Cruise guests are going to extreme lengths to smuggle booze on board ships | The Sun

A CRUISE guest has revealed the extreme lengths her and her friend went to so they could smuggle alcohol on board their ship.

Some cruises don't allow passengers to bring strong booze on with them, so that they spend more money at the bar.

However, they will allow bottles of wine, which is how the crafty duo were able to bring something a little more potent on in their suitcase.

Firstly Akiri takes the lid off her wine and pours it into another bottle, using a funnel.

She continues: "We're going to remove the cap and we're going to use the funnel to tip this into our spare bottle, so we're not wasting any products. And do not get the labels wet."

After noticing that the colour of the wine altered the colour of her bottle, Akiri took action to change the appearance of her vodka – using both blue and red food dye to make it look more like wine.

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She added: "I didn't realise that these were black because there was red wine in them. So we have to dye it. I've used a blue dye first to make it dark but if that's not dark enough, I've got to put red in."

The cruise guest then poured the vodka into the wine bottle, again using the funnel.

After that, she screwed the cap back on and added their own bottle seal to the top to make it look unopened.

She got hers from a distillery but said they are readily available from Amazon as well.

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Akiri then uses a hairdryer to make the seal stick to the bottle better.

She finishes off by saying: "This is the final product. It's kind of s*****, but it's okay."

Akiri's video has been seen more than 240,000 times and the response was mixed.

Some people were impressed with her tactics, with one saying: "I didn't know this! Cruise in may thanks for the tip."

Another wrote: "This is actually ingenious."

However, others were less pleased with what they'd seen.

One said: "You just made purple spew."

A second added: "Now nobody will be able to even take wine on a cruise because you are telling the cruise company how they are being conned."

You should also be aware that if caught, you could have your booze taken off you or even risk getting kicked off the ship.

It's not just passengers who like to drink while on board cruises – the staff also enjoy a tipple.

However, staff members are only required to pay a fraction of the cost for their booze, with huge discounts allowing them to have a much cheaper night out.

One cruise worker and Tiktoker Drew Boudreau (@drewboudreau) revealed how much he pays for drinks on board compared to the "out of this world" prices he would see passengers pay.

In a video on Tiktok, he said: "Here's something fun they don't tell you about working on cruise ships – and I mean fun. Liquor is unbelievably cheap for the crew.

"For passengers it's like out of this world, but if you work on a cruise ship, it's the opposite.

"When I was stage managing for a big cruise line, I would go to the crew bar and a beer was 75 cents (62p) and a cocktail was $1.25 (£1)."

Drew suggested that he paid a tenth of what the cruise guests were forking out, which he said allowed crew members to develop a real "sense of comradery".

He added: "You buy 10 beers for your buddies, you're out $10 (£8.28) instead of $100 (£82).

"Because it's a party, they can charge people whatever they want for drinks, and they'll pay."

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Meanwhile, this cruise worker revealed what the crew bars looked like on board the ship he worked on.

And a musician working on a cruise revealed just how small his cabin is.

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