Great Panama Canal experience.

Norwegian Joy Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
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Norwegian Joy

15 Night Panama Canal - Westbound (Miami To Los Angeles)

Sail date: January 21, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Joy

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 14776

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Highly recommend this cruise. NCL is a great option for us because it is all inclusive. We ended our cruise with NCL refunding some of our on-board credit because we didn't spend it all. Nice change from usually owing them after...lol

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Excellent, but we were in the Haven so we had priority.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Haven restaurant was amazing, and Cagney's was another favorite.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Lots going on, but not very much in the way of shopping.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Excellent country band. They were called "The Wanted". The stage shows were well done

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Top notch and everyone was very friendly.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
very clean

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Very nice

Ship tip

Take candied ginger with you to help with any motion sickness. The haven bar gave us some and it worked wonders

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5
Nice facility and easy to get to

Cartagena, Colombia

3 out of 5

Panama Canal Transit

5 out of 5
Amazing trip. They had a reversative from the Panama Canal Authority on board to narrate the trip through.

Panama City, Panama

4 out of 5

Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

5 out of 5
Antigua was amazing

Acapulco, Mexico

3 out of 5

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

3 out of 5

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

3 out of 5
Too short of a stop. 0600 to 1300

San Pedro (Los Angeles), California

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
But we had Haven priortiy.
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