Pre-Cruise

So this was our 10th sailing and it was my self, DW and our two youngest sons (DS4 and DS5). We originally booked this cruise to make up for our cancelled Bermuda cruise as we already had a cruise booked for February of next year on Legend. About two months before sailing our itinerary was changed from Bermuda to the Bahamas. Since we paid a great price for Bermuda (equal to a good price for Bahamas) and we really needed to get away we decided to stick with it. Carnival gave each cabin $150 OBC for the change and I understand that people were able to cancel without penalty if they chose to. We have sailed with NCL (4 times), Royal (once) and this was our 5th cruise with Carnival (DS4 has 3 sailings on NCL, 2 on CCL and DS5 has 3 sailings on NCL). This was Legend’s first sailing with passengers in almost 2 years so I expected to face all sorts of service issues as the crew learned to work together, but that expectation was not met and service was not much of an issue for us. We had a great time and look forward to being on Legend in February.

We did our COVID tests from eMed on Friday. I had to order them from a different website because the 6 pack tests were sold out but was able to order 2 packs of tests. I ordered 2 sets to be delivered to my address and 1 to be delivered to DS4 since he lives an hour and a half away. He joined us Friday evening to make it easier of a drive on Saturday and did his test when he got here. The proctored test was easy to do and there was hardly any wait in line to connect with a guide. We each were negative (which you probably figured out, since if anyone had been positive I wouldn’t be writing this review). We drove to Baltimore from Vermont on Saturday, leaving at 8:15am and arriving in Glen Burnie by 8:30pm. It was dark as we drove past the port but could see Legend all lighted up, waiting patiently for us. Read more