Stop! Lower the key card and leave the 1 -inch sales table.
Cruise ship shops are convenient, but generally expensive. They have items that you might have left home and realize that you need it. Even the best packers can lose their suitcases depending on the airline.
Onboard boutiques sell dresses and flashy shirts for those who appear and appear and recognize that a formal night is really needed. If you want to declare your love for your favorite lines to the world, it’s a place to buy a cruise line logo item.
If you need something, go ahead and buy. However, a cruise ship store can be dangerous for your wallet -especially, because some shopping addicts buy anything to buy anything to get the feeling of “vacation only”. After a rainy day with a pessimistic and rainy day.
The ship seduces travelers in other ways that let go of cash in other ways, from expensive spatifications to art sales.
The port has other pitfalls to avoid. It is difficult to transport a product, a product that should not pass the local customs, and the cheap (read: not obtained) Chocches can break before putting the key. To your entrance.
The advice on what to avoid when the shopping bug is chewed on the next cruise vacation is as follows: Be careful if you have a hard time putting your wallet in your pocket while traveling. You know who you are.
Things that are not purchased on board
Valuable jewelry and “gold inch” jewelry
If you are not yet an expert who evaluates jewelry, the cruise is not the best time to buy a big ticket jewel.
When you drop thousands of dollars, you need to get the quality you expect. Your heart is located elsewhere in the cruise, from pools, hot tabs, cocktail lounges, or on tonight menus.
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After all, who wants to spend an indoors in a sunny afternoon to study jewelry cuts and carat?
Also, avoid the “gold inch” sales, regardless of how low the price is. Trust us: It doesn’t look good, and it’s not real.
Related: 15 ways for cruising beginners waste money on the first cruise
Toiletries
Basic hygienic products can be obtained for hopeless things at the ship’s gift shop. The price is set accordingly. If you go to the port in the morning and wait for a product at a regular drugstore, you can get a much better transaction.
Also, if you curate your toothpaste, shampoo, nail files, and sunscreen collections around the world, when you return home, the cabinet of the drug will be jazzy and function as a constant reminder of international adventure.
Another option: Purchase a travel size that can be replenished and consider living in a suitcase toiletries to prevent future disasters.
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“Medi-Spa” and weight loss treatment
Some cruise lines provide “MEDI-SPA” treatments such as Lespiran injections, but read detailed printing to learn about the necessary training. The term “Medi” is a bit misleading, and you may be surprised to hear that most ships are not sailing with these treatments. In addition, multiple visits may be required to experience the purpose of the purpose.
Furthermore, you do not want to sign up to treatment that can be painful, consumed food and alcohol, or how much sun can be handled on vacation? If you are tempted, read all detailed printing and ask about treatment after treatment.
Regardless of which ship you navigate, avoid spat treatments that return home, such as AEONSHIMY, and use claims that are not medical -approved. (Spoiler Alert: I tried it. It doesn’t work.)
mani pedi
These salon services are often surprisingly marked up. In addition, only one bump is applied from the waves before the incomplete finish is reached. Our opinion? Take the time to complete the polish at home, find a place that is often reviewed at the port, and bring your own polish. No matter what you do, skip the nail salon on the ship.
Related: 16 mistakes that cruisers commit on the sea day of the cruise ship
For-Fee Room Service
One of the benefits used to distinguish cruise ships from the hotel was free Room serviceBut those days are over.
Most cruise lines are currently charging everyone except for the continental breakfast (and some are charged), so the room service has enough the charm once used to be. Not.
Our advice: If it’s late at night, if everything else is closed, you feel sick, or if you challenge them one of the on -board restaurants, you will be meltdown. If you are traveling together, if you have it, skip the room service.
art
Are you a world -famous enthusiastic enthusiast in the art of various times, with an encyclopedia knowledge of a minor artist that is not well known? I didn’t think so.
Unless you want to search for the value of artwork online, leave the art auction on the boat. No matter how bad the weather is, champagne is how the pool deck is crowded on the sea day and how free you want.
Things that you do not buy at the port
Souvenirs from the port terminal
From cheap hammocks in Mexico to cheap fans in Spain, souvenirs found in shops filled with equipment are designed for quick care.
Did you go on an excursion on the coast and leave time to shop for your NE? Pick up something in the terminal. The problem is that the quality there is generally low.
If possible, walk around the town for a while to pick up what is sold to locals, not tourists. Find souvenirs made by local craftsmen or souvenirs produced locally.
Sake
The most famous megasip cruise line confiscates the purchase of portside liquor and return them. (With a gorgeous line, you can get alcohol.)
Nevertheless, buying alcohol to go home will be risk and inconvenience unless you are cruising on your home port. (Did you intend to fill the checked luggage with Tahitian Vanilla Lamb?)
Nevertheless, if you are on a French river cruise that passes through your favorite wine area, we will understand whether you will secure your favorite bottle and return home to enjoy it. I am.
Related: Can I bring alcohol on a cruise ship? Guide for each line
Canceled meat and soft cheese or raw cheese
Trying to sneak into US customs in specialty fields such as Barcelona’s Jamon Iberico and France’s Raw-Milk Comte is not a stress. Refuse global entry at risk。
Our advice? During your vacation, you can paint at a restaurant or eat it as a picnic for the cabin balcony, and stick to non -contrasting souvenirs such as chocolate.
Fresh fruits and plants
Customs does not allow fresh fruits to the country. Some under ship ports have a sign of a fine if you don’t throw away fresh fruits that might have been hidden in your luggage.
Yes, Caribbean bananas, mango, pineapple, and coconut may be ripe and sweet, but fines are rich.
When you are in the harbor, you can search for a frozen drink made from fresh fruits, not powder or syrup, and fill the real thing before returning home.
Unfortunately, living plants are also prohibited. In other words, you can’t even bring them back to the boat with you. In other words, it’s just no to the locals that the locals continue to persuade you to persuade you.
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