Panama Canal Full Transit — day by day

🧭 The trip

Fourteen nights ocean to ocean, Fort Lauderdale to San Diego: Cartagena, a daylight canal transit, Costa Rica and the Mexican Riviera. Inside cabins from about $2,230.

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🗓️ Day by day — full guide

Start

⚓ Fort Lauderdale / San Diego

Embark: Fort Lauderdale / San Diego.

Sea days

⚓ At sea

Sea days (down the Caribbean).

Stage 2

⚓ Cartagena, Colombia

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A port of call on this route, in the order the sources describe it.

Stage 3

⚓ Panama Canal (Gatun, Pedro Miguel, Miraflores locks)

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Scenic cruising.

Stage 4

⚓ Costa Rica / Nicaragua

A port of call on this route, in the order the sources describe it.

Stage 5

⚓ Huatulco, Mexico

A port of call on this route, in the order the sources describe it.

Stage 6

⚓ Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

A port of call on this route, in the order the sources describe it.

Sea days

⚓ At sea

Sea days (up to California).

End

⚓ San Diego / Fort Lauderdale

Disembark: San Diego / Fort Lauderdale.

🎯 Fares for this route

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Sources

Based on the sailings named in these sources.

Photo credits

Header photo: Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0

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