tigris666

Princess beer selection is absolutely pants to be honest. I'm a Real Ale/Craft Beer fan and normally have to slum it. But, on our 2 cruises on the Crown this year, they had 1 good beer on each time. In June sailing from Southampton, they had 500ml bottles of Bath 'Gem' ale from the Bath brewery not far from Southampton. In October, on our Canada/New England cruise they 500ml bottles of 'Paulaner' German beer for October fest. Hopefully this is the start of better things.

Doing a Boston tour and the best you can get is Paulaner. The people I would kill to visit the breweries up there. It's criminal what they do to us eh? They have world class selections for the wine lovers. I just wanna cry.

If I can't get some Garage Project, Tuatara, Panhead or 8 wired, I might just stab myself in the eye.

That said, what are the princess rules on a) bringing your own alcohol aboard, and b) drinking "outside" bottles around the ship?

I use beer caps at home and they go alright. Interesting theory about the turbulence causing them issues, but willing to give it a try, since i have a bunch and it's easy to bring them.

Question I have, having not been on a princess cruise before, there is a lot of chatter about the "princess rules" which I'm obviously not familiar with.

It sounds like some have speculated there might be a rule about being caught walking around with unopened beers?

The obvious "cheat" is to buy as many as you can during happy hours, take em back to your cabin fridge, and enjoy at will if you can cap them yourself. Heck, I have a small bottle capper i could bring. The downside being if you are out and about on the ship, walking back to your room for a beer sucks.

Last question I have. There is much documentation about food menus and wine lists. Even cocktails that are available. But for the life of me, I can't find a beer list ANYWHERE. People here speculating Grolsch cos of the resealable caps.... well... I'm a craft beer drinker. I spend (and am happy to) as much on beer as wine lovers spend on the rare wines. Our tour is in NZ, and i'm doing it for the craft beer that NZ are famous for. So what's the likelihood there is any decent beer on these ships? Grolsch, budweiser, heinekin, kirin etc etc, these are not beers. They're fermented water to me.