A large Holland America Line cruise ship named "Zaandam" sails on calm water. The ship features a dark blue hull with a red waterline stripe, white upper decks, orange lifeboats, and a single white funnel with a logo. In the background, a green, rolling hillside rises under an overcast sky.

Holland America Line

15-DAY PANAMA CANAL HOLIDAY

Panama Canal

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Departs: December 19, 2026

Returns: January 3, 2027

Departure Port: San Diego

Ship: Zaandam

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Zaandam

A ship decorated in signed guitars, with an asteroid named after her and a bad month in 2020

Aboard

  • Delivered by Fincantieri in April 2000 and christened by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
  • Decorated on a music theme, down to a Baroque-style Dutch pipe organ in the atrium
  • Guitars signed by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Queen
  • Asteroid 277118 Zaandam was named for her in 2024 after an eclipse voyage
  • Sails an eighteen-day Great Bear Rainforest itinerary out of Vancouver
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Ashore

Where You Stop

Cabo San Lucas

Cartagena

Fort Lauderdale

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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