Photo Review Caribbean Princess Panama Canal (Nov 30 - Dec 10, 2017)

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Ended up going to the Piano Man show alone at 10:15, I tried to get into the 8:15 show but wasn’t there 45 minutes to an hour early so I had to wait for the later show.

 

 

 

 

 

They had some banners hanging in the Piazza tonight...

 

 

Thats it for Dec. 4th, we have a big day tomorrow with the Canal transit…

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Day 6 December 5, 2017 - Panama Canal, Panama

Today we vist Panama and the Panama Canal.

Our excursion was supposed to be walking tour of old panama city, visit Miraflores locks visitors centre, they change it because of construction at the old locks on the pacific side and replaced it with a visit to the Agua Clara visitors centre at the new locks we just transited, Not very happy about that, wanted to transit the new locks and visit the old. It was long tour over 6.5 hours.

 

Should have booked the excursion where you transit the old locks in a smaller boat.

 

Excursion Change Letter

 

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Panama Canal Transit

 

We were on the promenade deck forward at 6:30AM and it was pretty full by then. Up on Deck 15 above the bridge was also packed with people. Having said that you could still get a decent view looking over people. Walked all around the top decks to get different views of the transit and went back up on Deck 15 above the bridge around 8:15 and it really opened up by then. I setup my go pro and got a bit of the transit in a time lapse video.

 

 

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Few photos of the transit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Instead of the Miraflores Locks visitor center we went to the Agua Clara visitor center before we headed out to Panama City

 

 

 

 

Before the ship went through the last lock, they were already calling Excursion Group 1 to meet for tenders. We were in Group 2, they called our group just was we were exiting the last lock. We didn’t leave right away since the ship was still moving the tenders were not yet ready.

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Few pics from our tour of Panama City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Long day but got to the Island Dining Room for dinner around 7PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Went to the 8:15 comedy show Jay Moore at 8PM and for the first time there were actually a couple of seats left so we got in. This is good because we were tired and didn’t do much after that.

 

 

 

 

Next stop is Limon Costa Rica, tonight we turn out clocks back 1 hour

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Elevator Down

 

 

Doesn't it also go up? :confused:

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Now what

 

 

 

 

Most expensive passing of the new locks so far was a cargo ship that had to pay $829,468

 

 

That 800K figure is from when the Canal Authority would ballyhoo record tolls. Not surprising the reporting of record tolls was beginning to cause some grumbling not only from some of the public but also other government agencies, as in " they need to do this, or do that with those large sums". Now a days the record tolls are kept close hold. However, tolls for some of the largest of the container ships have been a little north of $1.1 million.

 

Love the pictures:D!

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Day 7 December 6, 2017 - Puerto Limon, Costa Rico

 

 

Today we arrived in Puerto Limon, Costa Rico. With the clock change the night before we enjoyed the extra hour of sleep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got off the ship at about 7:30, we need to meet our excursion bus to the Sloth Sanctuary at 7:50.

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The drive to the Sloth Sanctuary was about 45 minutes. Once there we were split into two groups of about 25. One group took the canoe ride first while the other visited the sloths.

 

 

We did the canoe first, NOTE: if you ever do this DO NOT SIT IT THE FRONT OF THE CANOE. They had 6 of us in each canoe and my wife and I were in the front there was no place for our feet and was extremely uncomfortable.

 

During the ride up and down what seemed to be a very shallow small river, we saw a Caiman, Toucan bird (and other birds), little crabs, a monkey and 3 sloths in the trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And Buttercup from the Meet the Sloths Animal Planet TV Show

 

 

 

 

Back to port by about 12:30, shopped at the market at the port and walked to the little park across the street.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here are some spots I haven’t shown yet

 

Churchill Lounge

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee & Cones

 

 

 

 

 

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Steamers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Planks BBQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The back corner of Planks and Steamers they have a small lounge, I believe it’s called the Wake View Lounge

 

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Later dinner than normal tonight but again in the Island Dining Room

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tonights Production show is Born to be Wild

 

 

 

 

Balloon drop in the Piazza tonight

 

 

 

Tonight clocks go ahead an hour, not too big of a deal, tomorrow is a Sea Day so get to sleep in anyway…

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Day 8 December 7, 2017 - Sea Day

 

Relaxing Sea Day, went to the Spa Pool but it was closed, it actually never open again for the rest of the cruise

 

 

 

Ship was rocking and rolling today, bags are hanging from the stairwells.

 

 

 

 

Here is Neptunes pool, it was closed shortly after I took these photos

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relax by the calypso pool watching “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2” for the afternoon

 

 

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More areas of the Ship I haven’t shown yet…

 

Future Cruise Sales

 

 

 

 

 

Sanctuary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Princess Links

They also had a putting green

 

 

 

Sports Court

 

 

 

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Today was the Second Formal Night, we had dinner in the Crown Grill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Went to the 10:15 Show in the Princess Theater Horn of Plenty Staring Trumpeter/Vocalist Dan Delgado. The late show was not very well attended, he did his best.

 

 

 

Next stop Grand Cayman…

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That 800K figure is from when the Canal Authority would ballyhoo record tolls. Not surprising the reporting of record tolls was beginning to cause some grumbling not only from some of the public but also other government agencies, as in " they need to do this, or do that with those large sums". Now a days the record tolls are kept close hold. However, tolls for some of the largest of the container ships have been a little north of $1.1 million.

 

Love the pictures:D!

 

 

Thanks

 

Over 1.1 mil wow