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tropicalfever · Post by **tropicalfever** » March 9, 2007 9:45 pm

has anybody ever taken their own bottle of booze on board? do they search your bags before boarding?

caly · Post by **caly** » March 9, 2007 9:48 pm

Took Vodka in a water bottle....be sure to put a rip in the lable so you can identify that is the one otherwise that is a strong swig of water

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » March 10, 2007 12:43 pm

tropicalfever wrote:has anybody ever taken their own bottle of booze on board? do they search your bags before boarding?

on Carnival for the Parrothead Cruise last year we put bottles of booze in our checked luggage once we got to Ft.Lauderdale and put locks on our luggage! when we got our luggage on the ship our booze was still in there!planning on doing the same this year!

most cruise lines you are allowed to bring a few bottles of wine or champagne!

CoronaMargaritahead · Post by **CoronaMargaritahead** » March 10, 2007 4:21 pm

flipflopgirl wrote:
tropicalfever wrote:has anybody ever taken their own bottle of booze on board? do they search your bags before boarding?
on Carnival for the Parrothead Cruise last year we put bottles of booze in our checked luggage once we got to Ft.Lauderdale and put locks on our luggage! when we got our luggage on the ship our booze was still in there!planning on doing the same this year! most cruise lines you are allowed to bring a few bottles of wine or champagne!

they do charge a cork charge. so watch out for that

tropicalfever · Post by **tropicalfever** » March 10, 2007 5:25 pm

thanks for the input, we are leaving in the mourning.

Missing B'dos · Post by **Missing B'dos** » March 10, 2007 9:35 pm

It depends on the cruise line. We have cruised on Celebrity (same company as Royal Caribbean), and Carnival, and the British cruise company P & O.
P & O said no, but no one checked and we realized we COULD have carried something one (of course we were boarding on a Carribean island) -- we were especially cross as this Caribbean-based ship did not carry our local island rum, altho' it did carry our local island beer; all the rum on board was that awful Bacardi.

On Carnival, they would allow you to take a certain amount aboard initially, wine particularly. Their site specified how much you could bring.

On Celebrity, absolutely not and they DID check. So, if you are going on Royal Caribbean, probably not.

All carried no rums except Malibu and Bacardi. I think Celebrity might have had Myers too, but we got into drinking special martinis and champagne that cruise and didn't drink the usual anyway.

The other bear is stateroom flowers. P & O and Carnival made you order through them, you couldn't being any on, so we didn't take any on the Celebrity crusie and then discovered that everybody else had bought big bouquets at the wonderful flower stands at the Pike Street Market (this was departing Seattle) and we could have taken some aboard. I love flowers and must have some in the room. So check with the line on that.

Also, on both P & O and Carnival we had towel buddies and missed them on Celebrity, but we had somehow got onto a Concierge floor on the Celebrity Cruise ( have no idea how, don't ask) and other passengers reported them on regular decks, so we think our Steward was just too much above doing towel buddies. He did however, pose The Moose That Has Travelled the World with orchids, chocolates and the daily on-board paper, in lieu of a towel buddy, so his intention was good. Maybe towel buddies are just too lower class for a Concierge floor!?

Have fun!!!

CTParrothead763 · Post by **CTParrothead763** » March 11, 2007 8:51 pm

Sorry, I may be too late to help you. But, we recently cruised on RC and you had to put all carryons through an xray, similar to an airport. Liquor is confiscated. Your best bet is in your checked luggage.

SuperTrooper · Post by **SuperTrooper** » March 15, 2007 11:41 am

Sailed with RC from San Juan back in 2001. There was a duty-free store right at the dock. After we checked in we went back out, stocked up, and put the bottles in our kids' backpacks. Since we had already checked in they just waved us by. I doubt this would still work.

Our kids still talk about the time we turned them into "smugglers"!

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » March 15, 2007 11:48 am

I always bring a flask since many places do not carry my rum

Just ckeck it and you should be fine. I would take it out of its original bottle.

Last cruise I was on was in 1993... Royal Caribbean.... I bought booze for consumption in the first port of call and brought it right on the ship.

tropicalfever · Post by **tropicalfever** » April 4, 2007 12:54 pm

Got Back, had A great trip. I took a bottle of Rum in my checked bag. The wife took a cheap bottle of wine in her checked bag. Both bags showed up minus the bottles with a card that said we could claim the bottles when we returned. we saw the table were to claim them but did not try, ready to get back home.

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