Bringing wine to dining room

[Travelw]

Can you bring an open bottle of wine to the dining room? I think the $25 fee for opening the wine is way too high.

 

Dennis

[graham_curtis]

No.

[Shmoo here]

Can you bring an open bottle of wine to the dining room? I think the $25 fee for opening the wine is way too high.

 

Dennis

 

Yes, you can bring an opened bottle of wine to the dining rooms. However, you will still be charged the corkage fee. It's not an actual "opening" fee, it's a way for DCL to re-coup the cost they lose by you bringing your own wine, and not buying one of theirs.

[helenb]

The way my husband gets around this is he asks our steward for wine glasses, then pours the wine in our room, and walks into the dining room with the glass. No fee.

[Shmoo here]

The way my husband gets around this is he asks our steward for wine glasses, then pours the wine in our room, and walks into the dining room with the glass. No fee.

 

Yes, that's one way to get around the policy. And you're also not following the DCL policy about bringing alcoholic beverages that you've brought onboard into public spaces.

 

From the DCL website:

Alcohol brought on board may not be consumed in any lounge or public area.

https://disneycruise.disney.go.com/faq/prohibited-items/carrying-alcohol-onboard/?int_cmp=INS-intDCLtoFAQAlcoholPolicy

[Loonbeam]

Correct. On some lines (not Disney so far), supposedly the glasses given to rooms are now different so they can tell if the wine was purchased at a bar or brought on board. They have to do that now for just this reason.

 

Yes, that's one way to get around the policy. And you're also not following the DCL policy about bringing alcoholic beverages that you've brought onboard into public spaces.

 

From the DCL website:

Alcohol brought on board may not be consumed in any lounge or public area.

https://disneycruise.disney.go.com/faq/prohibited-items/carrying-alcohol-onboard/?int_cmp=INS-intDCLtoFAQAlcoholPolicy

[Flatbush Flyer]

Can you bring an open bottle of wine to the dining room? I think the $25 fee for opening the wine is way too high.

 

 

 

Dennis

 

 

Dine out at better restaurants much? $25 is not unusual. Of course, the term "corkage" doesn't really describe what is covered.

 

There's more to corkage than opening a bottle. Who's supposed to pay for the purchase, storage, cleaning and replacement of the glassware you use? Are you planning on taking the empty (now recycling or garbage) bottles home with you? If not who's paying for that handling and disposal. And then there' the lost sales revenue for the cruise line, whose regular wine-for-purchase pricing is algorithm generated and uses part of the fee to offset the sales loss.

In purchasing a cruise ticket, you have agreed to the corkage fee. Not paying it and sneaking your wine into non-cabin venues is "low rent" and dishonest (just like rum-runners).

Edited November 12, 2015 by Flatbush Flyer

[Host Mick]

The way my husband gets around this is he asks our steward for wine glasses, then pours the wine in our room, and walks into the dining room with the glass. No fee.

 

And that's how you get bring-your-own wine banned.

DLC has already added alcohol limits because of abuses. Let's not give them more reasons to make it worse.