Carnival Cruise Line bans these items (but not this one)

When a passenger tries to bring something onboard it is allowed in a normal hotel room but now now not on a cruise ship, the article gets confiscated. Normally, the article in question gets returned at a so-on the total called "naughty" table all of the way through the terminal as people exit the ship.

Many of those items are pretty innocent. There are basically piles of power strips with surge protectors, the occasional coffee maker, and mountains of go backwards and forwards irons.

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Normally, this stuff are brought onboard since the passengers do now now not realize that cruise ships have special rules.

If someone tries to sneak a weapon onboard, and even something that can have a viable use on a cruise like a fishing knife, the effects is also more dire. (You will contact the cruise line upfront of time about getting fishing and diving knives onboard, as there's a procedure for them being taken into custody by ship personnel  and returned to you to your off-ship excursion).

Infrequently, on the alternative hand, cruise lines can make a mistake and confiscate an item it is allowed. One Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) passenger recently wrote to Brand Ambassador John Heald a pair of confiscation problem that they had.

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Carnival makes a confiscation mistake (sort of)

One passenger recently wrote to Heald complaining that an item change into confiscated from their luggage without them knowing it.

(This has been edited to help you read and follow).

"Question. I had my little scissors faraway from the case. I went nuts as I knew I packed. They removed them and never told me until the last day, So I in fact have Gravol pills [a pill for seasickness]. I ought to cut around. They do not just don’t pop out. We had a pair of outfits I brought the day earlier than. I never took the labels off. Also, I order liquid hand soap. The bottle top have thick tape on, so I need my scissors. Somebody told me you don’t need scissors. But. I do. So, how can I keep them? they wrote.

Heald gave an answer it is de facto now now not in Carnival's printed prohibited policy or listed as an exception to it.

"Thank you. In the event that they are the scale of nail scissors, they are absolutely allowed on board. Please put them for your carry-on bag, and that you just can now now not have any problems. When you do after you get onboard, let me know, and I'm going to care for it without delay," he wrote.

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It truly is feasible that the scissors are being confiscated because Carnival's Prohibited Items List contains the following language:

"Knives, scissors, and open razors. (Recreational dive knives are allowed but should be held all of the way through the custody of the Guest Products and services Manager or Chief Security Officer and should be checked out/in by the owner for dive excursions one day of the cruise. Large scissors used by scrapbook and quilting enthusiasts are at times permitted with prior notification from the Security Products and services Department but are held on board all of the way through the identical manner as dive knives,)" the cruise line shared.

That list also has a chronic "Exceptions" section, but no further mention of scissors is made.

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