Another example of a banned item that often surprises people is scissors. You can bring small personal grooming scissors but crafting or full-size scissors are forbidden. You also can’t bring your own internet equipment, such as a satellite receiver. And if your kids have shoes with built-in wheels (like mine do), they’ll have to park them at home.

The problem is that when you log into Carnival’s cruise planner online, you can’t buy it for just one person. One of the rules of the Cheers package is that it must be purchased for every guest of legal drinking age in the same stateroom.