The cruise ship Caribbean Princess sits anchored in calm water. The massive white vessel features a wide glass bridge, multi-level windowed decks, and a row of orange lifeboats along the side. Two small tender boats are docked at its base.

Princess Cruises

Panama Canal with Costa Rica & Caribbean

Panama Canal

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Caribbean Princess

A Grand-class ship with an extra deck of cabins, built for the tropics and now working the Baltic

Aboard

  • A modified Grand-class hull carrying an extra deck of cabins, the Riviera deck
  • Had the largest guest capacity in the Princess fleet until Royal Princess in 2013
  • Built without the sliding pool roof her sisters carry, on the assumption she would never need it
  • Still has her Skywalkers nightclub aft, which Grand Princess lost in 2011
  • Among the first three ships in the fleet to go MedallionClass, in early 2018

Ashore

Where You Stop

Cartagena

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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November 11, 2026
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