Holland America Line
15-DAY PANAMA CANAL HOLIDAY
Panama Canal
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Your Ship
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
Ashore
Where You Stop
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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