Cruises Panama Canal  
Feb. 3-14, 2025 ~ $3100
Per Person All Inclusive!
with stops at ABC Islands
By Cynthia Neu McCluskey 
Cruise Coordinator 
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McLEAN, VA - The ship you see is cruising near the Panama Canal, but not through. The next photo shows how each ship literally squeezes through the Canal. The following graphic shows how a transit works. The best time to cruise Panama is in February when daily temperatures are in the 70s. In the USA they're in the 30s.
Every ship barely slides through the Panama Canal. Man made walls keep each ship upright stopping it from tilting over too far one side (listing) and sinking. When you're in a Balcony cruising the Panama Canal it seems you can reach out over the Balcony to touch the man made walls with your bare hands. But don't try!
To complete a transit a ship first approaches the Canal entrance at sea level, enters the first lock and waits until enough water is pumped under it to be raised up to another lock. More water is pumped into that lock raising the ship up yet again to another lock and so it goes lock by lock until the ship sits high on top of land. Water is then drained out of each lock until the ship is lowered again to sea level and sails away. Transits happen all day every day in Panama between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  It takes  8 hours for any  ship to transit the Canal.  This cruise ship will clear the Canal, but returns to the Atlantic. The Beyond does not go out to the Pacific. It makes a U-turn in Gatun Lake on top of Panama and descends again into the Atlantic sailing back to Ft. Lauderdale.   
To finalize each  transit a Panamanian dock worker pulls on ropes to help keep the ship upright as it's lowered into the ocean. Or you may see donkeys on both sides of the Canal pulling ropes too guiding the ship through.  No captain of any cruise or cargo ship is allowed to steer his ship through the Canal. Only Panamanian ship Pilots are allowed to do this job to avoid accidents. The minimum toll each ship pays Panama to pass through its Canal is $1 million U.S. Dollars. In 2025 this cruise will cost you personally much less. Your personal toll for this transit in included in your cruise fare. Here are details: 
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 Fun & Fitness will cruise on
the Celebrity Beyond through
   the Panama Canal Feb. 3-14, 2025.
     It also stops at all ABC Islands.  
 

Feb. 3......................Board ship Ft. Lauderdale 2 PM 
Feb. 4..................................................................At Sea
Feb. 5..................................................................At Sea
Feb. 6.................Cartagena, Columbia 7 AM to 3 PM 
Feb. 7............Panama Canal Crossing 6 AM to 3 PM 
Feb. 7..................................Colon, Panama 5 to 9 PM
Feb. 8..................................................................At Sea
Feb. 9..........................................Aruba 9 AM t0 11 PM
Feb. 10.............................Bonaire from 8 Am to 6 PM
Feb. 11.............................Curacao from 8 AM to 6 PM
Feb. 12.........................................................Day at Sea
Feb. 13.........................................................Day At Sea
Feb.14......................Ft. Lauderdale Disembark 8 AM 
 

   VISIT ARUBA, BONAIRE, CURACAO 
Our Travel Club's All Inclusive price is based upon two guests booked in a cabin or one single guest in a cabin.  This price pays in FULL: The entire cruise with All stateroom amenities; All meals; All taxes, fees and tolls; All tips for anyone who services your cabin, All tips for any waiter in any restaurant,  formal dining hall, at any bar and even out on deck. Plus you have basic Wi-fi the whole cruise; a Classic Drink package with alcoholic beverages, sodas, gourmet coffees, bottled water, seltzer waters with or without alcohol, and beers and wines of your choice. You each have $10,000 travel insurance coverage and you have private dining tables each evening in the Formal Dining Hall. This cruise no longer shows on line because all the ship's inventory is booked. But Fun & Fitness is holding Balconies, Insides and Windows for Travel Club members who still want to go. A dozen of you have booked this cruise. Thank you! We have more cabins.

A fully refundable deposit is due now for $450 per person or $900 per cabin. It's an 11 night, 12 day cruise. When it takes a day to get on the ship and another to return home you will have spent two weeks this winter out in the sunny, warm Caribbean.  All deposits are 100% refundable up to Oct. 24, 2024.  Oct. 24th is also final pay off date for this cruise. See category of cabins available below.
All Inclusive Price Per Person
for a Double or Single Guest
 2 Week Winter Cruise 
Thru Panama Canal 2025 

(Photos show one bed, but really are two 
beds pushed together. Say what bed 
count you want when booking.) 
Inside double $3100
Inside Single $5200 
Window Double $3500
Window Single $5800 
Balcony double $4500
Balcony Single $8000 

 
Arrive to Ft. Lauderdale at least one day prior to cruise departure avoiding  flight delays. Fun & Fitness has hotel rooms reserved at a Marriott that picks you up the airport free of charge, serves you a free hot breakfast on the morning of Feb. 3rd and transfers you to the ship for $20 cash. The hotel room cost, whether one or two guests, is $203 with all fees and taxes included. Each guest pays barely $100. Don't wait to book this cruise because Celebrity has no more cabins on line to sell. However, Fun & Fitness still has some our prices run $1000 less per cabin than Celebrity.
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