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Viking Emerald Cruise Review to River Cruises - China/Asia

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 65

Overall rating:

5 out of 5
Viking Emerald

Sail date: March 24, 2016

Ship: Viking Emerald

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 508

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Viking Tours does an excellent job with their 12 Night Jewels of China tour.  Our tour stated in Shangai with a stay at the Portman Ritz Carlton Hotel.  The Hotel is showing signs of its age and the service by their staff is not up to the standards that I have experienced at other Ritz Carlton hotels.  One particular recommendation is for Viking to incorporate an evening Bund experience instead of taking its guests to an over hyped variety show (the type of show that can be found in some of the off strip hotels in Las Vegas). Other than that criticism there are a lot of positives.  Our tour guide Eric was absolutely sensational throughout the 12 day tour and the food and service on the 5 day cruise portion of the tour was 5 star.  The ship the Century Emerald is okay and the suite stateroom is smaller than all of the suites I have ever experienced on other ships.  The bathroom in the suite was 2 star and the veranda deck was more for show than functional.    

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Bathroom was average with poor lighting and very little shelf space. The suite was comparable to an average hotel room with a king bed and small sofa and again the lighting was not the best. Also all of the other cruise lines that I have been on have additional amenities for suite passengers, Viking does not.

Ports of call

Wuhan, China

3 out of 5

Yueyang, China

3 out of 5

Cruise Yangtze River

5 out of 5

Cruise Three Gorges

5 out of 5

Tour Three Gorges Dam

5 out of 5

CRUISE LESSER THREE GORGES

5 out of 5

Shibaozhai, China

3 out of 5

Chongqing, China

3 out of 5
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