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BSeabob Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 6) Don't blink at the corkage first time and make> sure he/she trys the wine and you may see some of> that corkage drop as the cruise continues.>We gave our wine stewards tastes of all our special wines, including the $200 bottle, but we still got the corkage fee on each bottle. We had different stewards on each leg of our back to back and they each charged, as advertised. We are Elite Captain's Club members, too, which they could see when they took our card for the fee the first night, so that doesn't carry any weight either! I don't mind paying the corkage fee for wines we can't get on board, but I wouldn't take any wines that I knew they had on the wine list just to save a couple of bucks.
BSeabob Wrote:
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> 6) Don't blink at the corkage first time and make
> sure he/she trys the wine and you may see some of
> that corkage drop as the cruise continues.
>
We gave our wine stewards tastes of all our special wines, including the $200 bottle, but we still got the corkage fee on each bottle. We had different stewards on each leg of our back to back and they each charged, as advertised. We are Elite Captain's Club members, too, which they could see when they took our card for the fee the first night, so that doesn't carry any weight either!
I don't mind paying the corkage fee for wines we can't get on board, but I wouldn't take any wines that I knew they had on the wine list just to save a couple of bucks.
