We have cruised quite a bit (about 20 times) and generally you get what you pay for relative to room types, size of ship, etc. We have come to expect certain basic things common to most cruise lines - reliability, good food, friendliness and good service. With the much higher price of Viking cruises we expected a lot more than we experienced.
To start with, we registered for airport ...
We appreciate you taking the time to outline your experience, Wander1, as feedback such as this allows us to better understand our guests’ travel preferences. While in some European docking...
After 35 cruises, this was the most disappointing ever, mostly a bus trip and Viking cruises are not cheap! We have been on a Viking Ocean cruise and loved it and decided to give their river cruises a try. Viking emailed us just before the cruise about the Danube river problems and we would now spend the1st night on a boat docked in Budapest, then pack up and take a bus 150 miles, thus losing ...
Thank you, outriggerclub, for taking the time to share your recent Viking experience with the cruising community. We recognize that you are one of the many affected by the itinerary changes...
This trip ended up as a second class trip in many ways and did not meet the standards of Viking's advertising. Due to water levels (which Viking knew of for weeks, but didn't tell us until the night before it effected us) 3 days of the trip ended up being a bus tour -- with 3 hour bus trips each day (and needing to leave and meet up at very specific times, unable to explore the cities on our own ...