The Thinking Person’s Travel Experience
Travel should be more than just a trip — it should be a doorway to cultural insight and personal enrichment. That is why Viking’s® itineraries are designed to help you explore and engage with your destination through its food, culture, countryside and customs.
Included shore excursions and carefully curated optional tours provide the perfect overview of must-see cultural and historic highlights. But The Viking Way® of exploration goes beyond the expected and iconic, offering Local Life, Working World and optional Privileged Access® experiences. While you’re on board, enrichment programs bring local culture and history to life, complementing your time ashore.
Veranda Suite
The Viking® Difference
Viking offers destination focused and culturally enriching voyages across all seven continents with vessels that bring you closer to your destination. Viking builds innovative ships that are the right size for the experience—with a signature Scandinavian design that never upstages the destination. On a river voyage, your accommodations move with you like a floating hotel, including an unparalleled choice of all-outside staterooms, expansive views from floor-to-ceiling windows and al fresco dining.
Each day brings a new view and a new destination to explore. Step off your river ship into the center of storied destinations like Lyon, Cologne or Budapest. In addition to giving you exceptional access to historic cities, river travel offers the opportunity to discover charming riverside towns and quaint villages—hidden gems you may never have visited otherwise.
Plus, with Viking Inclusive Value, your fare covers everything you need — one complimentary shore excursion in every port of call, free Wi-Fi, all onboard meals, beer, wine and soft drinks with onboard lunch & dinner, port taxes & fees, and so much more.
Cologne, Germany
Paris, France
Dürnstein, Austria
Rivers, Oceans and Beyond
As the small ship experts, Viking can deliver you right to your destination’s doorstep to explore in comfort. From river ships in Europe, Southeast Asia, Egypt and along the Mississippi to under 1,000-guest ocean ships that sail the world, Viking offers a tremendous variety of itineraries and departures visiting popular ports and hidden gems around the world. Since the launch of Viking Expeditions and their voyages to Antarctica and The Great Lakes in 2022, you can now explore all seven continents.
Wherever in the world Viking takes you, onboard lecture programs will shed light on your destination’s art, architecture, music, geopolitics, natural world and more. Also, you’ll gain an overview of your next day’s port of call through informative multimedia presentations covering the history and culture of your destination, as well as highlights of must-see landmarks.
Aquavit Terrace - Koblenz, Germany
Award Winning
Viking has more than 450 awards to its name, including being rated #1 for Rivers and #1 for Oceans six years in a row by Condé Nast Traveler in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards. Viking is also rated a “World’s Best” by Travel + Leisure—no other travel company has simultaneously received such honors by both publications.
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