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Gincolo, your ideas sound great. Just what we would like, the more islands the better!

Totally agree with you Queenie. I was hoping some of the Viking travellers would pitch in with their knowledge of ports that can accommodate cruise ships the size of Viking in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. These areas are my limit on flights nowadays. With 19 cruises with Viking, we are running out of options with that parameter unless we start repeating.

Rang Viking today 11 days out (river cruise) and was told by the UK office that it had already been sent. No idea what happened to it, but perhaps a glitch in the system (?) She immediately sent it again and we’ve now got and read the final documents.

Our next one is a river cruise, not ocean, and we are 12 days from travelling but have not got our email yet. Time for a call to the UK office I think, thanks for the reminder.

Does anyone know if Viking monitors these posts?

Agreed I’d not thought of these East coast ports, but there are great places to go from both ports. We’ve also sailed from Harwich and Southampton.

DrKoob, yes of course The Magpie in Whitby, but there is so much else to do too. Logistics for a cruise ship would be too much as it’s only a little place. I wasn’t really expecting it as a possibility.

I agree, the UK has plenty of history.

Having seen others on CC, like us, who have done lots of Viking cruises (11 Ocean & 8 River) suggesting new itineraries are needed, I thought it would be nice to suggest places that we would like to go. As we come from the UK and don’t do long haul any more, my suggestions are all in Europe I’d like to visit: All the Balearics More of Sicily Corsica and Sardinia More of the Greek islands Cyprus with some new mainland places to link the islands Also a second Round the British Isles including new ports, like Cardiff, Bristol, Glasgow, Isles of Scilly, Whitby ( my favourite place) the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, Hebrides, and the whole of Ireland. There are so many places that would make a good cruise. As you can see from my list I like islands!

Thanks, that’s reassuring.

I haven’t read this thread for a while as we’ve been on a family holiday in the UK. During the week a small dog on a lead ( which I hadn’t even noticed approaching) decided to go for my leg with either teeth or claws. It was over so quickly I don’t know which. Luckily I was wearing trousers and had no injury, just stress. Dogs quite often ‘go for me’ and I assumed it was because I give off stress signals when I see them coming. As I’d not seen this one coming it can’t have been that. I say this because if dogs were on board Viking ships it would worry me. Have any been seen on board recently? As a matter of interest, does anyone else have problems with dogs going for them. Mine started in childhood. They don’t go for others I know, just me!

I feel so sorry for the US citizens and especially for Heidi and his fellow Canadians who have had to suffer the problems which appear to be happening regularly with the LA office. Although a few of the UK posters have mentioned problems, we have had outstanding attention and service from the London office with our 10 previous Ocean cruises and 7 previous River cruises with one more of each booked for this year. Our only problem is finding new cruises to do in Europe, as I struggle with flying distances nowadays. With the rivers we have done our first repeat (Douro) as we want to stay with Viking. It would be great if some new routes are planned for the Mediterranean or even another round Britain with different ports. I agree that Heidi must have had two awful customer service instances for him to give up on Viking after such a long time of great informative and positive reviews. I always read his posts with interest as they were so balanced and helpful. Andy and Judy, although I never met you, I feel I’d got to know you and wish you both well for your future travels.

We’ve done 10 Viking Ocean and not had any Art classes on them. They were all port intensive with few sea days. We did have an Art class on a Viking river cruise with a local artist.

As a child I was attacked (not too seriously) by a dog and now am scared when a dog comes near. They seem to sense this and go for me. I have done or have booked 18 Viking cruises and would hate it if they are allowed on board. This is in FAQ on the Viking site. Are pets allowed on board? No pets or other animals are allowed on board the ship, other than service animals and certified therapy dogs as Viking may choose to permit at its sole discretion. Guests who require the aid of a service animal or certified therapy dog must advise Viking at the time of booking, and complete and submit the Service Animal Request Form to Viking before final payment is due. Failure to do so may result in a denial of boarding. Please contact Guest Services at 1-855-884-5464 (1-855-8-VIKING) for more information.

Photopro2 Who is the current restaurant manager on Sea?

Yes we’ve seen grits and wondered what they were. Not known in UK.

Sorry to be totally unaware of what you do for Thanksgiving (we are from UK) but what food, activities etc do you have?

We’ve just realised that we will be onboard Neptune during thanksgiving 2023. We are from the UK and wondered what to expect on that day.

We are from UK and flights are included. We have done two B2B cruises including one trans Atlantic and one which started and finished in London (Greenwich). We had a flight credit on both. The trans Atlantic meant we put the money towards upgrading to business to fly back to the UK. The ‘air people’ in the London office will help you sort this out.

We think Fox News is but probably not Fox Business

As far as the Aisidra box is concerned, the QuietVox behaves like an MP3 player (eg iPod), so if you follow the instructions for using that sort of device with it then it should work. Maybe your hearing aids can’t pair with more than one Bluetooth device at a time so you may have to unpair your phone in order to pair the Asidira device.

My hearing aids have an accessory that allows me to send the QuietVox commentary to my aids wirelessly. For details see here https://www.oticon.com/solutions/accessories/connectline It probably won’t be compatible with your aids but you may be able to find something similar for yours. You can also use plug regular headphones into the QuietVox if you use those and I’ve also found that if all else fails I can use the Viking supplied earpiece even with my hearing aids in place.

I would be interested in sea conditions too at this time of year.

Not surprised about Bodo, it appears to have been missed many times this year.

Has anyone got heads up about the sea conditions in November?