Cork or screw on cap?

[cruise_junki]

Does it matter if your wine has a cork or a screw on cap?

[elliair]

Definitely screw on. If you can smuggle the boxed wine, you can pour the smuggled into the empty screw on. Works great!

[lrowe70]

It doesn't matter. You can bring on whatever your favorite bottle is.

[cruise_junki]

Thanks!

[deborahjo]

We bring cork. We always bring a cork screw with us. No problem getting it on. If you do not want to carry a cork screw just ask your cabin steward. He will provide you with one.

[Throwdownmyace]

Currently packing a bottle of Prosecco, champagne type cork, Avanti Chardonnay, Wither Hills sauv Blanc, both screw tops and lovely under 15 wines, now just need a screw top red and I will be packed for 2 cabins.

[cruise_pirate]

Does Mad Dog 20/20 even come with a cork??:p

[Fitzget]

Currently packing a bottle of Prosecco, champagne type cork, Avanti Chardonnay, Wither Hills sauv Blanc, both screw tops and lovely under 15 wines, now just need a screw top red and I will be packed for 2 cabins.

 

 

One of my favorite reds is a Layer Cake Malbec and it's a screw top. Usually around $18.

 

 

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[cruzincurt]

You need to start using the $10 name for screw tops "Stelvin closures". More and more wines will be bottled with these.

[dljones]

I guess it really boils down to what you like to drink, cork or screw cap.

[Sue Do-Over]

If the OP is asking relative to the 'corking fee'... it doesn't matter which kind of bottle you bring into the MDR, you are charged for the 'service' of opening and pouring it. Even if you are perfectly capable of doing it yourself (although in the case of some champagne, better to let the professionals pull that cork and save an injury!)

 

A cruise ship couldn't possibly stock all the varieties that we enjoy at the whole range of price points, which is why they allow pax to carry on their own favorites. But, since they missed the sale, they are making up some of the profits lost by charging a corking fee. Kind of like restaurants at home charging a sharing fee for entrees.

[crusinpsychRN]

I grabbed a last minute cheap bottle of wine for $5 knowing at that price it'd be screw top. It wasn't!!!! I usually carry my own corkscrew but didn't that cruise...

 

BTW, the cheap $5 wine was surprisingly really good!