Panama Master Thread

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Any particular reason you're not considering the Residence Inn? Been discussed here quite a bit.

From what I read it seems that people went there because it was shabbos friendly and walking distance to Shul. Since I’m not being there over shabbos didn’t think it was necessary.
Felt the options that I listed were nicer, but I may be wrong.

[ckmk47]

From what I read it seems that people went there because it was shabbos friendly and walking distance to Shul. Since I’m not being there over shabbos didn’t think it was necessary.
Felt the options that I listed were nicer, but I may be wrong.

The Residence Inn and Eshel are both walking distance to shul and the supermarket and some restaurants.  So you save travel time and bother.

[Ploni3]

Going for 3 days without kids.
What's a must?
We would love to do Monkey Islands, San Blas Islands, Miraflores-Panama Canal. It's 3 full days and would love to squeeze in as much as possible. Is there anything else that's not to be missed?

Regarding Hotels we would like something nice and they all seem like an uber away from the shul.
Options are The Waldorf, JW Marriot, The W and La Compania.

Any suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated!

Itinerary looks good. We preferred the Hilton because it is just across the road from the ocean so the view is better than from the Waldorf and the rooms were nice and larger than the Marriott.

[Wolf Pack]

La Compania is a stunning five star renovated historic building (covenent converted to hotel) from the early 1700's in the center of Cosco Viejo (the Old Quarter), Imo, I would highly recomend staying there if you appreaciate history and architechure. The garden was beautifully redone as well. The others you mentioned are standard nice hotels but closer to minyan and kosher food.

[myi]

Any particular reason you're not considering the Residence Inn? Been discussed here quite a bit.

Went about 2 years ago. We stayed at the Residence Inn. I really enjoyed it. Though I did try 3 different hotels while I was there. 
  Switched to the Residence in for shabbos and stayed for the remaining 5 nights. They gave us a corner room which had stunning views. Downside was there was no porch.  But nice little kitchen for shabbos and kitchen sink.
 Then even botched up on the nights and gifted us 3 free nights. In short I had booked 2 nights with marriot points. (There was an offer to book 4 nights get the 5th night free.) I liked the hotel and decided to extend the stay another 3 nights. So called to add 2 more days and see if they can manually add the 1 free night. As I now had 4 consecutive nights booked, though not in one booking. So all I wanted was the extra day added. But sure enough the answer was they couldn't add the single free night as it needs to be one booking, but to my surprise the agent added all 3 nights I wanted for free. (May be the reason why I liked the hotel, so yes a bit biased. ;-)
 

[MRTHNMAN]

How long before my flight would I have to get to PTY if I am not checking any luggage

[whacked1]

Fun activity I dont believe mentioned, is Blue Hill Cabins. We had a great time ATVing and seems they have other activities as well. https://www.facebook.com/bluehillcabins/

Note, its pretty high up (2000 ft per my watch), so much cooler than reg Panama city and the ride there is pretty hilly.

[jmail555]

Please let us know where you stayed and what you recommend. Going with wife in November. Thanks!

Going for 3 days without kids.
What's a must?
We would love to do Monkey Islands, San Blas Islands, Miraflores-Panama Canal. It's 3 full days and would love to squeeze in as much as possible. Is there anything else that's not to be missed?

Regarding Hotels we would like something nice and they all seem like an uber away from the shul.
Options are The Waldorf, JW Marriot, The W and La Compania.

Any suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated!

[moishes]

Please let us know where you stayed and what you recommend. Going with wife in November. Thanks!

My Itinerary

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=135624.0

[jmail555]

Thanks!!

My Itinerary

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=135624.0