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Paul D. Lane

McLean

Booze on a Cruise

I READ with interest your article on cruise lines' policies about bringing alcohol onboard [File This, April 8]. My husband and I will be cruising with Celebrity this spring, and its literature says that travelers are not permitted to bring any alcoholic beverages onboard. Your article says that travelers are permitted to carry on two bottles of wine per stateroom. We like to sip wine before dinner, and it would be great if we could bring a couple of bottles onboard with us.

Joanne Colt

Bethesda

Author Margaret Roth replies:

The apparent conflict stems from the widely varying use of the term "alcohol" in the cruise industry. Celebrity's Web site (http://www.celebritycruises.com; click on "Before Your Cruise," then "Frequently Asked Questions," then "Food and Beverage") states that beer and hard liquor may not be brought onboard but that "personal wine" is permitted, limited to two bottles per stateroom, with a $25-per-bottle corkage fee if the wine is drunk in a shipboard restaurant, bar or dining area.

SuperShuttle

IT'S HARD to believe that SuperShuttle has improved as much as you wrote [Coming and Going, April 8]. My experiences have been so bad that I'd rather walk to the airport than rely on it.

Once, the driver didn't know how to get to BWI. But the final straw was when the driver didn't show up at all. I called a number of times, getting progressively more frantic. The driver showed up an hour and a half late, and I made my plane by minutes -- only because I had told the reservations clerk that my flight was an hour earlier than it actually was. I will never again use SuperShuttle.

Margot Fromer

Silver Spring

LAST DECEMBER my husband, daughter and I scheduled SuperShuttle for a round-trip ride to Reagan National. Our pickup time was 4:15 a.m. A little after 3 a.m. we received the first of four calls from the company.