Carnival Legend Review

Just O.K.-great crew, ship tired

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Legend
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cardbucfan
6-10 Cruises • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Mar 2013

We were extremely disappointed to basically lose half our port stops. Yes, we understand that a port can be missed for various reasons but the ship not being mechanically capable of providing the trip you contracted for isn't acceptable. While some folks on CC will say "hey, you were on a cruise! How bad is life?!" and others will say "if you wanted to go to a specific place you should just do a land vacation" I'd say the vast majority of cruisers choose their cruise based on the itinerary and price. We cruise to get a taste of different places and then decide if we want to return for a land vacation. Sometimes we want to return to specific locations for one reason and a weeklong trip isn't warranted. We really wanted to dive in Grand Cayman. I know several folks on our cruise who were so excited to go cave tubing, diving, snorkeling, or see Aztec ruins in Belize so yes; the loss of those ports really affected our enjoyment of the cruise. Costa Maya is not an acceptable substitute for Belize and by the time a lot of folks found out the itinerary had changed and made it to the shore excursion desk a lot of stuff was sold out not to mention forget trying to book something independent. We basically ended up with 4 sea days! Not what we wanted at all.Embarkation:

We splurged on this cruise and booked a suite for DH and I and an inside for our two sons. This gave us priority boarding so we had the cab pick us up at home around 10:35 and we were tipping the porters at 10:50. (I love living that close to the port!) There was a separate door for VIP/priority but we were still required to stand in the regular line until we got to the place where you would go in the terminal with the regular line. DH was like "why don't we just go in here" and I said "they have separate lines inside". Well, no they didn't. We merged back into the same line to go through security. What the heck is that about?? Luckily, the line wasn't terribly long at that time of day so it didn't affect us and maybe as the line got longer they had a separate line for VIP/Priority but it really didn't make any sense. Security was ridiculous. They only had 2 lines open (again, maybe they opened more as the line got longer) and since this was a spring break cruise they were being extremely vigilant with looking for alcohol. According to one of the security guards, they already had a room full of alcohol they had confiscated! Once through security, we got our sail and sign cards (had a bit of an issue with our kids not being priority since they were in an inside and had to insist that their accounts were linked with ours and they are minors but it only took a few minutes to resolve-again thankfully because we got there so early and there wasn't much of a line) and before we even had a chance to sit down in the priority boarding area, they were calling our zone to board. We were close to the first ones on the ship and were sitting down in the Lido by 11:20 getting lunch. Not too shabby! Our rooms weren't going to be ready until 12:30 so in the future I would do FTTF since we had so much stuff we carried on with us. At 12:30 we headed to our rooms and our suite was ready but the boys wasn't so they dropped their carry-ons in our room and headed off to explore. Our luggage arrived around 3:30 even with our getting there so early.Food:

We ordered room service quite a few times and it was always prompt and exactly what we ordered. A woman I spoke with said the chocolate cake from room service is delicious as an FYI!

Cabin Review

Cabin 11

Balcony overlooks lifeboats-didn't check that on deckplans prior to booking. Good sized cabin and balcony though. Far from elevators/stairs-smack dab between them! Made for a quiet room though.

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