Sunday, February 15, 2026

NEXT STOP PANAMA

AND NONE TOO SOON
Panamanian dancers

With more snow forecast for tonight, we are leaving for Panama a day earlier and staying in a hotel near the Philadelphia Airport. We’ve had too much cold and too much snow this winter to risk missing our flight, which begins boarding at 5:20 am. Besides we booked the hotel room through American Airlines, which will also get me an extra 1,500 loyalty points.

Those miles add up. We’re flying to Greece later this year using frequent flyer mileage.

We are staying at the Doubletree Hotel and we will leave our car parked there. The hotel will charge you $25 pd to park there, but Janet goes through CHEAPERAIRPORTPARKING.ORG and we’ll park there for just $130. 

Do the math over 16 days.

Another reason to love Janet.

Janet with indigenous art

Soon, we will shed the winter doldrums and bask in the Panamanian sun and enjoy the rich diverse culture of this Central American country. .

After spending a day in Panama City where we are taking a cooking class, we will fly to Bocas del Toro, an archipelago on the western Caribbean shore near Costa Rica. We will fly there on Panama Air. 

Sadly, we don’t get frequent flyer miles with them.