CARNIVAL LEGEND OFFERS YEAR-ROUND SEVEN-DAYCARIBBEAN VOYAGES FROM TAMPA

MIAMI — Carnival Cruise Lines’ 88,500-ton Carnival Legend offers year-round seven-day Caribbean cruises from Tampa, providing  a truly unique vacation experience, with a host of “resort-style” amenities and an exciting array of stunning public rooms and facilities, each with a character all its own. 

On this route, the 2,124-passenger vessel visits four magnificent Caribbean ports – Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize and Isla Roatan, each offering excellent beaches and interesting historical sites and attractions.

In addition to a diversity of “themed” lounges, bars, and nightspots, the “Fun Ship” Carnival Legend offers myriad full-service and casual dining choices, an on-board health and fitness facility, supervised kids and teen programs, and a golf program offering golf excursions and personalized lessons.

PUBLIC ROOMS AND AREAS
The Carnival Legend features a variety of dramatic public spaces designed by Carnival’s award-winning interior architect Joe Farcus. These areas celebrate legendary figures and locations — both historical and mythical — which inspired the design of the public rooms aboard.

Highlights include the ship’s Colossus Atrium patterned after ancient Greece and the legendary, classical city of Rhodes; Medusa’s Lair dance club offering a playful twist on the mythological legend of the mysterious gorgon Medusa, with giant Medusa heads with snakelike hair ending in snakes’ head with lighted eyes; Follies, the main show lounge that recalls the magnificent movie houses of the 1920s.

DINING OPTIONS
Offering a wide variety of formal and casual options, the Carnival Legend features the two-level Truffles main dining room and the poolside Unicorn Café, a casual eatery serving full breakfast, lunch and dinner alternatives and a 24-hour pizzeria.  Dining room menus also include vegetarian dishes and children’s menus, as well as Spa Carnival Fare, delicious health-conscious menu items that are lower in fat, sodium, cholesterol and calories. The ship also features a patisserie and sushi bar, as well as complimentary 24-hour room service and ice cream and frozen yogurt. 

ON-BOARD PROGRAMS
CAMP CARNIVAL,’ ‘CIRCLE C,’ ‘CLUB O2’ – Building upon Carnival’s distinction as the family cruise leader carrying 670,000 children annually fleetwide, Carnival Legend offers organized programs for three different age groups – Camp Carnival for 2- to 11-year-olds, Circle “C” for 12- to 14-year-olds, and Club O2 for 15- to 17-year-olds – with supervised activities and expansive, modern facilities.  Carnival Legend also houses four swimming pools, including a children’s wading pool and an aft pool with a twisting, turning Twister water slide.

‘HEALTH AND FITNESS FACILITY’ – Fitness has become an important part of everyday life and guests sailing on the Carnival Legend can take advantage of the ship’s 14,500-square-foot “Spa Carnival” facility, which features exercise equipment, a gymnasium, and body and facial treatments, including a number of exotic “European-style” therapies. The ship also features a salon offering a variety of hair, nail and make-up services. 

SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS-  Eighty percent of the ship’s 1,062 staterooms offer either an ocean view or balcony – perfect for scenic Caribbean cruising. As part of Carnival’s fleetwide stateroom enhancements, all of the Carnival Legend’s staterooms feature the Carnival Comfort Bed sleep system, featuring plush mattresses, luxurious duvets, fluffy pillows and high quality sheets and linens. All accommodations include terrycloth bathrobes as well as in-cabin amenity kits with a variety of brand-name product samples for men and women. 

INTERNET CAFÉ, WI-FI ACCESS, CELL PHONE SERVICE – Like all “Fun Ships,” Carnival Legend offers an Internet café with private workstations featuring flat-screen monitors, along with Wi-Fi access available in virtually all public rooms and areas.  Guests can also make and receive cell phone calls whether the ship is at sea or in port.

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CARNIVAL LEGEND OFFERS YEAR-ROUND SEVEN-DAYCARIBBEAN VOYAGES FROM TAMPA

             MIAMI — Carnival Cruise Lines’ 88,500-ton Carnival Legend offers year-round seven-day Caribbean cruises from Tampa, providing  a truly unique vacation experience, with a host of “resort-style” amenities and an exciting array of stunning public rooms and facilities, each with a character all its own. 

            On this route, the 2,124-passenger vessel visits four magnificent Caribbean ports – Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize and Isla Roatan, each offering excellent beaches and interesting historical sites and attractions.

            In addition to a diversity of “themed” lounges, bars, and nightspots, the “Fun Ship” Carnival Legend offers myriad full-service and casual dining choices, an on-board health and fitness facility, supervised kids and teen programs, and a golf program offering golf excursions and personalized lessons.

            PUBLIC ROOMS AND AREAS
            The Carnival Legend features a variety of dramatic public spaces designed by Carnival’s award-winning interior architect Joe Farcus. These areas celebrate legendary figures and locations — both historical and mythical — which inspired the design of the public rooms aboard.

            Highlights include the ship’s Colossus Atrium patterned after ancient Greece and the legendary, classical city of Rhodes; Medusa’s Lair dance club offering a playful twist on the mythological legend of the mysterious gorgon Medusa, with giant Medusa heads with snakelike hair ending in snakes’ head with lighted eyes; Follies, the main show lounge that recalls the magnificent movie houses of the 1920s.

            DINING OPTIONS
            Offering a wide variety of formal and casual options, the Carnival Legend features the two-level Truffles main dining room and the poolside Unicorn Café, a casual eatery serving full breakfast, lunch and dinner alternatives and a 24-hour pizzeria.  Dining room menus also include vegetarian dishes and children’s menus, as well as Spa Carnival Fare, delicious health-conscious menu items that are lower in fat, sodium, cholesterol and calories. The ship also features a patisserie and sushi bar, as well as complimentary 24-hour room service and ice cream and frozen yogurt. 

            ON-BOARD PROGRAMS
            CAMP CARNIVAL,’ ‘CIRCLE C,’ ‘CLUB O2’ – Building upon Carnival’s distinction as the family cruise leader carrying 625,000 children annually fleetwide, Carnival Legend offers organized programs for three different age groups – Camp Carnival for 2- to 11-year-olds, Circle “C” for 12- to 14-year-olds, and Club O2 for 15- to 17-year-olds – with supervised activities and expansive, modern facilities.  Carnival Legend also houses four swimming pools, including a children’s wading pool and an aft pool with a twisting, turning Twister water slide.

            ‘HEALTH AND FITNESS FACILITY’ – Fitness has become an important part of everyday life and guests sailing on the Carnival Legend can take advantage of the ship’s 14,500-square-foot “Spa Carnival” facility, which features exercise equipment, a gymnasium, and body and facial treatments, including a number of exotic “European-style” therapies. The ship also features a salon offering a variety of hair, nail and make-up services. 

            SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS-  Eighty percent of the ship’s 1,062 staterooms offer either an ocean view or balcony – perfect for scenic Caribbean cruising. As part of Carnival’s fleetwide stateroom enhancements, all of the Carnival Legend’s staterooms feature the Carnival Comfort Bed sleep system, featuring plush mattresses, luxurious duvets, fluffy pillows and high quality sheets and linens. All accommodations include terrycloth bathrobes as well as in-cabin amenity kits with a variety of brand-name product samples for men and women. 

            INTERNET CAFÉ, WI-FI ACCESS, CELL PHONE SERVICE – Like all “Fun Ships,” Carnival Legend offers an Internet café with private workstations featuring flat-screen monitors, along with Wi-Fi access available in virtually all public rooms and areas.  Guests can also make and receive cell phone calls whether the ship is at sea or in port.

             For additional information and reservations on the Carnival Legend or any other “Fun Ship,” contact any travel agent, call 1-800-CARNIVAL or visit carnival.com.

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Carnival Cruise Lines will begin testing a new flexible dining option with the Carnival Legend’s June 29, 2008, departure that will enable guests to choose an open seating option for dinner. Guests who opt for flexible dining can dine at whatever time they wish between 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. nightly in the ship’s main restaurant.

The new flexible dining pilot program aboard Carnival Legend will in no way replace Carnival’s popular classic dining system which provides a choice of either main or late seating. Under classic dining, guests dine at the same table with service from the same wait staff throughout the full voyage.

Guests will be asked to designate either flexible/open seating or classic, assigned seating prior to departure and their choice will be in effect for the full cruise.

The new open seating dining initiative is the latest addition to Carnival’s Total Choice Dining and designed to provide guests with additional flexibility in their dinnertime options.

Carnival will begin contacting guests sailing on the Carnival Legend’s June 29 departure and beyond to advise of the new dining initiative beginning later this month.

Carnival Legend sails year-round seven-day western Caribbean cruises from Tampa.