Viking Var River Cruises Reviews

I was thoroughly happy with my trip and booking thru Affordable Tours.

Viking River Cruises is first class. We had an excellent experience as first time river cruisers. The tour guides were the most knowledgeable and professional in their area of expertise. They were also entertaining! We have only positive things to say about our cruise!!

We experienced a wonderful journey along the Danube river (from Budapest to Regensburg). Our room was very clean and all the programs was exactly as they were explained.

The Viking experience is wonderful! They provide first class service - this includes check in, excursions, dining, housekeeping, maintenance issues, etc. This was our 2nd Viking River Cruise and it too exceeded our expectations.

Viking is the right luxury level for us.

Steve did a great job, even though Viking messed up a few times.

We thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Shannon's help changing the return flights made a big difference.

Our trip was wonderful. Everything was very organized. The New York Hotel in Budapest was fabulous. Can't say enough positives about our trip.

Affordable Tours gave me exactly what we wanted and Viking River Cruises delivered everything we asked for and more. A wonderful experience.

This was my 2nd trip with Viking. As before, everything was perfect ---food, service and accommodations were outstanding.

Viking is good company striving to provide top notch service. However, there are a lot of areas needing work. All's fine when things go right. It is difficult to get things right when their IT services are needed. Operator needs to pay attention to the needs of the customer. Pricing policies and fares charged vary considerably and unreasonably. My optional tour bookings were screwed up and in spite of repeated calls could not be fixed. However the ship staff was fabulous and worked hard - on things they could effect.

The river cruise was very good, but the flight arrangements by Viking were terrible and confusing. Originally, my wife and I were booked on separate flights and even after this was straightened out we did not sit together with our friends on the Air Canada Rouge flight to Budapest. We took 2 small planes from Newark to Toronto and Nuremberg to Zurich which could not accommodate carry on bags (including a propeller plane) and we had to climb down steps to the tarmac to get on and off the small planes.. We had to be out of the cabin by 9am on the final day of the cruise but our flight was not scheduled until 3pm and did not get to Newark until 11 hours later. The Air Canada Rouge flight was cramped and had bad food. In contrast the Swiss Air flight back home was much better.

The staff on this river cruise were excellent and very helpful. The travel arraignments very also very organized and helpful, This was the first time I planned a vacation without going with a group and I was well pleased.

The ship (VAR & TOR) are old and much smaller than other Viking ships I have been on. The bathroom (in a Veranda) is barely big enough for one person. There is only 8" on each side of the bed. The furniture in the lounge areas is old and very low-hard to get out of.

The trip was terrible. We barely did any sailing due to the drought and Viking did very little to make up for it. Horrible experience.

We ended up missing out on cruising the Danube due to low water level as we had to be motor coached from Regensburg to Passau to change ship. We also took the motor coach from Vienna to Budapest so we missed half a day at Budapest & also missed the view of the Parliament building at night as we spent our last night at a hotel. We understand that low or high water level is a possibility with river cruises. Viking knew this was an issue for sometime as it was a dry season, but waited to email us a little over a week prior to departure rather than earlier to allow us to reschedule or cancel. Better communication would have been appreciated.

Sadly, I am one person that is bothered by exhaust fumes. The fumes were noticable each time we sistered up to another boat, which was often.