Alcohol carry-on and soda policy

[tvguy]

See, I hate guava but like Dr Pepper. I can see why someone might bring the latter onboard. Even being able to have a couple of cans in the room is nice. If you don't care to, that's okay, too.

No worries. They had lemonade and ice tea and a bunch of other options.

 

[jjb1974]

Do the beer cans have to be under a certain size?

12 ounce as other people said….Tank 7 comes in 16 oz cans and I did the research on this hoping for a loophole.

 

[bunnm09]

Never understood hauling alcohol on board, soda makes even less sense. We only spent $125 on alcohol on a 7 day cruise. And I can't believe I wrote ONLY before $125. So I might have saved $75 on a $9,000 cruise.

Under the current alcohol rules sure, it’s silly. But a up until a few years ago you used to be able to carry liquor on board and we brought a ton. Why pay $10+ for a mixed drink when we could pour some in a cup and mix it at the free drink station?

now we bring none because we don’t drink beer or wine, but I’ll match your 7 day drink bill on my 4 day cruise in a few weeks lol

 

[tvguy]

Under the current alcohol rules sure, it’s silly. But a up until a few years ago you used to be able to carry liquor on board and we brought a ton. Why pay $10+ for a mixed drink when we could pour some in a cup and mix it at the free drink station?

now we bring none because we don’t drink beer or wine, but I’ll match your 7 day drink bill on my 4 day cruise in a few weeks lol

Hmmmm. Well, that explains why the only drunk person I have seen on all my cruises was on my Disney cruise!

 

[bunnm09]

Hmmmm. Well, that explains why the only drunk person I have seen on all my cruises was on my Disney cruise!

for a stateroom with 2 adults on a 4 day cruise a drink bill easily can get to $150-$200 with only 2 drinks per adult per day depending on what’s ordered. Come on now. Just because you don’t drink much doesn’t mean others don’t like to enjoy some cocktails while on board

 

[tvguy]

for a stateroom with 2 adults on a 4 day cruise a drink bill easily can get to $150-$200 with only 2 drinks per adult per day depending on what’s ordered. Come on now. Just because you don’t drink much doesn’t mean others don’t like to enjoy some cocktails while on board

I drink. Not a lot. I'm diabetic. But I'm cheap too, and cheap usually wins. Especially when I am too busy doing other things except at dinner to drink. The one exception, our Jolly Roger Scuba Diving excursion in 1986. I took advantage of the unlimited free rum punch on the 90 minute trip back to shore.

 

[hrhdhd]

I'm cheap, too, which is why I bring a $3 12-pack of cans rather than pay $2-3 for a serving that's not the size of a can. (Yes, yes, on Disney soda's mostly "free," but they still don't have Dr Pepper.)

 

[dreynolds1982]

Same. But I think it's only two groups of ppl that do this, both the fringe minority:
the wine snobs/connoisseurs that maintain that no wine aboard the ship is of good enough quality for them and,
the extreme cheapskates that think why pay $10-15 for a glass of wine/beer when for that price they can bring an entire 750ml bottle or a 6 pack of beer.
As you say, I want to think that most ppl understand that if they've spent 4-5 $ figures on a cruise it'd be silly to save a couple of hundred bux and shlep their own booze.

Ha really? My wife and I are neither of those things and I'm still lugging on as much booze as I can. 1) We're both craft beer people so I plan on bringing something nice I can't get on the ship as a treat, 2) Why wouldn't we take advantage of an allowance that lets us save some money on alcohol but also have the added convenience of having a bottle of wine or champagne in the room for when we want to sit on our verandah and, on a whim, easily grab a drink?

Can we afford to just buy drinks on the ship w/o bringing our own? Yeah. Will we still buy drinks on the ship? Of course. But the implication that people going on Disney cruises should be fine with spending infinite amounts of additional money just because they've already spent a lot on the cruise itself is....something. Saving a couple of hundred bucks, when it's very easy to do so, isn't "silly" to me. That's a couple hundred bucks I can spend on something else!

 

[randumb0]

Call me cheap because I always bring a 6 pack

 

[Cruising Engineer]

I am the wine carrier and my DH carries his beer. Just because we can. Happy Cruisers.

 

[sab53085]

Does anyone know if you can buy a six-pack of Truly hard seltzer for your stateroom once onboard? They are on the DCL Onboard Gift site to purchase before you get on the ship, but I don't know if I'll need them until I get settled.

 

[mmouse37]

We cruised Disney before free soda. We held off on buying our kids a "soda pass" which I think was like $25 for 7 days each. They discovered the free fruit punch at the buffet and saved mom and dad $50.

They had refillable soda Mugs you could buy.....I forget the actual price for the 7 day cruise but what you posted sounds about right. I still have two of them.





MJ

 

[Sharene0724]

Same. But I think it's only two groups of ppl that do this, both the fringe minority:
the wine snobs/connoisseurs that maintain that no wine aboard the ship is of good enough quality for them and,
the extreme cheapskates that think why pay $10-15 for a glass of wine/beer when for that price they can bring an entire 750ml bottle or a 6 pack of beer.
As you say, I want to think that most ppl understand that if they've spent 4-5 $ figures on a cruise it'd be silly to save a couple of hundred bux and shlep their own booze.

You forgot about people like me, just plain lazy. I want to sit my lazy butt on my verandah and drink my wine from the glass I just poured from the bottle in my room. Who wants to go back to the bar and get a second glass? Not me lol. My lazy butt will sit right back on the verandah and drink that second glass and I never had to leave my room :-D

 

[Husker Mike]

Never understood hauling alcohol on board, soda makes even less sense. We only spent $125 on alcohol on a 7 day cruise. And I can't believe I wrote ONLY before $125. So I might have saved $75 on a $9,000 cruise.

Considering the number of people who use dozens of gift cards pay off a Disney cruise, any amount of savings is good. But in the case of beer, unless you prefer beers from Anheuiser Busch or MolsonCoors, the selection on board appears to be pretty limited.

 

[Calantha]

Considering the number of people who use dozens of gift cards pay off a Disney cruise, any amount of savings is good

That’s me - just bought my last 850 for an early march PIF and then spent an hour merging cards… I have a lot of expensive excursions in Alaska to pay for!

Also, I’m of 2 minds on the alcohol. We brought a ton of it in 2019 (there were 7 adults to ‘carry on’ and only about half of us drink) so we ended up having to bring stuff home because we were always on the go and just didn’t have time. In Jan, it was just me and DS and I didn’t want to haul around anything I didn’t have to - but I did want a drink at the pool and at dinner, so probably spent more than I should have. Hard to say what I’ll do for Alaska at this point.

 

[dreynolds1982]

Considering the number of people who use dozens of gift cards pay off a Disney cruise, any amount of savings is good. But in the case of beer, unless you prefer beers from Anheuiser Busch or MolsonCoors, the selection on board appears to be pretty limited.

This is my point exactly. My wife and I are craft beer lovers. If we can bring on some of the good stuff to have in our room as a treat, then why wouldn't we? Verandahs are nice, but even better with a good beer!

 

[woody64]

Just back from the Dream and brought beer and wine onboard even though I can afford to buy all my alcohol onboard, and did still buy a lot. I like having something in the fridge in the room for sitting on the verandah or at night winding down reading. To each their own and glad this is a judgement free zone.

 

[nyweller6306]

We are also craft beer fans. We take 2-6 pks of local craft beer onto the ship at embarkation, and then we try to find local and/or craft beer at each port of call to bring on. Not only does it save some money (ok, a lot), we are getting to enjoy beer we wouldn't have otherwise had the chance to.

 

[tvguy]

Considering the number of people who use dozens of gift cards pay off a Disney cruise, any amount of savings is good. But in the case of beer, unless you prefer beers from Anheuiser Busch or MolsonCoors, the selection on board appears to be pretty limited.

Not sure I would want to sit in my stateroom drinking beer. I want to be out and about on the ship. Wine drinker her, and we tried many new wines on board, so wine selection was good.

 

[TestingH2O]

You forgot about people like me, just plain lazy. I want to sit my lazy butt on my verandah and drink my wine from the glass I just poured from the bottle in my room. Who wants to go back to the bar and get a second glass? Not me lol. My lazy butt will sit right back on the verandah and drink that second glass and I never had to leave my room :-D

This. Every cruise before this I had a napping kid/a kid who was too young to have some freedom on the ship. If she is asleep and I want a glass of wine, then I’d like to be able to have one.