Carnival Legend Review

Carnival Legend - Western Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Legend
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jmaze
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Nov 2007
Traveled with children

We just got back from our 7 day Western Caribbean cruise aboard the Carnival Legend. This was our first cruise and a lot of my questions and anticipation was answered by cruise critic boards prior to leaving on our cruise. That being so helpful to us, I thought I would share our views on our cruise as first time cruisers.

We embarked in Tampa. Wow, was that easy. I expected lines like in the airport but not even close. We dropped off our luggage about 10:15 a.m. which already had the tags and the porter took them away. While my husband parked the truck in the parking garage for $84.00 for the week, we (my son and I) people watched. When he got back 10 minutes later we went inside, immediately went to a counter, obtained our number and went and sat down. Approximately 30 minutes later our number was called and we boarded the ship, got our sail and sign card and we were official. We went to the lido deck and had lunch since we couldn't go to our rooms till after 1:30. I had an awesome grilled Reuben sandwich. The sauce was wonderful!! You have got to try this sandwich. My son had pizza which he really enjoyed. I tried it during the week and thought it was only okay. We wandered this ship to get our bearings and then went to our cabin at about 1:30. We got underway right on time and instead of going to the dining room for dinner at 5:45 (we had early dining) we stayed on the top deck and watched to go under the bridge (I can't remember the name of the bridge). This happened at about 6:30. What a trip that was. It felt like we should be able to reach out and touch the bridge. I believe there are mere inched between the underside of the bridge and the tip top of the ship funnels. Definitely worth waiting to see the ship go under. You could hear people catch their breath as we got closer and closer and then went under. We relaxed that evening just looking around, had a drink of the day and went to bed by 12:00. We did however go to the Cayman Island shopping talk held by Drew. I really enjoyed that as it had real good information and my hubby caught a rum cake that was thrown out into the audience. YUM! Monday was a ship day. I started the day sea sick but I took some motion sickness pills and after a couple of hours I was able to get up. I missed the cozumel, belize shopping talk but my hubby went and he caught a couple more freebies. We relaxed that day, while my son did a scavenger hunt with the 12-14 years olds and played video games in the arcade. He and my husband swam some and went down the slide several time. We went to the dining room for dinner but I wasn't real impressed with the food.

Grand Cayman - We went swimming with the sting rays first thing in the morning. We did the carnival excursion with approx 23 other people. Well worth the price. Yes it cost a bit more that the private excursions but we were the first group there and we had the stingrays to ourselves for at least 20 minutes and a couple of the boats that came along later were crowded and didn't stay as long as us. It was amazing! We shopped in the afternoon. I followed Drew's recommendations for shopping and got some very nice jewelry. The shopping area was a bit too commercial and I was rather disappointed in that.

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