Bucket-List Cruise Adventure

7-Night Memphis to New Orleans Cruise Adventure

Viking River · Viking Mississippi · from Memphis

$4,499 per person · next sails Feb 16, 2027 Book this cruise@ Cruisebound · same fare
Get there

Fly into Memphis (MEM)

Your gateway to the voyage. Arrive a day or two early — the best of the trip starts before you board.

Open-jaw · fly into MCO, home from MSY · $796 for two est.
The voyage · 7 nights

The unforgettable thing at every port

We’re curating the single bucket-list experience at each of your ports right now — refresh in a few minutes to watch them appear.

Greenville
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Teeming with a wide variety of birdlife and a breathtaking array of picturesque landscapes—including deep-green forests
⚙ Curating Teeming with a wide variety of birdlife and a breathtaking array of picturesque landscapes—including deep-green forests’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
Vicksburg
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Natchez
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Boasting more than 140 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
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Baton Rouge
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The Lower Mississippi region is dotted with historic mansions; Darrow is the gateway to these grand homes
⚙ Curating The Lower Mississippi region is dotted with historic mansions; Darrow is the gateway to these grand homes’s bucket-list experience — check back shortly.
After you disembark

Bucket-list days near New Orleans

You end in a different port — stay on, and add what’s within reach before you fly home.

1 mi from New Orleans

Preservation Hall

1 mi from New Orleans

Frenchmen Street Live Music Venues

Home

Fly home from New Orleans (MSY)

What this adventure runs estimated · for two
Your hotel
Flights open-jaw · fly into MCO, home from MSY · 2 travelers $796 est.
Hotel before you sail1 night · Memphis · River~$217
Cruise fare7 nights · Viking River · 2 guests$8,998
Shore excursionscurating your ports now — real prices land as each is ready
Transfersairport ↔ ship, private car~$180
Trip total$10,191
Flights are estimated from our best gateways (refine from your own airport above) — an open-jaw trip: out to the embark port, home from where you disembark; the cruise fare is this sailing’s lead-in price for two; the hotel scales with the style you pick above; shore excursions are real book-direct operator prices, being curated for your ports right now; transfers are an estimate. We always build in at least one night ashore before you sail.

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