Alcohol

[Readytocruisefrompa]

My friend went on a disney cruise a few weeks ago and they confiscated her alcohol upon boarding the ship and returned it to her at the end of her cruise so by this am I to assume Disney is no longer allowing alcohol to be brought on board?

 

[beckybowler]

I just went on the Disney Magic on January 14th and I carried on a fifth of Captain Morgan, a bottle of premixed rum runner and a fifth of Fireball whiskey with no hiding and no problems.

 

[TDC Nala]

Can't imagine why they would do this unless it was a duty-free purchase. This is standard procedure with duty-free purchases.

 

[Readytocruisefrompa]

She was on the disney dream which is where I will be in a month she said she purchased the Alcohol at a Liquor Store in Florida. I contacted disney directly and they stated that thier policy is that you are permitted to bring wine or beer but any hard liquor if found will be confiscated upon boarding. I am so confused!

 

[TDC Nala]

She was on the disney dream which is where I will be in a month she said she purchased the Alcohol at a Liquor Store in Florida. I contacted disney directly and they stated that thier policy is that you are permitted to bring wine or beer but any hard liquor if found will be confiscated upon boarding. I am so confused!

Since it was a few weeks ago, it may have been during the short time DCL tried to restrict the amount and type of alcohol passengers could bring aboard. Didn't last long, they suspended the restrictions. Unless they've just now decided to bring the restrictions back, as you have a poster above who went on the Magic just a couple of weeks ago and brought rum and whiskey aboard.

 

[marshmellow86]

I was on the Jan 19 sailing of the Dream. I took beer in my carry on bag. No attempts to hide it and had no issues or questions.

 

[DCLSecondChance]

You can choose to believe me or not, but I have it on very good authority that the crewmembers were advised that DCL will quietly be implementing the no alcohol policy and limit wine to one bottle per adult in the very near future.

 

[SplashMountainManiac]

I wonder if for some reason they mistakenly thought your friend was a crew member. Crew are subject to the no liquor policy. Who knows.

 

[fhernand]

I believe that if Disney bag handlers finds glass liquor bottles in your suitcase, they will remove them. Reason is if the bottles break the suitcase while intransit the liquid will spill unto other people’s suitcase and cause damage to their clothes. But you can carry any liquor bottles on board

 

[SplashMountainManiac]

Just double checked the FAQs on the DCL website. So far no changes. At least in my experience, Disney has never had a problem changing their policies out loud. Keeping it quiet would only make the policy change worse, and put a small damper on the first day of your vacation. Not saying it's out of the question, just saying it would be outside of the usual Disney m.o.

 

[my2princessgirls]

My friend went on a disney cruise a few weeks ago and they confiscated her alcohol upon boarding the ship and returned it to her at the end of her cruise so by this am I to assume Disney is no longer allowing alcohol to be brought on board?

Did she attempt to carry on, or was it in her luggage?

 

[TDC Nala]

You can choose to believe me or not, but I have it on very good authority that the crewmembers were advised that DCL will quietly be implementing the no alcohol policy and limit wine to one bottle per adult in the very near future.

How can they "quietly" implement the no alcohol policy when they'll be taking loads of alcohol away from guests checking in who are not aware they can't bring it? Why not announce it and say don't even bother bringing it? They can't really think it would cause less of a ruckus to do it that way. And then you've got one guest boarding the Dream who had their booze taken away, and one guest boarding the Magic who didn't. Not the best way to carry this out, not that I don't believe Disney wouldn't take the worst way possible.

"Just don't bring it with you" seems like it would be better than "haul it all the way down here, and then we'll take it away from you" but Disney logic does escape me sometimes.

 

[WiscBill]

We did the Jan 15th Dream. We carried on a six pack of beer, one bottle of wine, and one bottle of bourbon. No problem.


OP, which cruise did your friend take?

 

[seven2go]

While our cruise was on the 8 nt Holiday Cruise on the Wonder a month ago, we had absolutely NO problem bringing our own alcohol onboard in our carryon luggage. We had wine, and a bottle (or two) of alcohol. The man inspecting the carry on was even joking with us about our Captain Morgan....! Just to be clear we had two staterooms (a total of five adults), but my husband pulled one carryon, no problem! While we still purchased drinks onboard, and had to leave plenty of alcohol behind (hhmmmm....wonder where that went??), it was worth it to us to save some $ on drinks we prepared in our rooms.

 

[Renysmom]

You didn't say was this in her/his carry one or in checked bags? If in checked bags and they detect it via Xrays or search dogs they will in fact take it.

 

[mammacaryn]

Did she attempt to carry on, or was it in her luggage?

This is what I am wondering as well....

 

[TDC Nala]

Yes, if it was in checked luggage, it wouldn't be too surprising - I've heard they do sometimes hold stuff that is not supposed to be in checked luggage.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

I have to wonder which bus driver was the *very good authority*.this time!

AKK

 

[mmouse37]

To be fair DCL did elude to the fact that they would be implementing a new alcohol policy in the future (after the abrupt alcohol policy change a few months ago) but as of yet this is the first I am hearing about it happening.


I also think that if the liquor was in the OP's friend's luggage it would definitely be confiscated.

I guess we will have to wait to hear back from some cruisers this week.

MJ

 

[jilljill]

My friend went on a disney cruise a few weeks ago and they confiscated her alcohol upon boarding the ship and returned it to her at the end of her cruise so by this am I to assume Disney is no longer allowing alcohol to be brought on board?

Who actually confiscated her alcohol? I'm only asking since I've only seen security guards at the xray machines when entering the terminal and DCL CM's. You go thru those machines before you check in for the cruise so the alcohol would have been taken before she even entered the terminal not upon boarding the ship.