Didn't Carnival Used To Do 7-day Panama Canal?

[joeyancho]

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.

[Sparky2]

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.

[dogbert's mom]

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?