No food for trip home?

[janj01]

People like this really get on my nerves. The cruise is over. For gods sake pay for a meal like your going to have to until your next cruise. If your that hard up I will send you $10

 

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[myfuzzy]

People like this really get on my nerves. The cruise is over. For gods sake pay for a meal like your going to have to until your next cruise. If your that hard up I will send you $10

 

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[notentirelynormal]

People like this really get on my nerves. The cruise is over. For gods sake pay for a meal like your going to have to until your next cruise. If your that hard up I will send you $10

 

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See! That's what I said. We are talking a very small amount of savings for a couple of meals. OP says he doesn't want to not pay for the meal - but just wants to save a few dollars off each purchase.

[janj01]

See! That's what I said. We are talking a very small amount of savings for a couple of meals. OP says he doesn't want to not pay for the meal - but just wants to save a few dollars off each purchase.

He is actually saying he doesnt want to pay for a meal thats why he wants to take food off the ship. The bus will have at least 2 stops I should think because although they have toilets on the bus they prefer you dont use them unless its an emergency so do toilet stops along the way. Time to run and get some food I would think

 

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[Sea Hag]

Tuna kits. These are sealed plastic or cardboard boxes that contain a small can of tuna or chicken salad and some crackers. They're dead cheap and not all that bad, especially the Thai chili ones. They're in the same part of grocery stores as the canned tuna. We carry these for hiking lunches. These, plus some prepackaged chips and prepacked cookies or granola bars ought to get you home.

[griffy116]

As others have said....Watch Border Security. Half the items that people get caught with are ok to enter with but they fill out the form saying they aren't taking any food with them. Filling out the form with an incorrect answer results in them fining you ON THE SPOT. You have to pay it immediately. It's no laughing matter with them. They will not take an excuse like, "I didn't understand the question." The form says if you don't understand it, answer yes. If $10 is going to make or break the trip for you, cancel the trip. The fine is minimum of $300...you don't even want to know the maximum.

[SadieN]

At our local Walmart this afternoon. An All Aboard America! bus was in the parking lot, next to McDonald's. Across the street are a local Chinese fast food, local Mexican fast food and a Popeye's. Plenty of choices. Less than $10/head.

[SPacificbound]

I'm not going to read through 106 posts, but I have to think if someone can afford to take the cruise surely they can afford a sandwich and a couple of snacks for the bus ride home. It's not like you are locked in the bus for 12 hours, it does have stops.

[davekathy]

OP should have packed some MREs before leaving for their cruise to enjoy on the return bus ride back home! :evilsmile:

[navybankerteacher]

This whole thing is simply one more reflection of the attitude of cruisers: how to get cheapest cruise seems the driving motivation of so many. Smuggling liquor is the most obvious; now followed by free eating on the way home. Next we will probably hear suggestions of how to pack a week's worth of food at the end of a cruise so sniffer dogs cannot detect it.

 

Wow- wouldn't it be great if that all-you-can-eat experience could be extended by a whole week?

[sail7seas]

I am the same way but normally drive from Portland Maine back to New Brunswick Canada. I would never chance brining a sandwich off the ship, my luck the tomato would be considered a vegetable. go to wendys or subway a $5-$6 meal isn't really going to make or break anyone. Just have one less drink on the cruise ship ;)

plan accordingly and you will be fine

 

PS. I seen that trip on a website. Looks like it will be fun. Enjoy

 

It Is not mandatory youu nderstand the reason for such rules, however, it is mandaatory we all obey these ruules. U These rules are not in place to try to stavre travelers returning from cruises, Caibbean etc vacations or any other international ltrtavel. They are to protect orchards that can be destroyeded by infestations cauused by people that think the ruules do not apply to them and violating them. I don't want to hear abouut apple orchard infected, chicken coops with disease and the like. None of us will die of starvation by missing a meal. I f you don't want to spend $5 to buy a lunch at a rest stop , so be it.

Edited March 5, 2017 by sail7seas

[MJSailors]

I'm not going to read through 106 posts, but I have to think if someone can afford to take the cruise surely they can afford a sandwich and a couple of snacks for the bus ride home. It's not like you are locked in the bus for 12 hours, it does have stops.

 

 

Totally agree.Couldn't have put the thought any better on this thread.

PS Like the Snoopy reading a book at the end of your post !

[bob brown]

Taking food off a ship is really tacky....it would be like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, and stuffing cookies into your bag "for the road"....totally against policy. I have seen a person try to do just that, and get caught, and totally embarrassed by the manager, and told to never return....

 

It's just not worth it....

[Corby114]

I'm a retired Municipal Police Lieutenant and I remember one incident years ago about taking food from a casino buffet during an Atlantic City bus trip. After spending the day in Atlantic City my neighbors mother swiped enough food to full two large bags of buffet food and placed them in two big bags. When the bus dropped her off at her stop she was struggling with the weight of the two bags of food. She was crossing the two lane roadway and was struck by a vehicle and killed. It was a very tragic situation when I had to make the notification of the death of the woman to her husband and family. The woman was well off and didn't need to do what she did.

[sail7seas]

Surely, if not the driver, some pax are going to need a rest room. Not aal buses have facility on board. Driver likerly will know a rest stop where there ere restrooms and food avaalable.

[navybankerteacher]

Surely, if not the driver, some pax are going to need a rest room. Not aal buses have facility on board. Driver likerly will know a rest stop where there ere restrooms and food avaalable.

 

 

Actually if OP's point about a 12 hour bus trip is correct, there is certain to be at least one stop. Even not counting the virtually certain rest and meal stops, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rules forbid a driver from driving more than 10 hours without a break of at least 8 hours. The bus will stop to change drivers, if for no other reason.

[broberts]

Will be getting off Anthem on March 12 and boarding a bus for a 12 hour ride back to Atlantic Canada. I've packed some ziploc bags and stretch wrap thinking of picking up a wrap or a sandwich at Cafe Two270 on the eve of disembarkation to cut some costs on the way home.

 

Just read in one thread that it wouldn't be allowed? I know that dogs at Customs/Border patrol in Bayonne smell luggage, but do they smell your backpack?

 

 

As a foreigner seeking entry into the US it does not strike me as a good idea to start off by breaking its laws.

[OCruisers]

Somewhat back to topic.

The cruise line provides meals while you are on the ship.

Food getting to and from the ship is your responsibility.

[notentirelynormal]

As a foreigner seeking entry into the US it does not strike me as a good idea to start off by breaking its laws.

 

The OP is not a "foreigner". They are a US resident returning back to the US after a week long cruise.

 

 

They are just cheap and want handouts. They paid for a cruise that gave them food while on the cruise. They have now come to a cruise completion and want the cruise line to continue supplying them with food. They came on CC to get advise on how to do that. I suspect with the overwhelming advise NOT to steal the food off the ship and to suck it up and pay their way would have been an eye opener for most. This couple, I suspect, already knows what they are doing/asking is wrong but are looking for justification.

[SadieN]

The OP is not a "foreigner". They are a US resident returning back to the US after a week long cruise.

............

 

 

Well, according to their bio, their from Atlantic Provinces, Canada.

Breaking an AG law could be enough justification to keep them out of the US in the future.

[broberts]

The OP is not a "foreigner". They are a US resident returning back to the US after a week long cruise.

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Curious then that the OP says "...bus for a 12 hour ride back to Atlantic Canada...".

[notentirelynormal]

Curious then that the OP says "...bus for a 12 hour ride back to Atlantic Canada...".

 

Ooops, sorry. It has been a long time since I read the original post from this person.

[myfuzzy]

Well, not making judgement, but from what I am reading .....this OP paid for a cruise, and wants to take food off the ship for a 12 hour bus ride back to Canada......

[TravelerThom]

Well, not making judgement...

Given that the OP made it pretty clear that they understood the rules (and maybe / maybe not the reason for the rules) and was merely asking for an assessment of the chance of getting caught, there are plenty of people on this thread (myself included) who have no problem with being judgmental.

[$hip$hape]

Given that the OP made it pretty clear that they understood the rules (and maybe / maybe not the reason for the rules) and was merely asking for an assessment of the chance of getting caught, there are plenty of people on this thread (myself included) who have no problem with being judgmental.

Memories...

If only the NCL Gem gave me snack to go;

Lovely !