Free wine with Specialty restaurant on first night?

[antsnanny]

Seems to me that this "free wine" first night thing changes from ship to ship, week to week. No set thing. We are leaving on Sunday on the Breakaway and booked Le Bistro for the first night. No 3 package. If the wine bottle appears its a bonus, but if not, it will not spoil our vacation. I am not a wine snob, so anything drinkable wine will do:D on the other hand my hubby is.

 

Just off the Breakaway ( Oct. 27th ) and there were 15 of us dining at La Cucina, they gave our table 7 bottles of wine!!! I don't like wine but there were no complaints about the quality at our table.

[kirsty_r]

I didn't get this at a speciality on 1st night of the star TA - so does sound like it varies per ship, and sailing.

[princess_sophie]

We received the bottle of wine on the first night.

 

 

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[gochina]

So did you get a total of two bottles for two people (I assume you purchased two packages) or just one bottle the first night?

[Planmaam]

We booked Le Bistro on the Jewel first night (for 4), and did not get any free wine; did not do the 3-specialty-restaurant package.

Edited January 2, 2014 by planma'am

[jimd909]

I just got off the Jewel on Sunday (12-29-13) and booked the special 3 specialty restaurants. I selected La Cucina (Mama's) for the first night and received a bottle of chardonnay free of charge.

[snorklinbarb]

It is a good deal, we really enjoyed it on the Breakway. We didn't book a specialty the first night, we booked the Cirque show and because it was the first night, we received 10% off and saved $50. I figured that was worth more than a bottle of wine.

 

We then spread out our specialty dining to the other days of the week and worked around the MDR menu. The Signature Trio restaurants on the Breakaway were all excellent and well worth the $57 total for all three of them.

 

Have read several reports here that guests who booked Cirque the 1st night received both the discount (thought I read it was 20%?) and a comp bottle of wine. Sounds like this was not the case for you?

 

We're going on Breakaway soon and that's what I was thinking of booking.

 

Also, to be eligible for the bottle of wine first night, do you have to book pre-cruise? I was hoping to make my rsvn once onboard so to use some OBC.

 

Thanks to anyone who has the answers to the above.:)

[Clay Girl]

Seems to me that this "free wine" first night thing changes from ship to ship, week to week. No set thing. We are leaving on Sunday on the Breakaway and booked Le Bistro for the first night. No 3 package. If the wine bottle appears its a bonus, but if not, it will not spoil our vacation. I am not a wine snob, so anything drinkable wine will do:D on the other hand my hubby is.

Hi

I read about this, so I gave it a try. We sailed on The Gem March 8-17, and just returned yesterday. I booked La Cucina a couple of weeks in advance, for my husband and I the first night. When we arrived in our 2 family staterooms, there was a bottle of wine in each room, along with plates of fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate with a note, "A Gift for You". So there you go! It worked :) Thanks for spreading the news.

Clay Girl

[kirsty_r]

Hi

 

 

I read about this, so I gave it a try. We sailed on The Gem March 8-17, and just returned yesterday. I booked La Cucina a couple of weeks in advance, for my husband and I the first night. When we arrived in our 2 family staterooms, there was a bottle of wine in each room, along with plates of fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate with a note, "A Gift for You". So there you go! It worked :) Thanks for spreading the news.

 

 

Clay Girl

 

 

 

 

 

The wine and strawberries is a free latitudes gift isn't it? The wine is given at the restaurant not in the room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Demonyte]

The wine and strawberries is a free latitudes gift isn't it? The wine is given at the restaurant not in the room.

 

Yes, gift from Latitudes, TA or something similar. Has nothing to do with the matter in thread's title.

[Clay Girl]

The wine and strawberries is a free latitudes gift isn't it? The wine is given at the restaurant not in the room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Good to know. Thank you for confirming.

Clay Girl

[orangegrove]

We did the 3 dining package on our Christmas cruise on the Sun this past Christmas (2013) and we received the wine at LaCucina the first evening. However, now that they have introduced the UDP I believe the 3 dinner thing is no longer in effect. I could be wrong. We sail March 30 on the Epic, but I have yet to book any dining. If we do this I will post and let everyone know what happens.

[Demonyte]

We did the 3 dining package on our Christmas cruise on the Sun this past Christmas (2013) and we received the wine at LaCucina the first evening. However, now that they have introduced the UDP I believe the 3 dinner thing is no longer in effect. I could be wrong. We sail March 30 on the Epic, but I have yet to book any dining. If we do this I will post and let everyone know what happens.

 

You are right, The Signature Trio is no longer available for public since the UDP was launched (apparently it has been available as a TA perk at least in one TA's promo).

[KeithJenner]

We did the 3 dining package on our Christmas cruise on the Sun this past Christmas (2013) and we received the wine at LaCucina the first evening. However, now that they have introduced the UDP I believe the 3 dinner thing is no longer in effect. I could be wrong. We sail March 30 on the Epic, but I have yet to book any dining. If we do this I will post and let everyone know what happens.

 

I believe that the bottle of wine was a specific perk of this package wasn't it? I'm pretty sure it was mentioned when booking online.

[TrumpyNor]

Has anyone that has cruised recently gotten a free bottle of wine if they booked a specialty restaurant on the first night like they used to do? :confused:

We did when we recently did a new years cruise on the Spirit. I actually think it was stated in the restaurant information on MyNCL about it, when you pre-book the restaurant online for the first night.

 

Not that the house wine is that great, but free is free...... :p

Edited March 20, 2014 by TrumpyNOR

[TrumpyNor]

Has anyone that has cruised recently gotten a free bottle of wine if they booked a specialty restaurant on the first night like they used to do? :confused:

We did when we recently did a new years cruise on the Spirit. I actually think it was stated in the restaurant information on MyNCL about it, when you pre-book the restaurant online for the first night. But that said, we had the 3-dinner-package - and they don't have that anymore after they introduced the UDP....

 

Not that the house wine is that great, but free is free...... :p

Edited March 20, 2014 by TrumpyNOR

[KeithJenner]

We did when we recently did a new years cruise on the Spirit. I actually think it was stated in the restaurant information on MyNCL about it, when you pre-book the restaurant online for the first night. But that said, we had the 3-dinner-package - and they don't have that anymore after they introduced the UDP....

 

Not that the house wine is that great, but free is free...... :p

 

Yes, as mentioned above, this was a perk of the 3 dinner package, not just for eating at a speciality the first night.