Royal Caribbean quietly updates its banned items list

Even as you board a cruise ship your luggage gets scanned for banned items. The list varies somewhat by cruise line, but they are attempting to to locate out obviously outlawed items like guns, knives, and other weapons.

New cruisers, on the other hand, may see items get confiscated that they failed to achieve were banned. That includes things like small appliances (coffee makers or kettles), candles, and irons.

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Or not it could probably be often irons and steamers that surprise people essentially probably the most since those seem harmless and packed clothes are inclined to be wrinkled. The difficulty is that anything else that poses a hearth risk can now not be brought onboard.

There are exceptions. Which that you can be capable of have the opportunity to bring matches or a lighter that can smoke cigarettes or a cigar onboard. Enforcement will even be a bit spotty.

On a most recent Royal Caribbean cruise, as an illustration, after I ran my carry-on bad through the safety scanner I was once once asked whether I had a cigar cutter. I did, pulled it out, and was once allowed to bring it on board.

The scanner saw the blade part and the person viewing it needed to are aware about it was once an allowed exception to the no blades rule. The difficulty is that that same cigar cutter has been packed within the identical place in my carryon for as a minimum a dozen cruises after that and it has never been flagged again.

Royal Caribbean also has very specific rules in the case of power strips, extension cords, and outlet extenders. It recently changed its wording on those rules and that has set social media abuzz.

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Royal Caribbean appears to ban a new item

Royal Caribbean has always banned extension cords, and any power strip or device that has surge protection. There's a hearth risk with the manner ship power works with that kind of power strip.

Passengers have always been allowed to use multi-plug devices. There are countless versions of those sold on Amazon after you search "cruise-safe power outlets."

These are power devices that plug right into a single port which creates more outlets. Many even have USB ports.

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Most experienced passengers bring some sort of multi-plug device with them. Which is because many cruise ships have one American-style outlet and one European outlet within the general cabin and some may now not offer USB ports.

That has changed on newer ships but for a family needing to keep its devices charged multi-plug outlets have been a extremely valuable piece of cruise gear. Now, it seems that Royal Caribbean has banned them.

The cruise line has changed the language on its online page to reveal that multi-plug outlets are now banned.

More specifically, the banned list now names  "Extension Cords and Multi-Plug Outlets/ Power Strips."

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Or not it could probably be unclear whether the cruise line has been enforcing the new rule given that many passengers on every ship would have these devices. A kind of people have shared the language change on social media, but there have now not been widespread (or per chance any) reports of people if truth be told having their once-approved, now-banned multi-plug outlet confiscated.

Royal Caribbean has now not answered a request for clarification sent on Wednesday, Sept. 18 after the close of business. The cruise line has now not sent any conversation to passengers about this transformation.

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