{"id":4622,"date":"2012-03-26T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2018-08-27T03:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:23:43","slug":"a-cruise-aboard-the-viking-odin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/2012\/03\/a-cruise-aboard-the-viking-odin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cruise Aboard the Viking Odin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Avid Cruiser’s Ralph Grizzle has been a busy man: after taking part in the christening ceremonies of four of Viking River Cruises<\/strong><\/a>‘ new Longships in Amsterdam, he joined the beautiful Viking Odin<\/strong><\/a> for a two-night preview cruise that explored some of the most beautiful locations the Netherlands has to offer.<\/p>\n

What he discovered was a ship that is remarkable in its design and appointments. In fact, he found Viking Odin to be very reminiscent of the most recent ultra-luxury ships constructed for Seabourn.<\/p>\n

As he writes in his three-part series on The Avid Cruiser website, parent site of River Cruise Advisor, there’s good reason for this: the Viking Longships were designed by the very capable Norwegian team at Yran & Storbraaten<\/strong>, who have an impressive list of oceangoing credits behind them, including Seabourn’s recent ships and the breathtaking new Disney Fantasy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read his comparisons between Seabourn and the new Viking Longships here:<\/p>\n

Part 1: The Seabournization of Viking River Cruises<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2: Public Spaces & Service<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 3: Staterooms & Suites<\/a><\/p>\n

But Ralph also had time to explore the beautiful Dutch countryside, which he writes about in his posts “Exploring Kinderdijk and its Windmill<\/a>s”, “In the Footsteps of Van Gogh<\/a>” and “Volendam, Edam and Marken<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Regardless of where they sail, the Viking Longships seem poised to usher in a new chapter in the short yet successful history of Viking River Cruises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Avid Cruiser’s Ralph Grizzle has been a busy man: after taking part in the christening ceremonies of four of Viking River Cruises‘ new Longships in Amsterdam, he joined the beautiful Viking Odin for a two-night preview cruise that explored some of the most beautiful locations the Netherlands has to offer. What he discovered was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,287,286,267,268,271,269,270,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivercruiseadvisor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}