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I think we'll have this situation for our upcoming cruise because our flight time is in the evening. Just to clarify: Are pax able to leave bags with a Viking representative at the airport and leave for part of the day, returning an hour to two before departure to the airport? If so, does this include “carry on” luggage? Basically, could we leave the hotel carrying just our daybag, like any other day in port, walk around, sightsee, etc? OR does Viking ever offer a tour for these pax that you can sign up for once onboard? We had a HAL cruise do this once. There was an tour that ended by driving you to the airport.

@Relaxing Rita Unrelated question, if you don’t mind: Do you remember if Viking offered a shuttle bus from White Bay to Circular Quay in Sydney?

@Relaxing Rita Thank you! Seems like it won’t be a problem, then.

Yes, we've signed up and completed everything on MVJ. It says nothing about the RAT test other than New South Wales requires one for all cruise pax embarking at one of their ports. We’re flying from Houston. Maybe the date allowance would be made, but I’d prefer to not have worry that our photos of the negative tests (🤞🏻) would be dated two days prior. Also, technically, that would be cutting it close to 24 hours anyway. It seems like the expected downtime would be a good chance to do it. Thank you!

My husband and I are doing our first ever Viking ocean cruise, the Viking Mars from Sydney to Auckland on February 21. We know we have to do our own COVID RAT test before boarding in Sydney and will bring the tests with us in carryons. Because of the dates/timing of the flights, we cannot take a photo of the test before we leave because the date will be more than 24 hours before embarkation. We also have Viking transfer from the airport. Does anyone have any idea if we should immediately get off the plane and find a quiet place to take the RAT test, wait the 15 minutes for results, take the photos, and then go through immigration and meet with Viking OR if we should do immigration/Viking first and there will be time to do it before we get to the cruise port? Also, our flight is scheduled to arrive at 7 AM and we can’t embark until 11 AM so it seems there is time to kill. How does that gap work with Viking transfer?