Your own wine for dinner

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

You can keep and carry your own bottle. Generally when we carry one on the ship we just grasp it by the neck and off we go. It's not a big deal at all. You can poor it in your cabin and carry it to the mdr if you are worried about a bottle.

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

Your waiter will keep your bottle for you and put your table number and name on it. It will be waiting for you when you return the next evening.

Kathy

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

The dining room people can keep your opened bottle for you. They have been doing this for years, it's not a problem.

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

If you take your own bottle to the dining room they are happy to open it and store it if you don't finish it. A small tip would be nice since you brought your own. Otherwise do as the previous poster said and pour a glass in your room and take it with you to the MDR.

There is a cork fee in there somewhere I believe?

There is a cork fee in there somewhere I believe?

No corkage fee. Some years ago there was but it was discontinued.

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

Thanks so much everybody!

No corkage fees for a few years back now.

A bottle has five glasses of wine in it. If you have a large group, you probably don't need to worry about having leftovers.

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

Bring it first night, and they keep it for you, and it stays much colder, then in the room..

A bottle has five glasses of wine in it. If you have a large group, you probably don't need to worry about having leftovers.

large group?! I can kill a bottle all by myself thankyewverymuch.

Bring it first night, and they keep it for you, and it stays much colder, then in the room..

And if you do a specialty restaurant and wish to use the remainder your waiter there will recover it from where it is stored.

Sailing on Freedom Sunday, October 2 and I understand you can take your bottle of wine or champagne to the dinning room. Has anyone done this? Do they keep the bottle for you? Seems like they would end up with a lot of bottles to stock and keep track of and yet I don't want to carry an opened bottle in a public area. How does this work? We've always just ordered our drinks at dinner but we are a large group this time and I know it will be brought up. Thanks for your input.

You can take your bottle to the dining room and the waiters will keep it for you, if not fully consumed.

large group?! I can kill a bottle all by myself thankyewverymuch.

And there's that, too. My husband and I typically drink a bottle every night at home. A bottle just isn't all that much wine over a two hour meal.

During one cruise, it was our Anniversary so took the bottle to dining that evening and shared with our table of 10, it went fast. I had earlier taken the wine down and when we arrived it was on ice at our table.

A bottle has five glasses of wine in it. If you have a large group, you probably don't need to worry about having leftovers.

Hmmm..depends on the size of the glass and the pour.

DH and I can kill a whole bottle pretty quick over a long dinner. ;)

Large group? Multiple bottles needed. :D

large group?! I can kill a bottle all by myself thankyewverymuch.

I'll drink to that.

Hmmm..depends on the size of the glass and the pour.

 

DH and I can kill a whole bottle pretty quick over a long dinner. ;)

 

Large group? Multiple bottles needed. :D

There are approximately 25 ounces in a standard 750 ml bottle. A typical restaurant pour is 5-6 ounces.

There are approximately 25 ounces in a standard 750 ml bottle. A typical restaurant pour is 5-6 ounces.

You are correct but those 5-6 ounce pours are not enough for us.

Am I understanding this post correctly in that RCCL now allows carry on wine and no corkage fee to drink at dinner??

Am I understanding this post correctly in that RCCL now allows carry on wine and no corkage fee to drink at dinner??

You got it.

Thanks for all the replays. At first I felt a little cheap about 6 couples each carrying a bottle of wine to the MDR. Seems like a BYOB party! But then after careful consideration, RCCL has started to charge for so many things, I guess it is one way we can control some of our expenses. Although like you said that bottle of wine will be gone with one sitting!

You are correct but those 5-6 ounce pours are not enough for us.

Preach it. we just had our anniversary dinner at the local fancy schmancy place downtown. normally we like to each get different glasses and ..share.. but this time we both zeroed on a specific wine and the waiter suggested we just go ahead and get the bottle since it was going to work out to 4 glasses (based on their pours which were VERY generous) and cheaper over getting 2 refills later.

Am I understanding this post correctly in that RCCL now allows carry on wine and no corkage fee to drink at dinner??

yup. 2 750 ML bottles per CABIN( not one per person) that has at least one adult 21 or older booked into it.