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not anymore as like I said you are only allowed 15 alcoholic drinks per person per every 24 hour period and I believe once you hit your 15 alcoholic drink before the 24 hour period you are in is up you will stopped from buying anymore alcoholic drinks until the new 24 period starts.well I'm guessing that is how it will work on P&O Cruises from now on anyway

you can buy the classic and deluxe drinks packages but you are limited to 15 alcoholic drinks in one 24 hour period. if you buy alcohol on board at the Duty Free or if you buy it at Cruise Ports Of Call they confiscate it from you, they keep it safe and you collect it on the night before you arrive back into your destination port to disembark the ship.

the only spirit that does not smell, is odourless and tasteless and you could easily get away with taking onboard without raising suspicion to those checking bags and scanning luggage is Vodka and Coca Cola(in a coca cola bottle) or Vodka and Lemonade (in a lemonade bottle) as Vodka does not smell, its odourless and tasteless (where as Rum, Baileys, Archers, Tia Maria, Whiskey like Jack Daniels, Grey Goose, Groose, etc etc etc all smell, they have a colour and they have a taste to them even with Lemonade or Coca Cola or on their own). so the alcohol policy really is stupid and ineffective in a small way. personally and this is my own opinion I think think its being done as a way to get rid of the in cabin fridges(apart from if you declare you will need one for medication) and to cut down on cruise ship recycling waste but if its to cut down on recycling waste they need to offer more selection of alcohol like whiskey, spirits, larger, cider, beer, wines and get rid of the champagne unless you are celebrating a big birthday like 18, 21, 30, 40 etc, or a wedding, or wedding anniversary, honeymoon and lower the cost of the drinks packages especially as most of the bottles of wine, spirits, bottles & cans if soft drinks they buy from Bookers Cash and Carry Deluxe Drinks Package is now £60.50p per person per day (total for 7 nights is £423.50 or 14 nights total is £847.00 etc etc etc you get the gist) Classic Drinks Package £48.85 per person per day so for 7 nights its a total of £341.95p or 14 nights its a total of £683.90 per person Alcohol Free Package is now £26.95 per person per day so for 7 days the total cost will be £188.65p per person or 14 days the total cost will be £377.30p per person the Refresh Drinks Package is a total of £14.45p per person per day so the total cost for 7 days will be £101.15 or 14 days the total cost will be £202.30p per person and if there is two or more guests in a cabin each person must buy the same drinks package (quoted from P&O Cruises website)

well expect your bottles to be confiscated and given back to you on the last night of your cruise as its happened to people putting bottles in their luggage when boarding P&O Cruise ship Iona recently within the last week or so

I don't know re: HSEE but that is what P&O Cruises have said under their Alcohol Policy found under Code Of Conduct on their website

its not the cruise lines making these new rules alcohol being allowed onboard its the HSEE making the rules

everybody has been notified of the alcohol policy changes when P&O Cruises along with Cunard, and others made a public statement about it

its not just P&O Cruises who this will effect it will eventually be rolled out to all Cruise Ships no matter which port in which country you depart from as its the HSEE making these rules and giving them to cruise ships

I spoke to P&O Cruises Call Centre when the drinks policy change email to a travel agent went out one call rep told me no they could not be brought on board, then when i rang up again a week later to clarify they told me yes so i do not know. yet others have been told by P&O Cruises that there is no alcohol policy changes which is clearly false as I've already posted that the change is happening.

your not allowed to take them onboard when you embark anymore. the only thing thing you can take when you first embark the ship is wine and champagne.

this is true its now written under "Alcohol Policy" found under the section "Code Of Conduct" on P&O Cruises Website so people being told a change is not happening is false information and this comes into effect as of May 2024. this is to adhere to the "Health, Environmental, Safety and Security (HESS)"