2024 Viking World Journey

January - May 2024

A 124-day adventure by Di and My's World Journey Read more

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- Jan 3, 2024, 1:04pm
- ☁️ 28 °F
- Altitude: 1,424 ft
- United States South Dakota Garretson 43.7111, -96.515743°42’40” N 96°30’57” W
Background
January 3 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
Viking Neptune World Journey
123 Days
In January 2022, Myron and Diana were to embark on a 119 world journey from LA to London. The world was just coming out of COVID and so many places were still not open to cruise passengers and in some countries to any travelers. We flew to LA and learned our itinerary was to be greatly altered.
Viking offered us a full cash refund. We took it, flew back home, regrouped and two years later; we and the world are ready for us to embark on this great journey.
We leave our home on January 6th spending the night in Sioux Falls and fly to LAX at 5:00 AM on January 7th.
We will be on the Viking Neptune from January 9th returning to our home on May 9th from London. England.
We shall visit 23 countries making 57 port of calls with 15 of those being overnight stays of one or more nights. We shall have 8 unique scenic sailings and 45 sea days.
We know the itinerary can change so we are flexible as we sail along.
Some highlights are spending all of February exploring Australia and New Zealand.
Visiting the Taj Mahal while in India. Spending two nights in Vietnam. Seeing the Treasury at Petra, Jordan. Visiting the Valley of the Kings and Queens in Egypt.
Let the adventure begin!Read more
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- Jan 3, 2024, 1:07pm
- ☁️ 28 °F
- Altitude: 1,424 ft
- United States South Dakota Garretson 43.7111, -96.515743°42’40” N 96°30’57” W
The Perks
January 3 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
The perks for this World Cruise are:
Free Business Class Air
Complimentary Luggage Forward to pre-ship two bags to be delivered to our cabin.
Complimentary Visa service provided by Gen Visa.
One complimentary shore excursion in each port.
Silver Spirit Package (Drinks)
Gratuities
Free WiFi
24 Hour Room Service
Complimentary access to The Nordic Spa & Fitness Center
$4000 per person credit to be used to purchase shore excursions and spa services. We will need haircuts on this voyage.
We saved over $25,000 that it would of cost us to sail on another cruise line.
We also have an amazing Travel Agent with Cruise Planners who provided us $8,800.00 in a cash rebate.
All of this softens the blow of the cost of such a cruise adventure.Read more
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- Jan 3, 2024, 1:10pm
- ☁️ 28 °F
- Altitude: 1,424 ft
- United States South Dakota Garretson 43.7111, -96.515743°42’40” N 96°30’57” W
The Ship
January 3 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
The Viking Neptune in port in Jackson Bay Australia
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- Jan 3, 2024, 1:13pm
- ☁️ 28 °F
- Altitude: 1,424 ft
- United States South Dakota Garretson 43.7111, -96.515743°42’40” N 96°30’57” W
Our Cabin 4104
January 3 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
We are in a Deluxe Veranda cabin. Ours is a DV5. We are on Deck 4 aft on the port side of the ship.
The service is impeccable and Viking is the cleanest, most service oriented cruise line we have ever sailed. The ships décor is Scandinavian across the fleet. Clean lines and minamilistic.Read more
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- Jan 3, 2024, 1:19pm
- ☁️ 28 °F
- Altitude: 1,424 ft
- United States South Dakota Garretson 43.7111, -96.515743°42’40” N 96°30’57” W
Packing
January 3 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
So how do you pack for a 123 day adventure? You don't.
You pack for about 3 weeks with the challenge being cooler weather on the front and back end of the trip. Viking offers free laundry and even provides the soap!
It will be very hot and humid once we get to Bali in March. Upper 90's and very humid.
It will cool back down to the 60's once we arrive in Europe. You can see in the attached picture where we will be in the world by month.Read more
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- Jan 3, 2024, 1:24pm
- ☁️ 28 °F
- Altitude: 1,424 ft
- United States South Dakota Garretson 43.7111, -96.515743°42’40” N 96°30’57” W
Luggage Forward
January 3 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
Viking provides a complimentary luggage service through Luggage Forward. We could ship two bags at 50 pounds each for free, And in our case for an extra $30, we could ship two bags weighing as much as 75 pounds each. Our bags are over 50 but far less than 75 pounds.
There are many things that could not be shipped in these bags but we sent our snorkeling gear, items to organize our cabin such as storage cubes, and magnets.
UPS picked our bags up on December 22 and they were waiting for us in the warehouse in LA as of December 29th.
They will be placed in our stateroom aboard the Viking Neptune on January 9th.
We are still schlepping our two 50 pound bags, two roller boards and Diana's backpack with us through the airport.Read more
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- Jan 7, 2024, 4:35pm
- 🌬 55 °F
- Altitude: 125 ft
- United States California Los Angeles County San Pedro Port of LA Cruise Terminal 33.738583, -118.28203633°44’19” N 118°16’55” W
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Day 1
01.07.2024 Home to Los Angeles
January 7 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 55 °F
It was an early morning for us. We stayed at the AeroStay in Sioux Falls. Up bright and early for our first flight at 5:00 am.
All flights were good and on time.
We met up with Shari and Dylan at the hotel. They drove down and we will join us for dinner. We had a great Italian dinner at Raffaello Ristorante. So good to see family.Read more
Traveler Hey guys!
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Traveler Have fun on your cruise!
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Myron is a cutie ☺️ [Paige]
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- Jan 8, 2024, 1:36pm
- ☀️ 59 °F
- Altitude: 144 ft
- United States California Los Angeles County San Pedro Port of LA Cruise Terminal 33.739002, -118.28159333°44’20” N 118°16’54” W
Day 2
01.08.2024 San Pedro
January 8 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
We have a pretty low key today. Thanks to Diana ‘s daughter, Shari, they shopped for the rest of their consumables before Shari and Dylan drove home last night.
Following breakfast today, (thanks Shari for the vouchers,) we explored the USS Iowa. It was the largest warship at the time it was built in 1942 in 9 months.
Nice weather and plenty of sunshine.
We had lunch at the Green Onion a Mexican restaurant that locals love.
Margaritas and burritos were on the menu. It was delicious.
An afternoon resting and then off to dinner to meet some of our fellow travelers at the San Pedro Brewery.
It was great to meet fellow travels. Andy and his wife Debby with their cousin Joyce along with Cynthia and Matt. Tomorrow we board the ship.Read more
Traveler So glad it’s finally happening. Miss you already.
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- Jan 9, 2024, 10:59am
- ☀️ 59 °F
- Altitude: 157 ft
- United States California Los Angeles County San Pedro Port of LA Cruise Terminal 33.739029, -118.28170833°44’21” N 118°16’54” W
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01.09.2024 Boarding the Neptune
January 9 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
Following a nice breakfast at the hotel. We repacked our bags and our Uber driver took us to the port.
Following lunch in the World Cafe we went our stateroom to unpack.
Tonight we have our welcome aboard party with Torstein Hagen and his daughter Karine.
BTW we are holding hands.Read more
Traveler Looking good
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Traveler I feel the love!
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Traveler You are on your way👏🏻❤️
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- Jan 10, 2024, 8:34am
- ☀️ 54 °F
- Altitude: 62 ft
- United States California Santa Barbara Plaza Vera Cruz 34.417229, -119.69585434°25’2” N 119°41’45” W
Day 4
01.10.2024 Santa Barbara, CA
January 10 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 54 °F
Today we are in Santa Barbara. It is a tender port and we have no excursions booked. We went to the County Courthouse as we were told to climb the tower and see a full view of Santa Barbara but it was closed today.
We peaked inside Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church and Trinity Episcopal Church. It is gothic church built in 1912 by the same architect who built the National Cathedral in Washington DC.
Lunch was at the Sandbar. Pacifico for Myron and a Cadillac Margarita for Diana. We shared a burrito. It was huge and very good. Spicy!
Tonight we have dinner reservations at the Italian restaurant, Manfredi’s.
A welcome show with the Captain is at 9:00.
We are at sea the next 5 days as we sail to Hawaii.Read more
Traveler Looks delicious
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