Booking optional excursions

[cruisewiscrrq]

Questions:

1. There are 4 of us traveling together in 2 DV staterooms.  Can one of us make excursion reservations for all 4?
2: We are on Viking Homelands cruise out of Bergen.  Really want Flam Railroad excursion out of Eidefjord.  Is it likely to be available to DV if we book the instant we are allowed to 67 days out?

3. If not, any chance of booking once on board?

4. Could do NIN from Bergen on embarkation day.  Is that a better option?

[OneSixtyToOne]

1) No. When booking make sure you both scheduled the same times for the excursion. When on board if there is more than one bus / tour guide for that time slot, you can ask to be placed in the same group.

Edited February 12, 2023 by OneSixtyToOne

[janetcbl]

1 hour ago, cruisewiscrrq said:

Questions:

1. There are 4 of us traveling together in 2 DV staterooms.  Can one of us make excursion reservations for all 4?
2: We are on Viking Homelands cruise out of Bergen.  Really want Flam Railroad excursion out of Eidefjord.  Is it likely to be available to DV if we book the instant we are allowed to 67 days out?

3. If not, any chance of booking once on board?

4. Could do NIN from Bergen on embarkation day.  Is that a better option?

NIN can be booked by your TA (or yourself) thru the NIN website. It has been THE tour to do in Bergen for years and is easy to do on your own. (www.norwaynutshell.com). Since you are probably spending at least one night in port in Bergen this is easy to do.

[TayanaLorna]

14 hours ago, cruisewiscrrq said:

Questions:

1. There are 4 of us traveling together in 2 DV staterooms.  Can one of us make excursion reservations for all 4?
2: We are on Viking Homelands cruise out of Bergen.  Really want Flam Railroad excursion out of Eidefjord.  Is it likely to be available to DV if we book the instant we are allowed to 67 days out?

3. If not, any chance of booking once on board?

4. Could do NIN from Bergen on embarkation day.  Is that a better option?

One person in a stateroom can make excursion reservations for both people in thst stateroom but not for another room.  We have coordinated excursions with friends on cruises.  If is best to have a meeting with all involved, decide which excursions you want and at what times.  Then have second choices of time for same excursion if available AND for another excursion if one you want is sold out.  If you are going for optional excursions, decide which one is most important.  When booking day arrives, reserve and pay for the optional excursions most important to you first then go back and reserve the included ones.

 

On the day of your group excursion, meet your friends first AND THEN get in line for the excursion all together.  You can all get on the same bus that way.  I've seen people being sent to the back of the line to wait for their friends when they don't show up together but want to get on the same bus.  Just because you got their first you don't get to cut in the line when friends arrive.

[cruisewiscrrq]

Thanks for prompt replies.  If we don’t get Viking Flam Railroad tour will do NIN out of Bergen.

[medskis]

We did a Norway cruise in August on another line (doing Iceland with Viking this year in mid-July). FLAM was a Port Of Call for us.  On roll call someone recommended a great Norwegian tour operator called NORWAY in a NUTSHELL.  They offer the Flam railway excursion from Bergen too. While our ship did part of the excursion on a bus driving through a long tunnel, the Nutshell group boarded a gorgeous new huge catamaran (quite different from Caribbean etc Cats) and sailed a fjord for 2 hours then gave us tickets and firm instructions as to where and when and how to make other connections on land and also by Flam railroad. I would recommend Norway in a Nutshell for consideration for excursions in Norway. 

[red4u2]

20 hours ago, medskis said:

We did a Norway cruise in August on another line (doing Iceland with Viking this year in mid-July). FLAM was a Port Of Call for us.  On roll call someone recommended a great Norwegian tour operator called NORWAY in a NUTSHELL.  They offer the Flam railway excursion from Bergen too. While our ship did part of the excursion on a bus driving through a long tunnel, the Nutshell group boarded a gorgeous new huge catamaran (quite different from Caribbean etc Cats) and sailed a fjord for 2 hours then gave us tickets and firm instructions as to where and when and how to make other connections on land and also by Flam railroad. I would recommend Norway in a Nutshell for consideration for excursions in Norway. 

Does NIN do just day tours as well?    thank you!

[miami mama]

I would recommend NIN also. You will find the Viking excursion to be very crowded while going from Bergen will be much less crowded and more relaxing. We actually had an empty train car to ourselves traveling outbound from Bergen. 

[Kountess]

We did an all-day, round-trip NIN tour from Bergen, and it was one of the highlights of our trip.  The train left Bergen at 8:30 am, and we did not return to Bergen until 9:00 pm.  It was a long day, but so worth it.