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I said that I would post with the results from our Viking River Cruise nightmare. Viking did make us a fair and reasonable offer and we have indeed booked another Viking River Cruise for next year. Thank you to Viking for their quick response.

Yes, I did get a lot of pictures. I have pictures from the collision, I have pictures of the ship we hit and of the car our ship just about put into the river, and I have lots of pictures of trying to shoot through the window of a moving BUS. I will end my comments here until I find out what Viking has to offer for spoiling our 25th Anniversary trip of a lifetime. Two years of saving for a BUS trip. Even the food on board was not even close to being what was expected, and we have done about twelve ocean cruises with various companies and I had to send more under cooked food or overcooked food back this cruise then all the other cruises combined. Grow too big too soon and you spoil the product. Am I bitter, you bet. We are in contact with the other passengers by email to compare. Get on the ball VIKING and do what is right. Our TA has an open file with Customer Relations on this matter. Will post the results.

Oh my gosh DIST-THDR: ; what a terrible trip; was searching to see if lock strike was still on but you certainly answered that. Hope Viking compensates you well so you can experience a great river cruise another time.

We were affected by the rotating strikes on the last two locks in Germany, which caused us even further delays besides the 2 collisions our ship was involved in. We would have cleared Germany before the strikes if we had not had the collisions. I will be waiting for the letter or call from Viking before I take this further. We missed the relaxing mornings, enjoying the passing scenery cruising to and from our ports of call, instead spent the time on a BUS, missed our free time in ports because we had to get back on the BUS, missed Krems at Leisure, and again because we had to be on a BUS. I could go on and give you a day by day itinerary of how bad the BUSING became. We also missed the Wachau Valley, which as a Photographer, was going to be the highlite of our 25th Anniversary trip. We had to sail through at night.

my wife and I are at this moment on the Viking Forseti. On our 4th night out our ship ran into the back of another causing us an 18hr delay, missing our time slots for the locks which led to even more delays, then was involved in another collision,(more delays) and since we have been bused to every port stop since, on the average 1-1 1/2 hr each way. we are still behind by a day getting to Vienna and onward to Budapest. 80% of passengers upset and protesting the problems. Now we have to deal with rotating lock strikes and not sure what is going to happen the rest of the way to get us to Budapest on time. Most want full refunds and are sending off emails and letters to Vikings head office. We have only river cruised 4 out off the 10 days so far. Never again and will make sure the world Knows how bad Viking is at responding.

Celebrity Infiniti docked in Valparaiso Chile

Seranade of the Seas in Barbados

Jungle Jane, thanks, everyone that has ever met her always remarks how classy she is inside and out (good upbringing). I have to agree with all of you that those OTHER dresses belong in a swingers club not on a cruise ship. My wife has 21 dresses packed for this next cruise and all are like the ones I posted, 5-7 formal gowns and the rest dressy casual. Here's a couple of others and some I don't have pictures yet as I bought her 8 new ones for this cruise.(needed lighter weight ones) Phil

Here's a few of the Formal and not so formal my wife has worn on cruises. Phil

Wish I could make them larger, but have not figured it out yet.

Sorry double post

Here's a few of the Formal and not so formal my wife has worn on cruises. Phil