From Panama City: Panama Canal Partial Transit

From Panama City: Panama Canal Partial Transit

Boat Tours

From Panama City: Panama Canal Partial Transit

From 150.00

Navigate the Panama Canal in our vessel through the Pacific Locks. Truly unique inside view of the best recommended world tour for 2014

Experience the world’s eighth wonder! Learn about the Panama Canal and take our boat through the Pacific Locks, and the Gaillard Cut to the Gatun lake. An incredible feat of engineering celebrating 100 years of age in 2014 still working as new. You will be actually lifted to reach lake Gatun

48 hours Fully refundable when canceled up to 48 hours in advance
6 Hours Duration of experience
Tour Guide / Driver Type of tour leader
Suitable for wheelchairs Access type

Experience

  • The real and unique experience of transiting the Canal
  • Depart from the Amador Causeway in our own boat
  • Follow the Ocean way of the vessels to enter the Canal
  • Experience the lifting of the vessel through two sets of the locks
  • Navigate in the Gaillard's Cut and finally the Gatun lake

  • Traditional Panamanian Lunch
  • Non-alcoholic Beverages
  • Pickup from Hotels in the following areas
Amador, Via Espana, Banking District, Av Balboa, Marbella, MultiCentro, MultiPlaza, Calidonia, Cinta Costera, Punta Paitilla, Punta Pacifica, El Cangrejo, Atlapa, El Dorado, calle Uruguay, calle 50, Obarrio, El Carmen, Av Brasil

  • Optional Gratuities
  • Pick up at hotels located after the bridge of the Americas. The meeting point will be the Megapolis Hotel and the pick up time will be confirmed the day before

  • Please wear light clothing, comfortable shoes, sunscreen and camera.
  • A minimum of two adult passengers is needed per booking.
  • Due to transit delays that might occur during the operation of the locks it is not advisable to book flights leaving the country before the 21:00 of that day

We will pick you from any hotel located in Panama city but those located in the "Casco Antiguo" due to the size of the bus. The Partial Canal Transit departing from La Playita in Amador takes place minimum every Saturday all year round but between November and April the frequency could be even daily. This tour gives you the memorable opportunity of learning how this engineer marvel was built and also to transit two set of Locks. The ship departs the Flamenco Island in Amador, where the La Playit

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Highlights
  • The real and unique experience of transiting the Canal
  • Depart from the Amador Causeway in our own boat
  • Follow the Ocean way of the vessels to enter the Canal
  • Experience the lifting of the vessel through two sets of the locks
  • Navigate in the Gaillard's Cut and finally the Gatun lake
Includes
  • Traditional Panamanian Lunch
  • Non-alcoholic Beverages
  • Pickup from Hotels in the following areas
Amador, Via Espana, Banking District, Av Balboa, Marbella, MultiCentro, MultiPlaza, Calidonia, Cinta Costera, Punta Paitilla, Punta Pacifica, El Cangrejo, Atlapa, El Dorado, calle Uruguay, calle 50, Obarrio, El Carmen, Av Brasil
Excludes
  • Optional Gratuities
  • Pick up at hotels located after the bridge of the Americas. The meeting point will be the Megapolis Hotel and the pick up time will be confirmed the day before
Essential Information
  • Please wear light clothing, comfortable shoes, sunscreen and camera.
  • A minimum of two adult passengers is needed per booking.
  • Due to transit delays that might occur during the operation of the locks it is not advisable to book flights leaving the country before the 21:00 of that day
Itinerary

We will pick you from any hotel located in Panama city but those located in the "Casco Antiguo" due to the size of the bus. The Partial Canal Transit departing from La Playita in Amador takes place minimum every Saturday all year round but between November and April the frequency could be even daily. This tour gives you the memorable opportunity of learning how this engineer marvel was built and also to transit two set of Locks. The ship departs the Flamenco Island in Amador, where the La Playit

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Customer Reviews

4.1
based on 29 verified reviews
Jul 3 2026
The pickup personnel was very punctual and it was a nice smooth ride to the meeting point. The journey on the bus was scenic and exciting all the way until we made it to the dock to board the Pacific Queen. Then we were off to sailing and then transitioning the Panama Canal. The staff were pleasant and the tour guide was very informative and we admired his humor even when it was a bit dry hahaha. Lunch was flavourful, everything was scrumptious our favourite was the mouth watering chicken stew and the sweet and flavourful plantain. The whole tour was exhilarating and we were in awe to be a part of the historical journey and staggering brilliance of the engineering of the Panama Canal.
a Gray Line customer
May 1 2026
Excellent trip, well organised and delivered exactly the experience promised. Excellent communication ahead of the trip - pick up and drop off worked well. This is a really unique experience - you won’t regret booking!
Michael Lawton
Dec 20 2025
The pickup from our downtown hotel was perfect. Cruise departed punctually. Breakfast and lunch were plenty and fresh. Guide with commentary on actual locations was great! The only delay was on the bus back to Panama City which took extraordinarily long due to traffic - almost 2 hours more than planned drop off.
a Gray Line customer
Jul 11 2023
Thoroughly enjoyable, well organised.
Sundaresan Jagannathan
Feb 29 2020
We were lucky to have a small group on the day of our tour, so the guide had a chance to answer a lot of questions from the travelers. He also kept us entertained with facts and stories about the Canal and Panama.
Customer
Feb 19 2020
Pick up and drop off service from and to Hotel worked fine, boat was good, lunch was ok, and provided drinks were good and plenty. We were lucky that the boat was not full, so we could change our seats on the upper deck from time to time to stay in the shade because it was extremely hot. We went to the Miraflores locks and the museum a day prior to the tour, where we already got a lot of information and impressions which helped us to really enjoy the tour even more (highly recommended).We did the partial tour because there was no full transit available at our dates. We were happy about that at the end of the tour because one more set of locks could not have made the experience any better.
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