Viking Orion Review
Viking Orion Bali to Sydney Worst Shore Excursions Ever
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The Viking Orion is a beautiful ship with good food and stylish cabins BUT....
I would bet that none of the staff have ever been on one of their included shore excursions to test it out. If they had, none of the included tours would have been included for this trip. The tours were worthless. This is a new itinerary for Viking and they have not been able thus far to put an itinerary together that is worthwhile.
1. The 3 bus tours we took had the driver as tour guide. They are obviously bus drivers and not tour guides. Plus, the intercoms on the buses were so bad that unless you sat in the first 3 rows, you couldn't hear what was said. So we drove around aimlessly in older busses with no bathrooms and no tour guide.
Response from VikingS, Community Team
Cabin Review
Cabin and ship are almost new and everything is beautiful. No compaints on the cabin.
Port Reviews
Komodo Island
Tell me again why they took us on a 1.5 hour trek through scrub land with nothing to see in 100 degree heat when the komodo dragons were all at a watering hole about 5 minutes from the ship? One person had to be evacuated overcome by heat.
Cairns
Just the included bus tour which was not informative.
Brisbane
JUst took the included city tour; again on a bus without a tour guide and no bathrooms.
Newcastle (Australia)
Took the included city tour; again with no tour guide or bathroom provided.