Central to many of the locations we visited in Panama City, staying at Wyndham Panama Albrook Mall was the ideal location to set up shop for our travel broadcasts. Spacious guest rooms (come on, mine has a full kitchen!) a rooftop pool and bar, with its connection to the legendary Albrook Mall, this is a great vacation destination or place for a longer stay.

The breakfast buffet is great. At first the fruit and juice tasted weird to me but then I realized it is fresh! It's from the area! I'd never had such fresh food before.

The location offers plenty of meeting and conference space. One room has capacity to hold 2,000 people.

Take a look at the photo tour of the property and a video walk-through of my suite.

How's this for crazy: I had just finished breakfast and I ran into Canada's Ambassador to Panama, Lilly Nicholls. Always with a microphone in hand -- or at least close by -- we had a quick chat for the radio shows. Audio from the chat is further down on this page. The ambassador shares her picks for Panama destinations to check out. Coincidentally, we did most of them!