Viking Honir
Specifications of Viking Honir
Year of build | 2025 new ship |
Builder | Neptun Werft GmbH (Rostock, Germany) |
Class | Viking Longship |
Engines (power) | MAK-Caterpillar ( MW / 0 hp) |
Speed | 15 kn / 28 km/h / 17 mph |
Length (LOA) | 135 m / 443 ft |
Beam (width) | 12 m / 39 ft |
Gross Tonnage | 5000 gt |
Passengers | 190 |
Crew | 53 |
Decks | 4 |
Cabins | 95 |
Decks with cabins | 3 |
Sister-ships | Viking River Cruises Longships (standard) |
Christened by | tba |
Owner | Viking Holdings Ltd (via Viking Cruises) |
Operator | Viking River Cruises |
Viking Honir Review
Review of Viking Honir
The 2025-built Longship Viking Honir cruises on the Rhine River visiting destinations in Holland, Germany, France, and Switzerland. The longship departs from homeports Amsterdam and Basel.
This riverboat is named after the Old Norse god Honir, known for his wisdom and eloquence bestowed as gifts to humans.
The boat (ENI number tba) is currently Switzerland-flagged (MMSI tba) and registered in Basel.
All Viking River Cruises Longships are fitted with solar panels (mounted aft on Sun Deck) and hybrid (diesel-electric) powerplants based on energy-efficient marine engines.
Cabins
Viking Honir has a total of 95 staterooms (9x Suite, 39x Balcony, 22x French Balconies, and 25x Porthole/with a non-opening window) in 8 cabin grades/categories and accommodates max 190 passengers.
Longship Honir has two aft-located Explorer Suites with wraparound balconies providing 270-degrees scenery views. The seven Veranda Suites are each with two separate/full rooms and feature a step-out balcony (accessed from the living room) and a French Balcony (in the bedroom). The 39 Veranda Staterooms are with step-out balconies.
The Longship carries 190 passengers (max capacity, served by 53 staff/crew) who are provided complimentary with modern hotel amenities and superior travel and leisure services.
Cabins Types/Categories (number, location), high to low:
- Suites - ES-Explorer (x2, deck3-aft), AA-Veranda (x7, deck 3-portside)
- Balcony Staterooms - A (x20, deck3-starboard), B (x17, deck2-starboard)
- French Balcony Staterooms (with floor-ceiling slide opening glass-door windows) - C (x5, deck3-portside-aft), D (x15, deck2-portside)
- Riverview Porthole Window / Standard Staterooms - E (x18, deck1-midship), F (x7, deck1-midship-aft).
Shipboard facilities
The Observation Bar Lounge has floor-ceiling glass doors opening onto the Aquavit Terrace. This is bow-located indoor-outdoor venue designed for relaxation and alfresco dining. The Sun Deck is served with food and beverages by Aquavit Terrace's staff and provides 360-degree unobstructed riverside views. This topship-deck features forward-sundeck with Sky Bar (outdoor seating area with 4-seat tables and deckchairs), SkyLight (glass roof cover over the Atrium), Wheelhouse (Navigation Bridge), midship-sundeck with shaded sitting (covered by a large retractable awning and encircled by a walking track), sunbathing area (with deckchairs and reclining sun loungers) and aft-sundeck with Putting Green (mini-golf), Herb Garden (organic herbal garden) and deckgames area (shuffleboard, giant outdoor chessboard).
Onboard dining options include Honir Restaurant (dining room) and Aquavit Terrace (Lido Buffet with sliding door-windows opening onto the alfresco terrace). Other facilities include 2-deck Atrium (lobby with 24-hour Reception Desk), Library (Internet Lounge), Shop (gifts, souvenirs). Viking Cruises Longships don't have fitness/gym room, swimming pool, Jacuzzi (outdoor whirlpool), Spa/Beauty Salon, self-service laundry facilities (laundromats).
One elevator (passenger lift) connects only decks 2 and 3. All decks are interconnected via stairs - forward (Grand Staircase in the Atrium), midship and aft.
Itineraries
Follows the list of Viking Honir river cruise itineraries as themes, officially announced by the Viking Cruises line for the inaugural 2025 season:
- "RHINE GETAWAY" is an 8-day Rhine cruise from Basel to Amsterdam, visiting 4 countries (Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland) and offering 6 complimentary land tours/guided excursions. The itinerary visits Breisach, Strasbourg, Speyer, Rudesheim, Koblenz, Cologne/Koln, Kinderdijk.
Viking Honir cruise deals are inclusive of Internet (Wi-Fi), all tours/excursions, ground/bus transfers, live evening entertainment, daily lecturers/media presentations, food and wine tastings, 24-hour coffee/tea, replenished daily bottled water.
Viking River Cruises prices are per person and based on double occupancy. These are only indicative of Viking cruise rates. They might be different when you book your Viking cruisetour deals, influenced by travel agency promotions, special offers and discounts, group travel booking or last-minute deal rates.
To/from ship transfers and airport meet-and-greet services are included in the fares only when airfares are purchased through Viking Cruises (the company's Viking Air package).
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Viking Honir Wiki
Viking Honir is one of the new generation longships of Viking Cruises. This is a patented river cruise ship design allowing bigger passenger accommodations without shrinking public areas' size and compromising vessel's general comfort.
Longship Honir represents Viking Cruise' latest design that features energy-efficient hybrid engine technology, solar panels and interior design developed by "Yran & Storbraaten" (Norway). The patented "longship" design ("Rottet Studios", USA) allows much larger accommodations with full-size (step-out) balconies. The additional cabin space is created by 1 m (3,3 ft) off-center shifting of the deck's corridor.
The vessel's powerplant consists of two main Caterpillar marine diesel engines (model CAT32-ACERT / total power output 2 MW). These are V12 (V engine with 12 cylinders and 12 pistons driving a crankshaft). The propulsion system is based on two Caterpillar marine propulsion engines (model CAT18-ACERT) with combined output 1 MW.
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