Thank you Moonlion for the wonderful trip report - I've enjoyed reading all of it. We are seriously considering the BIE cruise for next year as Orkney and Shetland Islands are high up on my bucket list. I saw the list of excursions that you posted a while back (sorry - just found this post yesterday) and I have a question. It looks like there was only on excursion offered for Orkney. Was that the case? I was hoping to see more than what's offered in the included excursion - just wondering if this is typical as there are 6 or so excursions for Orkney shown on the website - so not sure if it's typical to only offer one on the actual cruise (or maybe I'm reading the list wrong).
We haven't sailed with Viking before - just trying to learn the ins and outs before we book. We appreciate greatly all of the wonderful posts on this board! Thank you!!