The smallest cabins on each of the vessels have 270 square feet of space - a generous amount.
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While Viking doesn’t market itself as a luxury line, some would call it that, and the vessels are full of luxury touches, from sumptuous bedding in cabins to heated floors in cabin bathrooms.Įach of the ships in this series has a stylish, Scandinavian-influenced design that is a Viking trademark, and cabins are large by cruise ship standards. When sailing on any one of them, you will be hard-pressed to tell what is different. The first thing to know about the ships in this series is that they all are pretty much identical.
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Assuming they all are built, Viking’s ocean division soon will be bigger than not just Oceania and Azamara combined but those two lines plus Seabourn and Silversea Cruises. Three more of the vessels are on order from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for delivery in 2023, 20, and the company has options with Fincantieri for four more of the ships to debut in 20. That will give Viking 8,370 berths in the upscale ocean cruise market - more than competitors Oceania Cruises and Azamara combined.
But since 2015, Viking has been rapidly rolling out a series of upscale ocean vessels that increasingly is dominating the world of higher-end ocean cruising.īy the end of 2022, Viking will have nine ships sailing the world’s oceans, each with a capacity for 930 passengers. (Photo courtesy of Viking Cruises)įor years, Viking only operated river ships, and some cruisers still think of the brand primarily as a river cruise company. Ships: Viking Saturn (coming in 2023), Viking Neptune (coming in 2022), Viking Mars (coming in 2022), Viking Venus (2021), Viking Jupiter (2019), Viking Orion (2018), Zhao Shang Yi Dun (2017), Viking Sky (2017), Viking Sea (2016) and Viking Star (2015). Instead, it refers to its series of traditional ocean ships as the “Viking ocean ships” and its series of expedition ships as the “Viking expedition ships.” We’ve followed the same breakdown of the line’s ocean and river fleet below. Unlike most cruise lines, Viking doesn’t use the term “classes” to define different sets of ships in its fleet.
Viking’s ocean ships fall into two distinct groups: a series of 930-passenger traditional ocean ships that began debuting in 2015, and a series of 378-passenger expedition ships that began debuting in 2022. The line also soon will begin offering cruises on the Mississippi River and its tributaries with a new type of vessel. The exceptions are a handful of vessels that Viking operates on rivers in Russia, Ukraine, Egypt and in Asia (more on these ships below). The company dominates the market for river cruises aimed at North Americans, accounting for about 50% of all such trips.īut starting in 2015, Viking began rolling out ocean cruise ships, too.Īs of early 2022, as noted above, Viking had 80 river ships in its fleet, almost all of which are of the same basic design. The vast majority of these ships are river ships - the company’s sole focus for its first 18 years in business. But it now counts nearly 90 ships in its fleet. Viking has expanded enormously in recent years with the addition of dozens of new river and ocean ships.įounded in 1997 with four river vessels, the company operated just 29 ships as recently as 2012.
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