We booked a business class ticket and that meant we had a "suite." Put more simply we had a nice cubicle for the duration of the flight. We had comfy chair that made into a lounge chair and a bed at the push of a button. We had a 19 inch touch screen TV with hundreds of movies, shows, audio recordings and games to entertain us during the flight. We were greeted with sparkling wine, which was followed not too much later with dinner. Lights were dimmed and we readied for "sleepy-time." While I did sleep about 3 hours, it was difficult to do. The other DrC did not get much sleep nor did our travel partners.
Because my hip is bothering me, long distance walking is out of the question, so I booked us as handicapped people. We had a wheelchair roll us to our gate at SLC; and an 8 person cart met us at Schipol. The cart picked up all 4 in our party and we sped thru the huge terminal past hundreds of stores; we sailed thru passport control, and we arrived at luggage claim right as it started up. We found our bags and our cart driver, Fatima, put our luggage on a larger cart and took us to the Viking people waiting for us in the terminal. We were led to some seats to wait for transportation to the boat. Soon, we were ushered to a very nice Mercedes van and we were rushed to the Viking Mimir. We boarded the Mimir about 1030 and at 11 the restaurant opened for lunch. We had an great lunch and then we had to wait for our rooms to get ready. About 3 PM our rooms became available and we unpacked our luggage and took a nap. I woke up when I started this blogpost. For the next 2 weeks, I'll tell you about our Viking Adventure on the river from Amsterdam to Budapest. So far...so good.
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