Panama Canal 11 Day cruise on the Coral Princess

This cruise was the first of a back to back to back adventure. We arrived fairly late (about 1:30 pm) and most of the passengers were already onboard. I thought with a late arrival, we would breeze through, but not the case. We purchased transfers from the airport to port and it took quite a while to get the remaining passengers organized and on the the shuttle. Once in the terminal things moved along okay but not great. We are elite on Princess and we usually speed through this process. We finally got onboard in time to drop off our carry-ons, pick up our life preservers and head to the muster. Happily, things improved from that point :)

The Coral Princess is just a nice mid-size ship. It feels very spacious, never crowded. You can move around the ship without being in a crowd, find a deck chair around the pool if you desire, and get a seat in the theater without too much fuss. There's also that wonderful covered, heated pool on Lido Deck. We swam just about every day. Read more