Fantastic Panama Canal Cruise

Norwegian Sun Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

terry323

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 6

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5

18 Night Panama Canal Eastbound (Seattle To Port Canaveral)

Sail date: April 19, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Sun

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

We like Norwegian cruises. This was our 10th cruise with them. The ports of call was great. The staff and our on board experience was excellent. I recommend this cruise line. I highly recommend the Panama Canal voyage

Embarkation

3 out of 5

The initial sign in went great. Then we were sent to a huge area where everyone was handed a number for boarding and they were all just sitting around or standing. This was our first cruise as Platinum and I just walked up to the woman at the door and told her because of my platinum status I was not supposed to have to wait. I felt bad for her she wasn’t quite sure but allowed us to go. If I want on top of things we would have waited with the herd. I feel the terminals should be aware of the cruise status privileges.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Great food and drinks plenty of choices great

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

The service was absolutely fantastic

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Nice ship. Not too big everything was very accessible. Everything had just been updated new carpet and furniture. Everything was very comfortable

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Seattle, Washington

5 out of 5

Victoria, British Columbia

5 out of 5

San Francisco, California

5 out of 5

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

3 out of 5

We did not get off ship. Tender in

Thumbs Up 1

Acapulco, Mexico

4 out of 5

It was very hot and the city was very dirty

Thumbs Up 1

Puntarenas, Costa Rica

3 out of 5

It was very hot. The only vendors were right next to the pair. W did not take tour because I read reviews and it did not sound like they were worth doung

Thumbs Up 0

Panama Canal Transit

5 out of 5

It was very interesting! We had a narrator on board from start to finish who gave us history and play by play if what was going on. The only complaint was people were 3 deep and I’m short it was very hard to get a view

Thumbs Up 1

Cartagena, Colombia

5 out of 5

We did not take tour because we heard that the locals were extremely harassing and the tours were expensive. We did leave ship and went to the terminals where they had a great free wild animal sanctuary where there all kinds of birds, peacocks, deer and different kinds of monkeys. It was really great! The store there also had a great variety of items for sale and very reasonable.

Thumbs Up 9

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

We took a tour to south beach. It was very informative but I did not enjoy the 2hoyr drop off at the location we were dropped off at. It was mostly resteraunts and very expensive shops. But our tour guide was awesome! She dropped all of us who wanted to no to Bauside off on the way back to the ship. That was very nice.

Thumbs Up 2

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5