Hotel Riu Plaza Panamá

Shabbat at this hotel

Workable with planning. Up to about an hour’s walk (4.8 km) from an Orthodox shul, or a beach resort where observant guests are documented bringing in kosher food.

Walk to the nearest shul

Ahavat Sion: about 16 min (1.3 km) by map route; leaves the eruv

Room keys

Not confirmed yet. Ask the hotel before you book.

Elevator or low floors

Not confirmed yet. Ask the hotel before you book.

Doors and sensors

Not confirmed yet. Ask the hotel before you book.

Staff help with keys and doors

Not confirmed yet. Ask the hotel before you book.

Kosher food

Chabad of Panama serves prepaid Shabbat meals at 9a Calle Gil Colunge (about 18 min walk); reservations close Wednesday evening, and it also offers a Shabbat meals take-out ordering option. Whether anything is delivered to this hotel is not published

How observant guests manage

About 1.43 km (~18 min) on foot to Beit Chabad or Shevet Ahim (both about 18 min), longer than the 15-minute test. Calle 50 is not clearly inside the eruv; carry nothing unless the map that week covers the route. Register with DSI security in advance

Eruv

Calle 50 area; not clearly within the eruv described by Chabad. Confirm

Walking to synagogues

Every Orthodox and Chabad shul we list within about 45 minutes on foot, nearest first.

• about16 minAhavat Sion1.3 km on footShul location from the published address (geocoded, entrance not verified)Leaves the eruv
• about16 minAteret Yosef1.3 km on footShul location from the published address (geocoded, entrance not verified)Leaves the eruv
• about17 minChabad of Panama City (Beit Chabad)1.4 km on footLeaves the eruv
• about18 minShevet Ahim (main synagogue)1.4 km on footLeaves the eruv
• about20 minBeth El (Centro Comunitario Beth-El)1.6 km on footLeaves the eruv
• walk timecoming soonBet Max ve Sarah (Punta Pacífica)Walking time coming soon. We don’t have a confirmed street location for this shul yet.

Times are estimates along a mapped walking route between map points, at about 80 m a minute, not door to door. How we work out walking times. Eruv badges compare the whole route with the community’s eruv map; “On the eruv line” means the route runs right along the line, too close to call, so check it on the map. The eruv can be down, so confirm it every Friday with your shul or Chabad: the eruv in Panama City.

Good to know

Ask the hotel before booking whether rooms use electronic key cards, whether staff can open the door for you on Shabbat, and whether a low floor or stairwell access is possible.

Details

Rooms

600 per OpenStreetMap tags (unconfirmed by RIU)

Kosher food nearby

• Not So Martha160 m in a straight line · Meat and dairy
• Cafe con Teclas450 m in a straight line · Dairy
• Frozen550 m in a straight line · Pareve
• Pinkberry580 m in a straight line · Dairy
• El Nacional580 m in a straight line · Dairy
• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (Panama branches)600 m in a straight line · Dairy

Straight-line distance between map points; the walk is longer.