

Arrest! Leave your key card and move away from the golden inch sales table.
Cruise stores can be useful, but they are generally too expensive. They carry articles that could have left at home and discover what you need. Even the best packer occasionally has its loss loss by an airline.
Boutiques on board sell elegant dresses and shirts for people who appear and then realize that formal nights really require formal outfit. In addition, they are the place to buy articles of the Cruise Line logo if you want to proclaim your love for your favorite line to the world.
If you need something, continue and buy it. However, cruise stores can be dangerous for their wallet, especially after a couple of gloomy and rainy days at sea, when some clicks will buy almost anything to get a success of that feeling of “only vacation.”
The ships also tempt travelers with other ways to separate from their cash, from expensive spa treatments to Fine Arts sales.
In the port, there are other difficulties to avoid: products that will not overlook their local customs officer, those that are difficult to transport home and economic tchotchkes (read: badly done) that probably break before even put the key to your main door.
Here is our advice on what to avoid when the purchase error bites in your next cruise vacation. Pay attention if you have difficulty maintaining your wallet in your pocket when you travel. You know who you are.
Not to buy on board
Beautiful gems and jewels of “inch of gold”
If you are not yet an expert in evaluating precious stones, a cruise is not the best time to make a purchase of large jewels.
When leaving thousands of dollars, you want to make sure you get the quality you expect. His mind is elsewhere in a cruise, from the pool and the jacuzzi to the cocktail room or what is in the menu tonight.
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After all, who wants to spend a sunny afternoon indoors investigating cuts of precious stones and carats?
In addition, avoid sales of “inch of gold”, regardless of how low prices are. Trust us: none of that looks good, and it’s not real.
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Toiletries
Basic hygiene products are available in the ship’s gift store for desperate, they often have a price. If you go to the port in the morning and you can wait and buy the product in a regular pharmacy, you will get much better treatment.
In addition, the healing of a collection of toothpaste, shampoo, nail files and sunscreen from all over the world will make your first aid myself when you return home and serve as constant reminders of your international adventures.
Another option: consider buying travel sizes that can be filled and live in the dressing bag of your suitcase permanently to avoid future mishaps.
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‘Medi-Spa’ and weight loss treatments
Some cruise lines offer “MEDI-SPA” treatments, such as Restylane injections, but read the small print to learn about the required training. It is possible that it is surprised to know that the terminology “media” is a bit misleading, and most ships do not sail with doctors who perform these treatments. In addition, sometimes you need multiple visits to experience the desired effects.
In addition, you do not want to register in any treatment that can leave it with pain or affect the food or alcohol that you can consume or how much sun you can handle on your vacation. If you are tempted, read all the small print and ask about the care after treatment.
Regardless of the ship that you navigate, it also avoids spa treatments with statements that would not be medically sanctioned at home, such as Ionithhermie, which says it helps you lose weight. (Spoiler alert: we try it. It doesn’t work).
Manicures and pedicures
These living room services are often surprisingly marked. In addition, only one wave is needed to result in an imperfect finish. Our opinion? Take the time to make your enamel at home, look for a well reviewed place in the port or bring your own enamel. Do what you do, omits the nail room on board.
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Room room service
One of the advantages that hotels used to distinguish was free room serviceBut those days have ended.
With most cruise lines now charging rates for all but continental breakfast (and some even charge for that), the room service does not have the charm that did before, especially when the food is available so easily in all of them all parts throughout the ship.
Our advice: unless it is late at night and everything else is closed, you feel sick or travel with children who will have a crisis if it forces them to venture to one of the restaurants on board, omits the room service if it is not free.
Art
Are you a world -renowned art connoisseur of different periods of time with an encyclopedic knowledge of minor artists and their less known works? We don’t think about it.
Unless you want to spend hours online the value of a work of art, keep away from those auctions of art on board, regardless of how bad the climate is, how full of people it becomes the cover of the pool in the days in the days of the sea or how much it wants to be free champagne.
What not to buy in the port
Memories from the Port Terminal
From cheap hammocks in Mexico to low -cost fans in Spain, the memories you will find in the stores full of baratijas are designed for the fast cozy.
Did you go to a land excursion and did not leave time to buy your nephew? Collect something in the terminal. The problem is that the quality there is usually low.
If you can, roam for a while to collect something marketed for the locals instead of tourists. Look for memories made by local artisans or produced locally.
Spirit
The best known Megaship cruise lines will confiscate the purchases of liquors from the port and will be returned to land. (Luxury lines will allow you to bring alcohol on board).
Even so, buying liquor to bring home comes with risks and discomfort unless you are sailing directly in your domestic port. (He was not planning to fill his luggage reviewed with tahitian vanilla rum, right?)
That said, if you are on a cruise on the river in France that passes through your favorite wine region, we understand if it makes an effort to secure your favorite bottles to enjoy home.
Related: Can I bring alcohol on a cruise? A line guide per line
Cured meats and soft or raw cheese
Trying to sneak culinary specialties such as Iberic Put your global entry in danger.
Our advice? Eat its filling in the restaurants while on vacation, or as a picnic on the balcony of its cabin, and adhered to non -controversial edible memories, such as chocolate.
Fruit and fresh plants
Customs will not allow you either to bring fresh fruit to the country. In some landing ports, you will find containers with signs that threaten fines if it does not throw any fresh fruit that may have hidden in your luggage.
Yes, bananas, mangoes, pineapples and coconuts in the Caribbean can be mature and sweet, but fines are also rich.
Look for frozen drinks made of fresh fruit, instead of powders or syrups, when it is in the port so that it can be filled with the real before returning home.
Unfortunately, living plants are also prohibited, which means that you can’t even bring them back to your ship with you. In other words, just say no to those tissue palm hats that the locals continue to try to convince him to buy it.
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