Specialty Dining Free Wine

[Blue_Flame]

For our upcoming Royal cruise we have booked embarkation day specialty dining and have received the coupon for a free bottle of "wine of the day."

 

What exactly does that mean? Will we have a choice of at least red or white?

 

What wine have you received with your embarkation day specialty dining?

[Astro Flyer]

18 minutes ago, Blue_Flame said:

For our upcoming Royal cruise we have booked embarkation day specialty dining and have received the coupon for a free bottle of "wine of the day."

 

What exactly does that mean? Will we have a choice of at least red or white?

 

What wine have you received with your embarkation day specialty dining?

We did this last year & as I recall we had a few choices of red or white.

[memoak]

53 minutes ago, Blue_Flame said:

For our upcoming Royal cruise we have booked embarkation day specialty dining and have received the coupon for a free bottle of "wine of the day."

 

What exactly does that mean? Will we have a choice of at least red or white?

 

What wine have you received with your embarkation day specialty dining?

Believe me it will just be ok not great. Most likely something they retail for around $40

[Blue_Flame]

Thanks for your responses. Looks like we may even have some choices.

[gottagocit]

16 hours ago, Blue_Flame said:

For our upcoming Royal cruise we have booked embarkation day specialty dining and have received the coupon for a free bottle of "wine of the day."…..

I’m curious.  Did you book the dinner using the app?  How did you receive this coupon?  Email? Are you using a TA that arranged it?  
thanks 

[Blue_Flame]

42 minutes ago, gottagocit said:

I’m curious.  Did you book the dinner using the app?  How did you receive this coupon?  Email? Are you using a TA that arranged it?  
thanks 

All good questions.

 

Yes, the dining was booked in the app awhile ago. About four weeks before  our upcoming sailing, I received an email from Princess with my "digital coupons." There are 19 discount coupons covering the shops, casino, spa, photo gallery, etc. The only one that will interest us is the free bottle of wine with an embarkation day specialty dinner, which we had already booked.

 

We are booked with a TA, and the email made reference to "more than $900 in savings from Princess and your travel advisor."

[kamelia]

We have used one of these coupons a couple of different times, and have been offered a choice of either one white or one red.  I do not recall what the white option was, but the red we've ordered has usually been Aussières, which is a cabernet sauvignon-syrah blend that's also included in the Princess Plus package price range.  

[gottagocit]

Okay that helps me to understand it better. That’s the new version of the old coupon books many TA’s would offer with their discount deals. Back then they would be waiting for us in our cabin when were embarked. 
You don’t typically get a bottle of wine for simply dining in a specialty restaurant on the first day and at first was shocked it’s now being offered. It’s not really but instead is a perk from your TA 

 

thanks and enjoy

Edited February 12, 2023 by gottagocit

[Cruise Raider]

9 minutes ago, kamelia said:

We have used one of these coupons a couple of different times, and have been offered a choice of either one white or one red.  I do not recall what the white option was, but the red we've ordered has usually been Aussières, which is a cabernet sauvignon-syrah blend that's also included in the Princess Plus package price range.  

That’s exactly what we were offered, as well… red or white.  We took the red one as the white one was Canyon Road. 

[justafem]

Here's the 2023 coupons if anyone's interested

 

https://static.cdn.responsys.net/i2/responsysimages/content/princessus/ShipwideSavingsCoupons2023.pdf?cid=om_email_promo_internal_precruise_precruise___shipwidesavings&eccn=EHCZTQ5CCWVLM4GW45AJURVR6E&rrid=8567731587&mi_u=8567731587&custId=EHCZTQ5CCWVLM4GW45AJURVR6E&mi_ecmp=

[georgiavol]

My wife has correctly pointed out (fairly often lol) that I've spent way too much money on wine over the years. Rest assured the vast majority of ship-board wines are under $20 in the grocery store. So if you like a good wine while onboard, swing by a local shop before embarkation and pick up a couple bottles.  

[taxmantoo]

We were offered a very common red or white.  We accepted the offer, selected the bottle of red (which we brought back to our room unopened as a balcony wine), and ordered and paid for a proper wine to accompany our meal 🙂 

[voljeep]

40 minutes ago, georgiavol said:

My wife has correctly pointed out (fairly often lol) that I've spent way too much money on wine over the years. Rest assured the vast majority of ship-board wines are under $20 in the grocery store. So if you like a good wine while onboard, swing by a local shop before embarkation and pick up a couple bottles.  

the couple of bottles to be consumed 'in your cabin' or pay corkage - maybe

 

OUCH ??

 

" Munson screamed. "We just dumped it over! 26-24! We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose! We just crushed their face!"

Edited February 13, 2023 by voljeep

[georgiavol]

39 minutes ago, voljeep said:

the couple of bottles to be consumed 'in your cabin' or pay corkage - maybe

 

OUCH ??

 

" Munson screamed. "We just dumped it over! 26-24! We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose! We just crushed their face!"

If ya drop $3k on a cruise, a few bucks for corkage is nothing. #RayGoff #rocksnglasshouses

[kamelia]

3 hours ago, georgiavol said:

If ya drop $3k on a cruise, a few bucks for corkage is nothing. #RayGoff #rocksnglasshouses

And very often the corkage fee is more than offset by the savings of bringing your own onboard as opposed to buying the exact same vintage onboard!  Especially considering you can still take two on embarkation day without having to pay any corkage fee.

[Astro Flyer]

On 2/12/2023 at 8:44 AM, kamelia said:

the red we've ordered has usually been Aussières, which is a cabernet sauvignon-syrah blend that's also included in the Princess Plus package price range.  

Like you & Cruise Raider that’s what we had on the first night of Discovery’s inaugural cruise.

 

[Fa-Li]

I assume the answer is “duh, no” but … if the first night specialty dinner is complimentary because of being in a suite, could one still use the wine coupon?

 

 

 

 

[jwattle]

1 hour ago, Fa-Li said:

I assume the answer is “duh, no” but … if the first night specialty dinner is complimentary because of being in a suite, could one still use the wine coupon?

 

 

 

 

Yes 😁