Vancouver to the Panama Canal & Central America Norwegian Jewel Cruise Reviews

We left New Zealand a fortnight before the cruise as we have family in Vancouver and had a week there before we did some touring on Vancouver Island (highly recommend the West Coast; Tofino & Ucleulet) In Vancouver, the family don't have room for us so we use la Quinta and Best Western. We were horrified to find that the Jewel was berthed at Ballantyne, we have been told since that is no ...

Departure: From Ballantyne pier instead of Canada Place. Even travel agent was sure the ship was leaving from Canada Place which we checked in for Alaska in August in 30 minutes We were not informed of this Not on our tickets and very hard to find on website.We Learned from a Cruise Critic posting. Very inconvenient. Need Taxi to get there instead of 100yard walk from seabus or skytrain at CANADA ...

Food was outstanding. We prefer the main dining room but we're often lured to the buffet with its themed nights, salad bar, fresh wok, etc. Edwin and Artemio were outstanding servers. Laundry service provided washed and ironed shirts on hangars and folded everything else wrapped in tissue in a basket - really great at a full bag rate. Ben Kitchen was an outstanding cruise director. He took could ...