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Viking Herja Cruise Review to River Cruises - Europe

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Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5
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Viking Herja

11 Night Paris To The Swiss Alps (Zurich To Paris)

Sail date: August 20, 2022

Ship: Viking Herja

Cabin number: 211

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

The pre-cruise Swiss excursion (5 days) was truly excellent, including the Glacier Express train. Viking did an excellent job overall of managing the cruise; the staff was outstanding. Hotels in Zurich and Paris were good hotels but not convenient for visiting sights. Zermatt was a lot of fun. The pre-cruise Swiss excursion guide (Charles) was excellent. Guides on the river cruise portion for the most part were ordinary. Management of time by the guides on the tours was not very good. Viking cruises are expensive so you expect top quality. That was not the case about 30% of the time. Some of the wine tasting were truly sub-par, not worth the money spent on the excursions. The Versailles excursion was way overpriced. Should have cost 1/2 of what we paid for what we saw and did. The river cruise had only 4 hours of scenic cruising, the rest was very mundane. Once again, the Viking staff was truly outstanding.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

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

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Veranda was small. Smaller than on Viking ocean liner. Not much storage space. Comfortable bed. Very clean.

Ship tip

Have fun

Ports of call

MOTORCOACH TRANSFER ZURICH TO BASEL

3 out of 5
Hotel in Zurich was nice but in business district, far from areas of interest. Did not have any good restaurants near-by.

Basel, Switzerland

5 out of 5
The Highlight of the Alps excursion was truly excellent. Wonderful scenery, excellent modes of transportation. Well done by Viking

Strasbourg, France

4 out of 5
Strasbourg Highlights (included tour) was OK. Alsatian wine tasting tour was very good.

Speyer, Germany

4 out of 5
We went on the Heidelberg & Martin Worms optional tour. The Worms portion of the tour was OK but the Heidelberg portion was excellent.

Mainz, Germany

5 out of 5
Both the included Mainz tour and the optional Wine & Nature of Schloss Vollrads tours were excellent. Lot to see and learn on both tours

Koblenz, Germany

4 out of 5
We did not dock near the old town as we had done on previous Viking cruise. Included Historic Koblenz tour was OK but the optional Evening of Music & wine tour was really great. Excellent entertainment for that evening tour.

Cochem, Germany

3 out of 5
The wine-tasting portion of the included tour was a disappointment. Expected better Moselle wines for this tasting.

Trier, Germany

5 out of 5
Trier is very interesting city, lots to see and do. The guide could have been better.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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AuntPinkie    2 years ago

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