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Viking Homelands in August 2018 - Excursions


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We are on the Aug 11th VH sailing on the Star. We we booked the 12 noon Rodne Pulpit Rock cruise on our own. It was roughly $60 pp. Much much cheaper than with Viking. I just followed prompts online and rec'd a .pdf and printed voucher. We chose this sailing time since we were getting into Stavanger at 10am and if we were late arriving it would give us some buffer time. We didn't want the 2pm since it would cut it a little close to make it for departure. This will also allow us to do the latest afternoon included walking tour with Viking.

 

Very good example of how to work port time with private and included excursions. It does take a little bit of interest in maximizing the cruise but it is so worth the effort to not let opportunity pass you by.

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Hi - Wondering if anyone has thoughts on the Viking Homelands Excursions (or even private ones)? We are going in August - Have already joined others in Roll Call to do a private 2 day tour in St. Petersburg and a private tour in Berlin as well. Saw the Flam Railway get VERY good ratings on another thread, and will do that, too. Wondering thoughts on Pulpit Rock in Stavanger? Copenhagen Excursions? Helsinki? Gdansk?

Any insights would be awesome. I also love things that are a bit 'off the beaten path' , so don't hold back

 

We went on the Viking Homelands cruise in May 2017. We took a 2 day tour with TJ Travel in St. Petersburg. It was a private (very reasonable and great driver and tour guide, fluent in English and excellent knowledge of history and city) tour and we saw all the sites we wanted to see including private early tours of the Hermitage and Catherine's palace. They were very accommodating asking us if there were other museums, palaces, or buildings we wanted to see as we drove through the city and countryside. All of the other included tours were very good, though since we had been to Berlin for a bout 4 days we took the alternate Rostock tour instead which was excellent. It is a worthy alternative as it is about 3 hours by train each way to Berlin and your really need to spend a few days in Berlin otherwise it is tantamount to looking a 30 minute Rick Steves video. If we hadn't been to Berlin previously, we still would have done the Rostock tour. 5-6 hours of transit is not worth it when you only spend 3-4 hours in a city the size of Berlin with so many museums to visit. It is very worthwhile to spend 4 days in Berlin one of which should be in Pots dam 30 minutes away by S-Ban.

 

Enjoy your cruise Viking is an excellent cruise line and itinerary.

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