Restricted items on Carnival cruise ship

[Jim Baldwin]

My son and his new bride called from New Orleans this afternoon headed off on their honeymoon cruise with Carnival. One of their stops was going to put them in Cozumel. Being that we own a home there we are constantly looking for folks headed south.

So I packed a big wheeled bag with about a hundred pounds of construction stuff that I needed to finish some electrical and woodwork on our house. They were able to check in with no problem. When the bag went through security he got a phone call and had to go explain to security why he needed a skill saw, grinder and handsaw along with an assortment of electrical components for his week long cruise.

He was told by Carnival security that they will no longer allow sharp pointy things including skill saws, handsaws, dive knives and the like and that about three months ago they eliminated their secure storage area for such items which they would keep until you departed.

A second 50 lb. bag with an electric skillet, blender, boxes of sweet and low, and big rolls of trash bags didn't seem to bother them.

Carnival was nice enough to drive him back to his car so that he could drop the bag off. This stuff will have to go in my checked luggage when I fly down in about a week.

 

[mike_s]

wow... they acutally x-ray the stuff. I'm surprised.

when we went, they x-ray'd our carry on bag when we got on the boat, but they loaded our "checked" luggage onto large carts which I watched them take directly to the ship and load in a side door of the ship. They might have had an xray machine on the ship that they "screened" luggage with, but I doubted it.

The fact they checked 2500 passengers bags before sailing is kinda hard to do.

 

[BurBunny]

Believe me, all the luggage onboard is checked. By all the major cruise lines. Most did it to some extent before 9/11, now it's 100%. The foodstuffs and other cargo loaded onboard are also secured by a variety of methods.