We took 12 bottles of Champagne and 2 bottles wine in January...3 week cruise..FLL...right up the gangway as we went from X-ray to Embarkation lounge then to our stateroom;no one said a word...
talked to a BUNCH of others on the same sailing.. no issues whatsover..we have it prior to Dinner,in our stateroom..We have a corkscrew we pack.. or in the Dining Room, our Asti is the same as what they sell, the staff never even blink...iced it down, opened it and served..Voila~
NEVER in almost 20 years paid a corkage fee.could be how it fell.....
not sure..we don't pack booze, and the occasional beer, Mark just buys it..so cannot help you there...we did haul a bottle of Captain Morgan's s up the gangway in Puerto Rico, just put it in the X-ray scanner...nobody said Boo.trucked it up to our stateroom.. and we have Diet Coke free in our Room..
... good luck.. we sail in August for Alaska out of San Francisco.., and for sure we'll have 4 bottles of Asti up the gangway,and a bottle of my favorite Swill Zinfindel..the 3 previous sailings out of there.. not an eyebrow raised...time will tell..Good luck..Joanne