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Now you've got me confused - I think you can take it onboard with you as long as it is in your checked luggage and not your carry on luggage, maybe?
Also if you take a bottle to the restaurant you have to pay a corkage fee to drink the wine with your dinner.... or LOL I have got it all totally wrong and really shouldn't try to be helpful.
Hopefully someone really in the know will come along and tell us
I think you may bring it on board, however the trick about bringing it from home is that when you are flying, it has to go in your checked baggage, but it must be in your carry-on when boarding the ship. We didn't do this, but it might be easier if you drive, as we did.
If I am wrong on this, then I am sure Dave or someone will correct me.
There are many things to keep straight, aren't there? You can take drinks (soft or hard) onboard with you, but the general consensus is that it has to go in your carry-on and you will be charged a major corkage fee if you take a bottle to the dining room. Like EJ said, there is some shuffling involved, because of TSA regulations for flying are in opposition to boarding the cruise.
You may not take partially finished drinks (or food) off with you, at port or at debarkation. If they are open, finish them or leave them behind.
There was some question about the liquor that you purchase while in port - some have reported that they weren't allowed to bring it on board. I'm not sure about this one. But having all of these stories floating around, it gets easy to mix them all up, doesn't it!
Heather, you're (I think) right about what you can leave home with, and the joys of doing the drink shuffle. As far as buying alcohol in ports, yes, you can bring it on board, but you have to "surrender" it, to be returned on the last night of the cruise.
Oh yeah, any alcohol you leave home with will still be subject to duty when you get home, so don't take a gallon of 7 when a fifth will do.
OK so I was confused, sorry about that, so just to be clear if I want to take any alcohol on board the ship I have to put it in my carry-on? This is of course different to flying. I'll need to be sure because I know that we will be taking our own bottles of Fairy Tale Cuvee on board as we would have bought them in WDW to take home after our cruise.
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Plan to bring them in your carry-on for the ship. While you might be able to successfully put them in your checked luggage, current Disney policy is "carry-on only," and you run the risk that they'll remove the bottles from your luggage, which will delay the arrival of your luggage to your stateroom (and require that you retrieve the bottles when you get back to Port Canaveral).
I think, among other things, DCL wants to reduce the weight of luggage, since stateroom hosts/hostesses have to lug the baggage to folks' staterooms. Reducing the risk of breakage is another possibility.
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OK so I was confused, sorry about that, so just to be clear if I want to take any alcohol on board the ship I have to put it in my carry-on? This is of course different to flying. I'll need to be sure because I know that we will be taking our own bottles of Fairy Tale Cuvee on board as we would have bought them in WDW to take home after our cruise.
Ooops, you don't want to do that. The bottle will be treated as part of your allowance for imported alcohol and your duty. I know, it stinks, but, as I like to say: "It's the law, it doesn't have to make sense"
OK I think we may just leave that in a case with WDW Bell services and swing by there to pick it up on the way back to the airport, our flight isn't until 5pm so we should be OK
Will Bell Services hold it for you the entire time you're on a cruise? You may want to double check that before making definitive plans.
Oh yes they have done this before for us as we tend to vacation in Disney first before going on the cruise and we have left a case before with them with clothes and stuff in that we did not require for our cruise. Certainly we have done this at both The Yacht Club and The Beach Club without any problem.
Last time we went on the eastern carb we were allowed to bring any booze back on board to enjoy in our stateroom. Has this changed??? I may need to rethink what I am brining at the start of the cruise if this is the case. (not trying to sound like a lush, but even a glass or two of wine a day add's up very quickly!!!)
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We have learned that you can actually take alcohol with you as long as you carry it on. I actually called DCL to confirm this. We are planning on purchasing the wine package for our wine, however will be drinking more than that. (Hey....we will be on vacation!)
We are planning on going to the store near DTD to purchase a bottle of rum and a bottle of whiskey so that we can mix it with the sodas on deck 9. We will also try to purchase a case of water as last time we cruised we made the mistake of buying a case of water from the cruise line for like $30.....since I learned that we can actually carry it on we will be saving a ton of money if we buy a case of Dasani for $12.00 at a grocery store and then carry it on.
It may be a pain for my hubbie, but it will pay off in the end!
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