Coral Princess Panama / Docked

[Travel3]

We are doing the Panama Canal roundtrip Ft. Lauderdale. Does anyone know if the ship docks at these ports?

 

Aruba

Cartagena, Colombia

Panama Canal, Panama

Colon (Cristobal), Panama

Limon, Costa Rica

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

[Nancyquilts]

We saw it at Cartegena last week. I would guess that it will dock (or tender) everywhere except in the Panama Canal, where they just stop to let the tours off. Sometimes you don't have a chance to shop at the Cristobal pier, but usually you do. Nancy

[ORV]

Shouldn't that be on your itinerary? Or do you mean dock vs tender?

 

If that's the case I'd think Ocho & Aruba would be a dock. The others I've never been to.

[wrp96]

The Panama Canal will be tenders while in Gatun Lake and then docked at Colon. Limon, Costa Rica is docked.

[Colo Cruiser]

For the most part the ship docks at all but the actual canal turnaround. :)

[Colo Cruiser]

Shouldn't that be on your itinerary? Or do you mean dock vs tender?

 

If that's the case I'd think Ocho & Aruba would be a dock. The others I've never been to.

 

 

I wouldn't count on the iteniary as far as docking/tendering. It is never etched in stone. :)

[ORV]

I wouldn't count on the iteniary as far as docking/tendering. It is never etched in stone. :)

 

True, when I was in St Thomas there was around 5 ships in port that day and some of them were docked but some of them had to tender.

[mncyclist]

On our Coral Princess Panama round-trip in 2006, we docked in Colon, Ocho Rios and Limon. Cartagena was not on our itinerary, so I don't know about that. As mentioned by someone else, the ship anchors or floats in Gatun Lake in the Panama Canal itself. So if you've chosen to do an excursion, you are tendered ashore, but you return to the dock in Colon, where the ship moves to after coming back down the locks. The couple we traveled with chose to remain onboard for the Panama Canal and so were able to see the locks from the ship twice and then simply walk off the ship in Colon in the early afternoon.

[nschurr]

Just got off the Coral (Dec 10). We docked at every port except in Gatun Lake, which was a very short tender to shore.

[Gibby]

And it docks at all ports, the only tenders are for excursions that leave while the Coral is in Gatun lake.