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Wine Permitted to Carry Onboard Now

gw2fll

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Seatravelers

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Going to be wonderful for those folks who don't have to fly to a port;). Not sure it will be worth it to risk breakage in our suitcase and red wine on all our clothes:p or the extra cost of a taxi to find a wine merchant...would so like to bring along some of our favorites.....

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MomtoCCC

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Woo Hoo! We were able to do this on our first RCCL cruise but haven't since. We are going for 10 year anniversary and will bring a bottle of champagne from the winery where we had our wedding! :D

 

So glad RCCL made this change!!

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FSUNole

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Yes we will too! I just like sipping a glass or two while looking at the blue water while relaxing before dinner!

 

I'm still going to try to get one of those rum runner thingys on board... I just like the ease of having something available in the room.

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pspercy

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Celebrity allows you to buy a bottle in their duty free shop and take it back to your cabin too.

 

They do ?

 

We could order one ahead of time but it most certainly was not at duty free prices :(

Maybe it's changed since 2010 . .

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Lost_in_BC

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Celebrity allows you to buy a bottle in their duty free shop and take it back to your cabin too.

 

They do ?

 

We could order one ahead of time but it most certainly was not at duty free prices :(

Maybe it's changed since 2010 . .

 

I'll admit I never read it on any of their literature. But I bought a big bottle of rum on our trip through the canal on Infinity from the duty free/cigarettes/candy store and was able to bring it back to my room. I very much enjoyed that. Most of the bottle came home. I don't drink to excess, but it was nice to have a nightcap in my cabin.

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leaveitallbehind

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No way I'd pay $25 corkage fee on my $6 bottle!!!! That's insane! I'll stick to real liquor or beer!

 

Huh?? Once again I think you kinda miss the point - which is you can now bring wine on board which you could not do before. The corkage fee only applies if you bring the wine to a ship's public dining venue - not if you drink it in your room. Regardless, maybe other people have a better level of wine taste than $6 which to them may make the corkage fee worthwhile if they decide to bring it to dinner.

 

Not sure the relevance of "sticking to real liquor or beer" - neither of which you can bring on board - but if it is in reference to cost, certainly you will pay far more than the $25 (or $6 for that matter) purchasing liquor or beer on board over the length of the cruise.

 

At least with this new policy, if you are a wine drinker you now have a choice that you did not have before. Good for RCI!

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LMKakaThing2

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soooooo.....wonder how close they check, as premixed bottles of margaritas are about the same alcohol content as wine, why couldn't I bring a bottle of margaritas. seems fair

 

Don't know what brand of margaritas you drink, but skinny girl makes pre mixed margaritas that are in a wine bottle. They probably wouldn't even notice you aren't bringing on wine.

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LMKakaThing2

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Excited about being able to bring wine onboard now. My family is big wine drinkers and this will allow us to bring on our favorite wines. Having 3 cabins booked on our next will allow us to bring 6 bottles. Be nice if it's 2p/p instead of 1. Since 6 bottles will only last us 2 nights.

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