Wine or champagne sent directly to the ship by travel agents, friends, family, etc.

I was reviewing NCL wine policy and was curious about it mentioning having wine shipped direct to the ship. Can we ship a package to our room before boarding? Does anyone have any idea how that works?

"Wine & Champagne Policy

Guests may bring bottles of wine and champagne on board. When bottles are brought on board and served or consumed in any restaurant, public room area or in their stateroom, a corkage fee will be charged according to bottle sizes noted below.

750 ml Bottle: $15.00

1,500 ml Magnum: $30.00

Wine or champagne sent directly to the ship by travel agents, friends, family, etc. or from another retail source, are subject to the same fees. Box wines are not allowed on board."

I was reviewing NCL wine policy and was curious about it mentioning having wine shipped direct to the ship. Can we ship a package to our room before boarding? Does anyone have any idea how that works?

 

 

"Wine & Champagne Policy

Guests may bring bottles of wine and champagne on board. When bottles are brought on board and served or consumed in any restaurant, public room area or in their stateroom, a corkage fee will be charged according to bottle sizes noted below.

750 ml Bottle: $15.00

1,500 ml Magnum: $30.00

Wine or champagne sent directly to the ship by travel agents, friends, family, etc. or from another retail source, are subject to the same fees. Box wines are not allowed on board."

Yikes...a corkage charge for wine in your cabin...:eek:

Yikes...a corkage charge for wine in your cabin...:eek:

Fast becoming the norm. Princess and HAL now charge the corkage fee for each bottle beyond the one-per-adult free alllowance, even if all bottles are opened in your cabin; NCL just omits the freebie.

As for the original question: your travel agent would either send a certificate for a bottle of wine to your stateroom, or pick one for you from the ship's catalog. You would not be charged corkage in either case, even if you consume in the dining room. Your friends can call NCL's gift department and similarly order wine for you, again with no corkage fee. Having wine delivered to the dock on your behalf is really not worth the effort: you would be called to the "naughty room" to pay the corkage fee before it would be released to you.

We have never sailed NCL, but on all of our previous cruises we have had gifts of wine, champagne, etc from family and our TA. They were simply ordered through the cruiseline gifts website and were waiting (corkage fee free) in our stateroom. When you can do this, why would you have packages delivered to the dock?

Maybe that particular paragraph is an old and outdated policy that predates the internet??

Yikes...a corkage charge for wine in your cabin...:eek:

On Royal you can only bring on 2 bottles, NCL allows you to bring on as much as you want.

Yikes...a corkage charge for wine in your cabin...:eek:

Not on Carnival. At least never in our experience.

However, when you board an NCL ship...they shoot you over from the screening table to a table where you have to pay a $15 corkage fee for the two bottles of wine you're allowed to bring on board. As far as other ships, I have no idea what the wine corkage situation is.

Also, it's been a year since I cruised on Carnival and several since I cruised on NCL so things may have changed in this regard.