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14 hours ago, Turtles06 said:

 

A full transit of the Canal is not necessarily a repositioning cruise (that is, a cruise where the cruise line takes a ship from one market where it's been for a season, such as the Caribbean during the winter, and repositions it to another, like Alaska during the summer).  Full transits are one-way cruises (e.g., Miami to LA), and the ship may well just go back and forth from the East to West Coasts for several months. Those are not repositioning cruises. 

Yes I realise this. My thoughts are to fly to Miami or similar, then a cruise through the Canal and disembark in LA or San Francisco, ( wherever I decide to fly into and get a reduced fare round trip flight from NZ). As a repositioning cruise doesn' t necessary call at many ports, that is not an issue as my main intent is to see this engineering feat.

I am interested in the history and the engineering of the canal and will be traveling half way round the world for one day's crossing. But will be flying into LA then onto onto a departure point in Florida and sailing back to LA (or similar). I have been looking at Relocation cruises and am flexible with dates . Have you any thoughts?

I want  to  take a Panama cruise  from either west to east or vice versa. I am open to a repositioning cruise or not and departure  dates are flexible. Can anyone offer any advice for either a reposition or full cruise and what questions should I be asking. Thank you.