Standard cabins

I cannot find enough words to say how comfortable and pleasant the bathrooms are on Viking Ocean ships.
We loved spacious and beautifully designed shower cabins, heated floor, and convenient drawers.

However this convenience comes at a cost.
The spacious bathroom left no other place for the closet than across the cabin near the bed.

The closet is small.

There is little space between the bed on the closet.

This is a typical issue of cabins with closets positioned across the cabin (more convenient position will be along the wall by the entrance).

We saw the same issue on Oceania Marina/Riviera:

All cabins feature large safes and mini-bars with soft drinks (included in the price, replenished daily).

500 ml bottle:

A coffee maker.

A coffee maker is not included (as of the time I post this) in the list of standard amenities for the V1 and V2 categories.
I did not witness this but if it's true... it's cheap.
You can see coffee makers as a standard feature on some mass-market ships.

A convertible desk by Viking Cruises (binoculars are for "Deluxe Verandas" and up).

I saw a similar setting in the suites on RCI Quantum-class ships:

Towels were changed daily.

We missed pillow chocolates.
This is a nice touch of class. I see no reason for the cruise line to skip such a small but pleasant tradition.

Getting rid of the coffee table (behind the cirtain):

Storage space is relatively limited in the standard balcony cabins (all "Veranda" categories).

Very nice cabins overall.

We noticed lack of life jackets in the cabins on the Viking Star.
Although they are stored at muster stations, common sense says that life jackets must be in every cabin as well as at muster stations.


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