Northern Lights Cruise

Item: Viking Star
Rating: 3.9
Author: smarkow314

Viking Star Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

smarkow314

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 71

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5

Verified Review

12 Night In Search Of The Northern Lights (Bergen To London)

Sail date: February 15, 2020

Ship: Viking Star

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6006

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Based on our other cruise experiences, we would not consider Viking again unless they had an itinerary that we could not get on another cruise line.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Average

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Lectures, movies, bag toss game - limited activities on board. Only four fitness classes and all of those were yoga classes on a 12 day cruise! Plenty of Scrabble and chess boards to entertain your self.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

More what you would expect on a river cruise than an ocean cruise but the pianist s were very good.

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Was not consistent but most days the service was good in dining room and cabin.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Comfortable beds, nice bath size and ample storage.

Ports of call

Bergen, Norway

4 out of 5

Took included Panoramic Tour. Good way to see the highlights.

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Narvik

4 out of 5

Took included Panoramic Tour and then walked around on our own.

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Alta, Norway

5 out of 5

Visit To Sami with reindeer sleigh ride and Panoramic tour

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Tromso, Norway

5 out of 5

Husky Dog Sled, Snowmobile expensive but good. Sommoray Island was very disappointing and is not as described in brochure. When I pointed this out to the excursion manager she was rude and told me that I should have come to the port talk and not gone by what was written in their brochure. Really? Major waste of time money.

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Bodo Did not visit port

Weather

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Stavanger, Norway

4 out of 5

Took Pulpit Rock excursion. Waste of time and money. Wish we would have strolled around town or visited museum s on our own.

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Tilbury (London), England Did not visit port

Transferred to airport only.

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