Friday, February 14, 2020

COSTA RICA AND PANAMA

UNFORGETTABLE DESTINATIONS
Your favorite traveling tandem is off soon on another adventure, this time on a sailing excursion from Costa Rica to Panama. Yeah, we know, that isn’t cheap, but we did get the trip at half-price when we saw it offered mid-December. Remember when a ship sails with an empty berth that is revenue lost forever.


We’re traveling again with the Unforgettable Cruises people. Readers of this incredibly informative travel blog may recall that we sailed with Unforgettable Cruises last July island hopping along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia on a ship that had only 38 passengers. The London based company is attentive to details and offer trips to destinations around the world. Their motto is “small ships big experiences”.


At first, we considered traveling with them on a two-week liveaboard dive excursion in the Maldives, an expensive big-ticket bucket-list item for me, especially now that I am dive certified for open water, but logistically it didn’t work out. We also considered Bali and Fiji, but we jumped on their special offer of the half-priced trip we are going on next week. Payment had to be made in full at the time as the trip was just two months later, but we asked for and received a modest discount on top of the set rate because we were “frequent” travelers with the company.
 
M/S PANORAMA
We are on the M/S Panorama, a three-masted motorsailer first launched in 1993 and renovated in 2014 and sail from Puerto Caldera in Costa Rica, to Panama City, Panama. There are much cheaper ways of traveling, but the level of luxury offered by the company makes it difficult to look elsewhere for accommodations

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