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Viking River Cruises

In October 2019, Linda and I took our first Viking River Cruise - Danube Waltz.  At the time of that original writing / summary (linked below), we weren't sure whether or not we'd take another. Well, that didn't last long...

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2024: "Holland and Belgium" River Cruise - Antwerp, Belgium, to Amsterdam, Netherlands
immediately followed by the...

2024: "River of Gold" River Cruise - Lisbon, Portugal, to Porto, Portugal (yes, back-to-back cruises again)

2023: "Cities of Light" River Cruise - Paris, France, to Prague, Czech Republic
Stops also included Luxembourg, Trier, Cochem, Koblenz, Heidelberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Würzburg, Bamberg, and Nuremberg, Germany
immediately followed by the...

2023: "Elegant Elbe" River Cruise - Prague, Czech Republic, to Berlin, Germany
Stops also included Warsaw and Kraków, Poland; Bad Schandau, Dresden, Meissen, Wittenburg, and Hamburg, Germany

2022: "Passage to Eastern Europe" River Cruise - Bucharest, Romania, to Budapest, Hungary.
Stops also included Brasov and Transylvania, Romania; Ruse and Vidin, Bulgaria; Golubac and Belgrade, Serbia; Osijek, Croatia; and Kalocsa, Hungary

2021: "Rhine Getaway" River Cruise - Amsterdam, Nederlands, to Basel, Switzerland.
Stops also included Kinderdijk, The Netherlands; Cologne, Koblenz, Speyer, Breisach, and Colmar, Germany; and Strasbourg, France

2019: "Danube Waltz" River Cruise - Passau, Germany, to Budapest, Hungary.
Stops also included Čheský Krumlov, Czech Republic; Linz, Krems, and Vienna, Austria; and Bratislava, Slovakia



Right at the end of typing up the second VRC, we stumbled upon information regarding Viking referrals.
(I mention this because I want to emphasize that the referral information was added after the fact and at the end of typing this up, and not that this was typed up due to a potential for some sort of referral). Anyway...