to the scheduled times. On arrival in Lisbon we were welcomed at the airport by the Viking representative who ...
This cruise was great because we stayed in Paris and had time to see some of the city then we went to Trier Germany and had a tour and then boarded the cruise ship. It was fantastic going along the rivers and seeing the beauty of the countryside. We ended our trip in Prague which was another great place to visit. we were so happy to be able to experience the three country's through Viking. I ...
We choose this cruise to celebrate our 30th anniversary and return to Europe after a long absence. We had a great time, met lot's of great people and visited some amazing places. Everything was first class and we can't wait to book our next Viking adventure. I have already highly recommended Viking to many of our friends and would do so in a heartbeat. We loved it!
The ship was beautiful, very ...
It was recommended by previous friends and relatives who had travelled with Viking numerous times. Having done many ocean cruises we decided to try a river cruise. It did not disappoint the excursions were very good only you need to be fit with all the walking involved but from our point of view they were excellent. Staff were very helpful nothing too much trouble and always very professional in ...
This is was our first river cruise. We are seasoned ocean cruise travelers. This cruise started with a delay in boarding the ship of one day due to maintenance problems on the previous cruise. We only had one day that we went to a port and got off the ship and toured the venue. That was on day 12 when we visited Cologne Germany. All the other days we spent more time on buses than at the scheduled ...
Thank you for reaching out, Beagler. We recognize that you were among the guests of Viking Embla who experienced delays and hardware issues during your travel with us. While mechanical issues...
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The time in Bucharest was fun and worth the extra time
embarkation and disembarkation were handled smoothly and with very little effort on our part. The crew were outstanding.
The ship was perfect. The layout was outstanding; great use of space and comfort
The dining experiences were incredible. We loved the local cuisine options and the variety ...
We paid for our cruise with all the expectations of neophyte river cruisers and are crushed that our river cruise of a lifetime ended up being a horrible bus ride through Eastern Europe.
Due to mechanical malfunctions on the Viking Embla our tour was unable to hold to schedule resulting in canceled excursions, creative docking at unknown sites (we even had to break through a factory fence at ...