Cruise Review for Carnival Legend
We just returned from an 8-night Southern Caribbean cruise out of Fort Lauderdale on Carnival Legend over Easter week, April 1-9, 2007. We had three families in our group, with 5 adults ranging from mid-40s to mid-50s, and 10 kids ranging from a 22 year old college student on down to an 11 year old. Three of the kids are 15 with another nearly 15 so that's where most of the action was among the junior division, with the 13 and 11 year olds frequently joining in with their older siblings. Two of the families have cruised together before, so the adults are friends as are the kids. Our family has cruised on Royal Caribbean and Norwegian before, but this was our first time on a Carnival ship, so I will make some comparisons back and forth.
Booking the Cruise I was surprised at how DIFFICULT it was to book our families onto the Carnival cruise by comparison to Royal Caribbean and Norwegian ... especially since Carnival advertises that they are the fun ships with all the bells and whistles for f-a-m-i-l-y fun. Carnival's policy is that all kids under 21 need to room with their parents, which becomes a circus for large families ... if I wanted to be a camp counselor rooming with a bunch of girls while my husband bunked in with a bunch of boys down the hall, I'd get a job working at a camp.