travel42 Cruise Ship Review: Viking River Viking Vili

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Introduction and History

The Viking Vili is one of Viking's Longships, and it carries 50 crew members. Launched in 2015, the ship set sail as part of Viking River Cruises' massive fleet-development program.

The company named the Longship class after the Vikings' models of technical perfection: The original rapierlike longships were so cutting-edge that modern scholars doubted the accounts of them until the 1997 discovery of the Roskilde Longship. The company's version is an...