I suppose it would depend upon the costs. What is the difference in $$$ between the guided and on your own? If the difference is a lot, you could take the "on your own" and get a guided tour when you arrive from one of the local vendors.
You would definitely need some sort of guided tour to get the most out of your visit, whether it be a physical guide or an audio guide once you get there. I would assume they would provide audio guides at a small cost along with your admission.
You must have misread my post. I was talking about initial embarkation from a U.S. port, which the OP was referencing. No one was talking about Bermuda Customs, yada, yada, yada.
It depends on the port. They wouldn't take it from me at Tampa, so I ended up carrying it on board, which was a PIA. 😉 In Europe we bring on those 6-pack 1.5 liter water bottles.
I've never seen a drug dog while EMBARKING at any port in the U.S. I've seen plenty DISEMBARKING, coming back from a cruise or overseas flight, checking out luggage.
I have never, ever, seen a drug sniffing dog when embarking at any port. Sometimes it might be better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission and plead ignorance. No one is going to lock up a cancer patient for a prescribed pill.🤪
If it's prescription medicine in its original prescription bottle, who is going to know what it is or what it contains when you check in. I wouldn't worry about it. Who's going to know the difference. I've never had any of my medication searched at any time when boarding the ship.
We were on Constellation TA (Eastbound), and because of the numbers, they held E+ in Tuscan, and Elites in Qsine. It worked out well. No one really checked, so you could use either one.
I wouldn't say overly bothersome. You will hear some scraping of chairs & tables moving from time to time, and in the evening with the staff setting them up for the following morning, but nothing late at night. If you are a light sleeper, it may be bothersome, but I think the aft views outweigh the tiny inconvenience.
I've done that before, asked them to clear the deck and knock everyone off, but for me, it was a PIA. Since they jacked up the price of adding devices, the savings in sharing vis a vis he hassle was just not worth it.
I used to do that, but not anymore. It's a PIA as folks just can't seem to understand they have to logoff one device to logon to another. I kept getting calls that other folks can't get on line because 4 others are logged on. Now I just buy for myself and share with my wife.
It wasn't on the menu. Our waiter told us they had a "special" that evening, Beef Wellington. It certainly wasn't filet in that pastry dough. I could barely cut it.