Want to bring your own wine on a Disney Cruise?
No problem, provided you keep within the rules. Each guest aged 21 years and older (or 18 on the Australia and New Zealand cruises), can bring up to 2 bottles of wine or champagne onboard when they embark.
You can consume the wine in your stateroom – but if you want to bring the bottle to a restaurant with you, then there is going to be a corkage fee.
And it’s a lot.
Disney has raised the corkage charge from $27 to $29.
That really is a lot of money.
Related: Should I Get the Wine Package?
How Does This Compare to Other Cruise Lines?
Even when the charge was at $25, the corkage charge on Disney Cruise Line was substantially higher than what most other cruise lines charge.
Here are some examples of current corkage charges on other cruise lines.
These are the charges for corkage for bottles consumed outside of your cabin – with the exception of NCL which allows unlimited bottles to be brought on to the ship, and charges no matter where you drink them.
These prices are correct for September 2024:
- Azamara Cruises $10
- Royal Caribbean Cruise Line $15
- Carnival Cruise Line $15
- Holland America $20
- Princess $20
- Celebrity Cruise Line $25
- Cunard $25
- Oceania Cruises $25
- Norwegian Cruise Line – from $15 to $30 depending on size of bottle (you can bring a magnum)!
- Virgin Voyages $25
- Windstar Cruises $15 plus 15% gratuity.
As you can see, with the exception if you want to open a mega-size bottle of wine on an NCL cruise, Disney Cruise Line has by far the highest corkage charge of any of the cruise lines.
I think in over 20 years of cruising with Disney I have taken a bottle of wine to a restaurant once.
I am highly unlikely to ever do that again.
The solution if you want a glass of wine at dinner?
Buy a glass or bottle in the restaurant or bar. Or pour a glass in your stateroom and take it to the restaurant. That is what many people do.
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Alison Meacham is the founder of EverythingMouse Disney Blog. For over 15 years she has shared her love of Disney Parks, Disney Cruises and Universal Orlando. In over 30 years of Disney Travel she has spent countless months in Disney Parks and has sailed on over 45 cruises. A British native and now a United States resident she splits her time between California, Florida and the UK. And spends a serious amount of time sailing the seven seas. She helps over 200,000 people per month follow their Disney travel dreams.