joeyancho Posted January 29, 2016 #26 Share Posted January 29, 2016 We took the 8 day Panama Cruise on the Freedom three times. Enjoyed all of them very much. Last fall, Carnival had an 8 day on the Splendor doing the same rate. We booked. Our in-laws booked. Then they canceled the cruise to a Caribbean. We all cancelled. then one day when I was sort of doing nothing on the Princess web site, I saw their ten day cruise with partial transit through the Canal. Columbia, Aruba, Panama, Costa Rica, Grand Cayman ...............I did a dummy booking and almost fell off of my chair. I did it again. I called Princess. We had a casino offer, which we had never had before ( we mostly sail on Carnival).............It took 30% off of the LOWEST fare for a category, paid gratuities..+.we get a free steak dinner at the steakhouse. It is a ten day cruise. It is on the Coral Princess. We have a midship balcony on the Baha Deck for about what an inside would cost us now. We were lucky. It sails next December. Astonishing how that worked out. I really look forward to the cruise. I WOULD BOOK CARNIVAL in a heartbeat if they put that 8 day Panama Cruise back on.. We just took this exact cruise in December. It was amazing. You're going to love it. The Coral is a gorgeous ship. The food was so far superior to Carnival. Be sure to attend the enrichment lectures. It adds so much to the cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky2 Posted March 11, 2016 #27 Share Posted March 11, 2016 The taxes and port fees for the 14 day Journeys cruise that includes the partial transit are less than $130, and that's with six ports. I guess the sky high port fees are only for full transits. I see that we're on the same Pride cruise 2/26/17, tncap. When we booked our OV on 12/22/15, the port fees for both of us, were $254.78. OV has been sold out for a few weeks, but one OV cabin has now opened up. Port fees are now $618.28. WOW By the way, we booked after they changed it to a Partial Transit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert's mom Posted March 11, 2016 #28 Share Posted March 11, 2016 We are also on the 2/26 cruise and we booked a balcony cabin 9/15 before it was a partial transit and our port fees were $590.78. I'm not sure how they figure port fees and will people have to pay additional port fees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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