P&O Cruises Toughens Alcohol Policy and Expands Conduct Rules
If you're sailing P&O Cruises and plan to bring wine or Champagne aboard at your first embarkation, keep it to one liter (you must be 18+, or 21+ from US ports) ā anything over that limit will now be confiscated and discarded with no refund. Alcohol bought ashore or from onboard duty-free is still stored and returned to you before the cruise ends, so declare it at the gangway. Review the expanded conduct rules too, since violations can range from warnings to being sent home at your own cost.
What jumps out to me is the removal of that grace period ā under the old policy, excess wine was stored and handed back, essentially a soft rule. Now it's confiscated and discarded outright, no compensation. That's a real financial hit for anyone who miscounts a case of Champagne at the gangway, and it tells me P&O is done treating the one-liter cap as a suggestion. The allowance itself didn't move ā still one liter, 18+ (21+ from US ports) ā so this isn't really about revenue from onboard bar sales, it's about enforcement teeth. Pairing that with a much more detailed conduct code, right down to noise and parental supervision language, suggests P&O is bracing for more disciplinary disputes and wants the rulebook airtight before it argues with a guest. My read: pack light on the wine, read the conduct section before you sail, and don't test either policy.