
Windstar Cruises
Costa Rica & Panama Canal
Panama Canal
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Sailing Itinerary
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Your Ship
Wind Star
The ship the line is named after, still doing her original job at forty
Aboard
- Four masts with computer-controlled self-furling sails, about 21,500 square feet
- 148 guests, the smallest capacity in the fleet along with her sister Wind Spirit
- Launched at Le Havre in November 1985 and in service since 1986
- First ship in the fleet to complete both phases of the Setting Sails refit, in April 2026
- Announced to join Star Breeze in French Polynesia on the Dreams of Tahiti run
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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The Same Trip, Other Weeks
The identical itinerary on this ship, priced by departure. Fares move week to week, and the difference is often larger than anything else on this page.
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| February 14, 2028This sailing |
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