NCL Pearl---Panama Canal---April 22-May 6, 2007

We will try to break this into parts for ease of reading.

Embarking--- What a mess. Need we say more? We arrived at the pier around 1:00pm for an 8:00pm departure. Seems more people read Cruise Critics then post! Lines were already formed. They held people up at the doors as they needed to hand out the letter that on the previous cruise they had an outbreak of a gastroenteritis virus, offering us a full refund. We choose to continue. We were escorted to the Suite line and waited a few minutes, gave the woman our papers, credit card for onboard account, had our pictures taken and were shown to the Concierge lounge which was full as we waited to board. Total time from arrival at pier to our Courtyard Villa, 14006-the Orchid Suite-was 45 minutes. Read more