BRINGING ALCOHOL ONBOARD YOUR CRUISE
Passengers tell us that there are a good many issues about alcohol on a cruise that are cause for concern - but none so much as bringing your own favorite tipple onboard.
Policies about bringing your own alcohol on board vary from cruise line to cruise line, (check the cruise line sites for the latest) though most make a point of telling you that bringing your own alcohol is not allowed and will be confiscated if found.
Understandably, the cruise lines are not willing to lose revenue, and this ban is all about that.
Many cruise passengers, however, perhaps rightly so, find the rules banning the bringing of alcohol on board unacceptable.
You should at least, they argue, be allowed to make purchases of wine and beer ashore - flavours of the destinations - and bring them aboard to drink at your leisure.
Some don’t believe the rules are enforced - but be warned - visitors to Prow’s Edge in the past have reported that their carry on bags WERE searched and alcohol WAS confiscated.
Rumours abound also that checked in luggage delivered to your stateroom once aboard has been searched too. This seems unlikely, and Prow’s Edge has heard no confirmed reports of this.
But - there is nothing like a challenge - and many passengers are set to foil the cruise lines on this issue.
Many have been successful with filling water bottles with vodka, white rum or gin - the easiest ruse - and carrying that on board with them. Not many cruise lines have the resources to check every bottle of water passing through.
If you’re going this route, you need some common sense. Whiskey or bourbon may look a little suspicious in a bottled labelled “fresh spring water”. Overcoming this obstacle, one passenger reported , was using empty “iced tea bottles”.
Another route around the rule is to pack the booze in your check-in luggage if you are willing to take the chance that rough baggage handling may mean a suitcase whose entire contents stink like gin.
A wonderful aid in this is a product amusingly called Rum Runner Cruise Special Kit. Each Rum
Runner Cruise Special Kit contains three of 2oz Travelers and three 8oz easy filling, heavy duty, collapsible flasks and one funnel. The 32oz Travelers are perfect for taking your favorite beverage in your checked luggage and they make having that cocktail while relaxing before dinner effortless. The 8oz pocket flasks are great for those side trips or on deck. The Flasks are made of durable, puncture resistant, odor proof and taste proof clear polyester. Rum Runner Flasks stand up when they are filled and are flat and can be rolled up and put in your pocket when empty. The Flasks have positive seal spouts are freezable and perfect for almost any liquid.
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