cgolf1

Unfortunately we haven’t done a full transit of the Panama Canal, and that is why we can’t wait for this one. Our DCL cruises was while our daughter was in school. We did a 15 or 16 night round trip Hawaii cruise and had her study and do homework for at least two hours a day and she was caught up, but some teachers were rather rude and mad we took her out of school that long. So no long trips till she gets out of school. Well wife made a job change at that time and now she has finally built up enough vaca to do longer cruises again. Maybe after our Galapagos cruise we will do a full transit. We are definitely knocking some bucket list cruises off our list.

It is the Panama Canal and S Caribbean itinerary on the edge and the itinerary one of the days lists panama canal cruising arrive at 6 and depart at 3. Your right I no longer list dates or join roll calls after seeing some issue with people doing that on social media. Not sure if that is the right wrong or other choice. Below is what it says in the description, clear as mud lol. 'and experience the thrill of cruising across the Panama Canal.'

My wife and I being lock and dam junkies are curious on the timing of sailing into the first lock and then back out? I would guess the trip in would be during the day, but curious if the trip out is at night. I am almost hoping the trip out is at night as that would be really cool in a different way. Thanks

Here is a link to our review and hopefully it opens to page 1 with pictures of our room.

So not sure if I can answer your ultimate question about the sofa beds but can on the inside room. We have only sailed on the Edge, as 2 people, in an inside room and it was the one attached to the sky suite. The only downside to the room was that open floor space was at a minimum due to the king bed. That said it was the most well thought out and comfortable inside room we have ever had. Even the bathroom was great with a large by cruise ship standards shower. I also believe our state room host was a notch above, likely the same one assigned to the sky suite. They even knew enough to put a little water in the dry trap in the bathroom to keep it smelling fresh, small thing till you have a room that wasn't done. Also the storage was insane and we likely only filled 20% of it. We like the room so much that we booked it for the PC touch 12 night cruise on the Edge and will not look into any move up offers. Might be our favorite room we have ever stayed in, even better than the larger veranda cabins on DCL.

Having only read the ops post, I can say definitely not. That said we were on the Connie in Feb. which felt like our own private yacht there were so few people on it and the price of food etc really hadn't jumped yet. Not sure how are Edge partial PC cruise will feel next year, I am expecting it to be a full ship. After missing a year of cruising we are very happy to be back sailing once or twice a year again.

Thanks everyone for the replies, really looking forward to the PC at least going through one lock. Our favorite near to home vaca spot is the great river road and visit all the locks and dams along the way.

We have been on 2 Celebrity cruises so far, Caribbean so fairly routine, but are really curious about the podium lectures that we hear about? Are they itinerary based, or luck of the draw if someone is available and wants to be on that cruise? Our next cruise is the one lock in and then back out Panama Canal and I hope they have these available during that trip. That said I wish they did these all the time, we like learning different things and had a couple on DCL when we used to cruise on that line, especially on the Hawaii trip that were amazing.