DCL soft sided cooler allowed?

[jenepat]

I've been searching for 30-45 minutes and can't find a good answer to this. Hoping someone knows. We're flying out in the morning for our Thanksgiving 5 night on the Magic - woohoo!

We last cruised in March 2020, just pre-COVID, and bought a beer package that came with a nice soft-sided DCL cooler bag (w/ shoulder strap).

Does anyone know if it's allowed to bring this back onboard as a carry-on with our beer/wine and perhaps some meds? I know the cooler policy says nothing over 12x12x12 (and seems it must be used for medicine or baby food). The DCL bag is slightly larger than this, but it's hard to imagine they would not allow it considering we purchased it on a previous cruise.

Definitely don't want it confiscated or forced to throw it away. But we'll have to re-think our carry-on situation if we can't bring it.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I've been searching for 30-45 minutes and can't find a good answer to this. Hoping someone knows. We're flying out in the morning for our Thanksgiving 5 night on the Magic - woohoo!

We last cruised in March 2020, just pre-COVID, and bought a beer package that came with a nice soft-sided DCL cooler bag (w/ shoulder strap).

Does anyone know if it's allowed to bring this back onboard as a carry-on with our beer/wine and perhaps some meds? I know the cooler policy says nothing over 12x12x12 (and seems it must be used for medicine or baby food). The DCL bag is slightly larger than this, but it's hard to imagine they would not allow it considering we purchased it on a previous cruise.

Definitely don't want it confiscated or forced to throw it away. But we'll have to re-think our carry-on situation if we can't bring it.

I would imagine, if you have it packed in your luggage, they won't have an issue with it. Whether you'd be allowed to bring it on with ice/beer/meds, I don't know.

 

[iannovich]

I think Ice Packs would be ok, but they may not allow regular ice. At least that's the way it is at the parks.

 

[cvjw]

We recently brought ours back. We packed it in our carry on though. No issues

 

[jenepat]

I would imagine, if you have it packed in your luggage, they won't have an issue with it. Whether you'd be allowed to bring it on with ice/beer/meds, I don't know.

Yes, wasn't planning to bring it with ice. But was thinking we'd use it to carry on our alcohol. Guess we could just use a mini suitcase for all of it.

 

[Disneyland_emily]

We brought ours last week with soda/water with no issues

 

[jenepat]

We brought ours last week with soda/water with no issues

Great! So you had it as a carry-on to board the ship?

 

[Disneyland_emily]

Great! So you had it as a carry-on to board the ship?

Yup

 

[birdmom]

we used a soft sided cooler with rollers to bring our soda and bottle water onto the ship last month, no problem

 

[csmith1004]

I had this exact question and emailed DCL They replied that only coolers within the 12x12x12 limit are allowed. Since it is a soft cooler I can fold the top down and it is within the limit. Lol! Can anyone else confirm they have carried this DCL cooler back onboard without issue? Thanks!

 

[CastawayCayLover]

I've been searching for 30-45 minutes and can't find a good answer to this. Hoping someone knows. We're flying out in the morning for our Thanksgiving 5 night on the Magic - woohoo!

We last cruised in March 2020, just pre-COVID, and bought a beer package that came with a nice soft-sided DCL cooler bag (w/ shoulder strap).

Does anyone know if it's allowed to bring this back onboard as a carry-on with our beer/wine and perhaps some meds? I know the cooler policy says nothing over 12x12x12 (and seems it must be used for medicine or baby food). The DCL bag is slightly larger than this, but it's hard to imagine they would not allow it considering we purchased it on a previous cruise.

Definitely don't want it confiscated or forced to throw it away. But we'll have to re-think our carry-on situation if we can't bring it.

Absolutely allowed to bring it back on. One thing to note, the new version they're selling is nicer (I assume they have it on the Magic, they had it on the Wish and Fantasy (without the Wish tag on it)) so if you're inclined to upgrade these kinds of things, you may want to leave the old one at home and buy a new one.

 

[auntlynne]

It’s just another bag. You can bring shopping bags, too. It just has to go through the x-ray scanner.

 

[Hokies37]

Does anyone know how much the cooler beer package costs? Going on the Dream in a few weeks.

 

[auntlynne]

Does anyone know how much the cooler beer package costs? Going on the Dream in a few weeks.

You may want to start a thread for “Cost of cooler beer package?”