TayanaLorna

We had the main course changed to salmon when a friend did not eat lamb and a dessert substitute to a brownie due to allergy to mango.

Room service does deliver alcohol, wine and beer. However I do not know if the wine and beer would be included (free) if the lunch order (or dinner order) was outside of the lunch/dinner hours for the different restaurants. The included beer (or wine) is the selection of the day not any beer on the menu and there is one red and one white wine offered per day as well.

It is better then above Torshavn since shows are over by 10 pm.

I will second that.

Generally the WC, Pool Grill and Mamsens are open for lunch 11:30 am -2:30 pm and the Restaurant noon- 1:30 when open. The WC can have lunchtime variations. Dinner is 6-9 pm. Exact times are posted in the Viking Daily so check each day and don't assume the times for one day are same for all. The Pool Grill and Mamsens are also open for Snacks later in the afternoon. I don't know if the Snacks hours also include free wine and beer. Viking says wine/beer are included with lunch and dinner not snacks. So the question remains - what about Room Service? Can folks only get included wine/beer delivered during posted lunch and dinner times or can one order "lunch" to their room at 3:30 pm and get a free beer? This is getting complicated...

Never saw the Iceland airport so empty!

I think Mamsens has been open 10 to midnight on all our cruises. Late and snacks are not our thing. I love their soups at lunch and often go there to avoid WC crowds.

Brilliant. Plus dealing with clearing into the US can be done without worrying if you are gonna make your connection. Miami can take a half hour or 2+ hours to clear in and go back through security.

I agree that multiple connections are stressful and tiring as we age. We are to the point where we can deal with one connection and layover must be at least 3 hours. If travel to where we want to go requires more connections then we will do a layover. Or if the timing of connections is too short or the trip costs too much we will try to be creative in our flights. For example we are going on a Med cruise in 2024 from Rome to Athens. So we are flying SJU to MAD round trip. We stay over in Madrid one night and fly to Rome next day. Then on the return we have a one way ticket ATH to MAD with another layover in MAD to catch the return flight of the round trip ticket. Three tickets, a pain yes. But on the way we get a good night's sleep in Madrid before we fly to Rome to begin a 17 night busy port intensive Pre and cruise. On the way back we spend 2 days/nights exploring Madrid. We saved over $700 per person over the cost of Viking Air so that should cover our days in Madrid.

I live in PR and getting ANYWHERE to/from San Juan on a direct non-stop flight - even to the US - is hard. For a European connection Iberia has a non-stop between San Juan and Madrid but it does not fly every day of the week. If there is a non-stop Heathrow to San Juan, then you only have one connection. Flight time SJ to MAD is 7 hours. The return is 8 hours

I stayed up one night to try the soup. It was a Midnight Sun cruise with sea days to sleep in so easy.

YES! When we cruise i am delighted to be able to wear black without being covered in dog hair (we have only 2 now). In the EL I always fold those pelts to the skin side to avoid the shedding.

I am the Walrus....

Yes it is. WC or ask for it. We stock it in our room for tea before sleep.

Viking will reimburse you for optional excursions if port stop is cancelled usually to the means by which you paid. Some excursions but not the port can be cancelled also. We were docked in a port and all water based excursions were cancelled because it was too windy. That time the reimbursement went to our on board account.

Was it the Alberobello excursion that was sold out?

Corfu also? Thought it was only Rhodes.

Thats the first CT menu we had on Viking in Bergen. Loved it!

You don't jump across. They keep the tender right up against the ship. Its the timing and stepping when both tender and ship are level. If it is too rough to tender, the Captain may cancel the stop.

Lucky you guys. Every time we tendered it was a watch the up/down movement between ship and tender and time your step accordingly. Always helping hands from crew. The Panomax video this Monday is spectacular and when overlaying location it looks like ship is in a very protected bay.

Yes that is what folks have reported - that all the different menus were delivered to their room when they got sick. Not so on the Sea February 2023.

It was a mini van that would have fit 6 but was very comfortable with 4.

I would recommend a small group tour. We did one with Sentir Patagonia - 4 people, driver and guide $150 each for a 7 hour day including lunch at an Estancia (sheep ranch). It was excellent and well worth the cost. The driver was eagle eye and would spot wildlife along the road, stop and identify it. We saw the sea lions with pups and elephant seals. We observed young sea lions trying to move in on the elder makes "harem" and the resulting altercations. We walked among Magellanic penguins and their young. We learned so much about life on a sheep ranch as well as the geology if the area. About the only wildlife we missed seeing were the right whales as they had left for the season, the Orca whales as the tide was to low to come close and the armadillos. Driving yourself you would have no clue about what you were seeing and would most likely miss spotting the variety of wildlife there. Plus much of the driving is on washboard bumpy roads.

If you have Guest Services punch a hole, go check to be sure the card still works in your door. I had holes punched twice and both times it rendered the card unusable. I gave up and purchased a small cross body bag to carry on ship.

Covid is really over if they are doing bridge tours again.