 Taking liquor aboard the ship
[Default] Thus spake Nonnymus <nobody@cox.net>:
>Jaap van Dorp 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.
On a serious point, at least three hotels I've stayed in LA in the
past year all had a little notice in their room service menu that said
that the state law prohibited the guest from bringing in outside
beverages and that they reserved the right to charge a $200 "service
fee" if drinks not purchased from the hotel were consumed in the room.
Which is a ceramic pottery filled with organic fertilizer. Of course,
all of these hotels were in the $300+ a night range.
At the other extreme was the Super 8 in Plainfield, IN that lists the
5 closest places to buy beer, wine and liquor. Of course, that was
only $175/night.
> I don't think it's any
>worse then when we take popcorn and Diet Pepsi to the movies, instead of
>buying the expensive stuff at the concession stand. Mrs. Nonny has a
>very large blouse she wears, which she tucks in and we stuff with
>popcorn. At the movies, people just think we're "in love," when in
>reality I'm digging out the popcorn. I prefer to carry the two cans of
>Diet Pepsi in my shorts. It gives me a "come hither," look that the
>young babes appreciate as I walk across the lobby.
"Hey big boy, is that a Diet Dr. Pepper or are you happy to see me?"
>
>Jaap, we tried it the other way, with Mrs. Nonny carrying the Diet
>Pepsi in the blouse and me stuffing my drawers with the popcorn. That
>didn't work out well, for obvious reasons I'd prefer not to discuss.
Well, I'm sure some of the guys would get jealous seeing her going for
the popcorn, but I suspect that she may have found that the weather
was much as Chevy Chase described in Nat Lamp's Winter Vacation.
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