travel42 Hotel Review: Central Hotel Panama

Central Hotel Panama travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This historic hotel was the first commercial hotel in Old Town, constructed as a hotel in 1874. In 1882, the fourth-floor iron staircase was fabricated in Belfast, Ireland 20 years before the same shipyard fabricated the Titanic ship. The famous property was originally constructed to support executive and engineering staff for the Panama Canal.

It is located right on Independence Square and across the street from the Panama Canal Museum and the Panama His...