Thoughts, impressions, and observations for the World Cruise.

[orville99]

24 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

Aww...thanks.  Would love...love to join you!  But alas...being the anal in advance booker I am 😉 ...we do have little sister Connie booked in December out of Tampa.  Love the idea of sailing up the Mississippi, and have not been to NO for years.  

 

January 16th sends us to Australia (circumnavigate) plus Bali and then over to NZ and Taz for total of 60 days.....on Viking.  We have a few days land tour included with Viking in that as well.  

I guess we are AIA bookers as well because we also have three X cruises on Ascent booked out of PE for December 2025 and March 2026, and will be booking more on Apex once the new 2026-2027 itineraries are released. Have you looked at the Viking Mississippi cruises out of NO and Memphis? They looked interesting.

[island lady]

1 hour ago, orville99 said:

I guess we are AIA bookers as well because we also have three X cruises on Ascent booked out of PE for December 2025 and March 2026, and will be booking more on Apex once the new 2026-2027 itineraries are released. Have you looked at the Viking Mississippi cruises out of NO and Memphis? They looked interesting.

 

Yes, we did....but am more interested in going to Europe Viking river cruising again (Totally French wine country this time) towards end of 2026.   Then do a west bound TA (ship and line TBD ....back home from there).  

 

The Mississippi river up from NO....ehhh...IMHO...snore.  They are having a tough time filling their new paddle wheel style ships doing that.