Bringing alcohol home from port

We are doing a 12 night Mediterranean cruise on the eclipse in October. We would like to buy a bottle or 2 of limoncello to bring home with us. I looked on celebrities site and they say you can bring 2 bottles of wine onboard at embarkment but nothing after. It also mentions if you are caught with alcohol it will be kept until the end of the cruise.

Do they allow you to purchase alcohol in port, to be brought home, assuming you do not consume on the boat? I’m happy to “check” or allow them to store until we finish our cruise. Thanks for any advice!

Yes, you are permitted to do that. Just declare the bottles when returning from port and going through the security checkpoint as you reboard the ship. Sometimes they will hold it for you until the end of the voyage, sometimes they waive you through and let you keep it with you.

We purchased quite a few bottles of limoncello for gifts when we cruised in the Mediterranean. We put them through the scanner and were told to check them in at the table near the elevators. This is where you turn in any alcohol that is purchased during port stops for safekeeping until the end of the cruise. We were told to bring the smaller colorful gift bottles that were boxed with us to our cabin. Our cabin steward delivered the larger bottle that we had turned in to our cabin the last full day of our cruise.

Just remember that when returning home after debarkation, if you are flying, the booze has to go into checked luggage, not carry on.

Bringing booze back on board at a port other than embarkation port can be a hit and miss affair. Bet prepared to have it taken off you until the last night of the cruise but you may get it through to keep. If doing a B2B and you are ashore with someone no doing a B2B give them the booze to bring on board. They will then get it back on the last night of the cruise whereas on a B2B you wont get it back until the last night of the second cruise.

Hit or miss, but our experience with limoncello is DO NOT DO it. We have brought several bottles back but WHY, the stuff they sell here is just as good, and you do not have to jump though TSA hoops to bring it back. We were bringing some estate bottled limoncello and olive oil back , it made it to the US, but had to reposition it to checked luggage, and then on the way to Orlando it broke, NEW luggage LOL.