Incan Empires, 25 February - 25 March 2018

Route: 28 day voyage: San Diego – Cabo San Lucas – Huatulco – Puerto Chiapas – Panama City – Trujillo, Peru – Lima – Manta, Ecuador - Puntarenas, Costa Rica – Corinto, Nicaragua – Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala – Manzanillo – Puerto Vallarta – San Diego

1. General Comments: We are regular cruisers, and the focus of this cruise was to see “something different.” We spent 13 days on land and had 14 sea days. Seven stops were new to us. Only two stops (Cabo and Panama) required tendering. All the other stops were in ports that had varying degrees of support for cruise ships. This is not a “regular” cruise and is only done once a year. We were a full ship; due to the length of the entire cruise, most passengers were of older age. There was only one child (pre-school) on board. More than 100 passengers got off in Peru to visit Machu Picchu; they were replaced by the same number of new passengers who had had done their own pre-cruise travelling and then took the shorter, 2-week, cruise back to San Diego. This resulted in an influx of younger passengers. Read more