Champagne on the Dawn

[Oceangirl60]

Can you bring champagne on board the Dawn? We would like to have it in our room. Is there a fee?

[Demonyte]

Yes, you can bring any bottled wine, no limit on the number of bottles but $15 corkage fee for each max 750ml bottle you bring ($30 for max 1500ml bottles).

[casofilia]

You have to pay the USD15 fee but then you can drink it wherever you like, including the restaurants. That is per bottle of 750ml and you can take on-board as many as you can carry.

[soxfan2013]

That's assuming they identify the bottle in your luggage: of so, they ask if you want to pay $15 per bottle, and you can then drink it wherever you want. If they don't, you can drink it in your room or on the ship, but I suspect you can't have the bottle served to you in a restaurant. BTW, if they identify a bottle or bottles in your luggage and you don't want to pay the $15/bottle corkage fee, they store the bottle(s) for you and deliver it to you room the night before arrival.

Edited July 8, 2016 by soxfan2013

[dolita22]

That's assuming they identify the bottle in your luggage: of so, they ask if you want to pay $15 per bottle, and you can then drink it wherever you want. If they don't, you can drink it in your room or on the ship, but I suspect you can't have the bottle served to you in a restaurant. BTW, if they identify a bottle or bottles in your luggage and you don't want to pay the $15/bottle corkage fee, they store the bottle(s) for you and deliver it to you room the night before arrival.

 

They will actually serve your carried-on wine/sparkling wine/champagne to you in restaurants on board. We take on sparkling wine and have brought our bottle to dinner and it's been served before. :)

 

If you don't want to pay the corkage, I have only seen discarded (full) bottles of wine at the table (in Miami) where you pay the corkage. Someone will correct me, but I don't believe they store it for you until the last day. Maybe some ports are different, but we typically just sail from Miami and that's what we've seen. (ETA: I see you're talking about putting wine in your luggage, not carrying on. I'd think they'd store it then. Sorry!)

Edited July 8, 2016 by dolita22