Viking also offers a 14-night itinerary that includes several stops in the northernmost part of the country above the Arctic Circle. Petersburg will return to the itinerary until the war in Ukraine is resolved. Petersburg stop, as well as stops in Finland and Estonia from the Viking Homelands itinerary the trips instead feature extra stops in Norway and Denmark. Note that, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Viking has pulled the St. Related: The ultimate guide to Viking ships and itineraries The line’s most popular route in the region, “Viking Homelands,” is a two-week-long, one-way trip between Bergen and Stockholm that combines several days of exploring the fjord region of Norway’s west coast with more-typical Baltic cruise destinations such as St. That allows for unusual variations on the typical Baltic Sea or Norwegian fjords cruise. Many, notably, use the relatively small but famously scenic Norwegian city of Bergen (population 286,000) as a gateway, something no other line is doing. Some of Viking’s most interesting itineraries are around Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea, with many beginning or ending in Norway - the homeland of the company’s founder and chairman, Torstein Hagen.Īs Hagen once told me, Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea are what the company considers “Viking country” - a region where it wants to dominate.ĭuring summers, in particular, Viking devotes an unusually large number of its ships to itineraries around Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea and other Northern Europe destinations such as Iceland. (The company was founded by a Norwegian family.) However, you’ll find Viking’s nine traditional ocean ships everywhere from North America to Asia and Australia.īergen, Norway. Related: First look at Viking’s stylish new Nile River shipĪmong ocean cruise destinations, Viking has a major presence in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, which it considers its home turf. None of its main competitors among river lines catering to North Americans, which include Avalon Waterways, Uniworld and AmaWaterways, have anywhere near that number of vessels. There are 80 river ships in Viking’s fleet - an astounding number. The company also operates river trips on the Nile in Egypt and the Mekong in Southeast Asia, and it just began river trips on the Mississippi River.
Viking has a particularly large footprint when it comes to European river itineraries, with a wide range of sailings on nearly every European river of any note, from the Douro in Portugal to (until recently) the Volga in Russia. That gives them a smaller range of itineraries.įor more cruise guides, tips and news, sign up for TPG’s cruise newsletter. Typically, cruise lines operate either ocean cruises or river cruises but not both. That’s notably different from most cruise lines. Not only does the California-based company offer ocean cruises in almost every corner of the world, it also offers river cruises on many of the world’s major rivers. Fast-growing Viking has one of the most diverse arrays of itineraries of any cruise line.
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