Taking drinks on board?

[MeganMamaw]

My sister-in-law is a Diet Coke addict! She wants to take some with her so I need to know if you put it in your carry on? Is there a limit to how much you can carry on? Thanks!

[pcbeck]

My last two cruises my wife have packed a 12-pack each of Diet Coke and Diet Dr. Pepper in a separate box, tapedup, with the tag at the pier for the stateroom with NO issues. We even had a few Gatorades and water bottles in the box.

[GATOR MOM]

seems to me EVERY cruise line offers Coke...you can get a "soda card" & drink all you want for one price...approx $40 for a 7 day cruise. I am a Diet Pepsi addick but will deal with the Coke if I have too...the ship soda card is a must for soda addicts....

[romath]

seems to me EVERY cruise line offers Coke...you can get a "soda card" & drink all you want for one price...approx $40 for a 7 day cruise. I am a Diet Pepsi addick but will deal with the Coke if I have too...the ship soda card is a must for soda addicts....

 

I just think $40 for one person for one week for some soda is ridiculous. I can go through a 12 pack of diet coke in a week, but I can get that for under $5 without a sale. For 5 of us, that would be $200 that would go nice towards excursions. So, I don't think the soda card is a must for me (and yes, i'm an addict, I don't drink coffee so it's my daily caffeine fix). The ship allows me to bring on my own soda and water bottles and I like that. :-)

 

Hubby and I went on a short 4 night cruise on Carnival last spring and brought our own sodas. It was easy to just use a plastic cup from the pool area, put some ice in it from our room or the ice machines, and add our own soda. Hubby also made rum and cokes this way. (ftr, we did not try to hide the rum in anything. we had it and a bottle of wine packed in normally with our other items, in their original bottles/containers, & were prepared for them to take the rum, but they didn't.)

[Keith1010]

Sticking to the original posters question, yes, you can bring the sodas on in your carry on. You can do this on embarkation day and should you want to purchase additional sodas during the course of your cruise you can also do this in the various ports of call.

 

Enjoy the cruise.

 

Keith

[Krazy Kruizers]

Also agree -- those soda cards are expensive. Many people take their own sodas onto the ships in their carry-ons.

 

The way some of the luggage is tossed around, I wouldn't risk making a special package of sodas to have them handle it and maybe have them smashed.

[Budget Queen]

I just carry on a case myself, never any problem or restriction. IF I were to lable it for the porter's I would be sure to tip well. Wouldn't be nothing for it to be "dropped" if you load up with too much weight.

 

It's also very convenient to just purchase 6 packs in Ketchikan at the Tongass Store on the dock.

[qiangf2]

the only limiter is how much you can manage to bring them on. I would suggest to reload some at different ports, instead of getting a whole pallet of them at origination port