The Panama Canal has been at the top of my bucket list for a while now and I took the view that doing anything but the full transit was going to leave me wishing for more. I chose Infinity over Island Princess primarily because of that fact Princess did 4 days at sea at the commencement of the journey from San Diego where Celebrity had a number of stops on the Pacific coast.
Embarkation was a tedious process, quick and efficient check in followed by almost a 2 hour wait and it seemed something was wrong with the systems. Loading the ship was also delayed and instead of a 430pm scheduled departure, we left after 6pm in the dark, which was a shame. Baggage appeared at about 5pm, by which time I had a long and relaxed lunch at Bistro on 5 with some great service and decent food. An early dinner in the main dining room, The Trellis and I had already forgotten about the delays in boarding.
I had an outside cabin on the third deck with a large port window, my first experience in anything other than a balcony and it was fine. For anyone considering such a cabin I wouldn't have any problem repeating the experience.