Launch date:<\/b> April 11<\/p>\n
Capacity:<\/b> 930<\/p>\n
Sister ships:<\/b> To come — Viking Sea<\/a> and Viking Sky<\/a>, both in 2016<\/p>\n Maiden voyage:<\/b> Istanbul<\/a> to Venice<\/a> in nine days<\/p>\n Home port:<\/b> Do river ships even have homes?<\/p>\n Ships then in Viking<\/a> ocean fleet:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n Interesting:<\/b> Small by ocean standards, the Star comes out of the gate with a whopping 49-day cruise…yes, it can be broken into sections. The ship emphasizes simplicity, with gathering places named The Restaurant, The Kitchen Table and The Living Room. S<\/span>everal of the company's popular riverboat features are included — the Aquavit Terrace and an alfresco dining venue — and Viking is taking its commitment connecting customers and destinations to a new level by going ocean. With fewer than 1,000 passengers, the Star’s likely to feel spacious.<\/p>\n Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em>All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Carnival Conquest<\/a> Second in a series about new ships This is what happens when river-ship people get into the ocean-ship business. Viking River Cruises is about to become just Viking Cruises (on the water) and what makes this first crossover venture a game-changer that will be watched world-wide is that all suites on the Star (270 square… Continue reading New in 2015 \u2014 Viking Star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[137,154,805,912,72,819,86,35,611,151,26,27,1849,1540,282,1850,1541],"class_list":["post-22925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-conquest","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-inaugural-cruises","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-river-cruise-news","tag-viking-cruises","tag-viking-river-cruises","tag-viking-sea","tag-viking-star","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n\t6 nights<\/span>
\n\tMarch 1, 2015<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Key West<\/a>, <\/span>Grand Cayman<\/a>, <\/span>Cozumel<\/a>
\n\tInside: $329<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $54<\/strong>
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