Panama Canal - Island Princess Review - Oct/Nov 2025
We did a 16 night Panama Canal cruise through the old locks from Los Angeles to Port Everglades. This is our first cruise on Princess, where we tried the oldest ship first, for probably not as good of a representation of Princess, but we wanted the old locks that only Island and Coral are small enough for. This is our 21st cruise overall with the most others on NCL. Warning -- long review. Embarkation We had a little trouble with the porter luggage collection system. Each porter seemed to have a horde of people around them, and cart that looked like they would run out of space before we got to the front of the pack. The San Pedro port needs a more organized system. We were in the blue line because I did not want to pay to have the Medallions pre-shipped. It felt like nickeling and diming on something that was supposed to get you excited about your cruise. There was a line for the blue line, but it moved pretty quickly. Travis was having trouble logging on to the app, that he...