(Travel Pulse) Preface: This journey is not for the weak-hearted or high-blood pressured. There is a good chance at one point or another you may break into a temper-tantrum, throwing your bag onto the ground in defeat, turn from Jekyll to Hyde on your friends and bus drivers, or curl up in a fetal position freezing to death on a pimped-out chicken bus blaring songs even your … [Read more...]
Los Angeles to Panama cruise from Princess Cruises to sail in 2016
(USA Today) Princess Cruises in 2016 will offer a voyage from Los Angeles to the Panama Canal and back, something it hasn't done since 2009. Announced on Friday, the 19-day sailing on the 2,214-passenger Island Princess will kick off Nov. 20, 2016 and include stops in Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The Island Princess in late 2016 and early 2017 also will … [Read more...]
Riu hotels in Panama offers two choices of Hotels
(Travel Weekly) Construction cranes were a common sight during my visit to Panama, nearly as ubiquitous as the palm trees lining the country's ever-growing number of highways or the cans of Balboa beer served at its restaurants and bars. In terms of hotels alone, 16 properties totaling 2,809 rooms are in the country's construction pipeline, according to research firm STR. … [Read more...]
110 wheelchairs given out in Panama by Maine Rotarian group
(Ellsworth American) For a dozen years, the parents of 13-year-old Carlos carried him everywhere they went throughout their hometown of Panama City, Panama. The family could not afford to buy their son a wheelchair after he was abruptly afflicted with cerebral palsy as a baby after a bout with a very high fever. But all that changed after a March visit from the Ellsworth … [Read more...]
The Westin Playa Bonita in Panama offers Panama, Unexpected package
The Westin Playa Bonita in Panama, located near Panama City, is offering the "Panama, Unexpected" package. Cost: $225 per person, per night; minimum three-night stay required. What's included: Deluxe accommodations; daily breakfast; airport transfers; day tour of the Embera indigenous village (located in the rain forest); truck safari tour of the historic town of … [Read more...]