Viking River Cruise Line

Viking River Cruises was established in 1997 by a Scandinavian and Dutch consortium with extensive experience in passenger shipping, including past owners, board members and management of Royal Viking Line, Holland America Line, Kloster Cruise (NCL), and Silja Line. Following the purchase of KD River Cruises in 2000, Viking River Cruises became the largest river cruise line in the world. Its fleet of 30 boats ply the waterways of Europe and Russia, covering the Rhone, Seine, Volga, Yenisey, Ob, Rhine, Main, Danube, Elbe, Moselle and Po rivers.

• bernhard muller  Viking Helvetia  Rhine

  This is a future cruise--it will be our third on Viking. We travelled to China and Paris/Normandy previously. While the cruises are great once you get there--plane reservation planning is awful.... read more

  13 users found this review helpful.
• Sharon Bonner  Viking Prestige  Grand European Tour

  Our first river cruise; we have been on three ocean cruises previously. In summary, Viking provided a magical cruise with informative tour guides, good accommodations, an ample variety of food,... read more

  73 users found this review helpful.
• Laurinda Hancock  Viking Helvetia  Rhine Getaway

  The ship is clean, cabins roomy and easy to view all from the large windows in Cabin 214. The cruise director Renee was rude and it got worse as the cruise continued. The food servie was incredible... read more

  56 users found this review helpful.
• Bill Cooper  Viking Sun  Antwerp to Basel

  We were very excited to make our first river cruise after making many ocean / cruise liner type cruises. The main thing we look for is ability to travel to different cities, countries, etc. without... read more

  103 users found this review helpful.
• Chris  Viking Helvetia  rhine getaway

  We were probably the youngest couple on the Helvetia recently, but that didn't matter and we did expect most fellow travelers to be older (and wiser). We quickly hooked up with other couples in... read more

  143 users found this review helpful.
• nancy  Viking Legend  Grand European Tour

  In hopes that others will read this prior to booking a cruise on the Legend. It is ludacris to believe that this cruise would actually sell for $10,000 per person. It is advertised as two for one... read more

  195 users found this review helpful.
• Jo Dominguez  Viking Legend  Grand European tour

  The best cruise I have ever taken. This cruise is destination driven, there are no pools, or casinos, very little in the way of entertainment. The excursions are included in the cost of the trip,... read more

  133 users found this review helpful.
• Eileen Southall  Viking Sun  Roof of the World

  The Itinerary was amazing, the crew and staff were top notch. The ship, Viking Century Sun, suffered terribly from a faulty air conditioning system that kept cabins damp, clothes in the cabin damp,... read more

  29 users found this review helpful.
• Ken Foley  Viking Star  Danube river cruise in Germany and then to Prague

  Looked forward a fabulous time, unfortunately the cruise was a comedy of errors, and was not that great. Look hard before you select Viking. It was fair, not great It was fair, except... read more

  129 users found this review helpful.
• Albert Fairchild  Viking Kurov  Russia

  We thoroughly enjoyed Russia and all the places we visited. But the overall cruise experience on the Kirov, the level of service, food, and value for money were extremely disappointing. We would... read more

  75 users found this review helpful.
• Floyd Nevling  Viking Sun  Brussels to Basel

  The cruise on the Viking Sun was about the best trip I have ever taken. However, there are a few tips I would like to alert travelers to. The plane sceduling was bad. We left Pittsburgh at... read more

  126 users found this review helpful.
• Linda Fasteson
  
    Viking Sun  Treasures of the Rhine, Basel to Antwerp

  We have found that one of the most pleasurable ways of visiting a variety of destinations is by river, and there’s no more leisurely way than with the comforts afforded by the ships that... read more

  170 users found this review helpful.
• Doug and Carol Eads
  
    Viking Europe  Eastern Europe Vienna to Black Sea Round Trip

  Begin the Journey: Vienna has always been the city of musical genius ... a gathering place of culture where east meets west. Mozart, Beethoven, and the Strauss family lived and worked in... read more

  28 users found this review helpful.
• John R. Marler
  
    Viking Pride  Danube River Budapest-Vienna-Prague

  Romantic Danube Cruise on Viking River Cruises Viking Pride 8/3/2002 through 8/14/2002 I received a flyer from Viking River Cruises and it looked like the type of trip... read more

  118 users found this review helpful.
• Elisabeth Evans
  
    Viking Europe  Dutch Waterways

  This was a very enjoyable cruise and I would love to take it again, perhaps with a slight change of cities visited. The ship is new, built in 2001, and it is kept spotlessly clean. I had... read more

  25 users found this review helpful.
• David Thrower
  
    Venezia  Po River, Italy

  This was my first river cruise and is in a different category than an ocean cruise. It is more like a tour where your hotel is the ship and instead of coaching from one city to the next,... read more

  38 users found this review helpful.
• Steve Johnson
  
    Viking Star  Danube

  This is a review of our seven night Danube cruise aboard Viking Cruise Line’s Viking Star. Our cruise begins in Passau, Germany. The Star’s schedule is to make a quick 560 km run down... read more

  17 users found this review helpful.