Viking Njord Review

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Viking River (NON-CRUISE); Worst Vacation Ever

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10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jul 2015
Cabin: Veranda Stateroom

We vacation often with over 25 ocean cruises. We were sold & expected a relaxing, stress less cruise, one which docked in the heart of the city and included a choice of tours. Instead, we got early morning bus rides and strenuous uphill tours with mostly mediocre lunches on land.

We started out in Nuremburg on the Freya docked at a construction site with mounds of fine silt blowing on the deck and which our Veranda faced. The veranda was mostly unusable the entire ‘cruise’ and so was the top deck. We constantly felt entombed in our room facing a stone lock wall (on tributaries & not the Danube) or docked smack up against another ship. Finally, we were told that the next day would be more bus tours and then we would have to pack up because we would be bused early the following morning overland to the Njord. ( It took us 3 hours to get back to the ship that day)

We asked to go home since our flights etc. were made with Viking but no one would help us so we had to pack up and ride 5 hours overland early the next morning to the Njord. We didn’t ‘sail’ until nighttime and there was nothing to see. So our 8 day ‘relaxing’ cruise turned into two days on the Danube in Budapest where we hired our own driver because I couldn’t abide another bus, and by now I had a severe back problem from all the stress and uphill hikes.

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Veranda Stateroom

Makes no difference with a balcony if you can't use it

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