Carnival Legend: mythical tales inspire a pathfinding ship in the spirit of today's Carnival Cruise Lines.(SHIP IN PROFILE)

From: Cruise Travel | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Schwartzman, M.T. | Copyright information

Of all the Carnival Cruise Lines "classes," from Fantasy to Conquest, the Spirit Class is my personal favorite. Its ships are manageable, artful, well-conceived, speedy, and wide-ranging--everything a cruise liner should be.

The 2002-built, 88,500-gross-register-ton/2,124-passenger Carnival Legend is the third in the line's Spirit Class, a design that actually made its debut with 2000's Costa Atlantica (built for sister line Costa Cruises). Other ships in this series inc...

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