The transit through the Panama Canal was magnificent, and we enjoyed most of the ports. We had Anytime Dining, but except for the first night, we had the same table and the same servers every night. The dinners in the Bordeaux Main Dining room were excellent, and our waitstaff were the best we have ever had on any cruise.

Dinner in the Bayou Café was 3 hours long, yes, 3 HOURS!!!, because apparently our order was ‘lost’, and it required HOURS to fix the problem. A free bottle of wine would have been nice compensation for wasting HOURS of our time. And the food in the Bayou Café was no better than the food in the Main Dining Room.

The ‘Scenic Train Ride’ in Puntarenas, Costa Rica was MUCH shorter than it was the first time we took it several years ago; however, to offset the much shorter train ride, there were additional shopping stops so that we would have more time to buy trinkets, and I suppose that Princess/Carnival gets a percentage of the money spent at the additional shopping stops. Read more