Essiesmom

I don’t think you will see much, if any, from port side. You need to be forward or starboard . Here is a map of the harbor. Where it says Red Hook is where your ship will be docked. To the west (left) is the Statue of Liberty island. Most ships dock with the port side against the dock, so they can pull straight out. If they dock with the starboard side against the dock, and have to back out and turn, you would have a view. maybe Jamie can tell us how the ship was docked. EM

The only new ‘topic’ you should be posting on the roll call board would be a new roll call. Other posts/topics would be within your roll call, or on the main board here for that cruise line. EM

Your arrival in Colon, from panoramic bridgecam of Hanseatic Inspiration

A view from the Agua Clara cam showing Sun upper left, waiting to enter first lock at Gatun

A bunch more passing through to the second lock. Feel free to capture any and add them to your album.

The Miraflores cam was recently replaced and is very frustrating. It no longer has a time stamp, pauses a lot with no pic, and often the pic seems to have frozen, and then the next view has the ship far into the lock. The Gatun cam does this occasionally also. EM

Entering Miraflores locks

You didn’t quite finish it…. Should be ‘Y’all come back now, y’hear?’ EM

From the Pedro Miguel cam

Meeting up with Hanseatic Inspiration (Hapag-Lloyd)

There are two buffets on Seaside. The smaller one on deck 16 was my favorite for breakfast, not so busy. On Seaside you will have to insert your card into the slot by the door to turn on the lights. Has to be your ship card, other cards won’t work. But on Seaside class ships you can get a bracelet from Guest Services (in 2019 it cost $5) that will do everything but check you off the ship and back on in ports. It’s an interesting design, be sure to wander and check out all the nooks and crannies.

There is a person on the Celebrity board doing a Live From as Millennium does the canal today, westbound. He has posted a ton of pictures, and those showing the locks ahead as you enter the canal are priceless, to show you what you will be missing if you stay on your aft facing balcony. EM

Approaching the Gatun Locks, and moving from second to third lock at Gatun

That’s the Atlantic bridge. Bridge of the Americas is at the other end:

I consider them a good brand, one I would like to sail if my budget could support it. I actually had a TA booked, as it was a bargain, but it was Covid cancelled. You might do some reading on the board here for Windstar, under Cruise Lines P-Z. EM

I doubt there will be any difference in activities for young people between the ships. For a world cruise, the demographic skews older and well traveled. No doubt there are blogs from this years cruises. You might ask your question on the Cunard board, too. EM

You are off. Looks like you will get another look at Divina tomorrow. EM

I know, but that’s as far as the cam would go. It then rotated all the way right to see the NCL ship.

From Bermuda cam

Hank, since you like pizza so much, I believe you should contact Bill and Mary Ann, currently on the World Cruise, as they are always looking for pizza in port. Get them to give you a list of the best pizza places they have found in distant ports. EM

My go to website is cruisetimetables.com, and it looks like those sailing from Barbados are British and European lines that typically are fly/cruise packages, plus the premium/luxury lines with small ships calling at islands that don’t have much to offer besides beaches. I did see a few open jaw cruises to Miami on Explora 1, the first ship is MSCs new luxury cruise branch. I didn’t see any voyages for the US centric mass market cruise lines. EM

She does a repo TA to get to Europe for the drydock when the funnel will be fixed. Guess you can’t just order the parts from Amazon…. EM

Your baby has to be six months old to sail. At that age, why are you still sterilizing bottles? 40 years ago, when I taught prenatal classes, we told our moms that running them through the dishwasher was good enough, and if you had city water, you didn’t need to boil it. So rinsing them is very hot water in the sink should do it. EM

0735 and still sitting in Cartagena, watching MSC Divina come in.

The Sweet 16 cabins have the double balcony, but you will be lucky to get three chairs, much less a lounger. Plus the balcony partitions do not open/connect.