bringing alcohol on board

[SIOBBHAN]

Does HAL ALLOW passengers to bring alcohol on board from the beginning or at port stops?

[KCat]

Hi and welcome, HAL allows passengers to bring wine only, no beer or hard liquor. If you open your own wine in the dining room there is usaully a $15/bottle corkage fee, depends on whether or not the wine steward charges you. You can call ship services and check into getting a bar set-up for in-room consumption of hard liquor if you'd like, much cheaper than buying drinks in the bars. When you bring liquor back from port, it's kept until the night before departure. You can do a search on this subject to find many, many threads on this subject. Rather than just to tell you to do a search though, I hope this gives you a start.:)

[Jen&Joe]

Ditto pp, plus you can bring champagne.

[kennicott]

Welcome to HAL. As previously stated, they allow you to bring as much wine on board as you can pack. Technically, no hard liquor though. However, they really don’t seem to care much about the hard liquor. Probably because it doesn’t make much difference anyway. We find that their wine selections, for consumption in the stateroom, are rather spendy and rather limited. For hard liquor, they sell it cheaper than or just as cheap as you will find it on shore anyway, so no big deal.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Does HAL ALLOW passengers to bring alcohol on board from the beginning or at port stops?

Welcome to Cruise Critic.

In some ports, the crew seem to be doing their job and confiscating hard alcohol bought on shore while in other ports, they just look the other way.

[m steve]

Liquor is held to the end of the cruise. If is confiscated then it is permanently taken away which is not the case. Just put it in your luggage carefully and enjoy it. They don't do thru every bag. At ports they usually take the boxes and allow the bottles in your carry on unless you bring a lot on.

[warren peas]

I know the topic has been covered many times, but I will give you our experience as of the Dec. 13 trip on the Ryndam.

Would never have dreamed of bringing wine on board in bulk if I had not read this board, that said we decided to stock up in San Diego before departure. Headed down to Ralphs and got a case and a half of Vino and a couple of bottles of GlenLivet, wife threw in a bottle of Vodka for good measure. You have to realize as Canucks we are shocked at how cheap booze is in the US. Packed the hard stuff in our checked luggage and with the aid of duct tape secured a box of wine complete with boarding tag, simply left it with our luggage hoping it would make it to our stateroom. Happy to say all plans worked out. Should add we were travelling with another couple, lest you think we imbibe a wee bit too much.
However if you are simply looking for a reasonably priced bottle of wine with dinner, we were quite happy with the fare offered by buying a wine card. 10 bottles for 300 bucks or 30 bucks for a bottle of drinkable dinner wine.

[SIOBBHAN]

Thanks For All The Help. Enjoy Your Cruise!!