Bucharest to Amsterdam

Pre-cruise notes

May 10, 2024

It has been quite a few years since Agnes and I were on an organized cruise.  We are really looking forward to traveling with our good friends Jim and Sandra.  We have been on a lot of different trips and Cruises with Jim and Sandra all around the world and it has been far too long since we have been out with them. 

The cruise we are taking is with Viking River cruises and is on the Viking Ship Vidar.  It is one of their river long ships.  It carries 190 passengers and has a crew of 50.  This ship was constructed in 2015 and is 443 feet long.  Agnes and I have been on three previous river cruises, once on the Nile in Egypt and once on the Yangtze in China.  These river cruises were only 7 days and were on much smaller ships.  Hopefully this cabin is a little bit bigger than the one we had on the Yangtze cruise as this cruise is 21 days.

We fly out on May 12 to Vancouver and overnight there, and then in the morning we fly to Paris where we change planes for the final flight to Bucharest.  Viking meets us at the airport and we are transferred to a hotel and then a second transfer to the ship the following morning.

This promises to be an exciting trip as there is a tour every day.  I hope my hiking boots are up to it.   

There have been a couple of differing reports on how good/bad the ship internet is but I am hoping to get a blog post up every day.  I would like to invite you along on this exciting adventure with us.

Terry