Peregrina651

Back to OP's original question. How to contact Viking. E-mail them at TellUs@vikingcruises.com. They will forward your suggestion to the appropriate department.

Ditto. Fewer guests do this one, so the experience is more intimate while still being equally as impactful.

I was wondering about using the train. I just checked the routing on Google Maps and while it may be a shorter time compared to Viking's shuttle by the Google Maps' estimation, I walk slower than the Google estimation. So for us, it is 50-50 -- and Viking shuttle gets us closer to where we want to be. Regardless, now that I see what the shuttle schedule is, I am glad that I booked I booked our tour at the Little Dublin Museum for 11 am, because with the tendering, I don't see us arriving much before 10am, even if we are on the first shuttle at 9am. Here's the link to Irish Rail for timetables and tickets: https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/

Tender and shuttle information most helpful!!! I'm taking notes because we are doing things on our own. One question. Since the day we booked at the end of 2022, our invoice listed departure time as 11 pm. Today, someone on the roll call reported that the time on their invoice is now 8:30pm (and 8 pm in other places like MVJ Calendar). Did something like this happen for your sailing or has your departure always been 8pm. TIA

No such animal. It is either Homelands boarding May 20 on Sky or May 23 on Neptune.

Friendly reminder, Mars is docked inTilbury, while most of the other BIE sailings are scheduled for Greenwich. It is a different set of shore excursions if you are docked in Greenwich. And, the choice is different yet again if you are scheduled for an early afternoon sail-away (because departure time in Greenwich is dependent on the tides. See your Viking invoice for the departure time for your sail date). The included tour in Greenwich is "Royal Greenwich by Foot." My May 9 sailing departs at 2pm on Day 2. We have two other shorex on offer in Greenwich: "World of Shakespeare" and "Tower of London." Everything else is too long for the time slot.

Kiss of death?

I think you have posed one of those 'damned if they do, damned if they don't scenarios. No matter how they handle it, there will be complaints. Still, perhaps they should have suggested that folks double-check their schedules for conflicts and that otherwise, no action was necessary.

I forgot that you were boarding in Tilbury, not Greenwich.

Do you remember the name of the pub?

The 2024 BIE season is almost underway. There is a LIVE thread for the APRIL 19 sailing on Viking Venus -- with Churchill extension. Semi-LIVE from Venus British Isles Explorer 4/19 with Churchill Pre-extension For schedule for Churchill extension, see post #4: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/3003197-semi-live-from-venus-british-isles-explorer-419-with-churchill-pre-extension/?do=findComment&comment=67244414

Strange. E-mail Viking and ask why there is only the included tour on the day you are going to be there. tellus@vikingcruises.com

Bon voyage!! So glad you are doing this. I'll be hanging on every word! Please report on the shuttle buses for each port, even if it is just a photo of each day's schedule. I'm sure I will have more logistical questions as we get closer to our departure. Thank you.

Other informative threads. I knew when I started a list of threads 2 years ago that it would come in handy eventually: Flam railway excursion availability 8 Tips for the Bergen to Oslo Train Trip The Scenic Flåm Railway Things I wished I had packed for Norway

And it was amazing! Much easier walking, too!