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After disembarkation in Bergen, I'll go directly to Bergen Train Station for the Bergen to Oslo trip. (not on an extension; on my own) At 7:00am ish on a Monday, should I arrange for a taxi to Bergen train station in advance?

Another vote for Major Marine - I researched it thoroughly before a 2020 planned Alaska trip and had decided on them for 2020 trip which never happened. One local kayak guide I’m still friends with from a 2019 trip vouched for them as having the best safety practices, conservative Go-NoGo decisions, and boat maintenance. All very important in Alaska. My personal Go-NoGo decision was If the resurrection bay waves were > (what was it…) 7 feet? Or 5 feet, I’d stay on land and go to the Seward aquarium Can’t recall the website, but there’s a site you can check that morning

I do same. Yellow Stars for places to check out. Green Flags for restaurants to check out. Red Hearts after I visit a place whether I like it or not, to remind myself of the itinerary by glancing at the map. If I’m confident I’ll visit a place/ restaurant, I’ll take an extra 30 sec to add a custom label with the Open - Close times.

Hallelujah and amen! I've written about this before here; it's gotta be a felt friction point of almost all Viking cruisers. If my head is looking at 1 screen of details, don't make me find a different screen or physical location to find such closely related info. What I literally thought was "Viking's IT team is asleep at the wheel. The other back office teams are doing all the heavy lifting in creating a great experience. This is so obvious a need."

Looks like Duxelles to me

Would that make the deck 1 Living Room Bar the one that is open the most # of hours each day? Some are calling this good coffee spot "The Viking Bar" ? Or is that a bar on a different floor? So many bars, so little time.

I loved the hot showers delivered with strong water pressure on the Viking Mars. Looks like you will be set.

Thank you for the living room, bar deck 1, coffee tip @Peregrina651 Would you happen to know what time they open and close?

You are saying that I could order, via room service, a dessert being served in The Restaurant ? I saw a dessert on The Preisman's fabulous website that I would love to try. However, for dinner, I would still prefer nibbling trying different main courses at World Cafe for dinner.

Is it possible to get a dessert to go from The Restaurant? ex: if I didn't eat the meal there, but spontaneously stopped by for one of the Restaurant desserts to go. Edit: Asking for a friend 😇 .

That does not trigger some kind of ... rejection on covered expenses? Somehow I had the impression it was all or nothing, but you are probably right.

Oh for heaven's sake. I guess there's a reason why the tallest building in a lot of cities are owned by insurance companies. Please tell me it's Travel Insured, my current policy holder.

!! Didn't know that.

Just so they know there's at least 1 person in addition to Clay who wants to experience the pistachio rolls :-). Now n = 2 (n as in data points) Tellus@vikingcruises.com Dear Viking, I will be sailing with you soon on Viking Homelands - Viking Jupiter May 1 - 15, Stockholm to Bergen Is it possible for you to ask the Executive Chef of that voyage to make available 2 desserts on that voyage 1) Viking's famous pistachio raisin buns On Cruise Critic in the Viking Ocean forum, many threads have referenced these. Most recently this one. I am so curious about them. 2) Russian Medovik cake Russian honey / cardamom? cake with a cream cheese frosting Served on: Sept 22, 2022 , World Cafe, Lunch Viking Mars, British Isles Explorer while in or near ⁨Kirkwall⁩, ⁨Scotland⁩, ⁨United Kingdom⁩ One of my favorite cakes ever.

Just to torture the addicted: https://www.thecabindiary.com/pistachio-cinnamon-rolls/

in response to Clay >> I hope anyone who likes them or wants to try them will ask about them and request them from the Restaurant Manager and the Executive Chef. This is my plan when we board Saturn in July if they aren’t in the case waiting on me. OK. The People Have Spoken. I just had a vision of all these bright happy faces picketing the outside of Viking Ocean headquarters with Placards that read, "Pistachio Rolls, a must!" "Pistachio Rolls, or bust!" Sometimes, it really is the little things. @Heidi13 Do you have a god-level connection within the Viking C-suite we could send a Pistachio Roll petition to?

Turning ON the bathroom light would trigger a loud beep. My impression from the room steward via the maintenance people was it was normal / nothing could be done. My best guess was Viking included it as a warning of the small step UP to get into the bathroom. But the good news for me from this thread: It sounds like I will not have to deal with this loud beep on the Viking Jupiter when I turn on the bathroom light. Yay!

Your post reminded me - on the Viking Mars British Isles Explorer 15 day cruise, they twice offered a class focused on that in the evenigns. Does anyone remember if Nordic Bath technique was the actual name of the class? I want to remember to sign up for that.

Thanks for the answers everyone. Challenge is I can't email a company-confidential doc to my personal email.

Is it possible to print from my iPad directly to a Deck 1 printer without logging on via one of the nearby desktops? i.e., Does anyone know if those printers support Airplay? Has anyone actually done this? On the Viking Mars, I saw the desktops, keyboards, and I believe a couple(?) printers in that area near Guest Services. In case this is ship dependent, I will be on the Viking Jupiter in May for Viking Homelands, Stockholm to Bergen.

2 new-to-me things you mentioned here Jim: 1) What is this Hi-Lo table? You could request a "Hi-Lo table" to replace your stateroom's coffee table? 2) I could order to my stateroom from the MDR or Manfredi's when they are open? Really?

Word.

On MyVikingJourney, when clicking on the Calendar tile, is the Day 1 shown always Embarkation Day?

Exactly - When booking excursions I kept having to flip back and forth between screens, after remembering where to find my latest and greatest statement PDF to see the port times. (And remembering - Did I already save the latest statement locally? Should I look in email? Which email*? Etc) I wish MyVikingJourney would show an "Anchor" picture with the words "Tender Port" at the top of the calendar page for a tender port. ----- Re: Which email? * for some reason, my personal gmail that I use for everything filters OUT Viking's emails with PDFs attached. I get a million other emails but not that one.

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