Viking River Cruises Offers Agent Fams This Fall

Viking River Cruises is offering new familiarization cruises and cruise-tours to home based travel agents.

“Fams are a terrific benefit to us, as well as to the travel agents we work with,” said Michele Saegesser, vice president of North America and South Pacific sales. “Travel agents who have been on one or more of our river cruises are in a much better position to communicate the benefits of these journeys to their clients -- and they have a high degree of confidence that their clients will enjoy traveling with Viking.”

The fams include all meals, daily excursions and guided tours, cultural highlights such as lectures, folkloric entertainment and theme dinners, and visits to historic and popular attractions.

Among the options are Waterways of the Czars, 13 days, St. Petersburg to Moscow on the newly renovated Viking Surkov, Oct. 2, 2008, from $999; Footsteps of the Cossack, 11 days, Kiev to Odessa on Viking Lavrinenkov, Oct. 5, $699;

Grand European Tour, 15 days, between Amsterdam and Budapest on Viking Danube, Viking Spirit, Viking Sky or Viking Pride, Oct. 19, Oct. 26, Nov. 2, $999;

Switzerland to Belgium, 15 days, between Basel and Antwerp on Viking Sun, Nov. 16 or Dec. 14, $999;

Rhine Getaway, eight days, Amsterdam to Basel on Viking Sun, Dec. 7, $499.

For more information, call 877-668-4546 or visit www.vikingrivercruises.com.