Russia Itineraries 2023

[Heidi13]

We are booked on the UK/Scandinavia cruise immediately after the World Cruise next year. Today we received notification that Viking have cancelled all Russian itineraries through 2023, with the new itinerary being the same as this year's changes. Well done Viking for taking early and bold action. Actually, it works rather well for us, as we have been to Tallinn, SPB & Helsinki before, but Oslo, Bornholm & Mariehamn are new ports for us.

 

Sad to miss a return to SPB, but time to move on and start planning our overnight in Oslo.

 

Scandinavia & the British Isles (London to Stockholm)
Day	Location
1	London (Greenwich), England
2	London (Greenwich), England
3	Dover, England
4	Scenic Sailing: English Channel
5	Dublin, Ireland
6	Liverpool, England
7	Holyhead, Wales
8	Belfast, Northern Ireland
9	The Highlands (Ullapool), Scotland
10	Kirkwall, Scotland
11	Edinburgh, Scotland
12	The Highlands (Invergordon), Scotland
13	Shetland Islands (Lerwick), Scotland
14	Bergen, Norway
15	Bergen, Norway
16	Bergen, Norway
17	Eidfjord, Norway
18	Stavanger, Norway
19	Oslo, Norway
20	Oslo, Norway
21	Ålborg, Denmark
22	Copenhagen, Denmark
23	Berlin (Warnemünde), Germany
24	Bornholm (Rønne), Denmark
25	Gdansk, Poland
26	Sail the Swedish Coast
27	Mariehamn, Åland Islands
28	Stockholm, Sweden
29	Stockholm, Sweden

[sabrefan]

We are booked for Viking Homelands cruise in May 2023 and Viking informed us today that they have eliminated Russia for this cruise. I really appreciate Viking for taking this action well in advance. Even if this stupid war was stopped tomorrow I would not care to support the Russian economy in the future.

[Azulann]

I also see that Viking has the new" Scenic Scandinavia ", 11 day itinerary that replaces the Russia/ Baltic one. for 2022 and 2023.

I  am really excited. This new itinerary stops in three ports in Denmark including a overnight.  I will talk to my sister tonight and move our Alaska cruise for June 2023 to this new one. I will finally get to my family's  homeland Denmark. Plan to do an extension there for sure. 

Have not been to any of these countries in Europe. 

Edited March 25, 2022 by Azulann

[Mich3554]

Yep, I found this email in my box last night.  Disappointed that Russia is off the table, but it’s understandable.  

[Squawkman]

Our main interest in booking this cruise are the 3 ports on the Gulf of Finland. Since we have much of Scandinavia covered, we decided to cancel our April 2023 Homelands.

[Donaghadee]

Just checked the 2023 North Pacific Passage itinerary.  Petropavlovsk is still on the menu.

Probably just a temporary oversight on Viking part.

[SDHusker]

1 hour ago, Donaghadee said:

Just checked the 2023 North Pacific Passage itinerary.  Petropavlovsk is still on the menu.

Probably just a temporary oversight on Viking part.

Still on for the 2022 version too.  Maybe they forgot about the Pacific cruises.

[Canberra forever !]

2 hours ago, Donaghadee said:

Just checked the 2023 North Pacific Passage itinerary.  Petropavlovsk is still on the menu.

Probably just a temporary oversight on Viking part.

I noticed that too as we we are on the Sept 2023 sailing. 

[longterm]

On 3/24/2022 at 6:33 PM, Heidi13 said:

We are booked on the UK/Scandinavia cruise immediately after the World Cruise next year. Today we received notification that Viking have cancelled all Russian itineraries through 2023, with the new itinerary being the same as this year's changes. Well done Viking for taking early and bold action. Actually, it works rather well for us, as we have been to Tallinn, SPB & Helsinki before, but Oslo, Bornholm & Mariehamn are new ports for us.

 

Sad to miss a return to SPB, but time to move on and start planning our overnight in Oslo.

 

Scandinavia & the British Isles (London to Stockholm)
Day	Location
1	London (Greenwich), England
2	London (Greenwich), England
3	Dover, England
4	Scenic Sailing: English Channel
5	Dublin, Ireland
6	Liverpool, England
7	Holyhead, Wales
8	Belfast, Northern Ireland
9	The Highlands (Ullapool), Scotland
10	Kirkwall, Scotland
11	Edinburgh, Scotland
12	The Highlands (Invergordon), Scotland
13	Shetland Islands (Lerwick), Scotland
14	Bergen, Norway
15	Bergen, Norway
16	Bergen, Norway
17	Eidfjord, Norway
18	Stavanger, Norway
19	Oslo, Norway
20	Oslo, Norway
21	Ålborg, Denmark
22	Copenhagen, Denmark
23	Berlin (Warnemünde), Germany
24	Bornholm (Rønne), Denmark
25	Gdansk, Poland
26	Sail the Swedish Coast
27	Mariehamn, Åland Islands
28	Stockholm, Sweden
29	Stockholm, Sweden

We’re taking the same trip, but not until July 2024; I think our itinerary matches yours. 

[austinetc]

On VIking's "Updates on Current Sailings", it says that currently open 2024 sailings to Russia are also being replaced.

 

 

[longterm]

1 hour ago, austinetc said:

On VIking's "Updates on Current Sailings", it says that currently open 2024 sailings to Russia are also being replaced.

 

 

Yep; they removed St. Petersburg, Talinn, Estonia, and Helsinki, Finland. I'm sorry to miss the latter 2; unless there's a major political upheaval in Russia and Putin is deposed, we'll never foot in Russia.

Edited April 16, 2022 by longterm

[Vineyard View]

We very much enjoyed all three of those ports on a previous Homelands cruise. While I would absolutely visit Tallinn and Helsinki again - I cannot imagine ever wanting to spend time nor a dime in Russia again. It was a stamp to memory experience, but we just couldn’t. I sincerely hope that times change, and future generations are able to freely explore again, but sadly I think that time is a long way into the future.