Wine on the cruise
PattyC
wondering if others have dealt with bringing alcohol on board and how much
scrutiny there is. We are going to the Eastern Caribbean in late February.
I was considering packing one of those boxes of wine (has anyone tried
Hardy's Shiraz in a box? Actually quite good for boxed wine...).
Thoughts?
PattyC
DaFlaBear
No problem.
But if you try and carry it on, it's a crap shoot.
Sometimes yes, more often no.
Mason Barge
It depends on the cruise line.
HAL, no problem, bring it tucked under your arm. Princess/Celebrity,
no problem if you use some discretion. I believe they will let you
bring wine to the dining room for a corkage fee. Carnival, big
problem. RCCL, don't know.
Mason Barge
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-- Abraham Lincoln
JJ
of about $10! JJ
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Dick Goldhaber
various ships.
In 2001 we carried a bottle of vodka and a six pack of tonic purchased in a
shop on the pier on San Juan back onto Veendam.
We have never had anyone question anything that we have carried on any ship.
Maybe it is because the staff is enamored of Heidi and pay more attention to
the dog than to the humans.
--
DG in Cherry Hill, NJ
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Elmer
"Dick Goldhaber" <video...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I wouldn't try boxed wine, Patty, but we have brought various contraband on
> various ships.
> "PattyC" <pattycno...@verizon.net> wrote in message
> > I was considering packing one of those boxes of wine (has anyone tried
> > Hardy's Shiraz in a box? Actually quite good for boxed wine...).
We have taken 4 liter boxes of wine in our luggage on the last two
cruises with HAL and Princess. The advantage of the boxes is that there
are no bottles to break, and there is no rush to consume more than you
really want, since it keeps indefinitely.
Elmer
LURKER
> It depends on the cruise line.
>
>
Wrong.
Carnival is no problem, if you bring on "Fine Wine." Please read the
"terms of Passage." Just box a case, mark it fragile and have it sent
with the luggage to your room.
Robert Strauss
is to
bring some bottles aboard in a separate suitcase, well-wrapped in towels or
bubble
wrap. Take it through checked baggage.
I brought some wine and diet coke aboard my carry-on luggage on the Rhapsody
of
the Seas. As soon as they saw what it was on the scanner they shunted me
over to
a separate table where they planned to confiscate the wine. My wife was in
another line
with its back to the scanner and she said it looked like a huge stash of
wine on the monitor.
After some discussion where I pointed out that you can bring wine aboard for
a special occasion,
they asked what the occasion was. Turns out it was my second wedding
anniversary that
year so they let it pass. My wife remarked that the occasion was that I am
too cheap to buy
wine on board. Actually, that's not entirely true as we did buy wine at
dinner. I just don't like
to buy wine for my cocktail hour before dinner. After that experience, the
next time I sent it
through checked baggage and it "sailed" through.
We are sailing again in 7 weeks and I plan on bringing the wine in the same
way again.
Robert
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Ebbtide
it in the bubble wrap. The stewards love these suitcase for their return
home. You can usually pick up these cases for $1-$2.
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Annie Mooney Neves
last month on the CCL Pride (Mexican Riveria, out of Long Beach).
Carried it on my my small roller bag without a problem. Brought bottles
to dining room, and we were not once charged corkage, even at David's.
In fact, the wine sommelier at David's was impressed with the bottle we
brought. We, of course, compensated our wait staff beyond the usual
tipping guidelines, but they were worth it!
BTW, this was my 9th cruise and my husband's first. He is addicted,
straight and simple! I caught him looking at my Cruise Travel magazine
the other day, then last night he was looking at Alaska brochures (where
did you get those? Oh, picked 'em up!) He's a convert, as my sister
put it!
Anyways, my past cruises included Carnival and HAL (most recent 3 on HAL
up to last month). The service we received was top-drawer. The ship
was laid out very well. Food stations at the Lido eliminated that
"group herding" that happens in long buffet lines. No pushy cocktail
waiters. Only twice did we feel crowded, and that was expected for
muster station drill and Captain's cocktail party lineup. Lines to
leave at the ports were orderly, as were the lines to take tenders at Cabo.
We rested, relaxed, really enjoyed our balcony with the door propped
open at night listening to the ocean! Meals were excellent. never had
to send anything back, very tasty, nothing over- or undercooked. Yeah,
they still do the song & dance thing in the main dining room, but it was
fun and we sure got a kick out of it! We had originally been placed at
a table for 8, but the first day on board the maitre d' called
us...seems there was a large family that needed to be together and would
we be willing to move? Hubby said yes, if it were a table for two (ever
the romantic), and we had a very nice table on the upper level
overlooking the lower level. Hubby did tell him and our wait staff this
was our honeymoon (they hadn't gotten the word from the home office) and
gave us a cake (without the song, we didn't need that and there were no
hard feelings about it).
I hadn't done Carnival for 5 years, decided to give the Spirit class
vessel a try, and really enjoyed it far more than I would have expected!
AND doing the pre-cruise checkin on-line made for a quick embarkation,
very painless. The disembarkation was equally quick, our color tag got
called, we were the third group to leave, found luggage quickly, caught
a cab at the Queen Mary terminal to the Long Beach Airport -- and
arrived early enough to get on an earlier flight home by three hours!
Sorry this rambled on in answer to your question, but I had the time to
respond and got carried away -- I'd rather be carried away back to the
Pride than be at my desk, that's for sure!
If anyone has any questions about the CCL Pride, or pre-cruise at the
Queen Mary (a must-do), or the Mexican Riveria (my 4th time to the
ports, took hubby to the interior for a real look at Mexico) let me know.
Have a groovy Friday, too!
==Annie by the Bay
Mason Barge
Does Carnival consider boxed wine "fine wine"?
<------------ biting my tongue :)
jcoulter
>
> HAL, no problem, bring it tucked under your arm. Princess/Celebrity,
> no problem if you use some discretion. I believe they will let you
> bring wine to the dining room for a corkage fee. Carnival, big
> problem. RCCL, don't know.
>
Carnival charges a corkage fee. I rolled 7 bottles aboard last year with no
problem. (And the waiter didn't charge the fee so he got a real fat tip)
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