wine in carry on??

[cruisin07family]

Is the corkage fee payable right there in cash or added to your onboard acct.? Just want to know if I should add to the cash I plan to bring to use on excursions & extra tipping.

[sparks1093]

Is the corkage fee payable right there in cash or added to your onboard acct.? Just want to know if I should add to the cash I plan to bring to use on excursions & extra tipping.

 

They charge your onboard account.

[don't-use-real-name]

They charge your onboard account.

 

And you use OBC to pay those charges - so not so bad really.

[medicalma'am]

Some people are honest.....others are not. We all fall into one or the other category.

 

We like our own wine and always bring our own and visit the corkage fee table after the scanner line. The charge shows up as a Le Bistro charge on our on board account.[

 

The Ma'ams will be visiting a liquor store for wine on the way to our hotel! :D/SIZE]

[clayb]

I bring wine in my carry-on and right after going through security, I go to the table and they check my bottles, put stickers on them and charge $15 each to my account. Then I can take the wine to my cabin or have it anywhere on the ship

[Out to sea!]

They don't look at your carry on. 5 bottles in my bag that I bring to the corkage table. 2 bottles in my wife's bag...

And obviously you bring the stickered bottles to the restaurants...

 

Ah.......so you smuggled in violation of your cruise contract. Now it makes sense. :rolleyes:

[newbe dave]

Ah.......so you smuggled in violation of your cruise contract. Now it makes sense. :rolleyes:

 

I am against all booze smuggling but I disagree with you. NCL set the rules and you put wine in your carry on so that you can pay corkage on the wine that they find. No where in the process do they ask how many bottles I have. I would prefer a process where I fill out a form with the number of bottles in it and they sell me the stickers for that number. It would be quicker and provide their revenue for them. But, I completely follow their process as they define it.

 

I carry on my wine along with my soda and water. Then I let them find it. I follow their rules and they play a game of hide and seek for my wine bottles within my carry ons. That is not smuggling at all. They make the rules and I follow them. I just don't make it real easy for them.

[Davechipp74]

no one is gonna say it, fine i'll be the bad guy.

if you take the bag out of a box of wine, place it in a garbage bag, pack it in your checked luaggage, it gets through 99.9% of the time.

this is good for some balcony wine.

then just purchase some "real" wine to take about the ship.

Edited October 5, 2014 by DAVECHIPP1974

[Out to sea!]

I am against all booze smuggling but I disagree with you. NCL set the rules and you put wine in your carry on so that you can pay corkage on the wine that they find. No where in the process do they ask how many bottles I have. I would prefer a process where I fill out a form with the number of bottles in it and they sell me the stickers for that number. It would be quicker and provide their revenue for them. But, I completely follow their process as they define it.

 

I carry on my wine along with my soda and water. Then I let them find it. I follow their rules and they play a game of hide and seek for my wine bottles within my carry ons. That is not smuggling at all. They make the rules and I follow them. I just don't make it real easy for them.

 

That's good rationalization on twisted words. Show me ANYWHERE on the NCL website that says "you can pay corkage on the the wine they FIND". Any person with integrity and honesty would tell them exactly how many bottles and of what type (750ml, 1.5l, etc) that they are carrying (either in carryon or luggage) and pay the appropriate fee as per the contract. anything less is smuggling. Of course, you and anyone else can rationalize it any way you want, twist the words to suit you wants, but plain and simple, you are a smuggler. :(

[Out to sea!]

no one is gonna say it, fine i'll be the bad guy.

if you take the bag out of a box of wine, place it in a garbage bag, pack it in your checked luaggage, it gets through 99.9% of the time.

this is good for some balcony wine.

then just purchase some "real" wine to take about the ship.

 

Not sure if you're trying to say box wine is not real wine. :confused:

[Davechipp74]

boxed wine, is not quite "real" wine IMHO. a $13. box of frenza is no,1982 Beychevlle.

i enjoy a nice fine wine as much as the next guy, but box wine is good enough for the balcony, before going out, and a night cap

Edited October 5, 2014 by DAVECHIPP1974

[Out to sea!]

boxed wine, is not quite "real" wine IMHO

i enjoy a nice fine wine as much as the next guy, but box wine is good enough for the balcony, before going out, and a night cap

 

Shhhhhhhh, not so loud. Don't let my DW hear that! :D She loves her boxed wine and I'm happy with the price. ;)

[Shawnino]

I can't get over the sanctimony in this thread.

 

NCL raises prices to give phoney discounts to the uninitiated, calling it a "perfect 10" promotion.

NCL recommends a bus line to get cruisers to the port and leave them stuck in traffic rather than delay sail away by a couple hours.

NCL on-board staff and shoreside staff have differences of opinion on whether the wine machines are included in UBP.

NCL jerks their casino players around without notice.

 

...and that's just in the last month...

 

...and I'm the bad guy in this thread for suggesting avoiding the corkage fee. Right, carry on kids.

[Myscruf]

WE are first time Norwegian cruisers.We like wine with dinner and love that we can bring our own :). Also love mimosas for breakfast :). So we could be bringing several 7-10 on board. Bottles that is. Not really looking forward to hauling them on board with us and around while we wait for rooms to be ready. Looks like you pay corkage fee in check in terminal. Would any of you consider checking it with your luggage? If so how do you go about paying corkage fee?

[sparks1093]

I can't get over the sanctimony in this thread.

 

NCL raises prices to give phoney discounts to the uninitiated, calling it a "perfect 10" promotion.

NCL recommends a bus line to get cruisers to the port and leave them stuck in traffic rather than delay sail away by a couple hours.

NCL on-board staff and shoreside staff have differences of opinion on whether the wine machines are included in UBP.

NCL jerks their casino players around without notice.

 

...and that's just in the last month...

 

...and I'm the bad guy in this thread for suggesting avoiding the corkage fee. Right, carry on kids.

 

Two wrongs don't make a right, so my parents taught me and so I believe.

[sparks1093]

WE are first time Norwegian cruisers.We like wine with dinner and love that we can bring our own :). Also love mimosas for breakfast :). So we could be bringing several 7-10 on board. Bottles that is. Not really looking forward to hauling them on board with us and around while we wait for rooms to be ready. Looks like you pay corkage fee in check in terminal. Would any of you consider checking it with your luggage? If so how do you go about paying corkage fee?

 

I would bring it in my carry-on, if you bring it in the checked luggage there is a good chance that you will be called to the naughty room. You can bring on as many bottles as you'd like as long as you pay the corkage (I have heard of people bringing a case).

[cage keeper]

Shhhhhhhh, not so loud. Don't let my DW hear that! :D She loves her boxed wine and I'm happy with the price. ;)

 

I also love my box wine. Although I pay around $25 a box. And yes, I have taken many a box on ships.

[newbe dave]

That's good rationalization on twisted words. Show me ANYWHERE on the NCL website that says "you can pay corkage on the the wine they FIND". Any person with integrity and honesty would tell them exactly how many bottles and of what type (750ml, 1.5l, etc) that they are carrying (either in carryon or luggage) and pay the appropriate fee as per the contract. anything less is smuggling. Of course, you and anyone else can rationalize it any way you want, twist the words to suit you wants, but plain and simple, you are a smuggler. :(

 

Under Answers.NCL.COM, they say: "Before you check-in you will go through a security check when they scan your carry on luggage. Any bottles that you have will be inspected at a desk next to the security check area. They will place a sticker on the bottle and inform you about the charges. "

 

In other words, they will inspect your carry ons, find your bottles of wine and charge you. My first time, I tried to tell them how many bottles I had. They just hushed me and opened up my carry ons that were flagged by the scanner. They continued to search my entire carry one, unwrap things in bubble wrap and WASTE their time. Their process is the issue, not the policy.

 

So you are wrong. However, I will not call you names as you did me. Apology accepted.

[cmdchiefthom]

My wife and I love wine with our dinner, absolutely abhor NCL's onboard cellar and their overinflated captive audience price. Having lived all over the world, we prefer certain European wines, especially Rieslings. Enter Total Wine near the cruise port in Fort Lauderdale. A Washington state, or Aussie Riesling,aboard the ship's of NCL, will cost between 30 and 40 dollars. A very decent German Spatlese for instance, can be pre-purchased from the Total Wine online catalog, at around twelve or thirteen bucks, per bottle. I tell them what day I'll be in to pick it up, bring my two reusable six pocket wine bags, pack them up, and the dirve to POM. I pay the corkage fee, which puts my cost around 28-30 bucks per bottle, and I'm getting a wine I know and like,:D and am not at the mercy of NCL's supply chain, nor will I be sent to the naughty room.:eek:

[callmehalia]

WE are first time Norwegian cruisers.We like wine with dinner and love that we can bring our own :). Also love mimosas for breakfast :). So we could be bringing several 7-10 on board. Bottles that is. Not really looking forward to hauling them on board with us and around while we wait for rooms to be ready. Looks like you pay corkage fee in check in terminal. Would any of you consider checking it with your luggage? If so how do you go about paying corkage fee?

 

 

I don't drink so I couldn't say - maybe you could purchase the stickers in the terminal, and then take then with you to the naughty room later?

 

I would be careful though about checking wine. On our last cruise, I saw at least 2 cases of wine sitting with the luggage on disembarkation day, both with big puddles of wine underneath them. Who knows how many bottles were broken... We also had some cans of soda that we were taking off the ship in our checked luggage and one of the cans didn't make it and made quite the mess.

[Out to sea!]

I can't get over the sanctimony in this thread.

 

NCL raises prices to give phoney discounts to the uninitiated, calling it a "perfect 10" promotion.

NCL recommends a bus line to get cruisers to the port and leave them stuck in traffic rather than delay sail away by a couple hours.

NCL on-board staff and shoreside staff have differences of opinion on whether the wine machines are included in UBP.

NCL jerks their casino players around without notice.

 

...and that's just in the last month...

 

...and I'm the bad guy in this thread for suggesting avoiding the corkage fee. Right, carry on kids.

 

Haha.....that's almost funny. Wonderful rationalizations to soothe a smuggler's mind. :rolleyes:

[Out to sea!]

Under Answers.NCL.COM, they say: "Before you check-in you will go through a security check when they scan your carry on luggage. Any bottles that you have will be inspected at a desk next to the security check area. They will place a sticker on the bottle and inform you about the charges. "

 

In other words, they will inspect your carry ons, find your bottles of wine and charge you. My first time, I tried to tell them how many bottles I had. They just hushed me and opened up my carry ons that were flagged by the scanner. They continued to search my entire carry one, unwrap things in bubble wrap and WASTE their time. Their process is the issue, not the policy.

 

So you are wrong. However, I will not call you names as you did me. Apology accepted.

 

I love your twisting of words. Do you see the word "find" in the highlighted section you posted? Nope. It says "any bottles you have" not "any bottles we find". No apology expected or given. You are wrong, plain and simple. Those are the facts, it's not an opinion. But it is a unique rationalization (at least to me) from a smuggler. At least your not claiming how much other money you're spending on board like most smugglers.

 

BTW, i did not call you a name, I called you what you are. Just because in your mind you twist it so you think you're not, you, in fact, are smuggling if you don't pay corkage on any wine bottle you bring on board.

Edited October 5, 2014 by Out to sea!

[Myscruf]

Thank you so much for your reply. We were leaning toward lugging it but were hoping there was a way around it but I guess that is the deterrent to bringing it on board. Not enough for us :) I think a $15 corkage is more than fair. we pay upwards of 25 + in the area restaurants here so this is nothing for us PLUS we get to bring our favorite wines to enjoy on our vacation. I see this as a huge plus to Norwegian over the other cruise lines . I would not dream of cheating them of their reasonable "fee". I would hate for them to take away the unlimited feature. It is what may help turn us to Norwegian cruisers:)

[Out to sea!]

My wife and I love wine with our dinner, absolutely abhor NCL's onboard cellar and their overinflated captive audience price. Having lived all over the world, we prefer certain European wines, especially Rieslings. Enter Total Wine near the cruise port in Fort Lauderdale. A Washington state, or Aussie Riesling,aboard the ship's of NCL, will cost between 30 and 40 dollars. A very decent German Spatlese for instance, can be pre-purchased from the Total Wine online catalog, at around twelve or thirteen bucks, per bottle. I tell them what day I'll be in to pick it up, bring my two reusable six pocket wine bags, pack them up, and the dirve to POM. I pay the corkage fee, which puts my cost around 28-30 bucks per bottle, and I'm getting a wine I know and like,:D and am not at the mercy of NCL's supply chain, nor will I be sent to the naughty room.:eek:

 

As any honest person with integrity would do Chief. BTW, love Total wine, we have one in Daytona. They have almost everything!!! :)

[All-ready2cruise]

For us, buying the Viva Vino Package just simplifies things, especially if we're flying in. If we drive... 24 hrs or more, it's a bit different, we can bring our own wine, put it in our nifty little fold up milk crate on wheels (that's what I call it anyway) and pay the $15 cork fee. It actually holds much more than I can drink ( I think it holds about 12 bottles) so we put other stuff in it too. If we board after 1pm, we can take it right to our cabin and drop if off before heading for a quick snack, eazy peazy. :)

 

Either way, I get my wine for the cruise so I'm happy. :D

 

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Edited October 5, 2014 by All-ready2cruise