Carnival Legend Review

Crusing on the Carnival Legend

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Legend
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shirls2u
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Mar 2013
Cabin: Extended Balcony

We drove to Tampa & like most people coming from a distance, we stayed overnight at a hotel. It was La Quinta, I believe & it was adequate at best. Getting onto the ship went fairly smooth & was quite a big quicker than the Conquest from the year before. Although they tell you your room won't be ready until 1:00, we went on up & our room was ready about an hour before that. Doesn't hurt nothing to go to your room to check. By the time you get on the ship, you are going to want to decompress WITHOUT OTHER PEOPLE for a couple of minutes before you head down to find lunch. The food was decent, with breakfast being my favorite. The ships dEcor was fairly gaudy, but seemed clean enough.

We paid for the "extended balcony", which made the balcony 4 or 5 feet wide instead of the usual 2-3. Nothing to get excited about though. And since the extended balcony rooms were at the top of the ship (think we were on level 9), the top of our balcony & room apparently was the floor of the Lido deck, so there were times when we heard lots of chair scraping & etc above us. We had five adjacent rooms/cabins, so we were able to open the doors between our balconys & have a really LONG roomy balcony to visit on. The service room & otherwise was predictable good & polite. No problems there. The dining service was excellent as always. The dining room food was good, but I am pretty easy to please being as I am one of eight kids!! Anywho, we are not much for gambling or baking in wrinkles at the pool, so we spent quite a lot of time visiting on our balcony. I highly recommend you get the balcony room as there is times you will def want to get away from all the people. Or is that just me?

As for excursions, at Cozumel we had previously booked Nachi Cocum Sports Beach for our whole crowd on-line. Nachi Cocum is a quick 5 minute cab ride from the port, so you don't have to worry about not getting back on time. Nachi Cocum's price for the day ($65 I think) includes all your food & drinks for the day, including mixed drinks & beer. We got our money's worth there, for sure!! For an additional cost you could Scuba, rent a jet ski or a large blowup island float. The food & drink was good & the beach was nice. I do recommend Nachi Cocum. This was our second time at Cozumel & Nachi Cocum.

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Extended Balcony

It was nice & clean. Roomy enough. Lots of closet space. The extended balcony was worth the extra money.

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