Cruise Line: Regent Seven Seas Cruises Ship: Seven Seas Mariner Region: Panama and Central America. Departs: Dec 20, 2008 From: Los Angeles

16 Nights from 6995.00 USD

Itinerary

Description

16 Night Cruise sailing from Los Angeles to Ft Lauderdale aboard Mariner. 16 Night Cruise sailing from Los Angeles to Ft Lauderdale aboard Mariner.

Seven Seas Mariner is the world's first all-suite, all-balcony ship, as well as the first to offer dining by the famed Le Cordon Bleu® of Paris in Signatures, one of four single, open-seating restaurants. Catering to only 700 guests, she is one of the most spacious cruise ships afloat, and, her staff to guest ratio of 1 to 1.6 provides the highest level of personal service in the six-star tradition of Radisson Seven Seas.

Highlights of your Cruise Include:

Los Angeles
After the Jesuits had built a series of missions along the coast of Alta California, the Spaniards established a port in 1781 as a rest and supply stop for their coastal shipping routes. Los Angeles remained small until the beginning of this century because of the acute shortage of water. With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad and the discovery of oil in the valleys, people began to arrive in droves. The water problem was not even resolved by the 1913 Owen River Aqueduct project. By that time, a tiny industry had become fixed in the hills north of the city. Panoramic film scenes required space and the new studios provided the perfect milieu. In 1923 the much-photographed giant letters were erected on the hill, and the golden age of Hollywood was born. Los Angeles has become the prototype of the sprawling megalopolis, it consists of a group of distinct urban areas, often a long way apart, which lie like the rim of a wheel around the center city hub. The scale of Los Angeles - 90 miles long by 50 miles wide defies belief.

Puntarenas
Costa Rica is located on the Central American isthmus and is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, the Southeast by Panama, the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by the Pacific Ocean. With its tall mountains, forested slopes, green pasture lands and lush vegetation, Costa Rica is often referred to as the "Switzerland of Central America." A mountainous country, Costa Rica ranges from sea level to peaks as high as 13,000 feet and a succession of white, sandy beaches follow one another along the Pacific Coast. The country was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1502. Rumors of vast gold treasures (which never materialized ) led to the country's name - "Rich Coast." Another version of the name's origin attributes it to the admiration of the discoverer upon first seeing the coastline. San Jose, the capital city, is located in the central valley at an altitude of 3,450 feet and enjoys a "Spring-Like" average temperature of 72 degrees.

Ft Lauderdale
Ft. Lauderdale sits in the middle of the burgeoning megalopolis known as South Florida, which hugs the Atlantic coast from Miami in the south (a 35-minute car ride away) to Palm Beach in the north. It is the principal city in huge Broward County, two-thirds of which is swampland in the Everglades. What isn't swampy includes 23 miles of beaches and 28 municipalities.

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