exocets_girl
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New Orleans, LA
| Cruise Ship So, I'm going to Cozumel on a cruise with my husband and several of our friends in September. I want to bring back several dozen homeade flour tortillas... My mom is originally from Arizona, and her sisters will sometimes buy and ship them to us, but it's SO expensive to do so!
My question is... Will they let me bring the tortillas back on the ship? We don't have to fly at all, so airline regulations aren't a problem.
Anyone know? Thanks!
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wapu
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clubs:  | Re: Cruise Ship Shouldn't be a problem. We went to Ensinada in February and they didn't really check our stuff coming back on board.
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Marion, IA | Most prepared foods are ok to bring back from Mexico. I would say that tortillas would fit that description. I believe you would not need to pay a duty on your items if they cost $800 or less and you carry them in your personal luggage. | |
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| The last time I was on a cruise ship it was before 9/11 so this may have changed. Getting it on the cruise ship shouldn't be a problem. I doubt that they will check you that closely getting on. If you have trouble anywhere it will be with customs.
According to the link below you should be ok.
»www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacat···Prepared | |
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exocets_girl
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New Orleans, LA
| Thanks! That's what I thought but I wasn't sure... I've never cruised before, so I wanted to double checkl BEFORE I spend a couple hundred bucks on 15 dozen tortillas! 
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Sacramento, CA | Re: Cruise Ship What are you making?
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Fubar
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| said by exocets_girl  :I wanted to double checkl BEFORE I spend a couple hundred bucks on 15 dozen tortillas! You're kidding about that, right? A couple Hundred bucks???
How long is the cruise? How are you going to keep them from going bad? | |
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exocets_girl
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New Orleans, LA
| Re: Cruise Ship I'm actually not kidding... But I'm also not crazy! The cruise is only 4 days, so they will be fine until I get home and can freeze them. Some of them will go to my mom, and some I will keep.
My mom grew up in the southwest in a little border town where she had a lady who always made them for her family. Ever since I was little, she would buy dozens and dozens of them on our annual trips out west to visit family... but since her parents have passed, none of us make it out there often, and it's WAAAAY too expensive to have them shipped. My plan is to bring her back a little taste of home. It's impossible to find the REAL DEAL in SE Louisiana! 
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Warzau
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clubs: | Re: Cruise Ship Not anymore, they have "coolers" now,looks like a mini fridge but it isn't. Well at least Disney Cruises. But call ahead to find out, to get one tell them you need to refrigerate medicine, we had to so we got a actual mini fridge in our cabin. | |
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Loco
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So Cal | Ah, homemade flour tortillas.....now you're talking, meng ! | |
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cjski
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| unrelated to your question...but i just thought i would mention...do you have a passport? i know some people don't think about things like that (raises hand), but i think you have to have a passport for cruise ships now. someone will correct me if i'm wrong... | |
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exocets_girl
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New Orleans, LA | Re: Cruise Ship We do both have our passports... although mine has my maiden name on it. Not sure if I need a new one or not... Hmmm, this is something I should look into!
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cowspotter
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Ashburn, VA | Re: Cruise Ship If your name on the cruise booking has your married name, then you really should get your passport changed to match. If your booking has your maiden name, then how would they even know your name had changed? | |
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Warzau
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1 edit | Re: Cruise Ship We were told the same, your Legal name must appear on the booking. Also we had to do two return forms, since my wife has her maiden name, but our kids have my last name.
Also I'd like to chime in, they were really coming down on the food. When we took our cruise out of Port Canaveral they were hammering that you couldn't take food in that wasn't pre package and sealed. If they follow the usual cruise procedure they have dogs inspect your bags that you left for them to pick up the night prior to disembarking. IIRC the fines went up as well. | |
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JamesLevinworth
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| said by exocets_girl :We do both have our passports... although mine has my maiden name on it. Not sure if I need a new one or not... Hmmm, this is something I should look into! New travel rules went into effect June 1 (2009). You will need to get that updated, and do it right away since there is a backlog delay. The name on your reservation must match the name on your documents exactly.
You must have the following or you will be denied re-entry into the U.S.
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Land/Sea Travel
Beginning June 1, 2009
• U.S. citizens entering the United States at sea or land ports of entry are required to have documents that comply with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), most commonly a U.S. passport, a passport card, a trusted traveler card such as NEXUS, SENTRI or FAST, or an enhanced driver's license.
»www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec/crossingbor···dex.shtm
»travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cb···223.html
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runnoft
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2 edits | A word of caution on this... not security related, but storage related.
Fresh, preservative-free flour tortillas can mold VERY easily and quickly, as in a few days after being baked. And ocean liners are in damp environments, obviously, though cabins have AC. But I don't know that you're going to be successful in getting these home without any mold on them. I'm not sure how to best avoid this, but it's a concern. They're probably not expensive down there, though, so it probably won't cost you much to find out. Refrigerating them on the ship may reduce chances for mold but may make them lose their fresh soft feel-- they may go stale in there. Freezing them would work, if you could keep them frozen. Also, transferring them to and from cool dry environments (fridge, freezer, AC'ed room) to tropical and desert temperatures can cause condensation inside the wrapping and lead to mold within a day.
Since you're not flying at all, you must be taking ground transportation back from Cozumel, so I don't see how this can work for you. | |
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Hayward
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| said by exocets_girl :So, I'm going to Cozumel on a cruise with my husband and several of our friends in September. You do understand that Sept id prime Height of hurricane season.... decent chance you will end up somewhere eslse but Mexico..., though likely you will pass through Key West, though even that can get called off, and sunndenly you are in the Bahamas,, Jamaca or somehwere else.
Not a given, but very likely that time of year.... why rates were rather low too then.
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exocets_girl
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| Re: Cruise Ship We port out of New Orleans, so if there is a hurricane in the gulf, or even approaching the gulf, and our cruise doesn't get canceled, we would have to cancel anyway. My husband is a law-enforcement officer and is required to report for duty in those circumstances.
It's always a possibility that time of year, but you take a chance... if it's canceled, we get our money back... been there, done that!
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Hayward
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stev32k
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Mobile, AL | Just curious, but why don't you make your own tortillas? It's not hard at all I've been making them for years and if I can make them anyone can. | |
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Warzau
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Naperville, IL
clubs: | Re: Cruise Ship True you can even buy the masa already made. | |
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exocets_girl
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New Orleans, LA
| Someone actually just sent me a recipe, and I'm going to try it out. Honestly, the thought has never occurred to me. My family has bought our tortillas from the same little old lady for years...
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KenTheCook
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| You said about $200 of tortillas? That's an awful lot. If it's legal to bring them back, talk to the chef on board and he'll probably let you put them in a walk-in cooler or something that will keep them. Other than that, Fed-EX!
Keeping them in your cabin will probably spoil them, even w/ the minor refrigeration unit.
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exocets_girl
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New Orleans, LA
| Re: Cruise Ship Thanks for the recipe! I'm going to try that out before we go!
I'm not worried about them going bad once I get them on the ship... four tortillas can go several days without refrigeration. It's like buying a loaf of bread.
Also, I'm not buying that many just for me! My whole family in New Orleans will need some... we will split them up and freeze them, that way they will last till the next time one of us can get back to my mom's hometown in AZ! (Just don't want anyone thinking I'm COMPLETELY off my rocker!  )
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