On 7/1/2008 12:20 PM Jack Hamilton plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger
and said:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:55:45 -0400, Chrissy Cruiser
> wrote:
>
>
>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:51:11 -0700, Nonnymus wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Bringing your own booze is that not like bringing your own hamburger when
>>>> visiting McDonalds ??
>>>> Why would a Cruise ship allow you to be in direct competition with their
>>>> income.
>>>> Alcohol is available 24 hours a day, the people that want their own booze
>>>> are just cheaper than dirt.
>>>>
>>>> Just my $0.02
>>>>
>>>> Jaap
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hotels don't object when you bring a bottle along in the luggage, and
>>> their audience obviously has other choices.
>>>
>> The larger RCCL ships have liquor to buy. I agree, the ban, it's stupid.
>>
>
> The cruise lines could argue that by disallowing liquor they're
> retaining control of who drinks how much (they can cut you off if you
> look like you're getting drunk enough to fall overboard), but that
> argument fails if they sell bottles of liquor themselves.
>
> So it's about greed.
>
>
I thought that the only bottles sold on board were in the duty free
shop. You don't get to see those until you disembark. Wine bottles can
be bought for consumption at dinner, but they are brought to you at
dinner --- not before or after. I could be wrong; that's how I
understand the liquor purchase rules.
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