133 In Amsterdam aboard Viking River Cruises

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2012

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Doing is in Amsterdam broadcasting aboard the brand new Viking Odin.

Peter Greenburg from CBS News, jounalist Ralph Grizzle, Fran Golden, and others stop by.

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0:16.0	Broadcasting from Amsterdam aboard Viking River Cruises newly christened Viking Odin.
0:21.6	This is Cruise Radio.
0:23.5	Hey, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:24.6	Doug is in Amsterdam right now for the christening of Viking River Cruises' brand new long ship, Viking Odin.
0:31.1	Peter Greenberg from CBS News will be stopped by Ralph Grizzle from Avid Cruiser and others.
0:36.6	Joining Doug now, though, is Fran Golden.
0:39.3	All right, joining us now, again on Cruise Radio, is Fran Golden, travel writer.
0:43.0	And Fran, so Viking River Cruises has been around for 15 years.
0:46.9	And what changes have you seen as a rider over the past 15 years from Inception until now?
0:53.4	Well, I really can't speak.
0:55.0	I'm too young to speak about from Inception.
0:57.4	Okay, big laugh from Doug.
0:59.3	But I have cruised on Viking before, and I will say this ship seems so much more contemporary
1:05.3	and hip and modern and airy.
1:07.9	So clearly they've made a little bit of a change.
1:10.2	They had done very sort of traditional
1:12.1	style river cruising. And this ship says almost W Hotel. This is for a new generation of river
1:18.2	cruisers. There's no gym on here. Well, yeah, but the idea behind that is because that was on
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