Viking has introduced its 2024-2025 World Cruise itineraries, together with the brand new Viking World Voyage I that may sail all over the world in 180 days, visiting 85 ports in 37 nations.
Setting sail on December 19, 2024 from Fort Lauderdale, the itinerary will embrace ports throughout 5 continents, and can utterly circumnavigate the globe when it returns to the United States for its remaining port in New York City on June 17, 2025.
Sailing aboard Viking Sky, friends will discover ports in Central America; transit the Panama Canal; journey up the west coast of North America earlier than crossing the Pacific and calling in Hawaii and French Polynesia; traverse New Zealand and Australia; and sail via Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and northern Europe earlier than crossing the Atlantic and concluding the voyage in New York.
A shorter 163-day portion of the crusing, known as Viking World Voyage II, departs from Los Angeles on January 5, 2025 and visits 78 ports in 29 nations earlier than ending in New York. Guests might also select the 138-day Viking World Cruise itinerary from Fort Lauderdale to London, or the 121-day Viking World Journeys which departs LA and visits 23 nations earlier than ending in London.
“For 25 years, we have been committed to providing our guests with immersive and culturally enriching experiences while traveling the world in comfort,” stated Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. “Our previous World Cruises sold out in a matter of weeks, and we continue to see strong demand from our guests for extended voyages. Our seamless World Cruises are the greatest of all adventures and allow guests to explore more of the world with us.”
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Viking’s new world cruise itineraries embrace in a single day stays in 13 ports, similar to Sydney, Haifa, Singapore, and Istanbul, with double overnights in Auckland, Bali, Ho Chi Minh, Yangon, Mumbai, and Bergen. Highlights of those 2025 world cruise itineraries embrace:
- Auckland, New Zealand: Set between the harbors of Waitematā and Manukau, friends will expertise three days in Auckland, identified for its award-winning wines, tree-lined parks, and enthusiastic boating tradition.
- Singapore: Witness the cultural variety of Singapore throughout an in a single day keep. Take a tour of town’s eclectic neighborhoods, from Little India to Arab Street, go to the futuristic horticultural park showcasing over one million vegetation, or take pleasure in an evening safari on the world’s first nocturnal wildlife park.
- Mumbai, India: While in port in Mumbai for 3 days, friends have extra time ashore to be taught concerning the life and legacy of activist Mahatma Gandhi, benefit from the Hanging Gardens, and discover the range of Mumbai’s neighborhoods.
- Istanbul, Turkey: Guests will take pleasure in ample time to expertise this historic metropolis throughout an in a single day keep. Straddled throughout two continents and the Bosporus Strait, Istanbul has a wealth of non secular websites to discover such because the Blue Mosque and legendary Hagia Sophia, and boasts scrumptious fusion delicacies that blends recent Mediterranean fare with spices from the Far East and Asia.
- London, England: Guests will take pleasure in exploring the historic Royal Borough of Greenwich, London on the Thames River, permitting easy accessibility to the capital’s iconic sights together with the Tower of London, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
- New York City, New York: The epic Viking World Voyage I and II journeys conclude in New York City, the place friends can take within the streets of decrease Manhattan’s monetary district and the Greenwich Village space.
From now via March 31, 2023, Viking is providing particular financial savings for World Cruise friends together with enterprise class air, floor transfers to and from the ship, all onboard gratuities and repair charges, complimentary visa service, and the Silver Spirits beverage package deal, which incorporates almost all drinks on board.
All World Cruise friends will obtain $2,000 per individual in shore excursions credit score, which can be utilized in the direction of elective shore excursions or overland excursions, in addition to $1,000 per individual in onboard credit score for spa companies, onboard retailers, and laundry. Viking Explorer Society members will obtain a further $1,000 per individual in onboard credit score.
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