Bring your own soft drinks/soda?

[cruisingvbmom]

I have read quite a bit about the allowance of wine and champagne brought on board but what about the soft drinks? My DH is borderline diabetic and needs to drink the diet variety of soft drinks and gets tired of only having diet coke/pepsi available to him. Can we bring a cooler of diet soft drinks on board without getting harassed or having the drinks confiscated. We are boarding in a couple of days and didn't think about it until now.

[azkcruizers]

You may bring all of the soda you want on board (no glass)

Enjoy:)

Karen

[Boytjie]

You may bring all of the soda you want on board (no glass)

Enjoy:)

Karen

You can bring wine on board in glass; I have not seen anything about soda in glass not allowed.

[Krazy Kruizers]

You can bring all the soda on board that you want to and there isn't any rule that it can not be in a glass bottle.

Welcome to Cruise Critic.

[azkcruizers]

Sorry if I'm wrong, I read that somewhere when I was searching for the answer for myself:D

Karen

[cruisingvbmom]

Thanks for the answers...I will pack the diet sodas with our red wine in the rolling cooler for our departure on the Oosterdam tomorrow. So excited to get on the ship for a relaxing week!

[debnjoe1438]

Have a good trip:D

[cruisingvbmom]

Have a good trip:D

We will, thanks so much!:p

[Typhoon1]

My DH is borderline diabetic and needs to drink the diet variety of soft drinks and gets tired of only having diet coke/pepsi available to him.

There is no such thing as "borderline diabetic". If your doctor is telling you are borderline, you are diabetic. Be sure to ask him about this, if he's fooling you, you are only fooling yourselves.

[sail7seas]

Just a thought......... all those chemicals and artificial sweeteners aren't particularly healthy things to drink.

Water might be a better choice? :)

I hate putting all those chemicals in me. But, that's just me.

[Pokeynose]

Both my husband and I are diabetics and would rather drink water than diet pop. I buy those single sugar free single packets from Wal Mart and add them to our water when we need flavored water. I love the lemonade flavor. My son will buy our water for us since he lives in the Seattle area and take us to the pier from the hotel. I agree, you are either diabetic or not diabetic, no in between.

[Sundagger]

There is no such thing as "borderline diabetic". If your doctor is telling you are borderline, you are diabetic. Be sure to ask him about this, if he's fooling you, you are only fooling yourselves.

I just heard about this from a friend who has it - first time I'd heard about it.

From WebMD:
"People with prediabetes have glucose levels that are higher than normal but not high enough yet to indicate diabetes (http://diabetes.webmd.com/default.htm). The condition used to be called borderline diabetes. Most people with prediabetes don't have symptoms."

[readytocruiseagain!]

I just heard about this from a friend who has it - first time I'd heard about it.

From WebMD:
"People with prediabetes have glucose levels that are higher than normal but not high enough yet to indicate diabetes (http://diabetes.webmd.com/default.htm). The condition used to be called borderline diabetes. Most people with prediabetes don't have symptoms."

This is true. In the past, when you "either have diabetes or you don't," people who now are told they have prediabetes (borderline) would have been told they did not have diabetes. The borderline designation is to urge them to change their eating now, because studies show doing that can avoid diabetes.

[fireman845]

Although this is off the subject ... Just to add my 2 cents on the diabetes issue a person is considered "prediabetic or borderline diabetic" if they have mutiple fasting blood glucose levels of great than 100 and less than 126. Some doctors to put them in this catagory so they can perhaps open there eyes a little bit and get ahold of the disease.