Bring Alcohol on Ship - Rules???

[geekboy]

I'd better pass this information onto my DW. Though how she will cope without her shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, facial toner, makeup remover, nail polish remover, perfume, body lotion, sun spray and lord only knows what else is beyond me.

Those items are fine. (Gels, aerosols, lotions, shampoo, sun block, would be okay.) It's the beverages that Disney is concerned about.

I would recommend, though, that some of those personal care products could be placed inside plastic baggies before placing them in your luggage. I don't know if you have seen the luggage being loaded on the ship, but they literally just stack them about ten high in a large metal "basket" of sorts and move them with a forklift. I don't think they are handled "rough" but I have personally had a shampoo bottle "open" and ooze out on some of my clothing. Yes, my clothes smelled nice, but cleaning off the shampoo was no fun. (Probably handled better than airport bag handlers, but accidents do happen. I have watched a bag fall from the top of the basket with the forklift in the "up" position. Dropped about 10 feet to the ground.)

This is precisely why Disney does not want "beverages" in the checked bags. Lotions, shampoo and other gels don't "seep" through the luggage like liquids.

 

[jclayton]

We just got back from the 9/14 cruise on Dream from Port Canaveral. When we were unloading our car, the lady helping us offered to check our 24-pack of bottled water. She just took it and placed one of our checked bag stickers on it. It was delivered to our room with our luggage.

She also told us that there was no problem taking our cooler on board. We were going to leave it in the car, but she insisted that it was ok to bring on board. It is a large soft-sided cooler from Costco with a removable cart. At security, we were simply asked if the cooler had any ice in it (which it did not). It fit through the scanner, and there were no questions asked.

We had wine and liquor in our carry on bags. And beer in the cooler. There are signs posted stating that no alcoholic beverages are allowed past security, but there were zero issues or questions with what we brought on board.

We took a bottle of wine with us to each dinner. We were charged the $20 corking fee on the first night. And then again on our last night when we decided to dine at Palo. We were not charged the corking fee for the other 2 nights.

 

[lbgraves]

I have used a soft sided cooler with handles without issue. It looks rather like an insulated beach bag with a zippered top. It's large enough to fit 12 cans of beer, a couple fifths and a bottle of wine. As long as it fits through the security scanner (pretty much like the ones at the airport), and isn't hard sided, you should be good.

They stopped allowing any coolers onboard last year. There were several posts here about people who had to leave their coolers at security and retrieve them after their cruise.

I'd better pass this information onto my DW. Though how she will cope without her shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, facial toner, makeup remover, nail polish remover, perfume, body lotion, sun spray and lord only knows what else is beyond me.

Beverages have more volume than most bottles of shampoo, etc. It is more likely to leak through your luggage if broken and ruin someone else's clothing in their luggage.

We just got back from the 9/14 cruise on Dream from Port Canaveral. When we were unloading our car, the lady helping us offered to check our 24-pack of bottled water. She just took it and placed one of our checked bag stickers on it. It was delivered to our room with our luggage.

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It's been posted before that this is hit or miss, and that the porters are contractors and not DCL employees. DCL's rules have been posted. The porter will smile and do whatever you ask for a tip. It is odd that the cooler was allowed through though, since that is something that was enforced by security lately. We will have to see more posts from others who have had the same experience before we will know if it was a one-time fluke or a change in policy.

 

[jclayton]

It's been posted before that this is hit or miss, and that the porters are contractors and not DCL employees. DCL's rules have been posted. The porter will smile and do whatever you ask for a tip. It is odd that the cooler was allowed through though, since that is something that was enforced by security lately. We will have to see more posts from others who have had the same experience before we will know if it was a one-time fluke or a change in policy.

The interesting part of this was that we didn't inquire with her about either checking the water or taking the cooler. We intended on leaving the cooler in the car, and just carrying on the water. The porter was the one who suggested both checking the water and taking the cooler.

I would have been happy either way. The cruise was awesome!

 

[bumbershoot]

I'd better pass this information onto my DW. Though how she will cope without her shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, facial toner, makeup remover, nail polish remover, perfume, body lotion, sun spray and lord only knows what else is beyond me.

Of course you know the poster meant beverages.

I would recommend, though, that some of those personal care products could be placed inside plastic baggies before placing them in your luggage. I don't know if you have seen the luggage being loaded on the ship, but they literally just stack them about ten high in a large metal "basket" of sorts and move them with a forklift.

Absolutely. On the flight, too. Every liquid I have that's checked goes into at least one really good ziptop bag, if not two.

But there's quite a difference between a possibly 75 lb bag landing on top of my bag that contains a liter of soda vs containing a bottle of shampoo! Even if both are in baggies, one is going to stretch the seams of the baggie a bit more!