If you take your own booze it will be confiscated. Your baggage is searched before you get on, and once you get off, for contraband. That includes contraband you bring with you, and that which you purchase there. Booze will just be taken, because that is where the profit margin for the cruise line is. Real drugs will get you a visit from the local DEA.
I took the family on the Carnival Cruise to Mexico back in 07 ... it was a nice cruise. Loved Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo. Not impressed at all w Aculpolco. Surprised this happened in PV.
Thank you for that update. I just couldn’t remember one way or the other.
I also don’t remember how this was treated on our Med cruise. My Dad and I boarded the ship at Athens, Greece, on a non U.S. flag ship.
But it could have been the same. It probably was.
In fact, I remember my Dad and I would have a couple at the bar before dinner. Therefore, it sounds to me we boarded dry.
For some reason, the captain of the ship, who was Greek, took a shine to us and would also join us for a couple. I think he liked us because we were from the Panama Canal, and he had been through there several times on ships as captain and loved to hear stories about it.
Thank you again.
We have cruised a lot and we always take our own alcohol. I pack several bottles of wine in our luggage and it's always been left alone.