cruizn2escape Posted December 23, 2017 #1 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I know I would have to pay $18 corkage fee for more than 2 bottles that I carry on. Are these bottles given back to me then or do they keep them and bring them to the dining room when you request one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobalt206 Posted December 23, 2017 #2 Share Posted December 23, 2017 You keep the bottles in your room and then take to the dining room when you have dinner. If you don't finish the bottle, they will keep it for you until the next night. Somehow, we always find a way to finish the bottle in one sitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenowner Posted December 23, 2017 #3 Share Posted December 23, 2017 On our last cruise, we kept our wine in the cabin until we took a bottle to the dining room. Our wine steward suggested on our next cruise (if we planned on eating about the same time and table in anytime dining) that we could bring all the wine to the dining room at once, and he would bring whichever bottle that we wanted that night. We were on the Zuiderdam. I don’t know if they will do that on all the ships, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare kazu Posted December 23, 2017 #4 Share Posted December 23, 2017 On our last cruise, we kept our wine in the cabin until we took a bottle to the dining room. Our wine steward suggested on our next cruise (if we planned on eating about the same time and table in anytime dining) that we could bring all the wine to the dining room at once, and he would bring whichever bottle that we wanted that night. We were on the Zuiderdam. I don’t know if they will do that on all the ships, They do. You can either take it one bottle at a time if that is what you want, or, you can nip down with bottles and the will store them for you and your white wine will be cold ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kruizers Posted December 24, 2017 #5 Share Posted December 24, 2017 They will put a sticker on the bottles that you had to pay the corkage fee for. That way the wine stewards know everything is okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwally Posted December 26, 2017 #6 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Tip: Any bottles that you pay corkage on but end up consuming in your cabin anyway (assuming you go through your 2 free bottles and get into your corkage stash), bring the sticker to your wine steward anyway - they get a percentage of the fee when turning the stickers in and they sure appreciate it! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry1954 Posted December 26, 2017 #7 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Tip: Any bottles that you pay corkage on but end up consuming in your cabin anyway (assuming you go through your 2 free bottles and get into your corkage stash), bring the sticker to your wine steward anyway - they get a percentage of the fee when turning the stickers in and they sure appreciate it! :) interesting .. didn't know that .. glad you mentioned it. harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxmantoo Posted December 26, 2017 #8 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Tip: Any bottles that you pay corkage on but end up consuming in your cabin anyway (assuming you go through your 2 free bottles and get into your corkage stash), bring the sticker to your wine steward anyway - they get a percentage of the fee when turning the stickers in and they sure appreciate it! :) Not quite sure where you heard this but it seems unlikely and not reality. Every wine steward in the MDR has ready acces to entire rolls of these labels they hand out at embarkation or ports. We always bring on many bottles, more than a case usually, and we have often stoped to pay the corkage and the wine attendant just tears a strip of stickers and hands them to me without even counting them.I stick them on just before taking a bottle to the MDR. If they wanted stickers for any reason you state, they sure know where to get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aa7yy Posted December 28, 2017 #9 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Tip: Any bottles that you pay corkage on but end up consuming in your cabin anyway (assuming you go through your 2 free bottles and get into your corkage stash), bring the sticker to your wine steward anyway - they get a percentage of the fee when turning the stickers in and they sure appreciate it! :) If that is true, it might explain a bit of a problem we just experienced. On our just ended 30 day cruise we purchased a 7 bottle package. About 10 days in we were informed we had finished our 7th bottle. Pretty much sure that was not true. Argued for awhile and gave in. ( not quite 100% sure) A week later, an adjoining table, was informed that they had just finished their 5th bottle. She had witnessed my argument and fought harder and longer and the wine steward finally confessed that he had made a mistake. They need to issue a wine card that the steward can punch and you can count. Would be good at any bar, for a new bottle..Cut down on some problems. I do believe they get commissions on wine sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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