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Panama Hotel Has Old World Setting, New World Style
Our own Brendan Spiegel is down in Panama this week and will be reporting back on all that he's seen and done. Whether or not he's wearing a Panama Hat, we can't say. But if you have any questions or suggestions for him, let us know.
Considering how built-up and cosmopolitan much of Panama City is, we've found that to our tastes, the accommodations game is surprisingly lacking.
You've got a bunch of very high-end places like The Bristol, which are pretty clearly outside our price range; there's a whole slew of cheap, dimly-lit pensions that strike us as just a tad too sketchy; and there are only one or two backpacker hostels to even speak of.
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Paris Meets Port-au-Prince in Panama
Our own Brendan Spiegel is down in Panama this week and will be reporting back on all that he's seen and done. Whether or not he's wearing a Panama Hat, we can't say. But if you have any questions or suggestions for him, let us know.
Much of the recent James Bond flick Quantum of Solace was set in Haiti, but the producers weren't actually all that excited about the hurricane-strewn, poverty-stricken isle; they filmed the Haiti scenes in Panama instead, in what by all appearances is set to become Latin America's "next" neighborhood
