Viking Jupiter Cruise

Viking Jupiter Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 28

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
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Viking Jupiter

7 Night Venice The Adriatic & Greece (Athens To Venice)

Sail date: October 11, 2023

Ship: Viking Jupiter

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 5054

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

An interesting cruise but several ports were too similar. Ship staff provided excellent service. One suggestion would be 2 days for Venice stop — one half day for Chioggo and a full day for excursions to Venice due to distance from Venice.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
They had their act together

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Food and service were excellent except for a service slip on last night when late returning excursion participants arrived to dine near closing time and there was some pushback from staff, I.e., some staff were visibly not happy about late session rush such as standing over guests rushing them to make order decisions. Management should have realized in advance that late dinner arrivals would happen because the excursion schedules were set and met and dining staff should have been better prepared for late rush.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Given size of the ship there was good variety.

Children's Programs

No children ship.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Other than glitch at last dinner service was excellent. Special kudos to our room steward Kevin.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Comfortable and very clean. Only “complaint” would have liked a bit more room for eating room service meals if such meals were ordered.

Ports of call

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

5 out of 5
Historic, good food, but be. Prepared for large crowds at Acropolis.

Katakolon (Olympia), Greece

5 out of 5
Did excursion. Excellent guide. Learned a lot.

Corfu, Greece

4 out of 5
Guide a bit lacking. Corfu town pretty but only good for shopping.

Kotor, Montenegro

5 out of 5
Included town excursion interesting and optional countryside tour excellent.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

5 out of 5
Interesting walled city visit but fee for walking on city walls excessive as was pricing for almost everything in Dubrovnik due to Game of Theones popularity.

Split, Croatia

5 out of 5
Walled town very interesting.

Venice, Italy

5 out of 5
Fascinating city — Venice. However ship docked 1,5 hour boat trip each way from Venice making excursion time excessive and uncomfortable.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Long early bus ride to airport but Viking did a good job with luggage transfer.
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9 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     3 months ago

Thanks for sharing

Ladyjunecliff     10 months ago

Thanks for your review. Love your itinerary

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

PaulzyJC    1 year ago

Hm? It's Greece, of course there's gonna be similar ports. They were in the same country. Some people just can't be happy. I wanna go to Greece next year.

javawoody    1 year ago

Just interesting?

bubbles60    1 year ago

Sounds like a great trip

cruising2004    1 year ago

Glad you had an enjoyable cruise.

Dumfy75    1 year ago

Nice review. Great itinerary!

RetiredRay    1 year ago

Sounds like an overall good trip.