I’ll make this one short, sweet, hard to beat and get right to it. We talk frequently about detail-oriented Viking River Cruises. You come back from your Viking River Cruise and almost universally tell me it was wonderful.

Coming back from a walking tour of Strasbourg, we had visited shops with wonderful cookies, confections, cakes…you name it, this was a substantial cut above anything I might find back home.

I came back to the ship and was talking about the day with one of the crew. I kept going on and on about how wonderful everything we experienced was. There are things the French do that no one else has a good handle on. These products are one of them. I was struggling for words to describe the quality of what we had experienced when she said “…they put their soul into it” which absolutely nailed the experience.

Viking fills their ships with like-minded travelers who understand and appreciate quality. That crew does as well? That’s got to be one ingredient in the secret sauce.