Viking Aegir Review
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It was my third cruise with Viking River Cruises and I was extremely excited to return on board. Cruising the Passage to Eastern Europe with Viking was something I had been looking forward to this year as it had four countries I’ve never had the chance to visit and I was eager to explore.
This time the ship was Viking Aegir but is good to know that the longship boats of Viking are essentially set up the same, the dining is good, and the staterooms are exactly what you need for the journey.
The crew on board was what you normally expect from Viking: attention to details, manners, professionalism and always a special care for all passengers on board. Our waiter in the restaurant, a very pleasant young man from Argentina was mixing perfectly a family like atmosphere with very high standards and the manager in charge of housekeeping, Mirijana from Serbia, found always time to answer and solve all our request. The German hotel manager was a little bit abrupt and too much in to selling vouchers for next cruises (I bet he get a big commission with that) forgetting sometimes that he supposed to be a host and not a door-to-door salesman (especially during the Frequent Travellers cocktail when he invited everybody on board, talking for a very long 50 minutes and after that walking around forcing you to book your next cruise)
Cabin Review
Veranda Stateroom
These cabins are not as large as veranda cabins on ocean going vessels, but they are quite functional. There is ample closet space as well as 8 drawers and shelves in the closet. There are multiple 110v outlets throughout the cabin and a safe. The only con to the cabin is that the mattress was hard. Viking should have put pillow top mattresses in the cabins instead of the 8 inch hard mattress. However Mirijana, the head of housekeeping went out of her way to provide us with a solution. She had the cabin stewardess place multiple mattress toppers on the bed, and that solved the problem.