Carnival Legend Review
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Carnival Legend March 2012
Travel: We flew to Tampa the evening prior to sailing and stayed at the Marriott Springhill Suites downtown (on Cypress). The hotel provides breakfast and has a shuttle bus to the cruise terminal for $5 per person. Reserve at the front desk. The bus stops at several area hotels, so call and ask because it was far easier and cheaper than a cruise transfer. We needed a few "supplies" for the cruise and found a surprisingly good convenience store at a Shell Gas station on the corner next door to the hotel. They stocked decent wine, champagne and snacks!
Packing: We took the advice of previous cruisers' suggestions. We brought a collapsible cooler to hold a 12-pack of sodas and 2 champagne bottles for check-in. Security did check the drinks in the cooler. I packed an extra 3-prong plug, 6 plug extension strip, as well as my hair flat iron in my carry on luggage. I passed right through security without a problem. Our checked bags had the carefully packed 4 "rum runners" with wine, rum and scotch. No confiscated bags!
Cabin Review
Balcony
Room: We went with a Balcony (8210)! Awesome! Used balcony for coffee in the mornings, lounging in the afternoons with cocktails and got to see most of the ports from the port side. Did not hear scraping of chairs (we were under Unicorn Cafe), but the window washing unit could be heard at night. It cleans windows/balcony of Lido deck above. 3 closets for lots of space. Bring hangars! The hangars provided are not moveable. Enjoyed having the "sofa" unit and moveable table in room. Bring extra plug strip if you charge electronics. The hair dryer provided was quite adequate. The 8th deck was very convenient to the pools, food, gym, adult area all on the 9th deck. We only used elevators to go to the 2nd deck for entertainment and evening dining. Will definitely choose this space again!