How to bring soda onboard?

[58Piano]

Since we have a balcony this time we would like to bring soda onboard. How do you do this? Do you carry it on yourself? Check it in and let them put in your room? How much do you bring? Say a 12 pack of mixed kinds? I saw some using a wheel luggage rack to stack water and soda on as they came to the checkout lines. Would like your thoughts on your experiences thanks!

[shastatroy]

We use packaging tape to tape together 12packs and attach a luggage tag to it. We check it with our luggage and it's delivered to our cabin.

[lexyplexy]

Have done the same. We have brought water on the same way.

[riclop]

Carry them on or check it.

[lexyplexy]

Check them.

[DrivesLikeMario]

We love Diet Dr. Pepper which the ships do not carry. This is how we bring a 12 pack of it onboard: we re-enforce the box with packing tape, tape a couple luggage tags to it and drop it off with the stevedores with the rest of our luggage. We always tip for that as well as if it were a piece of luggage.

[ORDMan]

We bring an empty duffel bag with us, and go shopping the night before the cruise and buy enough to fill it with soda and our favorite bottled water.

 

Some advice: Let it sit for a while once it arrives in your cabin! The porters are not gentle with bags, and your soda was likely shaken quite a bit. We made that mistake just once.

[paul929207]

Princess does not limit the amount of water and/or soda you can bring onboard. So use the method that works best for you.

[Tweedy]

Since we have a balcony this time we would like to bring soda onboard. How do you do this? Do you carry it on yourself? Check it in and let them put in your room? How much do you bring? Say a 12 pack of mixed kinds? I saw some using a wheel luggage rack to stack water and soda on as they came to the checkout lines. Would like your thoughts on your experiences thanks!

 

 

When we carry on water/pop, we usually fill up a carry-on bag and bring it aboard ourselves. We usually carry enough (for 2) to get us through the first couple of days of the cruise to tie us over to the first port stop. By doing it this way, it leaves an empty carry-on to fill with dirty clothes or purchases we make along the way.

[Cruisin' Chick]

The last several cruises we've put some two liter bottles (I don't care for the metallic taste from cans) of Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Sierra Mist, as well as smaller bottles of Sobe in a plastic crate, which gets a luggage tag pasted on it. Hubby hands to porter with some cash, and it gets to our cabin. I always will put a couple of 24-oz bottles in my carry on to tie us over.

[58Piano]

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions!!

[fairsky1984]

Since we have a balcony this time we would like to bring soda onboard. How do you do this? Do you carry it on yourself? Check it in and let them put in your room? How much do you bring? Say a 12 pack of mixed kinds? I saw some using a wheel luggage rack to stack water and soda on as they came to the checkout lines. Would like your thoughts on your experiences thanks!

 

Just got off a B2B on the Sapphire. We carried a 12-pack of caffeine-free Diet Pepsi in a carry on, along with the allowed one bottle of wine (champagne) each. No problem. When we stopped at Ensenada (last port, however, and disembark the next day), we carried on another 12-pack purchased at the pier.

 

I had asked Security earlier in the week about carrying on liquor from Ensenada. I was told that there's no problem doing that since the cruise ends the next day. But it wasn't ending for us on a B2B, so we gave it a try. And along with that 12-pack replenishment, we openly carried on a bottle of rum. No problem :).

 

[DrivesLikeMario]

Just got off a B2B on the Sapphire. We carried a 12-pack of caffeine-free Diet Pepsi in a carry on, along with the allowed one bottle of wine (champagne) each. No problem. When we stopped at Ensenada (last port, however, and disembark the next day), we carried on another 12-pack purchased at the pier.

 

I had asked Security earlier in the week about carrying on liquor from Ensenada. I was told that there's no problem doing that since the cruise ends the next day. But it wasn't ending for us on a B2B, so we gave it a try. And along with that 12-pack replenishment, we openly carried on a bottle of rum. No problem :).

 

 

We found that to be true too on our itinerary. The next day was our final day (on a 7 day itinerary) and we weren't even questioned when we walked on with 2 bottles of wine each. No one in our group was stopped.