Zaandam 18 Night Eastbound Panama Canal Cruise

Zaandam Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

MillersMarina

Contributor Level: Third Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 88

Overall rating:

5 out of 5

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18 Night Panama Canal Eastbound (Vancouver To Ft. Lauderdale)

Sail date: September 15, 2013

Ship: Zaandam

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 2638

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 11 years ago

Review summary

We really enjoyed the entire cruise experience - stateroom was comfortable with good storage, food was good, service was good, some of the entertainment was really good. We met lots of really nice fellow passengers - especially in the dining room with Open Seating dining. We LOVED Open Seating Dining - it allowed us to meet different people and we never felt rushed to be in the dining room at a specific time.

The staff did a great job handling luggage at embarkation and debarkation.

We were surprised that room service was available on debarkation morning - we ordered full breakfasts; poached eggs, an omelet, fresh fruit etc. and actually received it at the time we specified. We have never seen a cruise line offer that on the last morning. Nice touch.

When we booked our trip we were thinking 18 nights might be too long for a cruise, but by the end we didn't want to get off the ship. We were spoiled.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

LOVED Open Seating dining

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Some better than others

Children's Programs

Didn't use

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Very pleasant and eager to please

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Some drydock work started before we got off

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Great storage. Lighting/electrical not so good.

Ship tip

We enjoyed everything that we participated in.

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1 Comment

MillersMarina 11 years ago

We didn't do any cruise line excursions - went out on our own. Not much to do in Astoria. We thought Seattle or SFO or LAX would have been better. Wished we had more time in San Diego-visited the Midway aircraft carrier museum right next to where we docked. Spent almost all of our time there. Mexico ports were ok-had never been there before. We hired an independent taxi on our own in each port other than San Diego and Cabo San Lucas where we just walked. We visited the city center of each of the ports. Cartagena's old city was interesting and good for walking.

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