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Re: Holland America Policy on Beverages

RFDiana — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:52:23 GMT

The water on tap on board is perfectly acceptable. It's really a matter of preference. We have our individual Britta water jugs that we are taking simply because we don't like to use plastic (we try to go green) and this allows us to get water in the airports, on ship, on land, etc. Some ppl may feel better by drinking bottled water, but the water on board is filtered water, as far as I understand it.

Re: Holland America Policy on Beverages

butterfly — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:28:56 GMT

May be a silly question but why would we need to take water onto the ship? the last Olivia cruise we went on to the Carribean, there was free water available all day not just at meal times, and the ice bucket in your state room was magically kept filled up all the time , I was so impressed cos I luv cold water, and it kept my wine cool lol

Re: Holland America Policy on Beverages

Tink — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:15:12 GMT

Thanks for this info, Sleddog. We'd really like to bring at least champagne on board, as it's favorite pre-dinner drink. We are going to go with Brita bottles for water to cut down on lugging stuff on board...

Re: Holland America Policy on Beverages

sleddog — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:04:45 GMT

This topic…about what can be brought on and what can't…comes up every cruise

In the past I and many others have called HAL and talked with Bob, Pete, Betty, Steve…and so on…

You can call twice a day get two different people and two completely different answers…

Some will say you can only bring on 2 bottles…some will say all you want…others will say it's an Olivia charter so what ever Olivia says…

All I know from our 20+ cruises is what I have personally done…and from what I've gotten from Olivia…and what I've been told from HAL

Here's what I've done each cruise…we pack our HAL allowed beverages in either a waterproof boater bag or a cardboard wine box (we do make a handle out of tape)…make sure it's well packed and our ID/stateroom # is on it…tip the porter and hand it off to him/her. The bag/box has always made it to the room with no problems.

We have glasses in our stateroom so we fill them and take them to dinner…to the show…to the casino…to the crows nest/disco. Only once did we have a sort of problem…we were opening a bottle of champagne at the piano bar…when someone rush over to try and charge us a corkage fee…we explained it was a gift from Judy/Olivia who chartered the ship and they said "oh ok…no problem". We have even had dinner multiple times with Judy and always bring along a special bottle of wine…they open it without a problem and no charge.

So…unless things change tomorrow or the day we board the ship…we will bring on our wine/champagne, water & soda…we will give them to the porter at the cruise port…we will fill our glasses and take them wherever we want…and we may just bring our champagne bottle from Olivia to the Mimosa party!!

Until then…cheers!!!

Re: Holland America Policy on Beverages

RFDiana — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:08:42 GMT

Guess that answers the beer question for the beer drinkers:)

Re: Holland America Policy on Beverages

Michele-Bet — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:26:01 GMT

Thank you Joyce!!

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