Bringing Alcohol on Bard

[gkrebs]

No problems with anything coming on board on Explorer 22nd sailing either.

[Leslie311]

wakelover---Way too good and way too funny!! You should write for a living.

 

I'm with 39august -- Wakelover, you should write a humorous book or short story. Your comments have made some of my slower days at work go by so much faster :)

[wakelover]

I'm with 39august -- Wakelover, you should write a humorous book or short story. Your comments have made some of my slower days at work go by so much faster :)

If my wee poem (thanks go to Bill Shakespeare for the inspiration of course;) ) has made your work day go quicker...then my work is done:D

[katiel53]

Bob

 

Don't you think the cruise lines charge enough for just the cruise. I am paying $5400 for 4 for a 7 nighter. That's $192 pp/per night. There is no way it costs that much to tranport and cook for 4. And the staff is paid on tips. So I think going around the cruiselines rules and sneaking a little booze on board to avoid a few hundred dollars is nothing to be ashamed of. I'll blow it in the Casino anyway. The lines get their money one way or another. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to enforce the no alcohol rule.

It's all about revenue.

 

That's your choice to pick the type cabin you did and the cruise you did. When you go out to dinner at home, do you sit there and say well the steak was $x and the shrimp cocktail was $y so I am going to bring my own drinks? Your argument doesn't hold water, just makes you brag about the cost, but look cheap overall. Sorry, I am waiting for the flames.

 

 

To the Diva lady ( I hope that's her name) who bragged about bring on a ton of liquor etc. As posted, people like you have ruined it for the rest of us. I know you don't care and you are sitting there bragging about your trip and your smuggled booze. Thanks from all of us who used to be able to bring on something to drink in our cabin. But you and others like you decided why pay anything or why pay when you can make your own drinks? So, now, we all pay, one way or another. Same question to you, when/if you go out to dinner at home do you bring your own booze? If you go to a club and there's an admission charge, does that entitle you to bring your own drinks? I doubt so, so why is a cruise different? I just don't understand any of this logic.

 

My thought is if you can't afford to buy drinks onboard, then you have to 2 choices. Don't cruise or don't drink. Simple to me.

 

Ok, flamesuit is on.

[nole01cruiser]

That's your choice to pick the type cabin you did and the cruise you did. When you go out to dinner at home, do you sit there and say well the steak was $x and the shrimp cocktail was $y so I am going to bring my own drinks? Your argument doesn't hold water, just makes you brag about the cost, but look cheap overall. Sorry, I am waiting for the flames.

 

 

To the Diva lady ( I hope that's her name) who bragged about bring on a ton of liquor etc. As posted, people like you have ruined it for the rest of us. I know you don't care and you are sitting there bragging about your trip and your smuggled booze. Thanks from all of us who used to be able to bring on something to drink in our cabin. But you and others like you decided why pay anything or why pay when you can make your own drinks? So, now, we all pay, one way or another. Same question to you, when/if you go out to dinner at home do you bring your own booze? If you go to a club and there's an admission charge, does that entitle you to bring your own drinks? I doubt so, so why is a cruise different? I just don't understand any of this logic.

 

My thought is if you can't afford to buy drinks onboard, then you have to 2 choices. Don't cruise or don't drink. Simple to me.

 

Ok, flamesuit is on.

I am not bragging or advocating the method. Just the facts mam!:cool:

Are you stating that if I but a Ferrari, I should allow them to milk me on every add-on? Sorry but even wealthy people (which I am far from) are frugal. FLAME-------------

[max&toni]

RCL really goes to the trouble of checking mouthwash bottles for alcohol? That's got to make the check-in process ridiculously long.

[LV2COOK]

What kinda grosses me out is the idea of having someone opening my little bottles and sniffing my stuff....I've also read that they are opening water bottles to check....if they open my Ozarka's or Evian they can keep it....I don't mind buying all my adult beverages from the ship...but $3.50 for a bottle of water is really out of line....when I can buy a 6pack here at home for .99. :(

[Maplemoose]

Just returned from cruise on Radiance of the Seas. I picked up a bottle of rum in San Diego and packed it in my luggage. We boarded the ship about 1 pm, ate lunch in the buffet and returned to cabin to find luggage already there untouched. I think this is probably the rule rather than the exception from what I have heard.

[RareBird]

well, drinks are cheap on board and i'd suggest to not even try it.

 

on a side note - i brought on 3 6-packs of ginger ale, which i enjoyed tremendously. this was my first cruise with my own soda, and i'd do it again in a heartbeat! we put the soda in a fridge in our room, which worked out better than the cooler i packed with us (not knowing there are mini fridges in D balcony cabins on voyager class ships).