Where to Go Upon Embarkation for Whiskey Tasting

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

I just realized on our upcoming dream cruise I booked a whiskey tasting late the night before we need to be up for a very early excursion, d'oh. It's sold out on the more convenient days. I want to try to move it as soon as we get on board. I know where the usual dining inquiries will be set up, but I am wondering where I should go to try move the tasting. Is it Guest Relations?

 

[auntlynne]

Hope somebody can tell you. There are CMs available in the atrium, but I know it’s comforting to have a game plan in play.

But 28 people read this thread and no one dared to answer the question in the title with “the nearest bar.”?

 

[Juan M]

May vary, but on the Fantasy, I’ve been able to book and add onto liquor tastings at La Piazza on embarkation day, so I think the Dream equivalent would be District Lounge? But agree that a CM in the atrium upon boarding should help clarify

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Hope somebody can tell you. There are CMs available in the atrium, but I know it’s comforting to have a game plan in play.

But 28 people read this thread and no one dared to answer the question in the title with “the nearest bar.”?

I appreciate this humor.

 

[Mommb]

When we wanted to switch my daughter for me at a sold-out tasting (taking me off and adding her), we were able to do that at Guest Services.

 

[cvjw]

I know you can book tastings in the navigator app as soon as you connect to DCL WiFi at the port. You could add a new one that way, but I am not sure if you can cancel your old one that way.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

When we wanted to switch my daughter for me at a sold-out tasting (taking me off and adding her), we were able to do that at Guest Services.

I was hoping that would be the answer. I have to head there anyway.

I know you can book tastings in the navigator app as soon as you connect to DCL WiFi at the port. You could add a new one that way, but I am not sure if you can cancel your old one that way.

Excellent reminder. I always forget that.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

For the record, we were able to use the app to add the tasting from the terminal once we connected to WiFi and Guest Services was able to delete a tasting we decided to drop later that afternoon.

We completed the tasting and I do not strongly recommend it.

 

[AaronRif]

For the record, we were able to use the app to add the tasting from the terminal once we connected to WiFi and Guest Services was able to delete a tasting we decided to drop later that afternoon.

We completed the tasting and I do not strongly recommend it.

Just clarifying that you don't recommend the tasting, or you strongly recommend it? I did the mixology on the Dream last year and thought it was just fine, especially compared to my pre-pandemic experiences. I think it depends on the bartender leading the tasting, but the one last year was underwhelming, and they didn't go out of their way to explain a lot or provide us with the recipes.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Just clarifying that you don't recommend the tasting, or you strongly recommend it? I did the mixology on the Dream last year and thought it was just fine, especially compared to my pre-pandemic experiences. I think it depends on the bartender leading the tasting, but the one last year was underwhelming, and they didn't go out of their way to explain a lot or provide us with the recipes.

So I did the high end whiskey/bourbon tasting and it was $100/person. The bartender showed us what the 5 bourbon/scotch/whiskey bottles were but we spent more than half of the total time as a “blind tasting” which I didn’t care for as a concept, and he was asking a disengaged crowd to describe it instead of telling us what we were tasting…but even worse, he had all of us attending take citrus peels (lemon or orange) into each one of the glasses after taking one or two sips, in my opinion distorting them and sometimes outright ruining them, to teach us how they impact flavor.

By the time he revealed which drink was what, they’d had lemon or orange peels soaking in them and the bartender acknowledged it ruined 2 of the 5 pours but didn’t offer clean glasses.

The last issue was perhaps a matter of personal preference but the bartender was speaking for 50-55m of the 1h tasting time. That’s a long time for me to sit still and pay attention— I like having time to discuss and compare with my companions.