Zhao Shang Yi Dun (Viking Sun) Review

Disappointed in excursions

Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Zhao Shang Yi Dun (Viking Sun)
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Hroutson
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Sep 2018

I’ve always been interested in seeing the Baltic countries. That is why we choose this cruise. We came over a day early so we could see additional sites in Stockholm. Our plan was to leave Old Towne to do with Viking since they had a shuttle back to the boat. Well that day they didn’t have the shuttle so we totally missed touring Old Towne by foot. We were extremely disappointed and got no resolution from Viking.

We also learned after the fact that everyone does NOT have the same excursion booking opportunity. Depending on the cost and location of your stateroom gives preferential excursion bookings. Even though we booked our cruise over a year an a half ahead of time we had the bottom of the barrel in excursion choices! On the river cruises this isn’t the way the excursions were done. So BEWARE!

The ship and employees were great. My love of travel are the people and the sites of the countries we visit. It was the lack of the most popular excursions being available to us that was the biggest disappointment. This is why we are not really interested in the ocean cruises with Viking. We would do a river cruise because the excursions are so much more inclusive. On the ocean cruise we spent over $900 on additional excursions.

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We thought the cabin was very nice. We had a nice balcony and the shower was large enough for my 6’7 husband!

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