Emerald Princess - 23 Dec -Panama Canal full transit

[Willwils]

On 12/24/2023 at 5:14 AM, mrell345 said:

International café Price list

 

[Willwils]

18 minutes ago, Willwils said:

 

Thanks for all your great postings. I'm surprised to see the $2.00 charge for regular, non-specialty coffee @ International cafe. My recollection was they were free on the Majestic Princess in Summer 2022. Most all my other cruises were RCL ships where their version it was also free. 

[mrell345]

5:30 AM, we have weighed Ancir and are moving into the Puerto Amadore cruise port dock.  Viking Sky is already there

Edited December 28, 2023 by mrell345

[mrell345]

Dawn at Puerto Amadore near Panama City

[Z0nker]

On 12/27/2023 at 5:21 AM, mrell345 said:

Tries the rejuvinator this morning, they put fresh pieces of fruit and veg in a juicer and you get a drink with about 3oz of liquid.  It wasn’t too bad.

The elusive Juice Bar. Where did you find it? 

[mrell345]

9 minutes ago, Z0nker said:

The elusive Juice Bar. Where did you find it? 

Just under the MUTS screen on deck 15

[EconDoc]

16 hours ago, Willwils said:

Thanks for all your great postings. I'm surprised to see the $2.00 charge for regular, non-specialty coffee @ International cafe. My recollection was they were free on the Majestic Princess in Summer 2022. Most all my other cruises were RCL ships where their version it was also free. 

Pretty sure it's been charged as long as I can recall. If you had one of the old coffee punch cards, you had unlimited brewed coffee at IC until your punches ran out (it did not count as a punch).

[EconDoc]

On 12/25/2023 at 6:41 PM, Honolulu Blue said:

@mrell345: thanks for continuing to share these newsletters.

• I can't recall seeing a seeing eye dog notice on any of my cruises. I wonder what brought this on?

We sailed this itinerary last year and had a (large) service dog on board. After a couple of days we got the same notice in the Patter because people were not respecting the dog's work. We became friendly with the family and found out they and the dog had special permission to disembark in Puerto Vallarta because they were moving from Europe to Mexico. They took a ship from Southampton UK to Ft. Lauderdale to join Emerald toward Los Angeles. They were avoiding flying for their move. We saw them all off the ship at PV (with special arrangements for immigration).

 

I do not think Princess or other major lines allow emotional support animals, just service animals (and animal species are probably very limited).

[mrell345]

We took the bus tour of Panama which included the walking tour of the old city.

[mrell345]

So I tried one of these things today so I could report on it.  Three scoops of vanilla gelato and a ton of sauces and candy.  Too much sugar to eat two a day however they do seem to be popular

Edited December 28, 2023 by mrell345

[mrell345]

Tonight’s MDR menu

[IndyKid]

1 minute ago, mrell345 said:

Tonight’s MDR menu

The pepper shrimp sounds interesting...

[Essiesmom]

2 hours ago, mrell345 said:

We took the bus tour of Panama which included the walking tour of the old city.

If this was Princess tour, could you please name and review it over on the Panama Canal board?  Pics there not necessary but so many people come there asking about tours, but never come back to tell us how they went.  And thanks for the terminal pics there.  EM

[mrell345]

Sanitizing seats in Princess theatre between shows

[mrell345]

[mrell345]

3 hours ago, Essiesmom said:

If this was Princess tour, could you please name and review it over on the Panama Canal board?  Pics there not necessary but so many people come there asking about tours, but never come back to tell us how they went.  And thanks for the terminal pics there.  EM

I will try and get to it in the next day or so as I will want to do it from my laptop.

[Essiesmom]

1 hour ago, mrell345 said:

I will try and get to it in the next day or so as I will want to do it from my laptop.

Totally understand.  I like the convenience of my iPad but some things can only be done on my surface pro.  EM

[IndyKid]

2 hours ago, mrell345 said:

Sanitizing seats in Princess theatre between shows

Is this SOP? Or has there been an illness reported on the ship?

[mrell345]

6 hours ago, IndyKid said:

Is this SOP? Or has there been an illness reported on the ship?

First time I have seen it but we are still serving ourselves in buffet and I have not seen any overt measures for other things around the ship so I think it is a standard measure now.

[mrell345]

Quiet sea day today, it has been raining on and off so after hitting the gym we are sitting down in the International Cafe

[mrell345]

[mrell345]

I tried the nutter at the juice bar today, banana, a tablespoon or so of peanut butter, soy milk and coconut milk with ice in the blender.  Not bad.

[mrell345]

Currently pouring rain outside, (Ca tombe des clous).  Sitting here in Skywalkers doing some tour reviews in other forums on the boards here.

[c-boy]

On 12/28/2023 at 12:18 PM, mrell345 said:

So I tried one of these things today so I could report on it.  Three scoops of vanilla gelato and a ton of sauces and candy.  Too much sugar to eat two a day however they do seem to be popular

tried one too, and it's was too much for me , shared with my wife and barely finished it. On a footnote, I'm glad too see JCB and DeLoach made the current wine list.

Edited December 29, 2023 by c-boy

[EDVM96]

Marinetraffic and CruiseMapper show "Reported ETA: 2023-12-30 03:00 LT (UTC -6)", which means 09:00am local time. Are you 2 hours late in Puntarenas tomorrow?