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With anytime dining, do they put the left over wine away for the next night?

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Yes indeed. One bit of advice - if you have leftover wine in one restaurant, and you are planning to be in another one the next night, tell your wine steward. He or she will send it to the other restaurant for storage. It'll save you some time the next night. So, if you are in the main dining room and are headed to the Pinnacle Grill the next night, just tell your wine steward. Your leftovers will be capped, tagged, and sent on ahead.

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I'm sure the pax who are actually dining really appreciate you dragging the wine steward away from servicing them.

There's usually a "floater" or a "runner" who is charged with fetching wine from the alternative restaurants who would take care of this. It's probably not as big a deal as it might appear.

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Bit of an anecdote.

 

On the second evening dinner of a cruise, we requested the half bottle that the stewards had tagged for us the day before. He returned perplexed with two bottles in hand, both with our cabin number. Needless to say, we accepted both, even though we recognized only one! (React fast, folks!) Probably, some other steward had made a cabin number error, or a half bottle was left from the previous cruise. In either case, free wine! :D :cool: Later in the very long cruise, we got to know all the wine stewards quite well, and sometimes laughed together with them about this incident. In fact, getting to know them well resulted in a few quite generous pours during special events and at the wine tastings!

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Bit of an anecdote.

 

On the second evening dinner of a cruise, we requested the half bottle that the stewards had tagged for us the day before. He returned perplexed with two bottles in hand, both with our cabin number. Needless to say, we accepted both, even though we recognized only one! (React fast, folks!) Probably, some other steward had made a cabin number error, or a half bottle was left from the previous cruise. In either case, free wine! :D :cool: Later in the very long cruise, we got to know all the wine stewards quite well, and sometimes laughed together with them about this incident. In fact, getting to know them well resulted in a few quite generous pours during special events and at the wine tastings!

So THAT's where my half bottle disappeared to! I expect full restitution. :D

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Left over wine ? ? ?:D

 

Smooth Sailing! :) :) :)

 

Talking about the 2nd bottle. LOL. Thanks all, we have never done anytime dining before, hope we like it. Going on the Noordam, first time on this HAL ship. :)

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I'm sure the pax who are actually dining really appreciate you dragging the wine steward away from servicing them.

 

Wow.

Well, let's see. It was the DRM or assistant that got it for me. And it was a bit before the dining room closed in the anytime dining section. They were both just standing at the podium.

And for the record, he didn't seem to mind doing it. :D

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Bit of an anecdote.

 

On the second evening dinner of a cruise, we requested the half bottle that the stewards had tagged for us the day before. He returned perplexed with two bottles in hand, both with our cabin number. Needless to say, we accepted both, even though we recognized only one! (React fast, folks!) Probably, some other steward had made a cabin number error, or a half bottle was left from the previous cruise. In either case, free wine! :D :cool: Later in the very long cruise, we got to know all the wine stewards quite well, and sometimes laughed together with them about this incident. In fact, getting to know them well resulted in a few quite generous pours during special events and at the wine tastings!

 

So you stole someone else wine? Ha ha. :confused:

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I have mentioned this on other postings, but we had a bottle in the Pinnacle, didn't finish it and had it capped. The next night in the MDR we asked for the remain elder of the bottle. They could not find it, but gave us a whole bottle of the same wine that night. Who knows what happened to that half bottle?

 

 

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Bit of an anecdote.

 

On the second evening dinner of a cruise, we requested the half bottle that the stewards had tagged for us the day before. He returned perplexed with two bottles in hand, both with our cabin number. Needless to say, we accepted both, even though we recognized only one! (React fast, folks!) Probably, some other steward had made a cabin number error, or a half bottle was left from the previous cruise. In either case, free wine! :D :cool: Later in the very long cruise, we got to know all the wine stewards quite well, and sometimes laughed together with them about this incident. In fact, getting to know them well resulted in a few quite generous pours during special events and at the wine tastings!

 

So you stole someone else wine? Ha ha. :confused:

 

Perhaps we were on the same cruise....We had an open bottle of wine stored and the next evening when they brought the bottle to our table it was empty.:eek:

Wine steward gave us glasses of wine to make up for the wine that disappeared.

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