We got caught!

[K.T.B.]

Agreed.

 

I bought one vodka martini on my last cruise and it was weak. How the heck do you make a weak martini?

 

Did they shake it or stir it with ice and then pour into your glass? Or did they pour it through an ice sculpture into your glass?

[txmom11]

 

It is those old quiet sneaky ones with fake colostomy bags and fake catheter bags who never get caught !!!

 

LMAO I've told my husband that for YEARS!!!! :p You almost made me choke on my Diet Coke.

 

We don't smuggle because I'm a "rule follower," but if someone else does, whatever. I'm too busy minding my own business to worry about yours. We buy bottles from Bon Voyage.

[novinha]

Ask and ye shall receive...

Hope you brought enough for everyone. But never mind. My DH is doing Atkins...again...and that means I am too. So please enjoy some popcorn for me. Unless it's not allowed.

[mikel24m]

i swear I think they water down the booze!

 

Why would they water down the booze.Carnival is not a little corner bar.

 

being a bartender for almost 20 years I can explain

 

I order a vodka martini straight up

 

the bartender uses a shaker to fill with ice and add the ingredients (vodka/gin/vermouth)

 

as it chills the ice melts.It is what it is !! unless they have grey goose in a freezer it gets "watered" down when its chilled

[Andoria]

Did they shake it or stir it with ice and then pour into your glass? Or did they pour it through an ice sculpture into your glass?

 

 

I didn't watch them. Perhaps that was my mistake. Also I asked for extra olives -maybe in order to offset that price, they needed to give me mostly water.

[mikel24m]

I didn't watch them. Perhaps that was my mistake. Also I asked for extra olives -maybe in order to offset that price, they needed to give me mostly water.

 

lol extra olives will not result in a watered down martini.I promise

[jetteh22]

Nope. My dh will mix a drink in the room if we bring it, but if we don't he won't buy any. The large S&S bill is mine, all mine, whether we smuggle or not! You don't speak for EVERYONE.

 

I agree with this completely. I think the majority of the people who smuggle booze on the ship hardly change CCL's profits at all. The people who do it are probably the people who would most likely not drink or just drink very little while on the cruise if they didn't smuggle.

 

Last cruise we smuggled alcohol among the 8 of us and probably didn't even use that much of it just because it was so inconvenient to head back up to the room every time one of us wanted a drink so we were buying drinks throughout the entire cruise anyways.

[yakdaddy42]

So if I book a cruise for the family and we dont buy any drinks, pictures, shore excursions, or buy any of the junk in the shops, not play bingo or drop a Franklin in the casino, we are ripping off carnival.

I'm guessing in your feeble mind that using my own camera would be considered illegal since the ships picture are for purchase. I have ripped off every cruise I have been on, I never have had a spa treatment. Sorry shareholders for my sins.

[Frank12]

So if I book a cruise for the family and we dont buy any drinks, pictures, shore excursions, or buy any of the junk in the shops, not play bingo or drop a Franklin in the casino, we are ripping off carnival.

I'm guessing in your feeble mind that using my own camera would be considered illegal since the ships picture are for purchase. I have ripped off every cruise I have been on, I never have had a spa treatment. Sorry shareholders for my sins.

 

Darn you! No wonder my stock has been struggling lately! :p

[HMC RET]

This could get good..... Popcorn is in the microwave :D

 

 

Are you allowed to smuggle popcorn? :D

[yakdaddy42]

Are you allowed to smuggle popcorn? :D

 

No, they sell it at the bar for 50 cents a bag, dont want to send carnival into bankruptcy over a bag of popcorn

[Out to sea!]

Carnival is not using that technology. SO many people smuggle and do not get caught. 1000's get away with it and only a handful get caught.

 

It's just bad random luck or the weight that caused this person to get caught. Carry-on is the best though. And then place some booze in each suitcase just in case.

 

I'm just curious as to where the data came from to bring you to this conclusion? Personally, I disagree with it and believe a lot more get caught than you realize. Of course, if Carnival started cracking down and denying boarding to those caught trying to smuggle (as allowed by the contract), the number of people attempting to smuggle would diminish greatly.

[Out to sea!]

You don't have to follow the rules. It is your choice to do so -- as others may choose not to follow those same rules.

 

That is what provides entertainment on CC boards.:D

 

And that is the biggest problem in society these days.....people think it's a personal choice to follow the rules versus an expectation. No wonder we're going to hell in a handbasket! :rolleyes:

 

The chimps in the zoo must be laughing their butts off at us because we think we're the civilized ones in the evolutionary chain!!

[etwright]

If smuggling alcohol is "stealing" from the shareholders (all about the money for them;)), then I feel that Carnival is stealing from me by charging the outragious prices for drinks which is cutting into my profits:D:D:D

[Eeyoregon]

 

BTW - I have never considered smuggling. I'm a beer drinker ;-)

 

BEER is what my group smuggles the most :D. Put it in the carry-on's and it has always made it through...knock on wood. Although, I wouldn't be bothered if it didn't make it through cuz my poison of choice is in my rum runners waiting for me in my cabin ;).

[Bobby_Mac]

if smuggling alcohol is "stealing" from the shareholders (all about the money for them;)), then i feel that carnival is stealing from me by charging the outragious prices for drinks which is cutting into my profits:d:d:d

 

bingo!

[Surfwench]

people think it's a personal choice to follow the rules .

 

that is what separates us from the animals.... free will.

 

we are responsible for our choices, actions and the consequences that follow from them.

 

you disagree with cruisers who choose to smuggle alcohol on the basis it is against Carnival's rules.

 

many others see the issue differently.

 

you choose not to smuggle, (free will, right?), others do and sometimes they walk to the naughty room and lose their carefully stashed hootch.

 

unlike chair hogging which negatively impacts fellow cruisers, the decision to smuggle or not doesn't affect you directly. we should all just live and let live on this one. :)

[gomba13]

that is what separates us from the animals.... free will.

 

we are responsible for our choices, actions and the consequences that follow from them.

 

you disagree with cruisers who choose to smuggle alcohol on the basis it is against Carnival's rules.

 

many others see the issue differently.

 

you choose not to smuggle, (free will, right?), others do and sometimes they walk to the naughty room and lose their carefully stashed hootch.

 

unlike chair hogging which negatively impacts fellow cruisers, the decision to smuggle or not doesn't affect you directly. we should all just live and let live on this one. :)

 

Don't get him started, cause he will just come up with crazy scenarios to try to make his point. lol

[yakdaddy42]

Don't get him started, cause he will just come up with crazy scenarios to try to make his point. lol

 

Keyword "" crazy""

[Rosesgt]

This thread made for some very good entertainment.

Smugglers stealing profits from the cruise lines

1%ers and communists blaming the evil bankers and wall street for doing what they do

People against it, people for it and those who don't care

Lots of good comments

Good thing I had popcorn

[BadBozo]

If smuggling alcohol is "stealing" from the shareholders (all about the money for them;)), then I feel that Carnival is stealing from me by charging the outragious prices for drinks which is cutting into my profits:D:D:D

 

If you and others are so unhappy about Carnival and their policies, why on earth do you sail with them???

[Emilija]

O PLEASE, not the stealing from shareholders / company smoke screen theory again. If the shareholders are worried about people cutting into the booze profit than ban all the friend's of Bill W and all the under 21 crowd from the cruise lines as THEY DONT BUY BOOZE and are costing the shareholders / company and ton of money more than the smugglers are.

 

LOL you are suggesting that only boozers should be allowed to cruise. No recovering alcoholics, no expectant mothers, no one taking meds where alcohol is contraindicated..........<sigh>

[BadBozo]

Question for you smugglers that complain about those ridiculously high prices for alcohol on your ships.

 

How do you circumvent the high prices for fuel???

 

Don't tell me you smuggle crude and mix your own gasoline...

[bookcreator]

rookies! :-)

 

 

;^) lolol ;^)

[babs135]

Took 2 bottles of wine on a cruise (not Carnival) and one night our entire dining table of 8 decided we didn't fancy the menu in the MDR so we decamped to the buffet. We took it with us and supplemented the meal with several glasses of fine wine! I'm pretty certain we were seen (we were making enough noise anyway), but nothing was said and the wine and meal were probably the best we had - at least I think I remember it being the best (hic) :D