Do they check if wine bottles are sealed?

[sweetpea2]

When you board with wine bottles in your check in bags do they check and see if the bottles are sealed?

[paross4]

Ours have never been checked.  (we carry them on in a backpack)  Used to take corked wine, but decided it was simpler to bring screw top bottles.  (wine snobs, please don't judge us.... 😉 )

 

 

 

[Another_Critic]

22 minutes ago, sweetpea2 said:

When you board with wine bottles in your check in bags do they check and see if the bottles are sealed?

Put the bottles in your carry-on.  Do not put any bottles in your checked luggage; otherwise, your luggage will most likely end up in the naughty room for you to open and claim.

[poocher]

32 minutes ago, sweetpea2 said:

When you board with wine bottles in your check in bags do they check and see if the bottles are sealed?

Will you be drinking it on the way to the ship??  

[suzyluvs2cruise]

17 minutes ago, paross4 said:

Ours have never been checked.  (we carry them on in a backpack)  Used to take corked wine, but decided it was simpler to bring screw top bottles.  (wine snobs, please don't judge us.... 😉 )

 

 

 

We like good wines and could be called "wine snobs" but think it's perfectly OK....and maybe even preferable....to have a screw cap instead of a cork. I think it goes back many years to the idea that a screw cap was only on "cheap" wine. 

[cruisegirl1]

They inspected the bottles carefully  at the Baltimore port.    Not sure what  they are looking for.   Ours were sealed, so no problem.   I can't imagine why it would not be sealed. 

M

Edited December 6, 2022 by cruisegirl1

[sweetpea2]

Oops I meant carry on luggage. Can’t figure out how to edit my post.

[George C]

1 minute ago, sweetpea2 said:

Oops I meant carry on luggage. Can’t figure out how to edit my post.

One of my friends used to replace wine with bourbon then recork it and add the foil back , must be a dark bottle.

[flamingos]

Carry on.  Ours are in a backpack and never got a second look.

 

 

[poocher]

Curious, barring the content replacement referenced above, why would the bottle be unsealed?

[ATSEAMYLIFE]

They checked ours but it was during Spring break out of Galveston.  

[time4u2go]

11 minutes ago, poocher said:

Curious, barring the content replacement referenced above, why would the bottle be unsealed?

Perhaps they drank part of it previously. 

[Husky1987]

12 minutes ago, poocher said:

Curious, barring the content replacement referenced above, why would the bottle be unsealed?

Maybe some folks are too cheap/poor to buy drinks onboard so they fill wine bottles with the hard stuff to trick the port staff.  

 

 

[ARandomTraveler]

I brought 2 bottles on Symphony during Thanksgiving week in my carry-on wine suitcase and they didn't even open it. 

I actually had to take it through security twice because I left the ship and came back. They didn't look inside my bag either time. I also had a large bottle of water in there that was leftover from my hotel room, and they didn't seem to care what it was. 

 

[neverbeenhere]

A friend wants to know—

 

Does Night Train Express qualify as wine?  
 

 

[fsjosh]

59 minutes ago, Husky1987 said:

Maybe some folks are too cheap/poor to buy drinks onboard so they fill wine bottles with the hard stuff to trick the port staff.  

 

 

So you are reiterating the content replacement point of the post you are quoting?

[poocher]

Right, what OTHER reason could there be?

[taglovestocruise]

Always take at least two bottles of Port and have never been looked at.

[Engineroom Snipe]

1 hour ago, neverbeenhere said:

A friend wants to know—

 

Does Night Train Express qualify as wine?  
 

 

Ok, Mister, do I have to throw down the wine flag penalty on this one?

[alex_drew]

 

Always carry on two bottles of wine in my carry-on.  Baltimore always makes me open the bag AND they take at least one of the bottles out to check it.  

[sailor05]

I just do it the old fashioned way and bring rum runners. Not because I'm cheap as I get free drinks in the casino + 4 free diamond, but because I like to have a drink in my cabin/balcony without having to walk all the way to a bar and back. I get oj delivered each morning with my coffee to use as a mixer. 

[LittleJoefromKokomo]

I have brought both a wine bottle AND a bottle of vodka in the checked in luggage and wasn't called to the naughty room. However bag was not delivered until late at night, I had to ask the cabin attendant for it and he brought it up to me at about 10pm (bottles still inside...). Maybe I was just lucky 🙂

[superduper123]

13 hours ago, paross4 said:

Ours have never been checked.  (we carry them on in a backpack)  Used to take corked wine, but decided it was simpler to bring screw top bottles.  (wine snobs, please don't judge us.... 😉 )

 

 

 

Yes, we do also. Screw tops are so much easier!

[superduper123]

12 hours ago, cruisegirl1 said:

They inspected the bottles carefully  at the Baltimore port.    Not sure what  they are looking for.   Ours were sealed, so no problem.   I can't imagine why it would not be sealed. 

M

Oh that is interesting. I wonder why. I have never had my wine taken out of my carryon.

[superduper123]

12 hours ago, flamingos said:

Carry on.  Ours are in a backpack and never got a second look.

 

 

Same here. Never had my carry on looked at, and I always have wine in it.