First and last Viking cruise

Item: Viking Gullveig
Rating: 4.1
Author: pmalter0

Viking Gullveig Cruise Review to River Cruises - Europe

pmalter0

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

4.1 out of 5

7 Night Romantic Danube - Westbound (Budapest To Regensburg)

Sail date: December 16, 2023

Ship: Viking Gullveig

Cabin number: 315

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 months ago

Review summary

I have been on many cruises; but this is the only one that did not offer Arabica coffee. Moreover, I felt personally insulted to pay $350 extra to get a wine list that featured only under $10/bottle wines--how stupid do they think their guests are?

Embarkation

2 out of 5

I am booked my air through Viking--that turned out to be a big mistake. Six months after I booked my cruise they sent us our airline connections: 17 hours from departure to arrival

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

How cheap does a cruise line have to be to serve only robusta coffee? Like many, I start my day with coffee; arabica is so ubiquitous, I had forgotten how bad robusta is. Moreover, the only "cream" they had was 1% milk. I always have wine with dinner at home; so to avoid disappointment I paid for the $350/cabin alcohol upgrade. Even that couldn't overcome Viking's miserliness; I had never seen such an extensive list of mediocrities--they were essentially all under $10 a bottle at liquor stores.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

The staff did their best to offset Vikings stinginess; the maître d' even went ashore to buy some half-and-half for our coffee.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

The cabin was attractive, comfortable and clean; but quite small.

Ship tip

I would not sail on Viking again, nor recommend it to anyone.

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Ports of call

Budapest, Hungary

5 out of 5

Vienna, Austria

5 out of 5

Regensburg, Germany

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5

We had a 2 1/2 hour bus ride to the airport.

9 Comments

Ladyjunecliff 5 months ago

Very interesting. Thank you for your review.

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javawoody 10 months ago

Appreciate your comments

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NavasotaCruiser 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing your experience. Did you enjoy any of the time off the boat?

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Gwbigdog 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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Ruby13 10 months ago

Thank you for sharing. Glad you had a good time.

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bubbles60 10 months ago

River cruises are very different from Ocean cruises.

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Niavlys 10 months ago

Ouf, tks for sharing

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cruising2004 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing.

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karlgrgurich 10 months ago

Wow.

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