Colon Panama Hotels

The New Washington Hotel, located in Colon City, has welcomed many thousands of tourists from all over the world since it was opened in 1913. It is only 5 minutes away from any of the three Ports within Colon City and is less than 45 minutes away from Panama City. It is an excellent place to stay if you come to Colon City. From this hotel, you will have easy access to the entire country. The hotels service is always excellent.

The New Washington Hotel has 124 comfortable rooms. All rooms have cable TV, air conditioning, telephones with direct access to international calls, hot water showers, room service and internet access.

The hotel has a conference room, hairdressing service, and 24 hour reception and check-out service, in order to provide guests with the attention they deserve. Among the shared facilities there is a safe cloakroom, lift access, a bar, cafe and restaurant. Laundry service is available and guests who bring their own car can leave it in a car park near the hotel.

Guests can enjoy a pleasantly warm swimming pool, go to the bar, gamble in the casino or go dancing in the Pirates Discotheque. A variety of menus are offered at each of the hotels’ restaurants. A beautiful garden in front of the hotel greets visitors.

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Colon has come a long way since the turn of the last century when it was famous as a brash and bawdy port city. Today, Colon is a destination of choice for business and leisure travelers seeking a mix of cosmopolitan convenience and scenic wonders.

Colon anchors the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. The infrastructure of the canal zone is an important addition to the area’s commerce and culture. The Four Points hotel is conveniently located at the Millennium Plaza within Panama’s largest free trade zone.

This property lives up to the Starwood reputation for quality and service. It’s all here, Wireless Internet, fully appointed rooms, well equipped fitness center, great dining, as well as easy access to trendy boutiques, a casino, travel agencies and car rentals.

When planning larger scale events, make the Four Points your destination of choice. This property offers nearly 8,000 square feet of meeting and convention space with a full package of supporting amenities.

Remember, Panama means business. The Colon Four Points is proof.

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The Radisson Colon Hotel is located in the Colon 2000 cruise port area, near

the Colon Free Duty Zone. It offers both business and leisure travelers everything they need for an enjoyable and comfortable stay in Colon.

This hotel has 102 rooms and suites, some of them featuring a view of the cruise port. Within the room, you will have air conditioning, cable TV, hair dryer, high speed internet access, voice mail and room service. Also available are balcony rooms, handicap accessible rooms and rollaway beds.

Among the services offered, this hotel has a swimming pool and sauna, a business center, child care, dry cleaning and laundry service, fitness centre, bookstore and travel agency. . All types of meetings and special events can be held here.

The hotel has three areas designated for special events. These three areas are the Palenque, Gatun and San Lorenzo salons with capacities of 10 up to 250 people. All of the areas have data show and screen, flip charts, laptop computers, microphone, tables and chairs according to your needs, whiteboard and markers and virtually anything else you might need. Professional caterers are also available.

The Radisson offer many varied dining options. From  breakfast buffet to a casual dinner of regional or international cuisine, you can find it all at the Radisson.

The hotel features five different restaurants. The Deli Café, where you can enjoy a gourmet coffee with pastries. Drake’s Restaurant offers you international cuisine. In the Lobby bar you can enjoy live music and a variety of drinks. The Morgan Bar & Grill has a variety of starters and grill food you order while enjoying the swimming pool. Room service, is available 24/7, with a limited menu from 12 am to 6 am.

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Colon is home to the largest Free Zone in Panama, one of the largest in Latin America. This unique destination offers an alluring mix of creature comforts and exotic natural beauty. It is also a part of the 2000 Cruise Port, now home to the leviathan “Enchantment of Seas”, one of the largest cruise ships in the world.

Even with the charms of Panama calling, you just might be tempted to spend your stay right in the hotel. You can choose from any one of four different restaurants, the star of which is the popular Drake’s. The cuisine in this hot spot celebrates the role of Colon as a gateway to the Pacific. Local fare is the order of the day featuring Panama’s abundant natural fruits and seafood. As night falls, check out the casino, and Colon’s brisk nightlife.

A Colon adventure is one of Panama’s best. Experience our nation’s natural wonders while expanding your company’s markets in cooperation with the business friendly staff in Panama’s largest free zone—Colon.

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The Davis Suites in Colon, Panama is a great deal. In a quiet part of town, the streets around Davis Suites are safe and the hotel is clean and well run. Rooms feature hot water, microwave ovens, small refrigerators and high speed WIFI access.

The Davis suites are close to both the Panama Canal and to the Colon Free Zone. If you are into heavy duty, duty free shopping, the Colon Free Zone is for you. This is the world’s second largest duty free zone next to Hong Kong. On roughly a square mile of land you will find duty free merchandise from all over the world. All you need for entry is a non-Panamanian passport!

This part of the world boasts of Columbus’ fifth voyage when he called a harbor to the east a “beautiful port.” Portobelo went on to become the site of a huge trade fair in the days of the Spanish Main, when Spanish galleons brought goods and returned with gold. In more recent history steamships brought passengers to Colon to board the Panama railway to cross the isthmus on their way to the California gold rush.

Today Colon is the Caribbean outlet from the Panama Canal and sees 5 percent of all world trade pass through it. From your room at the Davis Suites, you can visit the fortifications at Portobelo one day and go kayaking in the Panama Canal the next. You will want to make sure you save enough time and money to check out the deals at the Colon Free Zone or you will never forgive yourself.

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Davis Suites has 45 luxuriously furnished and decorated rooms and suites. All of the rooms come with air conditioning, satellite TV, mini bar, fridge, radio, direct dial telephone and room service 24 hours a day.

There are 2 presidential suites, furnished in style, with a large sitting room and bedroom. It also has a Jacuzzi and kitchen with microwave. It is just like being at home. Other rooms are available to suit your needs. There are the Royal Suites, which consist of a luxurious bedroom and a fully furnished sitting room and the Ambassadorial Suites, which have a kitchen, two bedrooms, one sitting room and a dining room. Also available are the Super Executive Deluxe Suites, the Double Rooms and the Single Rooms.

Among the services offered, there is a fully-equipped gym and a nature shop, where you will be able to get energizers and other supplements. Professional trainers are there to provide you with premium assistance. The Bush bar is the place you might want to go if what you are looking for is relaxation and a cozy environment with live music. The restaurants offer buffet, and la carte service is also available. A swimming pool outside has its own bar.

A massage salon might be the perfect therapy you require. If massages are not enough for you, the hotel offers a sauna, where you can relax and enjoy the steam baths. Modern washing machines are available in the laundries, which are also available for outside guests, from Mondays to Saturdays.

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Built in the wilder days of Colon’s early 20th Century. the New Washington Hotel has seen a lot of history. The property has recently undergone an extensive renovation. and Visitors are once again flocking to this historic treasure.

The historic New Washington Hotel was originally constructed in 1913, following an order by William H. Taft. Taft felt that the fury of activity surrounding the canal justified an upscale hotel. The plan must have worked, the hotel’s first guest was Vincent Astor, a scion of one of the world’s wealthiest families.

The hotel is located in one of Colon’s more desirable areas on the corner at the point where the Panama Canal meets Manzanillo Bay. The property features classic Spanish Colonial architecture blended with design additions spanning nearly a hundred years of service.

The New Washington is one of the area’s more affordable hotels. You’ll find a wide array of excellent restaurants, as well as a casino and disco for fun after dark. The property has been updated with all the modern comforts you have come to expect.

Immerse yourself in Panama’s colorful history with a stay at Colon’s New Washington Hotel.

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The Colon Province of Panama is now the fourth most populated province, with a population of just over two hundred thousand souls. Located on the Atlantic Ocean end of the Panama Canal, on the Northern shore of Panama, the seaport city of Colon was located on a spot which history records as Manzanillo Island.

When gold was discovered in California in 1848, it provided the impetus for building a method of fast transportation across the narrow Isthmus of Panama. With plans in progress for the Panama Railroad, Manzanillo Island was linked with the mainland by American entrepreneurs; including William H. Aspinwall. The engineers innovated a drainage plan to allow them to construct the railhead by first drawing off enough water from the swamps on and around the island to be able to build on it and connect it by bridge to the mainland.

The Panama Railroad asked for bids to construct the track from the Atlantic shore to the Pacific shore. The construction contract was awarded to a company headed by George M. Totten and John G. Trautwine, who sent an order to New Orleans to have a small pine board shack built and shipped to him. This was the first permanent structure in what became the town of Aspinwall which was later called Colon.

Due to the tropical diseases malaria and yellow fever; it is estimated that more than 12,000 people died during the construction of the Panama Railroad. The true numbers will never be available, because many of the people keeping records died too, some of them from cholera contaminated food or water.
The Panama Railroad is the most expensive railroad built in the world. Building the forty seven miles of track that inaugurated the first inter-ocean railroad cost – in addition to the lives of twelve thousand people – eight million dollars and five painstakingly muddy and mosquito tortured years of work. The workers who cleared the land and laid the track were from all over the world, but as they died by the thousands; those who survived stood apart.