Hotel Melia Panama Canal, NOT !!

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:56:10 -0000, "pboae"
wrote:

|"QuienEs" wrote in message
| Panama is otherwise recommended, nice people, safer than some
other
| Latin American countries as evidenced by the lack of barbed/razor
wire
| around buildings, prices about 70% of New Jersey on the average,
the
| Spanish spoken there is not heavily accented as it is in cuba,
Chile,
| Argentina.
|
|
|Did you see anything of the canal railway while you were there? I've
heard |it is running now but I've not been able to get any more info
on it |(i.e.prices, duration, location). Any info would be
appreciated!
|
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We saw those trains on several occasions that we drove more or less
along the canal btwn. P City and the north shore. As our schedule
did not permit riding on one we did not investigate further. I see
that Google provides lots of links if you search Groups and Web on
*** panama canal railway ***, here are the links, hope this helps,
Qe in NJ

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=pa...=all&scoring=d

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...&sa=N&t ab=gw

"QuienEs" wrote in message
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We saw those trains on several occasions that we drove more or less
along the canal btwn. P City and the north shore. As our schedule
did not permit riding on one we did not investigate further. I see
that Google provides lots of links if you search Groups and Web on
*** panama canal railway ***, here are the links, hope this helps,

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=pa...=all&scoring=d

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...&sa=N&t ab=gw


Thanks for the links, I've been trawling the net and groups for some time
now. The official site has next to no information, and the other posts all
seem to be from people who did it as part of a cruise. Maybe it isn't open
to independent travellers :-( Guess I'll find out when I get there!

Ah well, thanks anyway, and at least I know where *not* to stay now!