We cruised out of Tampa on the Carnival Legend on January 4th, 2014. We have cruised the Pride, Spirit, and Miracle and after hearing the Legend will be moving to Australia we wanted to cruise on the last Spirit class ship so we booked this cruise.
We are 64 and 59 – Platinum cruisers on Carnival and Princess. Our previous two cruises were a 12-day Mediterranean cruise on the Ruby Princess during November and a 15 Day Panama Canal/repositioning cruise on the Carnival Miracle during March.
We flew into Tampa from Kansas City the day before the cruise. The Tampa airport is a great airport. Taxi fare is a flat rate of $25 to the downtown area. We spent the night at the Marriott Waterfront which is a nice, full-service hotel. We ate all our meals there and thought the food was very good. The lobby and patio area by the marina are great places to relax. Our room was very clean and comfortable. Our balcony overlooked the Tampa Times Forum parking lot so we watched the elephants and other animals from the circus that was in town.
Noisy during evening shows & afternoon rehearsals. Spacious and nice balcony.