The Norwegian Joy cruise ship is docked in a harbor under a cloudy sky. The massive white vessel features vibrant red, blue, and yellow artwork along its side. Two tall construction cranes reach over its top decks, and large industrial port buildings stand in the background.

Norwegian Cruise Line

15-Day Panama Canal from Los Angeles to Miami: Mexico, Costa Rica & Colombia

Panama Canal

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Departs: October 7, 2026

Returns: October 23, 2026

Departure Port: Los Angeles

Ship: Norwegian Joy

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Norwegian Joy

Built for Shanghai, rebuilt for Seattle, and rebuilt again in 2024

Aboard

  • The first cruise ship purpose-built for the Chinese market, christened in Shanghai in June 2017
  • Converted for North America in 2019, a $50 million job, twenty-one days in drydock at Singapore
  • Hull art of a phoenix by the Chinese painter Tan Ping, still carried today
  • 1,821 crew for 3,804 guests, a richer ratio than any of her sisters
  • A 2024 drydock at Rotterdam that deleted the Galaxy Pavilion and the laser tag arena
  • Splits the year between Miami and Seattle
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Ashore

Where You Stop

Los Angeles

Cabo San Lucas

Cartagena

Miami

Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

A hundred-year-old feat of engineering that lifts a ship eighty-five feet over a continent, and one of the few cruise days where nobody leaves the deck.

Best Time to Go
December through April, the dry season
Typical Length
10 to 15 nights
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