HugglescoteBear

1 hour ago, Frenchberet said:

Hi, I talked to Guest Services and they said the March 20 cruise is still expected to sail Sydney to Bali.  The situation is fluid but they don’t expect any problems.  
 

We haven’t experienced any issues on our March 6 cruise (Auckland to Sydney).  We’ve heard that 150-200 people cancelled but no problems with those of us here!  They asked us to complete a health questionnaire and did a temperature check prior to boarding.  Weather has been great and it’s smooth sailing!

Thanks so much for that!

I guess we will go ahead. My biggest remaining worry is that may cancel after we get to Australia. We are doing a 6 night pre-cruise tour.  If they cancel after we arrive, we would get the Cruise portion back, but not the pre-tour or flights. As we have "pushed the boat out" (no pun intended!) and paid for Business Class, that all represents a lot of money if we just end up with 6 days in Aus!

Thanks again for you help. Hope the rest of your cruise goes well.

Alan 🙂 

16 minutes ago, Cleopatra99 said:

I had this discussion with someone last week .. so I can only relate what I was told then.

 

Orion is presently in New Zealand on its way to Sydney. The original schedule shows it leaving Sydney for Bali on 20 March (ie, your cruise). Someone who was on board last week asked the staff / crew and was told that Bali cruise was proceeding as planned. That was last week.

 

However since then Viking Sun (ie the world cruise) had significant issues getting clearance to visit and disembark passengers in Bali - they were originally refused - but after lengthy negotiations were given permission. I don't know any of the specifics nor if discussions about Orion's visit were covered during those discussions.

 

If Frenchberet sees this post perhaps he / she could ask the crew for an update (Frenchberet is on board Orion at present).

 

All that aside, you may be best to just keep checking with your local Viking office ... or email Viking 'Head Office'

 

TellUs@vikingcruises.com

 

and hope they get back to you asap.

 

I hope things work out for you.

 

 

Thanks so much for that. I have sent an email as you suggested.

Frenchberet (or any one on the Orion), if you can find any information for us that would be incredibly helpful.

Viking UK are still telling us it is on, but still very concerned. 

We are due to sail on Viking Orion on March 20th. I notice it has now "disappeared" from the Viking Booking site. Does any one have any information? We are wondering if it is about to be cancelled? 

We are travelling from Hong Kong to Singapore on 31st October 2015 on Legend of the Seas and then returning to Hong Kong on the Legend of the Seas. We are wondering if we are going to have to purchase any Visas for the countries visited.

The countries are:

Taiwan

Phillipines

Malaysia

Brunei

Thailand

Cambodia

Vietnam

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