Viking Venus Ventures into Vremantle on a Vaiden Visit

This morning, around 7.30 am Viking Venus arrived in Fremantle for the very first time. Quite a sight.

Viking Venus, Fremantle, 7 February 2025. Credit Fremantle Shipping News

She’s currently on a 31-days Grand Australia Circumnavigation round trip. This voyage commenced on 20 January 2025 in Sydney and ends there on 20 February. Her last port of call was Bali.

The Viking Venus is a luxury cruise ship owned by Viking Ocean Cruises (USA) and operated by Shorex. She homeports in Vancouver (Canada), Seaward (Alaska), Sydney, Auckland, and Bergen (Norway).

Here’s a couple more Freo arrival pics.

Viking Venus, Fremantle, 7 February 2025. Credit Fremantle Shipping News

Her name Viking Venus obviously is wonderfully alliterative. The Vikings, as we all know, were seafaring Scandinavian warriors, traders and explorers of the 8th to 11th centuries. The planet Venus, as we also all know, is at its greatest brilliance this year. And as we hardly need to tell you, Venus in Roman mythology was the goddess of love and beauty. Taken together these names give Viking Venus a timeless, nautical/celestial vibe.

She’s a fairly new cruise ship – launched in 2021 – and features a sleek, modern design with Scandi-inspired interiors.

She can accommodate 930 passengers, so she’s on the smaller side. Onboard, as she arrives in Freo, are 772 passengers. Two are disembarking and a lucky 29 embarking for the onward cruise to Sydney. She also has 462-crew onboard – more or less one for every two guests.

Fremantle is a transit, or day stop, port for today and tomorrow – so expect lots of visitors around Freo

As you’d expect, Viking Venus boasts multiple dining options, a spa and a pool.

And she’s known for the cultural enrichment programs and destination enrichment programs offered to guests.

Her Godmother is the well-known and highly-respected Ann Margaret Diamond, nicknamed the ‘Queen of Daytime TV’ in the UK.

Viking Venus departs Victoria Quay for Busselton at 9pm tomorrow, Saturday, 8 February. If you missed out on her ethereal entrance this morning, why not take the family down to the Port on Saturday afternoon to see her at the Port. Or catch her departure from a South Mole or North Mole vantage point in the night light.

* By Jean Hudson @jeansodyssey. Jean is our Shipping Correspondent and also a regular feature writer and photographer here on the Shipping News. You may also like to follow up her informative Places I Love stories, as well as other feature stories and Freo Today photographs, right here.

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