corkage on Celebrity BAD NEWS

There's a guy named Scooter, supposed to be a good lawyer but out of work, who I'm sure will represent you.

I have my own rule for venues that won't allow BYO---If I don't see anything I want to drink on the wine list under $30 a bottle or $7 a glass, I'll have a beer instead.

When a Restaurant lets you BYO, I make it a plus for the restaurant; I always order a wine from the wine list and don't bring with me a wine readily available. If there is corkage, ok and I try to tip the waiter who pours the wine I've brought, a tip based on the probable cost of what came with me.

Well doesn't that _suck_!?

I had thought that Celebrity was the top of the line as far as cruise carriers goes. Maybe I'll stick with Princess and Carnival.

I just returned from a cruise on Princess, and we had no problem bringing aboard a couple of _cases_ of wine, including a bottle each of 1970 Latour and Mouton - both of which were very nice, although pretty nearly at the end of plateau - particularly the Mouton.

We did buy a few bottles from the wine list at dinners, but the CB Chardonnay (interspersed with tequila shots and cerveza) carried us quite a ways during the week.

A fun time was had by all (except for the night Steve got seasick - although it might have been the chicken enchiladas he had [that no one else shared]).

I had brought a magnum of 1987 CB Rutherford Cabernet that we were going to open on our last evening at sea, but failed to do so for lack of a quorum. I ended up bringing it back home, unopened, after a 2000 mile sea voyage. I'm sure glad that US Customs didn't try to impound it! I would have been compelled to open it on the spot and try to drink as much of it as I could... ;^)

Tom S