I would appreciate any advice from persons who have had experience bringing their own wines to dinner. Is there a standard corkage fee? Is it per bottle?<BR> Thanks for any advise you may give.

Personally, I'd never pay someone just to twist the cap off my Boone's.

On Celebrity cruises there is a $6.00 per bottle charge. Can't tell you about any other cruise line. They will keep your bottle if you have any leftover for the following evening, or whenever you come back to the dining room. I suppose you could take it with you as well, although I never did. It was nice to have it waiting for you at the dinner table.

We travel on Celebrity & Royal Caribbean, and they both charged between $6-8 for corkage. I make my own wine at home and bring it with me on the cruise. The $6.00 is a steal compared to the $25-30 you would pay for what they will try to sell you.<BR><BR>

How much is the food cutting fee?

My husband and I just returned from Alaska on board Celebrity's Infinity. We brought two bottles of wine with us for the formal evenings, which were over 10 years old and the wine steward decanted for us. We considered the 8 dollar corkage fee cheap considering these were two hundred dollar bottles of wine which could not be purchased on the ship. It's worth it if you're bringing something special from your cellar, but I wouldn't do it for a twenty dollar bottle of wine.

i paid $7 last year on celebrity and carnival charged $10 last week.

And if your toilet isn't working they come to your room and put one ____ your ___ and charge you a $20.00 corkage fee.

We traveled two months on Renaissance 8, now defunct,and learned that their $10 cokage fee didn't seem so bad when we paid it to open our (excellent) $2,$3, $5 wines purchased ashore in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. We, too, often managed to stretch a bottle over two nights, or to share with good company. (We had open seating.)<BR>A fellow traveler bought a cheap box wine and brought it (undercover) to the table one night, pouring neath the table from time to time! Well, what cork is there to pull? <BR>Corkage fees can range from $5 to $20 at various shore facilities as well. How desperate are you?

<BR>We just got back from a Costa cruise and there was no charge for corkage. We couldn't believe it, hope it wasn't a mistake.

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Remember Yoda? Just drink his wine and let him pay the corkage fee.