What do you need to take in your Carry-On bags for a Disney Cruise?

What do you need to take in your Carry-On bags for a Disney Cruise?

Understand that Carry-On bags need to stay with you until your cabin is available. They will sit in the dining room with you while you eat lunch and be dragged around while you look around the ship. Your Cabin will not be available until sometime between 1:30 pm and 2:30 pm, maybe even later. Why even bother with Carry-On bags? Just carry your ID/Citizenship docs and paperwork. That is all you need to carry on. The rest will be delivered to your cabin so why fuss. Remember checked suitcases will start arriving at the cabins around 2:30 but may not even show up until the next morning. Because of that I suggest making sure you have everything you need until morning. This way if the bags don’t show up you are not stuck without your necessary items. You have clothes to change into for dinner if you wish, PJ’s, Toiletry Items and medical items. Have littles? This includes things like comfort items like blankies and stuffies. Have someone with a disability? Besides their medical items think about comfort and communication items. Anything that helps them and you is worth carrying on. Be aware that having prohibited items in your checked bags WILL delay your bags getting to your cabin because they require further screening due to the found prohibited item.

 

Make sure you have your ID and Citizenship Documents available in easy reach. I suggest taking things you don’t wish to risk losing or having damaged in carry on. Disney does a great job handling your bags. Disney crew is not the only set of people handling your bags. You hand your bags to the port works between handing them over and them being delivered to your cabin. Things go missing and even go into the deep blue sea. There are items you can’t check in like Wine, Beer and Bottled Water and food items, unless the food item is medically necessary.

 

If it is valuable, fragile, would be damaged if it goes for a swim, medical related (equipment and/or medication) or something you will need like swimsuits or a change of clothing for later in the day MAKE SURE TO CARRY IT ON!

 

Minor side note. I personally know of 2 separate incidences when bags fell off trolleys into the ocean when being removed from the ship by the port staff. I have heard of more. First a family lost a couple bags that fell off a trolly. It had a communications device and comfort items for a young lad on the spectrum. I also know of a FULL TROLLY of suitcases that went overboard! The Port and Disney had divers go looking for the bags. The ship was delayed at the port. The 2 families we know were affected by these mishaps lost everything in the suitcases. First family was disembarking the ship and the second family was boarding the same ship!