Pros and Cons:
John Brown and Jamie Alpert
Pros and Cons: Pros: Great crew–friendly, attentive, helpful; Ship in good condition and clean; bikes in good condition & my wife loved her E-bike. Cons: wine available for purchase on board was at best mediocre & fairly expensive. You can buy much better wine at chateaus or wine stores during trip for considerably less & at least partially offsetting the $12 corkage fee. also, the company could do a much better job at coordinating chateau visits with daily rides. I thought countryside was pretty, but not enchanting as are other vineyard bike tours (Sonoma for example)
Thank you for your feedback. We asked the owner of the ship for a comment: All the drinks and alcohol have cheaper prices on board than in any restaurant or bar. Of course, water is free on board and a bottle of of 1.5 liter water (flat or with gas) cost 2.5 €. The prices of the bottles of wine are between 17 and 32 €. This is the price they will find elsewhere for this kind of wine. Each evening a different wine is offered at 2.5 € per glass to allow passengers to enjoy all types of Bordeaux wines. Every wine is different! Each palace also, that is why the service of the corkage fee of 10 € is proposed (it assumes the expenses of services, glasses, cleaning, conservation fridge, bins ...). It is often refused in the establishments of Bordeaux, but the boat cannot propose a range of wine sufficiently extensive in a region where there are more than 7000 castles.
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