Plastic Wine Glasses Etc

[DougH]

Looking to purchase some really good quality drinking glasses.

Anyone any ideas as to a supplier please.

Yep I have already been told Go to Specsavers.

 

[colingr]

We've just bought some from our local garden centre. Look around the barbeque section. Or B&Q / Homebase etc/

 

[Searush]

Good quality = plastic?

Have a look in the camping/ caravan shops, garden centres & marina chandleries if you want to spend lots of money. But if it is just something not intended to be "precious" but eminently practical & attractive, try Poundstretcher, B&M, Home & Bargain and similar high street replacements for Woolworths. I have seen plastic copies of Stuart crystal designs - in fact I bought a couple for my daughter & husband to use cos they even tend to break the real crystal ones at home. They are indistinguishable from the real thing until you pick them up.

 

[burgundyben]

Looking to purchase some really good quality drinking glasses.

Anyone any ideas as to a supplier please.

Yep I have already been told Go to Specsavers.

I dont like the plastic ones and we keep glass on board. I did see some plastic ones in M and S that looked better than most, I think £1.50 each.

 

[Richard Shead]

Good quality...

Looking to purchase some really good quality drinking glasses.

Anyone any ideas as to a supplier please.

Yep I have already been told Go to Specsavers.

John Lewis, you get what you pay for.

 

[Nick_H]

Lead crystal, and just clear up if one gets broken.

 

[hlb]

We can break plastic ones as well, so dont bother and just buy glass.

We managed to break a whole dinner service once.

 

[LittleShip]

Caravan and Camping shop best bet.

Last year The Admiral broke a glass ?? glass in the v berth and I ended up with a splinter of glass in my right foot for about 6 weeks...........

Plastic on LS now, well apart from maybe a couple of glasses for romantic evenings, may as well throw them overboard lately!!

Tom

 

[Renegade_Master]

Good quality = plastic?

in fact I bought a couple for my daughter & husband to use cos they even tend to break the real crystal ones at home.

strewth Searush is a sheila

 

[jfm]

Looking to purchase some really good quality drinking glasses.

Anyone any ideas as to a supplier please.

Yep I have already been told Go to Specsavers.

Doug, on a boat as stable as yours, they have to be glass. As others have said, just clear up if one gets broken. You can't have lunch on bone china and plastic glasses

 

[sailorman]

Doug, on a boat as stable as yours, they have to be glass. As others have said, just clear up if one gets broken. You can't have lunch on bone china and plastic glasses

"Quite So" even on a Raggie
Plastic Glass`s + Instant Coffee

 

[Garold]

Glass glasses or plastic fantastic?

Try googling Luminarc glassware. They seem tougher than the rest but we have only had them a couple of weeks so can't be sure they'll live up to the promise.

If they interest you, you may have to search high and low because they only seem avaiable to commercial operators, but this obviously suggests that they may be more robust than normal glassware.

We used to use plastic but wine and beer just seem to lose something from a plastic glass, so we were willing to give it a go.

Cheers

Garold

 

[sailorman]

Try googling Luminarc glassware. They seem tougher than the rest but we have only had them a couple of weeks so can't be sure they'll live up to the promise.

If they interest you, you may have to search high and low because they only seem avaiable to commercial operators, but this obviously suggests that they may be more robust than normal glassware.

We used to use plastic but wine and beer just seem to lose something from a plastic glass, so we were willing to give it a go.

Cheers

Garold

we have wine Glasses were 7 now 5 have been 23 yrs O/b
bier glasses 12 O/b when we bought her 13 yrs ago broke one to date

 

[Greg2]

Go for acrylic as opposed to plastic. Clearer appearance and they don't scratch with ordinary use.

 

[Garold]

we have wine Glasses were 7 now 5 have been 23 yrs O/b
bier glasses 12 O/b when we bought her 13 yrs ago broke one to date

Since you have only broken two wine glasses in 23 years, my 8 wine glasses should outlast my great-grandkids if we take the same care.

In fact, if you had put this info up 4 weeks ago, I would only have bought 2!

Cheers

Garold

 

[DougH]

Doug, on a boat as stable as yours, they have to be glass. As others have said, just clear up if one gets broken. You can't have lunch on bone china and plastic glasses

Would agree that the finer points of dining are lost when plastic glasses are used but we have two young grandchildren who spend a lot of time on the boat.

Bare feet and shards of glass imbeded in the carpet are enough for me to have nightmares.

We do carry the proverbial cut glass items but very very rarely use them.

At the moment we use the plastic glasses supplied by Sunseeker with additional glasses from John Lewis.

Problem is we use the dishwasher to clean the glasses and after 3 months they mark badly, even though they claim they are dishwasher proof.

Really looking for utopia in plastic but it looks like I will have to keep on replacing them on a regular basis. (Will ask for Acrylic rather than plastic in future)

Any forumite that finds themselves in Cala d'Or is welcome to a beer albeit in a marked glass. (Forum flag flies from the radio aerial.)

 

[iangrant]

Got a few

acrillics, (spelling?) PM me if you want them



Ian

 

[jfm]

Would agree that the finer points of dining are lost when plastic glasses are used but we have two young grandchildren who spend a lot of time on the boat.

Bare feet and shards of glass imbeded in the carpet are enough for me to have nightmares.

We do carry the proverbial cut glass items but very very rarely use them.

At the moment we use the plastic glasses supplied by Sunseeker with additional glasses from John Lewis.

Problem is we use the dishwasher to clean the glasses and after 3 months they mark badly, even though they claim they are dishwasher proof.

Really looking for utopia in plastic but it looks like I will have to keep on replacing them on a regular basis. (Will ask for Acrylic rather than plastic in future)

Any forumite that finds themselves in Cala d'Or is welcome to a beer albeit in a marked glass. (Forum flag flies from the radio aerial.)

Ah, ok, understood. There I was thinking you ONLY used plastic Fully see your point ref marauding young children. A Dyson vacuum cleaner is probably a good idea for the glass bits in the carpet. Hope to take up your offer to drop by, next April

 

[kcrane]

John Lewis, you get what you pay for.

If you do go for plastic, Waitrose (and so I guess John Lewis) sell some heavy weight ones from New Zealand. They are expensive (£6 a wine glass if I remember) but nicely engineered. The base of the glass unscrews from the bowl and then the stem/base fits back inside the bowl. Fits perfectly in a small drawer. We use those for the champers for jfm and keep the crystal for posh guests.

 

[Firefly625]

John Lewis, you get what you pay for.

yup, totally agree, got mine from Waitrose.... more expensive that glass...!!! but bloody good.

Trouble is everyone that uses them always wants them re-filled.....