We've always talked about doing something like this. We've been on other non Viking cruises, We're now spoiled. I don't want to be with 4,500 of my closest friends. The river cruise was a wake up call, starting with an impeccable clean ship, the entire crew spoke English and attentive to your every need. Just 170 passengers on board so after two weeks together we have many new lasting friends, you traveled with them on excursions, ate with them, drank with them and laughed with them. Just and incredible journey that will be remember until Viking can top it again. Only one possible suggestion to Viking and speaking as a male, we travel in a country (Germany)that are the mechanical engineering master of the world. Lets see aircraft and automobile museums, automobile factories. That was the only think I missed. But it was a beautiful trip I would repeat again if I could get all the same people together again