7 Night Ancient Mediterranean Treasures Cruise aboard the Viking Mars
Prepare yourself for seven nights of luxurious sailing through on the Mediterranean when you book your balcony cabin on the Viking Mars from Athens to Istanbul.
On this trip you'll call on common ports such as Piraeus as well as once-in-a-lifetime ports such as Canakkale. This route is a standard one for the Viking Mars, But this is the least expensive sailing.
This price is the total price for a balcony cabin, including meals, entertainment, taxes, and fees. What makes this cruise amazing if you act now you can get a balcony balcony cabin for the price of an inside one!
The Viking Mars
Based in the Mediterranean and built less than four years ago in 2022, over 900 people can sail on this top-rated Star class ship.
The Viking Mars Viking Ocean Cruises offers a spa, a gym, and a jacuzzi.
- Ship class
- Star
- Built
- 2022
- Guests
- 928
- Crew
- 465
- Length
- 748 ft
- Passenger decks
- 10
Your Itinerary
This sailing spends six days in port and zero days at sea. Highlights include visits to exotic stops like Canakkale plus long stops in Rhodes, Crete, and Kuşadası.
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Book Your Cruise
Since being listed twenty-three months ago, The price of this cruise has varied between $4,599 and $5,799 for a balcony cabin, including taxes and port fees.
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Penthouse Junior Suite
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Stay connected on board
A GigSky eSIM works on the ship and ashore in Europe, so your phone just works without the ship's Wi‑Fi package.
Unlimited data for your 8 days $128.99 $109.64
500 MB a day at full speed, then 500 kbps; messaging, email and maps apps stay unlimited.
Alternate Sailings
The Viking Mars sails this route once next year, but doesn't sail it this year. The same itinerary is also sailed by the Viking Star, Viking Sky, Viking Jupiter, Viking Neptune, Viking Saturn, Viking Vela, Viking Vesta, Viking Mira, and Viking Astrea. The Viking Venus, Viking Sea, Viking Libra, Viking Lyra, and Viking Vega sail routes with the same stops but slightly different schedules.
More dates on the Viking Mars
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Apr 24 Sat, 2027 This sailing
- Mar 28 Tue, 2028 $4,599 $657/day
The same route on other Viking Ocean Cruises ships
- Nov 7 Sat, 2026 · Viking Star $4,149 $593/day
- Nov 14 Sat, 2026 · Viking Saturn $3,799 $543/day
- Dec 2 Wed, 2026 · Viking Vesta $3,099 $443/day
- Dec 15 Tue, 2026 · Viking Neptune $2,399 $343/day
- Jan 6 Wed, 2027 · Viking Mira $2,399 $343/day
- Jan 13 Wed, 2027 · Viking Vesta $2,399 $343/day
- Mar 3 Wed, 2027 · Viking Mira $3,499 $500/day
- Mar 18 Thu, 2027 · Viking Vesta $3,799 $543/day
- May 14 Fri, 2027 · Viking Neptune $5,799 $828/day
- Jul 24 Sat, 2027 · Viking Neptune $3,999 $571/day
- Sep 18 Sat, 2027 · Viking Neptune $6,199 $886/day
- Oct 16 Sat, 2027 · Viking Jupiter $5,399 $771/day
- Oct 24 Sun, 2027 · Viking Astrea $4,499 $643/day
- Dec 29 Wed, 2027 · Viking Mira $3,099 $443/day
- Jan 18 Tue, 2028 · Viking Vela $2,999 $428/day
- Feb 24 Thu, 2028 · Viking Mira $3,499 $500/day
- Apr 6 Thu, 2028 · Viking Sky $4,999 $714/day
- Aug 12 Sat, 2028 · Viking Jupiter $3,999 $571/day
- Oct 4 Wed, 2028 · Viking Sky $4,999 $714/day
- Oct 13 Fri, 2028 · Viking Lyra $4,999 $714/day
- Oct 25 Wed, 2028 · Viking Libra $4,599 $657/day
- Nov 8 Wed, 2028 · Viking Astrea $4,299 $614/day
- Dec 20 Wed, 2028 · Viking Astrea $2,999 $428/day
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Data as of Oct 24, 2026