Viking as we speak introduced its 2024 -2025 world cruise itineraries, together with the brand new Viking World Voyage I, which sails all over the world in 180 days, visiting 37 international locations and 85 ports, with in a single day stays in 13 iconic cities, in accordance with a press launch.
Setting sail on December 19, 2024, from Fort Lauderdale, the itinerary will embrace ports of name throughout 5 continents and can fully circumnavigate the globe when it returns to the United States for its remaining port in New York on June 17, 2025.
According to the corporate, as we speak’s announcement of the brand new world cruises comes at a time of report gross sales for Viking, with the launch of Viking’s new twenty fifth Anniversary Sale on January 1 ensuing within the highest variety of bookings in a single week within the firm’s historical past.
On January 9 alone, Viking had its strongest single gross sales day ever, the corporate mentioned.
“For 25 years, we have been committed to providing our guests with immersive and culturally enriching experiences while traveling the world in comfort,” mentioned 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.”
Guests crusing on Viking’s award-winning 930-guest ship, the Viking Sk®, will discover ports of name in Central America; transit the Panama Canal; journey up the West Coast of North America earlier than crossing the Pacific Ocean and calling upon the Hawaiian islands 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 in New York. A shorter 163-day portion of the crusing, Viking World Voyage II, departs from Los Angeles on January 5, 2025 and visits 29 international locations and 78 ports earlier than ending in New York. Guests may select the 138-day Viking World Cruise itinerary from Ft. Lauderdale to London or the 121-day voyage, Viking World Journeys which departs from Los Angeles and visits 23 international locations earlier than ending in London.