Bringing water/soda on board

Hello All! Just booked my 1st RCI cruise. W Caribbean out of Tampa for Feb 2015. Scored a great price through the price drop section of Cruise Critic! My question, to the faithful participants of this forum, is are you allowed to bring water/soda on board with you? I've read the RCI website and it doenst appear you can HOWEVER my buddy just returned from the Liberty of the Seas out of FLL and he brought a roll-on cooler with water, soda and ice and had no problems??? Was this just dumb luck or is this allowed?

Thanks in advance!

I took a small cooler with soda and checked it with the porter like a suitcase. Actually, we used the cooler as a carry-on for the trip home. It cushioned some of our purchases well. I had no issues. The soda was obviously still sealed and I didn't try to take a lot on.

Much Appreciated!

I took a small cooler with soda and checked it with the porter like a suitcase. Actually, we used the cooler as a carry-on for the trip home. It cushioned some of our purchases well. I had no issues. The soda was obviously still sealed and I didn't try to take a lot on.

I saw people boarding with big cases of water on our last cruise. I don't think they care. I have put a 12 pack of soda in my suitcase, no problems there either(I had even removed a few sodas and replaced them with beer, :)).

Well I can tell you that the scanning is random at best as I had a case of beer split b/w my 4 suitcases last week and had no problem.

I actually taped the luggage tags to a case of water and two twelve packs of coke. They were delivered to my room with our luggage.

Our family of four, in two cabins, checked two thermal bags, one a rolling cooler from BB&B, filled with six-packs of canned soda, and a 12 pack of small waters in Ft. Lauderdale a month ago without any problem.