Dis / Dreams Viking Sea Cruise around Italy 3/24 - 3/31/2018

[met19]

Just wanted to vent.... I work with 7 other people who cross cover each other. I thought that this was ridiculous but I happened to mention to our scheduling secretary that I had this cruise next March and did she think that I was being overly cautious wondering if I should officially put the paperwork in already to request the time off. One other person already had that time blocked because they have kids and it is Easter week so since we can only have 2 out at a time we processed my paperwork yesterday. This is just something to keep in mind, especially for those of you like me who have adult kids and don't pay attention to this.

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Chris

I feel your pain especially being in the same field. I hope it works out for you. And luckily where I work In San Diego has a very good scheduler and he is one of my friends. But I'm sure he will be a little bit shocked when I put in easter as a vacation request

 

[DisneyKevin]

Please help me welcome Nancy and John to our cruise!

 

[DisneyKevin]

For those keeping score...

There are now 88 of us!

We are approaching 10% of the passenger capacity.

 

[khertz]

For this keeping score...

There are now 88 of us!

We are approaching 10% of the passenger capacity.

I kind of feel bad for the other passengers who won't know what hit them when we all come on board!

 

[christannj]

For those keeping score...

There are now 88 of us!

We are approaching 10% of the passenger capacity.

Only 5 to go.... To be really weird we should all wear the same color shirts to really freak people out... My guess is that John M would vote for black as our group color

Chris

 

[apurplebrat]

Only 5 to go.... To be really weird we should all wear the same color shirts to really freak people out... My guess is that John M would vote for black as our group color

Chris

Or a really dark purple that looks almost black

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Only 5 to go.... To be really weird we should all wear the same color shirts to really freak people out... My guess is that John M would vote for black as our group color

Chris

I vote for this one:

 

[Cousin Orville]

Or we can spontaneously burst into Another Day of Sun song & dance routine, Day 1.

 

[DisneyKevin]

I vote for this one:

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No

Or we can spontaneously burst into Another Day of Sun song & dance routine, Day 1.

No

 

[Cousin Orville]

No

 

[met19]

Please help me welcome Nancy and John to our cruise!

Welcome aboard

 

[Cackyschmackers]

Trying to decide how many precruise Rome nights we should book, how much time we'll have in Rome. @DisneyKevin , do you know what time all aboard is? The muster drill?

 

[DisneyKevin]

You can begin board the ship at 11:00am. Access to your stateroom is allowed according to the category you booked. You can see that info here:

https://www.vikingcruises.com/oceans/ships/viking-sky.html

It's toward the bottom of the page.

I have not been on a Viking Ocean cruise yet, so I'm guessing at the time of the muster drill. I'm guessing 4:30 or 5...but again, thats a guess.

We did a muster drill on the Viking river cruise and it was a useless mess. No one counted or even asked who you were. No one checked to see if everyone attended. Some people from our group were standing on shore waving at us.

i would assume that because of the type of cruise (ocean), that this will be a more standard muster drill.

 

[Cackyschmackers]

Thank you. I've never been on a cruise that departed the first port so late (Viking says 11pm departure). Wondering how the first day would be handled. Guess more info will be forthcoming.

 

[DisneyKevin]

Wondering how the first day would be handled.

What has you wondering?

 

[Cackyschmackers]

What has you wondering?

With such a late departure, I was wondering if we might be able to get to the ship later but I don't want to assume.

 

[DisneyKevin]

The ship will be open and available at 11:00am.

Viking requests that everyone be on board by 6:00pm.

 

[OKW Lover]

Viking requests that everyone be on board by 6:00pm.

I suspect this means that the muster drill will be shortly after that.

 

[Cackyschmackers]

Viking requests that everyone be on board by 6:00pm.

Thanks. This was the info I couldn't find.

 

[Dave Magee]

You all seem to be a well-set group...I hope you don't mind be joining. Eight of us are booking this week - I'm so looking forward to it!