Panama Canal on Island Princess 10/17-11/1 Photo Review

Thanks again for your fantastic review and pictures! I feel like I was right there with you enjoying every minute of the cruise.

Happy sailing wherever the sea takes you!

Great pictures and we especially enjoyed the pre-cruise tour info. Thanks for all of that.

Culinary comment: One thing about meatballs. Veal is beef, although, admittedly, young beef. Most of the best Italian meatball recipes call for a mix of (mature) beef, veal and pork, usually one third of each for the mixture.

Overall, an enjoyable review, thanks again. :)

Great pictures and we especially enjoyed the pre-cruise tour info. Thanks for all of that.

 

Culinary comment: One thing about meatballs. Veal is beef, although, admittedly, young beef. Most of the best Italian meatball recipes call for a mix of (mature) beef, veal and pork, usually one third of each for the mixture.

 

Overall, an enjoyable review, thanks again. :)

Yeah, I've often heard that for meatloaf as well. My "beef" so to speak was more that it was listed simply as "meatball" whereas most everything else on the menu had specific detailed descriptions. Lesson learned and I'll make sure to ask when ordering next time.

Thank you again for your amazing review and photos. I will try really hard to put some sort of review together after our Feb cruise. I always say I will, but it is always so hard.

 

I'm surprised Princess makes priority people wait for a specific time. On NCL, the Suite passengers get a special luggage tag that is the first offloaded in the morning. They can then show up at the concierge lounge (or designated spot) and wait for a short time until a group forms (or if no one else comes, they will escort just you) and they take you off. I haven't sailed in a suite, but have been given the privileges a couple of times for different things. Once they took us all the way to the customs lines and helped leap frog us in, but the other time, they simply merged us in with everyone else on the gangway and we did a fend for self from that point on.

 

On NCL, top level rewards people only gets the option of taking the very first color group after self-carry people. They don't get escorted off to avoid lines unless they pick that first group. Since it is pretty easy to hit the top level on NCL, this is usually a really big group and we prefer waiting until the end. It is really easy to find your luggage at the end.

I think Carnival was the same as Princess when it came to suite disembarkation. It's been a few years but I recall waiting in the theater as the "nicer place to wait" but still waiting until your tags group was called. RCL was essentially like you described for NCL suites passengers except it was more of a show up in the concierge lounge, enjoy continental breakfast, and shortly after the concierge got word that self disembarks were clear, he took all assembled to the elevators and used his key card to send us directly to the gangway. Then it was bypassing the line gathered at customs to be taken by the next available agent.

I thoroughly enjoyed your adventures! Thank you for sharing!

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