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Item: Viking Jupiter
Rating: 4.4
Author: biandrews

Viking Jupiter Cruise Review to Transatlantic

biandrews

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 15

Helpful Votes: 643

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5

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21 Night Southern Atlantic Crossing (Barcelona To Buenos Aires)

Sail date: November 13, 2019

Ship: Viking Jupiter

Cabin number: 3075

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

We highly recommend Viking Jupiter. We enjoyed it so much we scheduled a month long trip of the East on Orion (sister ship) next year.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Smooth & Quick

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Delicious and great service. Unique, beautiful food!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

These were the best enrichment lectures and presentations we have experienced in 20 years of cruising. The Planetarium programs were awesome.

Entertainment

5 out of 5

We really enjoyed the guitarist Daniel.

Children's Programs

No children on Viking

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Outstanding service the entire trip throughout the ship. Everyone was very friendly and helpful.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

This ship is a dream. The layout is perfect and decorating lovely. It is very high tech which we enjoyed.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Room was well organized and had some special features like the vanity drawer in the desk. Lots of room for clothing.

Ship tip

Lose weight before you go on the ship, because the food is delicious and weight gain is a given.

Thumbs up

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5

A taste of Spain type excursion is good as well as an overall tour of the town.

Thumbs Up 0

Malaga, Spain

4 out of 5

We did the included tour, and it was good.

Thumbs Up 1

Casablanca, Morocco

1 out of 5

This was the biggest disappointment of the cruise. Our guide was terrible and had a bad attitude.

Thumbs Up 0

Dakar, Senegal

3 out of 5

This is not a very pretty port but I am glad we got to experience it. We did the included excursion.

Thumbs Up 3

Recife, Brazil

4 out of 5

We did the included tour. It was fine.

Thumbs Up 0

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

4 out of 5

This was a neat port, and we did the included tour.

Thumbs Up 0

Montevideo, Uruguay

4 out of 5

We did the overview of Montevideo, and it was a good tour.

Thumbs Up 0

Buenos Aires, Argentina

3 out of 5

This is a big city, and traffic is awful. The other issue was there were demonstrations against the government the 2 days we were there which made traffic worse.

Thumbs Up 0

Disembarkation

1 out of 5

Viking put us in a hospitality room at the Hilton. We were there for hours, and there weren't enough chairs for the approximately 700 of us. Then they had an issue getting the buses organized to take us to the airport due to the heavy traffic. This was the worst part of the trip.

1 Comment

cruisereckoning 5 years ago

Sounds wonderful.

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