Cruise Line: Regent Seven Seas Cruises Ship: Seven Seas Voyager Region: Panama and Central America. Departs: Dec 29, 2008 From: Ft Lauderdale (Pt Everglades)

14 Nights from 6295.00 USD

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Description

14 Night Cruise sailing from Ft Lauderdale to Los Angeles aboard Voyager. 14 Night Cruise sailing from Ft Lauderdale to Los Angeles aboard Voyager.

Following closely in the wake of the Seven Seas Mariner, the new 700-guest Seven Seas Voyager is the world's second all-suite, all-balcony ship and the second to feature a restaurant operated by Le Cordon Bleu® of Paris. There are four main dining venues, surprising for a ship of her size. The Voyager also features some of the highest space and service ratios at sea, and her suites are the largest "lead-in" suites in the industry. Seven Seas Voyager offers an unusual array of pleasurable pastimes - including some activities rarely available even in the finest resorts on land. Contract Bridge, for example, complimentary computer classes, art auctions and classes in ballroom dancing.

Highlights of your cruise include:

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. And plenty of water"within the Ft. Lauderdale city limits alone there are more than 165 miles of navigable waterways (and more than 42,000 registered yachts). Downtown Ft. Lauderdale is peppered with high-rise buildings; sidewalk cafes and shops line the New River; the Arts and Science District, anchored by the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, lures the culturally minded. Las Olas Boulevard is best known for its relaxed alfresco shopping and its people watching in the heart of downtown Ft. Lauderdale. The street is lined with boutiques, bars and a shaded walkway for strolling. And getting around the city is part of the sport: Water taxis now ply the maze of waterways that link residential neighborhoods to sights, restaurants, shops and Port Everglades. The Tequesta Indians were the city"s original inhabitants. After the Spanish took Florida as their own, the Seminole Indians, who lived in the northern reaches of the state, started moving southward. In 1837, during the Seminole Wars, the city"s namesake, Major William Lauderdale, built a fort at the mouth of the New River, which now snakes through the city center. Cruise ships dock at Port Everglades, which is about 3 miles southeast of downtown Ft. Lauderdale. The port is convenient to downtown Ft. Lauderdale, the beaches are about 3 miles north, and the airport is just 2 miles southwest of the port.

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.

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.

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