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I just bought a new iPad with the USB C connection. You can buy cords with a USB A on one and and USB C on the other. This way, you don’t need to bring the brick too. We have other things that also need to be charged, so usually bring a USB hub with us too.

I had them air dry all my shirts. They did. Just specify it under special instructions.

This is pretty accurate IME.

Likewise, the pool grill will stay open later than normal if there are excursions getting back late too.

We stayed in Electra Palace too. Great view of the Acropolis from the breakfast room. Excellent breakfasts. Cute, teeny cafe around the corner that we had a very fresh seafood dinner one night. Menu was written on a chalkboard in front of the restaurant.

Boqueria Garden.

Perks for booking a cruise while on a cruise vary by cruise. For instance, it benefitted us to book the cruises we booked before one cruise ended and another started (we were on a B2B2B) because of this.

You can purchase as many as you want. We bought 8 each.

There are several HOHO routes in Athens. I think we hit most of them. The absolute best meal we had in Athens was a sidewalk cafe, where the menu was written on a chalkboard down the street from our hotel. I think there were only about 8 tables, but we stopped by there the first day and went back the next day. We had the freshest seafood I ever remember having. It didn’t look like much though.

They do not. I bring my own. My first set were too long for my carry on, so I put them in my backpack and the handles stuck out. I have always gotten them through TSA without any problem, but DH was afraid they’d get confiscated. I now have a set that shrinks down smaller and easily fit in my carry on suitcase.

There were days where we booked more than one excursion each day. Usually, the included tours have a lot of times so we try to use those to work around the other tours we want to take.

Dining room is on deck 1, 2 and 7….there is no dining on deck 3 or 5. Deck 4, you only have cabins between you. Viking rooms are extraordinarily quiet.

Tendering on Viking is normally due to when your excursion leaves, not room category. If you have a private tour, you can make arrangements to leave accordingly. I think as long as you have access to a railing, you should be good. There are many unstable people on a tender who manage ok.

Star Theater has blankets you can grab. They are also on the lounge chairs overlooking the windows on deck 7 near the pool. I don’t remember being chilled in any of the restaurants though.

IME, it is usually announced the day of the event. I don’t ever remember it being early in the cruise either.

Our 54 day back to back to back, we had a lot of cancellations. A good chunk of that cruise was paid for by vouchers from Covid canceled cruises. We had a lot of canceled ports, therefore a lot of canceled excursions. Her’s what happened…. When Turkey was canceled (Italy didn’t want tourists who had been in Turkey previously), this happened about 2 weeks before we left. Those excursion $$ went directly back to the credit card. We lost Alhambra due to high winds. We provisioned and left a few hours after docking so all excursions were canceled. Alhambra was paid for from OBC we received from Viking. This was a non refundable credit, so the $$ went back into our on board account as such. We lost excursions in Morocco, Senegal, Brazil, Falklands and a few in Argentina that were paid for by credit card before we embarked during the cruise. Those credits came back onto our on board account as refundable credit. At the end of the cruise (I think at one time our account had a $5000+ credit) when our bar tab was paid, gratuity paid, I took a shopping trip and bought a couple jackets and requested a private driver to take us from Valparaiso to our hotel in Santiago, we had $12 left of non refundable credit and $1400 of refundable. The $1400 was refunded to DH and I by check about 6 weeks after we returned. It does get horribly confusing.

And to think I was making due with only on3 scoop!

We stayed in Petit Palace in Ramblas in Barcelona. The entrance is on the walkway so when we were dropped off by the taxi, we had to walk about a block to the hotel entrance. When the taxi picked us up for our very early morning flight, he was able to enter the walkway. It was a very comfortable, quiet hotel where our hotel overlooked a courtyard and had an excellent breakfast available. I’d have no problems staying here again. We had tickets to the Opera the following night at Grand Teatre del Liceu and it was a short walk.

Is there any chance you missed the email?

You didn’t mention wanting to see the menu before you sailed, just before you made your reservations. TBH, I have yet to make a reservation before I sail and make reservations for both restaurants once I’m on board.

You can see which menu is for what night on the TV in your room. This is how we decided which menu to make a reservation for.

I opened this, expecting to hear about shoddy treatment. Instead, I find out he is complaining about billing practices…..which are well known if you do any sort of research. So much wind about nothing.

Sounds lik3 a good reason to take a vacation in UK, Netherlands or India. 😀

We are doing the Bangkok to Vancouver part spring 2024.

Canada has stopped testing crossing the border. While we have not flown, our last few trips across the border we have not needed to test. However, during the whole pandemic, country testing has not always aligned with Viking’s. Viking can still require a negative test, even if the country does not. We ran into this situation too.