Poll: wine on cruise ships, good or bad?
“We have a captive audience as most cruises last at least 11 days,” said Toni Neumeister, vice president of food and beverage at Crystal Cruise Lines was quoted in the current issue of Wine Business Monthly. Mmm, captive audience. Monopoly provider. And a new policy not allowing any alcoholic beverages on board. If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, then your cruise will have a poor selection of wines with high prices.
But the story then proceeds to say that wine on cruise ships has a gentler markup than restaurants with 1.5x cost instead of two or three times. So which is it? Share your experiences in the latest poll!
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Jun
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2007
On June 5th, 2007 at 5:21 am ,Neal wrote:
On our last Princess Cruise to Alaska a couple summers back, they had a notable wine tasting for $25 that included Opus One as well as some other nice wines. This was our first opportunity to try Opus One, and while quite complex, was not our favorite. Needless to say, you could buy a bottle for dinner that night. Prices were similar to retail here in Ohio.
On June 5th, 2007 at 12:38 pm ,TJ wrote:
Not from personal experience but one of my wine buddies went on a cruise and found many of the same wines we get here in CA. She also found that the wines were a bit more expensive. There were some good wines, depending on the cruise line they might stock more European wines vs American.