Island Princess Panama Canal Pt.1 - Embarkation, Cabin Tour, Good Spirits At Sea, Bayou Café Dinner
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- Welcome to our first Panama Canal cruise! Join us for a full eastbound transit experience through the historic locks as we sail from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale. In today's vlog, we're boarding the ship, exploring a bit, touring our balcony cabin, grooving at the sailaway deck party, then rollling right into our first sea day where we check out dinner at the Bayou Cafe & Steakhouse!! :D
00:00 BOOM!
00:04 Welcome To The Vlog
00:49 Embarkation & Waiting
04:35 Balcony Cabin Tour
07:43 Deck Party Time
10:56 Swirls & Sailaway
12:25 Good Spirits At Sea
14:26 Dinner In The MDR
15:51 More Good Spirits
17:08 The Evening Ends
20:39 A New Day Dawns
23:17 Walking In Circles
26:23 Wheelhouse Wanders
28:03 Bayou Cafe Dinner
29:53 Live Music & More
32:09 Another End Of Evening
-Cruise Line: Princess Cruises
-Ship Name: Island Princess
-Cruise Dates: May 9, 2024 - May 24, 2024
-Embarkation: Los Angeles, California
-Itinerary: Los Angeles, Puerto Vallarta, Huatulco, Puntarenas, Fuerte Amador, Panama Canal Full Transit, Cartagena, Fort Lauderdale (15 nights)
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Did this cruise in 2022. Loved it. In case you don’t know, the best viewing is a special area on deck 11 (& maybe 11). Go all the way forward either side. There will be an un marked door. Open it and open the next one. There is a deck area where the view, especially of the bridges, is the best. Even had the ship’s photographer come out once to take our pictures.
LOVED Our reposition cruise from Seattle through the Canal to Miami after our Alaska cruise. LOVE full transits in the Canal.
Thanks for your video great as always and it’s nice to see a princess ship again a small one and I love it!💖🛳️💖⚓️👍🏼
We've just got off HAL Koningsdam in Alaska and we're surprised at the vibrancy of BB King's and Rolling Stone Rock Room - in contrast Island Princess seems like the HAL 'old person' cruise that people warned us of lol!
We're booked on a 2026 18 Day Ocean to Ocean Panama Cruise on Island Princess from San Pedro LA to New York.
WOW 15 days...Enjoy...
This made me feel so old as I definitely don’t consider a 2200 passenger ship tiny. But I definitely know in today’s world it is small. But it’s still a big ship to me!
0:46 we sailed Island Princess on that same itinerary 5/11/22 and loved it. The AC in our initial balcony cabin didn’t work well so we were moved to Deck 10 forward. It ended up being great as the front of deck ten had an observation area where about 30-40 of us gathered to watch us go through the locks. The naturalist / guide was out there most of the day too. We were close to our cabin for breaks, restroom, ordering room service for lunch so we didn’t miss much. As it got closer to dinner time, we went down to the outdoor promenade and watched from the sides for a different perspective. It’s a great cruise. I look forward to following this one closely. Have a ball!
I got off the day you got on, so will reminisce as I watch. Have a marvelous time!
Oooh, that was the last segment of the 2024 world cruise, right? That’s awesome!! :D
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!
Yesssss, one of my favorite palindromes!! :D ~Jay
Wooo hooo…. Great to see as I leave for Princess Panamal cruise in 2025 !!!
We went on the island princess for the partial canal transit in 2011. I really enjoyed the layout of the ship. The only bad thing was no international cafe.
True! We've missed that... but apparently sister ship Coral Princess had one installed where the casino bar is on Island Princess, so that's intriguing!! :D
Excited to watch this series. We’ll be doing Panama Canal from Vancouver to Fort Lauderdale in September on Nieuw Amsterdam. I believe it also goes through the old locks. Looking forward to following your journey!
Itinerary sounds like an episode of "The Love Boat."
It does! We just needed some Mazatlan and Cabo in there, ha ha!! :P
Ooooh that black and blue onion soup sounds amazing!!
So happy to see you on this cruise.
I was on this ship for the same cruise.
Enjoy❤
#loveboatcruising
Angie😊
The sound quality is excellent and I love your videos. I think I’ve seen them all. #KeepCruising.
Thank you
They used to have Universe Lounge at aft at Deck 6&7 on the Island Princess (Coral still does) but they put in cabins on Promenade Deck aft as replacement. And no International Cafe (they added to Coral).
The dinner recaps were like ... DeeJayVu !! Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I did the Panama Canal on Carnival Spirit in 2022. And we did the old locks.
Watching now! New DJI mics sound awesome! Would love to try Princess some day if we ever cruise without the kids again lol
I'm looking forward to this series since my son and parents did this crusie last year but they ended in NYC.
Dee you letting your hair grow. cute! Love a goat cheese anything. & black beans.
Wow! That’s amazing! Ibid about 1 K per person (2 of us), but not accepted! Well happy sailing! The group is watching 😘
Brings back memories! Island was our 2nd cruise to Alaska in 2012 and at the time she felt small, but we had been on Star Princess for our first cruise so we hadn't grown to appreciate the smaller ships yet. Definitely want to go on her again! OH! I didn't know Island had the Love Boat horn!!
We're pretty sure that Love Boat horn was just a sound effect gimmick that they play through the speakers at the sailaway party. It doesn't seem like Island got the actual horn, sadly!! :P
We are on HAL Nieux Amsterdam in Oct to Panama Canal from San Diego. Similar itinerary as you. Looking forward to watching your trip
Sounds like that is a newer ship that will have to traverse the new locks, right?
This is the itinerary I want to do
At least its not pouring with rain like it was when I was there last year!
Hi Dee and Jay. Can you do a comparison video on the different cruise lines? I’ve never been on Princess but it looks like they have some great features like food delivery. Maybe a top 5 things you love on each cruise line. Love your vids and looking forward to the rest of this series before I book my next trip
We're planning to start a series based on some insights on cruise lines and who they might best fit, so maybe once we get some time back home to crank those out, they might help, ha ha!! :P
14:26 Beautiful!
I was on her last year from Southampton
I love you guys And have been watching since the Mexico all I cluaive says. But DEE! I am offended! What has creme brulee ever done to you?!! How can you rectify your dislike of it! Lol it is literally the 2nd best dsssert in all the world. 2nd only to key lime pie! Lol
Btw the key lime martini looked Devine! Was it as good as it looked?
Hi Dee and Jay, does Princess allow you to drop bags in rooms if rooms are not ready yet? Dee booked my 1st Princess cruise for me. Just got off my Celebrity Cruise and it was nice they let you do this. 😊 Thank you
Typically, we’ve found that Princess doesn’t allow bag dropping. We usually keep our stuff with us until cabins are ready. It could vary from ship to ship though, we suppose!! :D
Hey guys love the channel, never bud to upgrade room, is the bid a one time or is it nightly times 2 people?
It can vary from line to line, but normally you receive an email prompting you to bid, and you bid a total amount that you want on the cabin types that you like. Most cruises, we don't receive any bid emails at all.
Dee I luv dat beige turtle neck top u had on! U remember Wea u bot it?
I just got off the harmony of the seas. I did the upgrade thing too. However, mine was not accepted. Could you please talk about what makes a good bid in these cruising times. Wondering the price difference between your cabin cost & your winning bid. Many thanks! Kathleen
It varies from line to line, ship to ship, sailing to sailing. We did $25 per person per day and ours was accepted. But we’ve done probably twice that in the past and it was declined. A lot depends on how sold out your cruise is.
Great video...as always. She look great for a 20+ year old ship. **QUESTION**: how long did you wait, on average, for OceanNow food delivery? Thank you!
This ship has had about the fastest delivery that we recall. Maybe 15-20 minutes per food order. Shorter than that for bar orders.
Are you heading to Alaska this year?
We are! We've got a single 28-day Alaska itinerary coming up onboard HAL that puts us above the Arctic Circle for the summer solstice... it should be a unique experience!! :D
How exciting. My Wife and Daughter and I are heading to Alaska on June 7th sailing of celebrity Edge. So excited. We watch all your Alaska videos over and over.
How much did you bid on the room upgrade if you don’t mind sharing?
$25 per person per day to go from interior to balcony. We’ll take it!! :D
I'll be disappointed if one of the bands doesn't play Van Halen's Panama at some point in this trip.
The disappointment remains... it's day 14 onboard right now, and we still haven't heard it!! :P
@@parodeejay You'll have to take matters into your own hands in the karaoke bar... 😁
Can I ask who the Cruise Director was please???
We've got Andi Sanders on this sailing.
IMHO The Creme' Burlee Cheesecake wasn't as sweet as regular Creme Burlee because of the added "Cheese". If it's prepared properly the cheesecake part is not as sweet so it cuts back on the Burlee sweetness with the less sugar "cheesecake" portion. At least that is how I make cheesecake like that.
Fun fact.... I don't own any white socks