I told DH about the possible $100/person panama canal fee, so he started poking around the net. He found this site
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/maritime/tolls.html which looks like it is indeed a new toll they are charging - it goes into effect this October.
I agree with Tom that we should all call Disney and protest - I doubt they will just eat the cost, but maybe they will give in on some sort of onboard credit to offset it a little - even $50 per person would make it more palatable and feel like
DCL was at least trying to share the cost.
With the ship sailing completely full, they can't be cutting it close on profit on this sailing.
Pamela (pdarrah)
WARNING, MATH ALERT (BUT MONEY INVOLVED)
Now they charge on a special Panama canal ton which is based on volume. Gross tonnage is also based on volume. I don't know the Magic's weight in PC tons, but in Gross Tons, the tax is about a $35,000 difference, based on Magic's capacity of (what did Crash say 1,750 people) and a likely cruise population of about 1,500, the per person charge is about $25.00.
...................................old....................new..................diff
First 10,000...........$ 29,600.00.......$ 33,900.00........$ 4,300.00
Second 10,000.......$ 29,000.00.......$ 33,200.00........$ 4,200.00
Balance 63,000.......$179,550.00......$205,380.00.......$25,830.00
Total 83,000..........$238,150.00......$272,480.00......
$34,330.00
So, unless the PC Ton is about 4 times a Gross ton, Disney is goughing us here! (unless its $100 per cabin, not passenger...)
aboard to all the newbies
and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today.
I've tried everything I could think of to relieve the pain, but nothing has helped. At 3am this morning my chest felt as though it was on fire so I put an ice pack on it and was able to fall back to sleep until 6am. 
I'd appreciate some of it sent my way.
