Today's experience with booking Viking Excursions

[Fieldofdreams]

Thought I would provide some feedback to the CC community since so many on CC have been helpful in navigating the Shore excursion booking process on MyVikingjourney. We are in a DV4 cabin on a 15 day Australia/New Zealand cruise late February 2023 so we were able to book excursions 67 days out from the cruise. Many folks on CC suggested we prioritize the excursions with associated fees,  pay for each and move on to the next. After the excursions with charges, then tackle the free excursions. That approach seemed to work out rather well. Of the excursions with charges that we wanted to go on, there was only one that was not available. When we went back to book the free excursions, some of the time slots were gone but that was ok because our priority was on the excursions that had an associated fee. Hope this helps others trying to navigate this process. Next up in a few weeks, the specialty restaurants, which I will provide feed back on.

[Peregrina651]

Sweet! Glad that all went smoothly.

 

 

[harbourside]

We got to book our excursions today, Viking Mars Aust/NZ. DV6.  Booked paid for excursion first, then the included ones.  All times where available, except one, where one time slot was full.  I doubt that booking my restaurant excursions on Christmas eve, will go as well.

[donaldsc]

13 minutes ago, harbourside said:

We got to book our excursions today, Viking Mars Aust/NZ. DV6.  Booked paid for excursion first, then the included ones.  All times where available, except one, where one time slot was full.  I doubt that booking my restaurant excursions on Christmas eve, will go as well.

 

That was what happened when I booked earlier for my cruise.  I had no problems w excursions.  No luck at all w dining reservations.  I ended up calling Viking to get my dinner reservations but other posts on this thread have said that this was a fluke and calling usually doesn't work for dinner reservations.

 

DON

[Lucas Mom]

We're cruising out of London in January (Searching for Northern Lights) and I wasn't able to book any dining reservations on MVJ but earlier this week I used the live chat on their website and within 5 minutes had reservations at both The Chef's Table and Manfredi's on days I wanted at 7:30.  

[Azulann]

Glad to see the method used by OP  still works for booking shore excursions. If one is all sold out do not repair. Go to guest rations once onboard and get on a waitlist. Every cruise I have been on had  cancelations by folks for their excursions, and always go the ones I had been wait listed .

Especially when  there are no or few sea days, peole forget that they need a relaxing day and so they cancel.

 I myself have canceled an included  excursion because I just want to stay on the ship and relax and use the spa.  

[LindaS272]

42 minutes ago, Azulann said:

If one is all sold out do not repair. Go to guest rations once onboard

Love your spellcheck Azulann! 😄