Okay so not to sound like an alcoholic or cheap, but can I bring my own alcohol on my cruise. I heard if you wrap it in bubble wrap it won't show on the scanner--true? I am going a cruise around Europe in a couple weeks. Let me know please--it could save a lot of money!

No, you cannot bring your own alcohol onto a Royal Caribbean ship. Some lines allow you to bring one or two special bottles of wine on board, for which you must pay a corkage fee. A lot of people do that. But bringing alcohol is verboten.

You can sail on a "generous" line suchas Holland America, Oceania abd Princess where you can bring wine (not hard liquor) on board without paying a corkage UNLESS you want to drink it in their public spaces.
I refuse to sail with RCCL, Norwegian and others that ban my wine and then screw me with high priced plunk!

You are not supposed to. However many do. They put it in their suitcases, wrapped securely of course and just bring in onboard. You are not supposed to but it happens. when we cruise the Sapphire in 2005 you could purchase etoh on board for in cabin use and then the allotment was generous. A L of Absolut was only $20.00. However the next yr. on the Tahitian Princess cut that quite a bit. A 375 cc bottle of say Scotch, Bourbon or Vodka with a six pack of soda was the same as I recall.

So how do you smuggle booze on-board? Make a mai-tai, and carry it in OJ bottles?

You want the secret? . There is none really. Just put it in you checked in baggage. Some have admitted to putting it in shampoo bottles or the like but I don't think you have to.

Public drinking is not allowed where I live, so we pour white wine into 7-up bottles, red wine in coke

Sorry, I would never put any drinking liquid into non-drinking bottles.

Very popular over on the cruisecritic boards, non-detectable in luggage - http://www.rumrunnerflasks.com/

I would think, the empty flask is undetectable, but filled with liquid should be detectable, or any terrorist can bring anything on-board, no?

If you want all your booze included, og to an all inclusive and not a cruise.

I bought some liquor duty free and they bubble wrap it nicely. On my way home, TSA openned my luggage, ripped open the bubble wrap to see what it was.

On my last cruise, I have a water bottle in my luggage that I use for shore excursions. My DW's luggage was in the cabin before we got there but I have to ask for mine and it arrived fianlly after dinner much much later. Both pieces were dropped off at the same time, but mine went though an "inspection'.

It could be the empty water bottle, or it could be my extra packs of AAA batteries that looks like bullets on the scanner that triggered the "inspection". I think TSA checks luggage for cruise ships deaprtures from US ports as well.

Just remember, you don't need alchol to have a good time.

On a Med cruise, one of our party bought quite a lot of wine in Italy and brought it on board with no trouble. We took it to dinner, where our waiter charged us the corkage fee for one bottle each night, but not for the others (there were 8 in our party). That was on Carnival. They may be more lenient on alcohol bought in the ports, as they depend on the goodwill of the merchants and towns there.

Go on Silverseas, all the alcoholic beverages are included (except for some really upscale wines). They stocked our refrig with our favorite gins, and had open bars at every level.