Our first cruise and we were not disappointed. We booked a penthouse veranda and the room was quiet, well designed, aesthetically pleasing and importantly with a comfortable well sized bed. The food, ambience staff and overall experience was 5*.
Be aware that Viking promote and market heavily in the USA and a small number of American guests were loud and rude, especially in the select ...
We wanted to see the Northern Lights and rather than take the Hurtegruten route which is heavily promoted in the UK, thought we would take a more luxurious option with Viking.
We are both season travellers with over 10 cruises in various parts of the globe.
Things did not start well with our arrival in Bergen and depositing our three bags at the terminal, for just two of them to arrive at ...
We wanted to see the Northern Lights. We knew that there were no guarantees, but thought that Viking would at least provide as much support as possible to view them.
Perhaps the problem is that we were on the first-ever Viking cruise in search of the Northern Lights. The cruise excursion staff HAD NEVER BEEN TO THE PORTS BEFORE. For that matter, neither had the ship's captain (I"m glad I didn't ...
Thank you, pgscmk, for providing us and the cruising community with an overview of your time aboard Viking Sky. We regret to learn your much anticipated viewing of the Northern Lights was met...
We chose the Viking Sea because we really liked the itinerary and had never sailed on Viking before. Our previous river cruising has been on Uniworld and Avalon. Trying
the Viking ocean experience was a change for us.
Embarkation in Bergen was easy and we were so impressed once we got on the ship. It is just lovely.
Our stateroom was a PV1-Penthouse Veranda suite on deck 5 and it was ...
I selected the trip because friends were going-I hadn't been to many of the ports for many years and I had heard great things about Viking.I have traveled on many cruises from Seaborn to Princess including Regent and Oceania which is why I placed Viking in the middle. Many aspects were good- it is a lovely vessel- spa is wonderful- while many aspects of the trip were poor. If you didn't take an ...
We chose this cruise because the itinerary covered a number of our bucket list places, and Viking's reputation for quality sweetened the deal. The airlines arrangements were exactly as promised (although our friends, along with a number of others, were not so fortunate); greeting at the airport was perfect, with escorts ensuring we made our way quickly to ground transportation, luggage taken ...
The ship was as lovely as ever. However, the included shore excursions were poor compared to the ones we took on the Homelands cruise. They were short with no embellishments. If the ship docks in Greenwich there should be an included tour into London just as the Homeland cruises had one into Berlin. We paid for a tour of the Grieg HOuse but it was crowded and the guide was poor. I complained ...
Chose the cruise to celebrate our anniversary. We are Viking River aficionados and had spectacular River Cruises on the Rhine, Danube. Moselle, Duoro.
Wanted to try a Viking ocean cruise expecting the fantastic time we always had with Viking.
The tours that were offered were shameful. Even the guides could not understand why the time was so short and why the best places were not included. I ...
Cruise was fine. Service was great, food was great, and the entertainment was great. Ship was very clean and modern. Couldn't find any dirt on the entire ship and cabin. The excursions were just OK. Some were better than others. We had done a river boat cruise with Viking before this and noticed that you had more time in ports, since you didn't have to dock in industrial ports and bus thru ...
We chose this cruise for the itinerary, but 5 of 9 ports were skipped (2) or significantly delayed. Shore excursions were just ok, even the ones we purchased were just ok.
Most of the staff and crew were excellent, friendly, and bent over backwards to please.
Public areas were overcrowded at events or activities.
Food was very good to excellent in main restaurant and especially Manfredis. ...