On June 26, the expansion of the Panama Canal with its new locks was inaugurated. The Princess Cruises shipping company will be the first, and to this day the only, commercial cruise company to cross this channel.
As I told you on occasion, the company has included this transit in its new proposals for the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Caribbean for the coming season. The Coral Princess and Island Princess ships are already sailing through the Panama Canal, but they are smaller than the mega-ships these voyages are being designed for.
The Caribbean Princess ship, with a capacity for 3.080 passengers, plus 1.200 crew members, is the one chosen to use the new facilities of the Panama Canal.
This experience is the one that those who acquire the tickets for the 10-day cruise departing from Fort Lauderdale will be able to live, in the US state of Florida. This crossing will be available from the winter of next year, specifically from October 21. The itinerary of the same will pass through the Cayman Islands, Cartagena (Colombia), Colón (Panama), Limón (Costa Rica) and will end its trip in Falmouth (Jamaica).
At this time The dimensions of the Caribbean Princess, it is 36 meters long, is what prevents it from entering the old locks.
Without a doubt, going through the locks of the Panama Canal is another of the attractions of this central American country and an adventure to remember and tell.
In another vein, but without leaving Latin America, The Princess Cruise company has already expressed the importance of the Latin market in its growth plans, and in this sense it is outlining itineraries that include Cuba and that make a stopover in the Mexican Caribbean. At this time only the Carnival Cruise has regular cruises, which began last May, from the United States to the island.