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Viking Star Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

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Reviews: 5
Helpful Votes: 181

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Viking Star

9 Night Empires Of The Mediterranean (Athens To Venice)

Sail date: March 29, 2018

Ship: Viking Star

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 3017

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Viking offers a lot for the price if you don’t book the most expensive cabins. Having at least one included tour per port is good, plus internet which is slow but at least is something, wine in every meal, and great service. The ship is new and don’t have major issues. We enjoyed our cruise.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
We embarked later in the day so we did it with no waiting in line

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
We only enjoyed the main restaurant and the buffet and both had a very good selection of dishes. The only thing we did not like is that when we tried to make reservations for the specialty restaurants they were all filled, even thou we tried to do it on the first day. All cabins should have the opportunity to book a reservation in them at least once

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5
The performers were not that good. The only time we went to listen to the singers at the bar the sound equipment did not work but they tried their best to keep us entertained

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Service is the best thing Viking has to offer. Every one was very helpful and worked very hard to make sure we had what we needed

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The size of most of the cabins are the same the only difference is what you have added to it. For us the cabin was very spacious, clean, and had everything we needed

Ports of call

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

3 out of 5
We did the included city tour. They mentioned a lot about visiting the government palace and the change of the guards that we thought they were going to at least stop to see it, but we were wrong we drove very fast in front of it. If you mention something as being important at least stop so people can appreciate it. Otherwise don’t mention it.

Santorini, Greece

4 out of 5
The free time left in this place was very short. Specially in Oia. This is the main city and we had less than an hour to explore and experience the city

Katakolon (Olympia), Greece Did not visit port

Bad weather forced to change ports

Corfu, Greece

5 out of 5
We did one of the optional tour to Achilion and it was very good

Kotor, Montenegro

5 out of 5
This port allows for 2 tours so we did the included and the highlights of Montenegro. Both were very good. Plus hiking to the wall was very nice. Plenty of time to enjoy the place

Dubrovnik, Croatia

4 out of 5
Too short of the stay. We did our one climbing of the wall and city tour. Would like to spend more time.

Zadar, Croatia

5 out of 5
The town is very nice but the main attractions is the KRKA National Park and when we tried to book it it was full so we booked a private tour that it ended up being better than Vikings

Koper, Slovenia

2 out of 5
This is stop was kind of a waste of time. I guess they needed a stop before Venice. There is nothing there to see.

Venice, Italy

3 out of 5
Viking doesn’t offer any tour here we just disembarked. The town has a lot to offer so we did it in one day.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Not having a plane to catch we did our own disembarkation and was fast and efficient
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3 Comments

cruisellama    5 years ago

katiej512    6 years ago

Wow. That’s a lot to offer. What if you do book the most expensive, what do you get then?

MarineVet71    6 years ago

Glad you enjoyed yourself!