It can be the most beautiful train ride in the world.
For the last four things, I have been watching, mesmerized, a surprisingly tableau as a tableau filters the picture window next to my seat after another tableau-the famous Chaiti-Kartaran Training that are things through the mountains of Norway.
Crystal-Callier Mountain lakes fringed with evergreen, picture-perfect villages, snowkeped mountvents-everything that imagines the interior of Norway. Including, now, to sweep the glaciers.
We are passing the seven-hour icy high point between Oslo and Bergon, the Hardegarvida plateau-one winner Windland is so ancient that George Lucas chose it as a stand-in for ice planet hooth in “Star Wars: The Empire Strike Back”.
It is below, the main attraction of Nurve’s five-day journey that is moving me from one side of the count to another.
A highlight that comes with a twist: I do not get here through reservation with the train company. Or a train tour company. Or, in fact, even a land tour booking service of any kind.
I thank here for the fast growing cruise company Viking.
The ride of this train, with almost every other element of my journey to Norway, was arranged by the Viking as part of a multidi inspirational land tour to stay in a hotel from my pickup at the airport in Oslo, guided tourism and museum in each city.
Viking, it turns out, is not only one of the fastest growing cruise lines in the world. It is a growing land tour company.
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With the multided land tours and every growing array of the hotel, the stages designed to be originally added to their cruise intricars, custom-design correct extended holiday-all that works with only one company that arranges every start from beginning to end.
More than 100 precruise and postcruze options
Viking is definitely not the only craze line to offer anterior and postscruz land tours and hotel stays. Offering a “extension” to a Viking Call Cruise is a common thing in the industry. But as the Viking has grown in the years of fare, it has designed an unusually detailed array of such trips, which can be dealt with with its vast majority.
For 2025, Viking is offering 147 of these extensions, which is just above 91 years ago.
For example, in terms of my journey, there were some elaborations of some predecessors and were available to connect to the core cruise, which I sailed from London from London from 14-night “British” British Isallris Explorer “Bergon, including Stops on approximately a dozen ports with Scotland, Ireland, Wales and English coasts.
Precise experiences included everything from a small two-singing in Bergon, which was paired with a pickup at the airport, with a pickup for a person for someone, which was a four-night “Best of Norway and Senic Train” to hurry for a tour, which I added to my sailing. The latter offered a full cross-carrier tour with a two-night hotel staying at the hotel and directed to the directed tour, train traveling on Mountvent, and two-night hotel stay and directed tour at Bergon.
The other previous options I could pose was in a three-night hotel in the country with a tourism directed by the country.
Among the available postcruze extensions, the options were equally diverse, from staying in a two-night hotel in London to five-night “Britain” wide tour without tourism.
The latter was what I loved to wound – if only I had extra days free. History lover in me was eager to see many iconic and sometimes hard-to-castum sites, which were lines for a trip for Viking, including Blenhem Palace, Vinston Churchill’s birthplace and Marlborough and the current homes of the 12th Duke of his family; Chartwell, where Churchill won most of his life; And Blechle Park, Home of Code Breakers of World War II.
Different types of options mean that I may have created a Viking-serial holiday around my cram, which was the longest for the last 16 nights signed on the craving of the predecessor and the craving of Postcruz Tour).
Such flexibility is one of the large appeals of extension.
The Classic Viking Itinarrier, which offers at least eight pructions and a Simila array of Postcruz Extens, has seven-night “romantic danube” rivers cruise of the brand, if it includes two-preceding migration in Budapest, then a four-year-old journey for Croatia and Slovania.
In addition, some sailors include traully epic extras, such as a five-night tour of Galapagos which can be added to Viking Selling in South America.
Among the most unusual extensions of the Viking, the brand offered a four-night tour in English associated with the exploration of the mausoleum of Egypt’s Pharaoh Tutankhamen, which could be added to its Neel River Egypt. The tour includes speculation of the Tutankhaman-related archives and does not have access to the public in the UK as usual. These do not include a generally open collection of Egyptian items in Hiqulale, which was the house, which supported the effort of Egyptian expert Howard Carter (and the tomb is still people as the location of the filming of “Duton Abe”.
The latter tour is designed to be just before a indigo sailing and ends with an Egyptian flight.
A spontaneous experience
As I saw during my journey, booking an anterior or postcruze experience with viking, or one of each, takes great pain to create a trip around a cruise.
One of the things that fans like traveling with cruise ship are that it makes the journey easier – at least for special days of sailing. The ship not only offers you a place to travel, but also for all your experts and entertainment. It also serves as transport for you and your goods, which is for motay destinations on your evening, and this guided tourism offers everything fare).
He said, all the types of booking (and sometimes big) that you may need to include in your journey, which may join your trip to step to move a vessel – to be dismissed.
Do you want to live in a few nights in your embarkation port before your craze to know it, or simply to adjust in the area of its time, do you want to add tourism directed to that port or other nearby destinations? Do you need transfer from your arrival airport to your hotel?
What about the advice of a local restaurant or shop for hours or attachment?
With its predecessor and postcruze expansion, the Viking offers to take care of all this.
The Hotel The Clearian Hotel The Hub, which was included by a Viking Representative at Oslo Airport in my “Best of Norway and Sightly Train”, included a pickup by a viking representative for his central location for The Clearian Hotel The Hub (which could not be better; we were just steps from Oslo’s main shopping roads and all the main attractions were on footing).
Once, the Viking Representatives were waiting at a dedicated Viking Viking Hospital Desk with my room keys – even there was no need to reach the front desk for investigation. I was in my room within minutes.
It represents the same Viking, all the local people, all day at the desk, which I was to leave to ask in the city – ie when they were “tours that were part of the package.
They personally escaped to the train station (which was just one block away) for the entire journey, to make sure that we make it in our next set of the Viking Guide at the destination.
At Bergon Train Station, these guides and some buses were waiting for us by Scandic by our Bergon Hotel, Hotel Nerj – this is also located completely in the city center.
In short, it was a spontaneous expert – a one where we work to do anything other than doing jealousy from our time.
Cost
Viking’s anterior and postcruz extensions are not cheaply. Four-night “Best of Norway and Sightsee Train” Tour that I added in my “British Isals Explorer”, the cost of the cruise is $ 1,999 persons-or about $ 500 per night. Ad-on $ 899 per capita-$ 450 per night at a two-night Bergon Hotel.
Three-night “Iceland and the Golden Circle” cost $ 3,099 person-one weping $ 1,033 per night.
He said, the fare for these expansion includes some elements, including a hotel room, some food, tourism and transfer. In some cases, such as Iceland Tour mentioned above, the fare also includes flights – in the case of the Eyelland Tour, a flight from Reckjavik, where the tour ends, until the initial point of the cryis in Bergan.
The cost of booking all these elements separately can also add.
Whether or not you can find a less expected method for the experience of the same seizure by booking all the elements on your own, it will depend on many factors, in which you are so careful about making hotels, tours, restaurants and transfer bookings on your own.
Nevertheless, one of these tourism through viking is the real value in reservation that it makes the book easier the booking process and travel experience.
With just one call for the Viking, or a few clicks online, you can arrange almost every late expansion of your cruise holiday – not only cruise, but you are on your board vessel before and your board is on the vessel – the biggest easily.
Once you are at your holiday destination, you hardly have to do anything.
For a certain type of traveler, I instigated something for which it is worth paying.
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