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👋🏻Hi kctwinmommy! So funny you posted your fave "on the way to Florence" purple pouch. I bought one too last year and use it every day. Still makes me smile and think of our trip.😊

👋Hi kctwinmommy! I haven't looked on the Viking Ocean board for a while so I am just now seeing your wonderful review. Great pix and great commentary.. thanks for taking us along with you!👏

Ooo! Have fun!!!💗

😊What a fun topic for such a well traveled group. I would love to cruise South Africa (Capetown to Capetown) or Asia (Hong Kong to Bangkok) or take a river cruise on the Mekong. Add a land tour of Myanmar (especially Yangon and it's colonial era buildings) and those are my top 3 travel bucket list items. Besides the fact that DH still works and isn't keen on taking 2 or 3 or 4 weeks off in a row.. the distance is actually stopping me from bugging him too much about it. Two weeks ago we were away in Honolulu and flew nonstop from JFK to HNL. The 11 hour flight kind of cured me from drooling over the aforementioned trips too much. So for now I'm happy with western Europe.. flights I can stand and a time change that isn't too hard to overcome.😊

👋🏻Hello! I think about 45 minutes or so?

👋🏻 Hello! We were on the Onward last April/May and I wrote a blog that included "The Insider" every day. Hope that helps! 😊 https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2934418-onward-and-upward-our-azamazing-italy-intensive-week-april-22-to-april-29-2023-full-trip-report-with-tons-of-pix/

Awesome!! As Borat would say.. "GREAT SUCCESS!!"

Oh thanks so much for letting us know @laurieb! I was waiting for them to be posted.😊

Hi FetaCheese! Thoroughly enjoying your report! Keep up the great work.👏🏻

👋Hello Feta Cheese! Yay!! I'm so glad you are posting from your cruise... Wishing you calm seas and lots of smiles! I will be in the virtual cabin next door sailing vicariously through you.😊 Wishing you calm seas and lots of smiles!!

👋🏻Hi 1st! Flying main cabin internationally.. I'm about 99% sure that we have access to the KLM lounge (as well any other Sky team lounge) because I am a Platinum Delta Skymiles member. A companion is allowed in for free too. I doesn't matter whether you are flying on a Delta, KLM, or Air France flight since they are all part of the Sky team partnership. Hope that helps.😊

☀️68 and sunny sounds truly delightful. What an exciting itinerary you are on.. hope it's been smooth sailing. Is it generally rougher than the Med? Or is it just luck of the seas that week? We will actually be on the Jupiter next summer for an Italian Sojourn.. looking forward to it! Love love love Viking and will always include it in my rotation with an Azamara cruise or two in between. They are definitely similar but a bit different too and it's always nice to experience both.😊

🙋‍♀️Helloooooo MikeyB! How nice to think of you and Mrs. B 'chillin in Chile for the holidays.😃 I'm sure your weather is much nicer there than here on murky and foggy Long Island. Weather aside.. We had an excellent as usual Xmas day Chinese meal at Fortune Wheel in Levittown. Do try it when you get home. Enjoy every moment of your cruise! Wishing you safe and easy travels home and Happy New Year!

🙋‍♀️Oh! And wishing everyone a peaceful and pleasant 2024 filled with love, good health, lots of smiles and smooth and happy cruising.🥰🚢

Seems there is rarely any news about Serbia that makes it to the USA news. The cruise sparked my interest in the countries we had visited. Saw this yesterday.. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/25/europe/serbia-protest-election-stolen-vucic-intl/index.html

Your pictures are marvelous!! I'm thoroughly enjoying your travelogue thru Morocco! Thanks so much for posting.

Wow!! Solent Richard! What a review! 👏🏻 So much information and fantastic pictures. Thanks for taking the time to post all of it.. makes me very excited for our upcoming cruise this spring.

It was such a powerful movie.. glad you saw it and remember it. Oh my! A vaseline and chocolate syrup sandwich? Actually it might sound better than lard and onions.

😆Second last but not least.. Here is a link to all of the menus on Avalon last March. By this time you will surely be tired of our faces as they grace most of the posts but the menus will interest you if you want to see what food choices Avalon offers.😋

🙋‍♀️Hello again Rebel54! Oh how LOVELY you are going to vacation with your daughter.. what wonderful quality time! You won't have any problem finding food on the ship that isn't pork or pork based. Sam doesn't eat pork (he does eat shellfish) and there were always plenty of options for him at each meal. I'm still icked by the "lard incident."😬 Not so much because it was animal fat but because it felt like I was eating Vaseline on bread.😵‍💫 Fantastic that you are spending a week in Prague and then boarding the cruise! We sailed on the first part of your cruise from Vilshofen to Budapest in the fall of 2021. Here is the link if you would like to see those ports. That was back in the day of COVID restrictions. Sooo glad that's over with!😷 Last but not least I hope you found the movie "The Last Days" interesting. I thought it was so well done. So horrifying of course but it really told the stories of the survivors so carefully and completely. Anyways.. enjoy every moment of your cruise! It will be here before you know it.👏

👋 Hellooo Rebel54! Thank you so much for your sweet sweet comments. I’m not home right now but when I get to my computer I have lots to tell you about the menus and the ports and the movie.😊

👋🏻Hi morneau! Interesting about the seating situation in the Aquavit.. unfortunately sounds more like a Middle School "popular table" lunch room than a river cruise that is usually marked by polite and congenial behavior as you so aptly stated. We didn't encounter that as we only went there twice.. once we got a table and then the other time all of the tables were occupied. As a fix it would be a positive if Viking could expand the tables for two into the adjoining part of the lounge.. that would help the situation. I think every feels chatty at some meals and less chatty at others and it would be nice to have the choice of table size without having to "save seats." Comment card fodder for me in the future.🙌🏻

😊Thanks wp bob! So glad my report was helpful. You are going to have a fantastic time.. the ports were just so unusual and interesting. Enjoy every moment!

🙋‍♀️Looking forward to following your trip! Thanks for posting.😊

😊Oh thanks! The last one from a few weeks ago ended up being almost the length of "War and Peace." I guess appropriate for Eastern Europe.🤔 We have an Azamara scheduled in the spring in Spain and Portugal and then an Italian Sojourn over the summer. You said you are currently on board? Lucky you! 🥳 Where are you having your Turkey day?