We are planning for our 9th Transatlantic Cruise for December, 2022. We will be sailing on the Viking Neptune. The decision process to get to this point was sort of a round about journey, we had not really planned for a cruise of this duration in 2022. In fact, we had already planned for and booked a 7-Day cruise to the Caribbean in November, 2022 on Princess Cruises. The November…
Here is the Itinerary for this Trip. We will be spending three nights in Barcelona on our own before we board the Viking Neptune. We will have one overnight stay in Barcelona on the ship before we depart. There are only two port stops on the remainder of the voyage, one day in Funchal, Madeira and one day in Saint Martin. The remainder of the cruise is sea days where…
We have been putting together a list of sights that we may visit while we are in Barcelona for three full days before our cruise. Some of the sights we have visited before, so they may become secondary sights in favor of seeing something new. The only exception is a visit to the Sagrada Familia Church, which is a must do, or redo in this case. We have visited Barcelona…
A couple of weeks ago, the Viking Cruise Excursions opened up for reservations. Also, on a slightly different schedule, dinner reservations for the specialty restaurants also opened up. The timing of the opening of these reservations is based on cabin classification. The higher the class of cabin you reserve, the sooner you have access to reserve excursions. This allows people that are paying more to have first dibs on selection…
Our trip is fast approaching, we will be leaving in three days for our flight over to Barcelona, Spain. There has not been a lot of tri planning activities going on recently, we have been busy trying to make sure things in our family life are squared away. Both of our mother’s are keeping us on our toes as we try and go on this trip that will not be…