Aus Traveller Posted December 19, 2012 #101 Share Posted December 19, 2012 We didn't bring any wine on board at any of the ports in Hawaii on our 2009 cruise. There have been recent posts that they have sporadically enforced the one bottle per person rule in Honolulu. No limit was enforced on our Dawn Princess cruise in May this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Traveller Posted December 19, 2012 #102 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Don't you wonder how much of the US$12 a day service charge actually goes to the person making the decision on the wine policy? I don't believe any part of the service charge goes to the decision makers. The 'tip' is divided among the room stewards, table waiters, head waiters, bar staff and maitre d'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beg3yrs Posted December 19, 2012 #103 Share Posted December 19, 2012 No limit was enforced on our Dawn Princess cruise in May this year. I appreciate first-hand recent information. So many of these posts are second and third-hand info and some doesn't even pertain to Princess. Some of it, at times and IMHO, seems to be from people with an agenda. :mad: Of course information on the Dawn is of particular interest to us as we are sailing it on our next cruise. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajaSteve Posted December 19, 2012 #104 Share Posted December 19, 2012 We depared on the Island Princess from San Pedro on November 26th. Had a case of wine plus a 6 bottle wine carrier we got at a winery. Had our luggage tags on both of them. They were delivered to the room OK. When we dropped our luggage off the porter assured us that HE would be bring everything to our room, so I gave him a big tip. He probable only took it to the security screening area as we only saw the ships personnel handling luggage on board. We had little portable speakers, an ipod, a walkman disk player and CD,s plus the AC adapters, for music on our balcony, in one suitcase. That suitcase arrived about two hours after everything else arrived. Plus it had been searched! So they do x-ray luggage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted December 19, 2012 #105 Share Posted December 19, 2012 That suitcase arrived about two hours after everything else arrived. Plus it had been searched! So they do x-ray luggage. All luggage is x-rayed by port security personel (not Perincess personnel) just like at the airports. Just like the TSA, if anything looks like it might be a danger, the luggage will be opened and contents checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmbruce Posted December 21, 2012 Author #106 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Just returned home from a 10 day cruise on the Island Princess. I brought two bottles of wine, one in my checked bag and the other in my carry on. My husband brought 24 cans of beer, dividing them between his two bags. He also brought on beer at every port. No problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IECalCruiser Posted December 21, 2012 #107 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Just returned home from a 10 day cruise on the Island Princess. I brought two bottles of wine, one in my checked bag and the other in my carry on. My husband brought 24 cans of beer, dividing them between his two bags. He also brought on beer at every port. No problems!Thanks for coming back to your thread to post your experience! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare fun_one Posted December 21, 2012 #108 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Seems to be the party line . @ families with kids should not be aproblem. I am on the Cribbean Princess next Saturday. Already have a case waiting in FLL. Any word from anyone on the size of bottles? 2 Magnums may be an idea for our party of nine!! We sail on the Caribbean in February - please report back about how the case of wine went. We used to be able to do that on RCCL but can't anymore. We haven't tried it on Princess yet but would like to if we could. Thanks, Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thymegirl08 Posted December 30, 2012 #109 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Just back from the Crown Princess cruise Dec. 22-29 out of Galveston. I took 2 bottles of wine in my carry on, 2 in my suitcase and a box in my suitcase. All made it through okay. I don't think they paid a bit of attention as it was going through security. All soda and water was in a duffle bag and was delivered to our cabin just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caviargal Posted December 30, 2012 #110 Share Posted December 30, 2012 We hand carried 6 bottles aboard with no issues. We took them to dinner and happily paid the corkage. We also purchased a couple of bottles aboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roce48 Posted December 31, 2012 #111 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Just returned home from a 10 day cruise on the Island Princess. I brought two bottles of wine, one in my checked bag and the other in my carry on. My husband brought 24 cans of beer, dividing them between his two bags. He also brought on beer at every port. No problems! I am glad to hear of your husband bringing beer back onto the ship after visiting a port. We are traveling to Aruba and Curacao in February and may want to bring something back onto the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare vino100 Posted December 31, 2012 #112 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Just back from the Crown Princess cruise Dec. 22-29 out of Galveston. I took 2 bottles of wine in my carry on, 2 in my suitcase and a box in my suitcase. All made it through okay. I don't think they paid a bit of attention as it was going through security. All soda and water was in a duffle bag and was delivered to our cabin just fine. Great to know since we sail on the crown in February. How was your cruise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lsmith52 Posted January 1, 2013 #113 Share Posted January 1, 2013 We were on the Crown out of Galveston 12/22 and were able to bring 2 bottles of wine and 1 bottle of champagne in our carry on without issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thymegirl08 Posted January 2, 2013 #114 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Vino100: Enjoyed the cruise very much! We had good service, food and plenty of entertainment to keep us busy. No complaints except for the hour long wait to get the 25 min. tender to Belize. (faster coming back). Enjoy your cruise! Lynne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare vino100 Posted January 2, 2013 #115 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Vino100: Enjoyed the cruise very much! We had good service, food and plenty of entertainment to keep us busy. No complaints except for the hour long wait to get the 25 min. tender to Belize. (faster coming back). Enjoy your cruise! Lynne Thanks for the info and the heads up on the tender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul929207 Posted January 2, 2013 #116 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Thanks for the info and the heads up on the tender. The tender process will always be slow when the ship first arrives. Most passengers want to get off right away, but it takes one to two hours to clear the backlog. If you do not have priority, you need to get a ticket. The non-priority passengers are accommodated as space permits in the order they get a number. The passengers with the high numbers will be eaiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckersgirl Posted January 5, 2013 #117 Share Posted January 5, 2013 On our first cruise in July/2007 - Coral Princess to Alaska leaving from Vancouver . . . smuggled our hard liquor in covered golf water bottles + 2 bottles of wine in checked baggage. No questions; no problems. On our second cruise in Aug/2012 - Sapphire Princess to Alaska leaving from Vancouver . . . hard liquor in golf water bottles + 4 bottles of wine carried openly in tote bag thru embarkation process. No questions; no problems. For our most recent cruise (Dec/2012 - Coral Princess thru Panama Canal leaving from San Pedro), we did the following after I found more info on these Cruise Critic Boards: smuggled our hard liquor in covered golf water bottles in checked baggage + filled a case with 8 bottles of wine and about 8 cans of soda then taped a luggage tag to it. Beverage case showed up in our stateroom with other baggage. No questions; no problems. For this 14-day cruise we also bought bottles of wine with dinners in Sabatini's + various beers, cocktails & Cokes from the Princess bars so we felt no guilt whatever and very much enjoyed having the wine to enjoy in our cabin/balcony. Our room steward kept us supplied with clean wine glasses always! Princess has the Rules/Details in place to forbid all this (in case they need to enforce them) but seems to operate under a Don't Ask/Don't Tell actuality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted January 5, 2013 #118 Share Posted January 5, 2013 we did the following after I found more info on these Cruise Critic Boards: smuggled our hard liquor in covered golf water bottles in checked baggage + filled a case with 8 bottles of wine and about 8 cans of soda then taped a luggage tag to it. Beverage case showed up in our stateroom with other baggage. No questions; no problems. Princess has the Rules/Details in place to forbid all this (in case they need to enforce them) but seems to operate under a Don't Ask/Don't Tell actuality. Not all of this. Princess rules allow some wine to be brought on board and unlimited amounts of soda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy2bcruzn Posted January 5, 2013 #119 Share Posted January 5, 2013 We will be embarking in Beijing in May. Has anyone encountered any issues there with bringing wine onboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satxdiver Posted January 6, 2013 #120 Share Posted January 6, 2013 We sail on the Caribbean in February - please report back about how the case of wine went. We used to be able to do that on RCCL but can't anymore. We haven't tried it on Princess yet but would like to if we could.Thanks, Barbara RCCL recently changed their rules and now allow one wine bottle (750 ml) per person (adult) to be brought on during embarkation. We took a case of wine with us on the Emerald last spring out of FLL. I put a luggage tag on the box and turned it in along with our other checked luggage and all made it to the stateroom without any problems. We love Total Wines in FLL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy and Charlie's Mum Posted January 6, 2013 #121 Share Posted January 6, 2013 We will be embarking in Beijing in May. Has anyone encountered any issues there with bringing wine onboard? We boarded in Beijing May 2011 - the first to use the new Tianjin Port. We took 6 bottles of wine - 2 in each check in luggage and carried one each onboard. No problems at all then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runbarb55 Posted January 6, 2013 #122 Share Posted January 6, 2013 We just returned from 14 days on the golden. we took 8 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of champagne, a bottle of Kaluha and a bottle of Gran Marnier. All carried on openly. Had no problem what so ever. Did pay corkage as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5326jan Posted January 6, 2013 #123 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Did you buy the wine once in China? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy2bcruzn Posted January 6, 2013 #124 Share Posted January 6, 2013 We boarded in Beijing May 2011 - the first to use the new Tianjin Port. We took 6 bottles of wine - 2 in each check in luggage and carried one each onboard. No problems at all then. Sounds good. Thanks Billy and Charlie's Mum! Do you recall if there were there any places to do shopping around the port area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee cee1 Posted January 7, 2013 #125 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Sounds good.Thanks Billy and Charlie's Mum! Do you recall if there were there any places to do shopping around the port area? There's a shop inside the new port building in Tianjin. Alcohol and duty free and souvenirs. Just buy it and walk back onto the ship.:) kind regards & happy cruising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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