Background Information: My wife and I (21/22) went on this cruise as our Honeymoon. I've cruised Royal Caribbean before with my parents, this was her first.

Travel To Port of Embarkation: We flew directly from Boston to Tampa, and had no trouble with our baggage or finding the CCL representative at the airport (half our flight seemed to be going on the Legend as well!) We waited at the airport for about 45 minutes before the bus came to get everyone. Some people didn't fit on the bus and got pretty angry and just took a cab instead of waiting again. We arrived at the port and gave our bags to the porters, and got in line. We stood in about 3 different lines before we were finally on board and having our first drink of the day. We proceeded up to the Lido deck to have lunch as did every other passenger on the ship. There were no tables and the lines at the buffet stations were long. All this was to be expected however, so we took it in stride and had a great rest of the day.

Ship Info: The Carnival Legend is a great ship. Not too little, not too much. I'm not used to the small pools offered on this ship though and mid-day on a Sea Day you're literally rubbing toes with everyone else in the pool. We spent our time in the Unicorn Pool (adults only). As a side-note to that, it's not advertised that the aft pool area is adults only, but there were never any kids back there, other than a passing few or older teens keeping to themselves. The interior spaces were conveniently placed so you never felt too cramped. There were 10 different places to get a drink, so we never went empty handed. Read more