Viking Ocean Cruises "Viking Homelands"

[Seasick00]

What time of year is best for this cruise-weather, ocean calmness?

Did you book flights thru Viking? How many connections did you have?

[jiminyC_fan]

I can't address the weather question. We leave in six weeks.

 

We did book our air through Viking. We are very pleased with the connections. Our layovers are short, a little over 2 hours each. We fly Denver to New Jersey and then on to Stockholm. On the return flight we are flying out of Oslo to Frankfurt and then on to Denver.

[Dauntless]

What time of year is best for this cruise-weather, ocean calmness?

Did you book flights thru Viking? How many connections did you have?

We went last September and the weather was great. A few degrees warmer overall than it had been the previous 2 years(yes, we booked that far out). We had one day in SP where there were some drops but no need for an umbrella. The temps had averaged at 59 F in research with 20% chance of rain. I took 2 sweaters and a fleece sweatshirt that I never had on and the sun was our friend. The lowest early day report might have been 53 F and the highs were in the 80s. The water was calm the whole time. No ocean movement but you could tell when we left port that something was happening.

[Seasick00]

Thank you to all who replied to my post. The info was very helpful.

[bookworm818]

We are on the Viking Homelands cruise on Viking Sky leaving June 3. We are using Viking airline connections and are not happy. We go from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis with a 5 hr layover there then to Amsterdam to Stockholm.

[NewLondonNed]

you may do better and cheaper booking your own air - we did and saved $ with connections we preferred