Reaniel

Viking doesn't handle any of the Visa application work...

In my experience, when you call Viking Air, they'd immediately assume that you want to do Air Plus (as opposed to simple deviation). I find it actually less complicated to do stopovers and deviations directly with the live chat department. Of course, if you want more customization and more available destinations, you'd go with Air Plus, but if you just want to do a simple deviation or stopover (and save that $150 for Air Plus), just do it via live chat.

Excellent! I see that there are still plenty of tickets available for Galleria Borghese on that day, so just pick and book the time slot you think that'd fit the best to go with coming back to the ship with the shuttle, and you should be all good. Have a wonderful Rome port day!

Is there an easier way to find out which cities are available for Viking Air deviation? Or do we just have to call Viking to find out? Here are the two itineraries that I've gotten answers thus far: Cities of Antiquity & the Holy Land Athens: Santorini, Istanbul Rome: Venice, Florence, Milan Capitals of Eastern Europe Vienna/Bucharest: Amsterdam, Stockholm, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Basel, Budapest, Paris, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Rome, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Munich, Milan, Nice, Nuremberg, Porto, Oslo, Bucharest, Prague, Venice, Warsaw, Zurich. (The Viking Rep I spoke to said that the list is the same for both ends on this itinerary). Oh, and the weird thing is that while the live chat agents can find out about this information, the dedicated booking agents can't.

Hmm... I wonder what exactly does it mean by "new guests". Does this mean this will somehow negate the returning guest discount?

I think it has to do with the (over) simplistic thinking that more tonnage = more stability for ships.

Can you tell us which port is listed as the docking port for Venice? It should be one of these 3: Fusina, Chioggia, or Ravenna. I wouldn't worry that much. The travel time from VCE to any of the 3 are... long enough, and 9 is probably not early enough for them to even try to set a separate waiting site, unless something unexpected comes up. However, if there were multiple ships in Venice (and embarking) on the same day, they "might" make you wait at the airport after passport control while they organize the buses (to make sure they don't send the wrong people to the wrong ships). (This is less likely for Ocean I should add, but very common in River, and we were forced to wait at the airport for about 2 hours before they take us to the ship in Budapest back in 2022).

Yes, they cost extra. But you won't get an answer from Viking customer service. They'd tell you to find out when you're on board. Also, some of the info in the general description (for the included tour part) is obsolete. For example, the Mausoleum of Augustus had been closed for more than a year now, but it is still listed in the description as an optional tour.

The details are usually on your generated invoices. If your booking is currently managed by a TA, you can ask them to generate one and FW it to you. Those whose booking is directly with Viking can generate it manually in MVJ.

Also, I'd skip the San Marco Museums and visit Cà Rezzonico... That place is stunning, and I enjoyed it a lot more than the San Mark's square attractions.

Sorry, wrong thread.

I see that they went with the same logistic setup for Rome as we did. This should definitely allow you enough time and flexibility to visit Villa Borghese and Galleria Borghese. 🙂

With regards to the WC, your shuttle should make 1 WC stop before heading into Rome, and I'd say that's the best opportunity to use it. As for the Vatican, if you do visit St. Peter's Basilica, there's one located right after the security check (and where the cloak room is located). There's also one inside Galleria Borghese, located next to the stairways between the ground and first floor I believe. Good luck and have fun with your Rome port day! Hope everything works out and you get to visit everything you want to see!

I just put in the date and to/from stations into the TrenItalia (the regional and IC train operator) official website. https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html Here's the screenshot of the search result.

In this case, the 3 PM time slot for Galleria Borghese should still be OK, but OP might need to be a little bit more vigilant with regards to time. I'd hold off on buying the train tickets though. You can just buy them once you're at Roma Termini at one of the kiosks. Upon checking the train schedule for that day, I'm seeing the 4.6 EUR trains to Civ at 17:12, 17:27, 17:42, so you shouldn't have any problem catching a train if you watch your time. There's also a direct train at 16:57 for 9.9 EUR. Plenty of choices, and you'll be at the Civ train station before 7 PM.