Viking Elbe River Cruise – June 2025
The Elbe River Cruise, in June of 2025, marked DaK’s sixth Viking Cruise. Although it was still very enjoyable it was our least favorite Viking experience. The reason came down to how many times we had to pack and unpack during our 10 day Viking trip. We had 2 nights in a Berlin hotel, then 3 days on the Viking Astrid, then 3 days on the Viking Beyla (due to bridge construction blocking the Elbe causing us to “ship swap” to the Viking Beyla for 3 days), then 2 days in a Prague hotel. It is so nice when you can just walk off a ship and see many different places while all of your belongings stay in one place (on the ship).
There are only two small Viking ships on the Elbe (1 each direction) which only hold 98 passengers each, due to extreme water levels (at times 3 feet or less in some spots). In fact we were very lucky to have some heavy rain the week before our cruise that raised the river level enough to avoid being bussed along the route. Our itinerary consistested of 2 days in Berlin (including a day trip to Potsdam), Wittenberg, Meissen, Dresden, Saxon Switzerland (Germany)/Bad Schandau, Decin (Czechia), and 2 days in Prague. There really weren’t any bad stops as they all had something to offer.
