a) The hotel used for our pre-aranged visit in Paris was very poorly located. It was a convention hotel that was close to nothing at all.This was not the hotel originally listed in the advertising. We used the hotel accommodation through Viking because the transportation to the start of the river cruise was provided with the hotel package and Viking would not let us travel to embarkation with them any other way.
b) Due to high river water we were bussed for an additional hour to the new port of embarkation. We were held responsible for our lunch on this journey...the company had said that they would provide a "box lunch" on this bus trip.
c) The dinners on board the ship were disappointing. Some were not edible. Six of us thought the same so it was not just personal to my wife and to me. Breakfast and lunch were OK.