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Viking Sky Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 50

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
Viking Sky

9 Night Empires Of The Mediterranean Westbound (Athens To Venice)

Sail date: March 25, 2017

Ship: Viking Sky

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Our second Viking cruise. First one was a river.

Have used Silver Seas, Crystal and  Oceania.

Thought being on a brand new ship would be the best. Was pretty dissapointed in several things.

Most glaring was food was big dissapointment.

Only 2 places on ship to eat . Main dining room was unremarkable and buffet was same basic food everyday except the meat course.

Was almost impossible to get into the 2 other restaurants. Small and always booked by frequent Viking cruisers and people in the suites .

Wine choice was a white and a red, period.

Excursions never included lunch or time to explore and shop.

At several big city stops we had to be back at ship by 3:00 , not enough time to see a great city like Corfu and Dubrovnik. 

But for some reason stayed till 6:00 at tiny towns that had little to see.

Climate control in our very small veranda room never did response to what we needed. We either sweated or froze.

There was literally no drawers or shelves to put personal items.

Compared to other luxury ships this was so surprising.

Lastly the entertainment . Basically there was not any. No  food and music theme nights at pool or guest musicians.(always the same 3)

On plus side ,staff was great. Nice size shower and extremely quiet room.

But Will be going back to other small cruise lines for our next vacation.

Wish we could be more positive but knowing ahead of time is always a plus.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
See above comments

Ship tip

Bring plastic hooks that you can use in cabin to hang things. The ones that come off with out damage.

Ports of call

Santorini, Greece

5 out of 5
Do not need an excursion here. Very small island

Katakolon (Olympia), Greece

3 out of 5
40ty min bus ride to see basically grassy areas. Not much in ruins. No lunch and the food offered there is awful.

Corfu, Greece

5 out of 5
Had to leave at 3:00

Kotor, Montenegro

5 out of 5

Dubrovnik, Croatia

5 out of 5

Zadar, Croatia

5 out of 5

Koper, Slovenia

1 out of 5
Could have skipped this port and added it to Venice.

Venice, Italy

5 out of 5
More time here would been nice.
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2 Comments

Rrose7    7 years ago

Almost sounds like you were on a different ship. Different entertainment in a variety of venus every night. Cruise Director, did a very nice one man show. Two nights ago, and again tonight, a very remarkable tenor. Almost always some music going on in the Atrium. When I returned yesterday afternoon, there were local dancers performing by the pool. As for dining, I count 6 locations plus room service 24/7. Can't think of a single tour that included the lunch hour where they did not take us to a local eatery. And as for storage, don't know what cabin you were in, but we have over a dozen drawers and shelves as well as a nice size closet. But of course expectations and opinions do differ

tgarner4c3dc6    7 years ago

were you on the Viking Sky?

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