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I have booked a HAL 17 day Panama Canal cruise leaving April 17, 2018. I just today started to do some research on ports/excursions and realized that there are 9 sea days (2 of which are listed as "cruising". In addition, some of the ports indicate that there is not much to do in port. Am I missing something? I have heard nothing but good things about Panama Canal cruises but what the heck do you do with half of the cruise on the ship? (I know, I know, relax)

 

Claire:o

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Six sea days on a 17 day cruise doesn't seem too bad, you do have quite a bit of distance to cover. Outside of the two days in a row after leaving FLL, everything else is port followed by a sea day. That gives you time to rebound from a day ashore. The additional sea day that is "cruise" is really multiple entries for the single day of the Canal transit, although you are not in port there is a lot to attract your attention during the transit. Relax and enjoy!:D

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Hi Claire,

We did a HAL 2 week Panama Canal cruise last April. We had lots of sea days too. We love them...it is what makes it a restful vacation. I copied this section from my blog regarding sea days .... but mind you, we usually have no problem entertaining ourselves.

 

 

Before getting to Cabo we had another Sea Day

On this cruise we had 7 sea days and 9 ports. We love sea days and are never bored.

This is why we love sea days:

  • you get to sleep in
  • you get to eat at non-busy times (or just about anytime you want)
  • you can lounge around or read with gorgeous views of the sea
  • lots of ship activities (trivia, swimming, lectures, movies, entertainment, casino, etc etc)
  • have dessert, ice cream, or a snack every time you pass the lido
  • hang out at or in the pools
  • visit with friends on deck or in one of the beautiful lounges
  • stare at the sea and watch for flying fish and dolphins
  • exercise (walk around the promenade deck, classes or the gym)
  • you get to catch your breathe when you have a number of busy port days in a row
  • or just be lazy ;-)

As for the ports - we didn't have one port where there was nothing to do or see.

We figure if it is different than home, there is something to check out and see. Just because some of these ports don't have a lots of touristy things to do, We love walking around seeing how real people live.

 

He are some links to my blog and you can get an idea what is in the ports that we visited on the Eurodam.

 

Enjoy!

Mary

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  • 11 months later...

We love the sea days. There's a certain "calmness and restfulness" that sea days provide. Plenty of things to do, and plenty of reasons to do almost nothing on a sea day.

We've done four transatlantics, just because of the high number of sea days, usually, 7-9 sea days out of 14-15.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Thank you marysb for the great pictures from your trip!

We go Nov. 30 and we are looking forward to 7 sea days! We did a port intensive 10 day Mediterranean cruise and it was tiring!! We loved it but we barely got to enjoy the beautiful ship.

This Panama Canal trip sounds like a perfect balance of interesting ports and sea days. On our sea days we spend a lot of time at the pool with a tropical drink. We also bring the game, Quiddler, with us and sometimes we like to find a vacant area/lounge near a window and play. Hubby works long, hard hours so sea days are heaven for him.

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