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Island Princess Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 41

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5
Island Princess

10 Night Panama Canal With Costa Rica & Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 17, 2019

Ship: Island Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Very nice, relaxing cruise. Good food, service, and entertainment and the balcony cabin is definitely a plus. The crew on the ship were all super friendly and helpful. A great Cruise for mature folks who need a little extra help getting around.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Was on board in less than a half an hour

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
The food was not great but it was wasmostly very good. Our waiters were wonderful.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
We didn't participate in many activities. It wasdifficult to find a loungenear the pools on sea days.This ship is geared to mature adults and does not have strenuous activities on board. They had a lot fo shopping events and art auctions.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Mosof the shows were very good.

Children's Programs

dont have childre n

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
All the staff was very helpful, especially to those passengers with mobilityissues. Cabinswere alwayskept neatand clean,

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Island Princess is relatively small(which iswhy we chose it) so it was easy toget around. EVerythinhg was well maintained.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Bathroom was very small. There wasple nty of storage space. There was no comfortable arm chair in the room.

Ship tip

This is a great ship for the mature set. The staff is very attentive to people with disabilities. There are not a lot of activities for young children.

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5
This was the embarkation port.

Falmouth, Jamaica

4 out of 5
Nice , clean prt with shops and resaurants right on the pier.Did not do an excursion.

Cartagena, Colombia

4 out of 5
Convenient, clean, large enough for buses to get near the ship . Had a nice tour of getsamine and Cartegena.

Panama Canal (Cruise Into Canal)

5 out of 5
The passage through the canal was very interesting and took about 2 hours. Unfortunately it rained halfway to our destination to our exclusion which was on a small boat to sea monkeys we went out on the boat in spite of the rain and no rain gear and it was quite miserable but we did see a few monkeys.

Cristobal, Panama

3 out of 5
Prince stopped at this port to be picked up by our ship after our monkey excursion.

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

4 out of 5
This is a small court with limited shopping we did a tour of the Tortuguera canals. it was very nice saw a couple of sloths and some birds makes me feel

George Town, Grand Cayman

4 out of 5
No port. took water shuttles. Went on a glass bottom boat an saw the corral then went to the turtle farm. Very nice excursion.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Very well organized.lots of helfor people with mobility issues.p
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4 Comments

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dragz    5 years ago

Glad you had a great time 🛳🚢⚓👍

cruisereckoning    5 years ago

Glad you enjoyed.

raineycat    5 years ago

Typos and extra words were added by Google. Sorry about that. The author.

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