Wine question

[travel with kids]

I have a few questions about wine on the Wonder

1. What is the amount of the corkage (?) fee? I remember reading a few months ago that you could bring your own bottles on board, but there is a corkage fee to have the waiter remove the cork.

2. Can you bring a bottle from your stateroom uncorked?

3. If we purchased a bottle of wine from DCL during dinner or at the bar can we bring in back to our cabin?

Thanks

 

[The4OfUs]

I have yet to cruise, but from reading, I believe the fee is $15, and I also believe that if you don't finish a bottle you can have it saved for the next night, or bring it back? Others will correct me if I'm misleading you at all!

RE: the fee - DH is a chef, and I can tell you that it's not a fee to actually UNCORK it -it's to make up for the loss they take that you're not buying from them. Markup on alcohol is the moneymaker...so by taking your own bottle with you to dinner, they have to make up for it somewhere, right? If this isn't the case on DCL I will be surprised...but I'd be more than happy to hear differently!

*gets ready to pack more wine*

*grin*

 

[MarkLem]

$15 corking fee.
If you buy a wine at dinner and don't finish it, you can either bring it back to your room to drink at your leisure or have the server store it for you until your next dinner. You do not bring your own bottle to dinner, corked or uncorked, without paying the corking fee (of course you don't pay two fees on the same bottle, should you not finish it the first night)

 

[AprilN]

Just wanted to add that the 15% auto-gratuity is added to the corkage fee, making a total of $17.25 for each bottle you bring to dinner. Obviously, any wine that you bring on board and drink in your cabin is fee-free.

If you choose to bring your wine back to your room after dinner, the server will be happy to send wine glasses along with you - or you can pick up a couple at any of the ship's bars.

Absolutely, the corkage fee is to make up for the money they'll lose when you don't buy a wine off the list. Actually, there are many times when the $15 corkage fee, plus the cost of the wine when you buy it yourself at home, is still cheaper than the wine list price!

It was worth it to us to bring several bottles of wine from home, both because some of the wine was cheaper even with the corkage fee, and also because my DH wanted to have some local wines that weren't on the list, plus a special bottle of sparkling wine that we had been saving.