“A lot has changed since I lived and traveled in Mexico in the late 60’s.”
Man, that could be the understatement of the new year 2012.
PM me if you have any other cruise questions. Other posters were correct as to bringing your own on board. No way, it will be confiscated. The security going on a cruise is effectively 100% identical to going on an airplane....I am not sure they grope you, but they closely go through your luggage and make you take your shoes off. I don’t think they are as goofy with 3oz of shampoo, that type of thing. My last cruise was in 2005 and things have tightened up a tad since then that I do not know about.
I might check out some of the Inland Passage cruises from Seattle to Alaska. An older, mellower crowd.