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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.  

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Who is the current restaurant manager on Sea?  

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

15 hours ago, CCWineLover said:

Hi Dee -

We were also gone on Thanksgiving last  year - on the Viking Sea from Rome to Barcelona to San Juan.  We spent Thanksgiving day in Nice & Monte Carlo and came back to the ship at 7 PM to have a wonderful "American" style Thanksgiving dinner - all the usual trappings!   Even our Brit fans joined in.   Then on our ship, the next day Viking started putting up Christmas decorations - a little each day.

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

On 11/23/2020 at 4:35 PM, deec said:

We have never sailed over a Holiday...I bet Viking does an amazing Thanksgiving Dinner!!!

 

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.  

On 11/23/2022 at 10:17 PM, shipboy said:

For anyone that has done a BtB, did Viking give a reduction in price based on the non requirement of a return flight (the return flight for the first cruise and the outgoing for the second)? I don’t know if having booked in the UK makes any difference as opposed to a booking made in e.g. USA

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?  

Yes we did the B2B this year in June and July, Greenwich to Greenwich, so little flying as we are from the UK.  We enjoyed having duplicate ports which allowed us to plan alternative excursions.  Unfortunately we missed Shetland in one part and Orkney  on the other because of weather.  We managed two stops in Edinburgh and did our own trip to the Royal Yacht Britannia on one leg and the included on the other.  We were able to walk to Britannia after tendering ashore.  Great cruise, however we caught Covid on board and were in isolation for 5 days.  We still love Viking and have 2 river and one ocean cruise booked for 2023.  
Happy cruising everyone.

I will be interested in the replies as we are doing this itinerary in 2023.  
 

DrKoob we also watched most of the Downton Abbey series when we were in Covid isolation on board Venus for Midnight Sun Cruise in June.  Unfortunately the two films were not available.  

We always use the phone to contact the London office directly.  They are always very efficient.  We emailed from the ship when BA cancelled our flight home and were given 3 alternatives within a very short time.  Great service as always.