Buying Wine Onboard Versus By the Glass?

I know costs can vary, depending on what you get, but how much does a typical glass of white wine cost onboard? I'm just wondering, if you only want to have an occasional glass, here and there, is it more cost effective to bring your own bottles on and pay the corkage fee, or just buy a few glasses onboard?

eta: Title should read "BRINGING Wine..."

an example: Beringer White Zinfandel: Glass $7 / Bottle $28

You can probably buy this wine for $7 a bottle or less most places so $7 + $15 corkage = $22

here is a thread with a recent bar menu (post #3):

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1586768

the general rule is the more expensive the wine, the better it is to bring it and pay the corkage

Thanks!

Now is there a gratuity added to the bottle you buy onboard?

15% or 18% ? :confused:

so $28 bottle + 15% ($4.20) = $32.40

making the $22 you spent to bring the $7 bottle on board a little more appealing than buying with the ship.

Now is there a gratuity added to the bottle you buy onboard?

15% or 18% ? :confused:

 

so $28 bottle + 15% ($4.20) = $32.40

 

making the $22 you spent to bring the $7 bottle on board a little more appealing than buying with the ship.

15% gratuity on all bar tabs

18% gratuity on spa treatments

Buy a bottle have a glass at dinner and ask the waiter to send it to the holding cellar then call it up the next night at dinner. It works well in the mdr's and specialty restaurants.

you can also but a bottle at any of the bars and they will again hold it for you whenever you fancy a glass, we were being charged over $7.50 a glass last week on the Spirit +tax where a bottle cost $28.

If you bring the bottle on and you pay the corking fee, will they just let you have the bottle for you room or do they hold it for you at the bar and for meal times?

I like to have a glass of wine with dinner, but wont be drinking a whole bottle in one sitting. I love that NCL will store your wine for you and you can call it up the next night no matter what restaurant you are in. Between us a bottle normally does us two nights. We don't bring our own as transporting it or getting it in the port cities we leave from would be a pain.

If you bring the bottle on and you pay the corking fee, will they just let you have the bottle for you room or do they hold it for you at the bar and for meal times?

You can keep your bottle in your room and bring it wherever you want as long as you paid corkage fee or purchased it on the ship. Howver, it won't fit in the fridge.

We brought our wine onboard and kept it in our cabin. Our room steward kept our bottle on ice always. When we finished one we would just leave the next one we wanted to open next to the bucket and he would put it on ice. :)