Carnival cruise line changes the drink package
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- Carnival cruise line changes the drink package. We always get worried when cruise lines change something but I think this change is not too bad. Carnival drink package's are some of the best offered out there. Let's take a look at the Cheers drink package by carnival cruise line and go over the change they made.
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The guy with the $4,000 bottle of wine couldn't be bothered to check the price on the menu first??? No mercy for that guy.
It’s for sure a $600 bottle of wine, marked up to $4000 because it’s being served on a cruise ship.
I drank lemonade, iced tea, and water all week. 😁
Are those the non drink package drink options? If so, I can live with this :-)
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Exactly. These are included in your cruise.fee.
@@GarnerTV14 those are all free options on Carnival Cruise Lines!
I can't live without soda so I have to get the soda packages
Rob Tod Just bring a 35 pack with you on board
The change may have come about because people were ordering 15 x $50 drinks per day, such as having champagne with breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and midnight buffet.
There is only one drink over 20$ per dose. Its hennessy paradise and its 63$ for shoot.
Still sounds like a nice package even at $20 max. 15 drinks in a 24hr period is certainly more than I could consume.
I will still be having a drink package, maybe not for the cost but to get the expenses out of the way and so I can enjoy various things.
Yeah it would probably be cheaper for me just to get a bottle or two of liquor delivered to my room but I like the convenience of not having to worry about it
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If I decide to drink I would have a $30 limit a day. I notice Ships offers a drink of the day special under $10 on the Carnival. I don't drink hard liquor so that would work for me.
Hi Don, look forward to your videos. Folks need to be aware that BOTH people in the cabin are required to buy the package if one does. If both people are big drinkers then it's not a bad deal. If only one is a big drinker and the other person isn't it's really not a very good deal. We've done it both ways (with and with out the drink package and generally saved money by simply
'pay as you go". We bought the drink package on Holland America but it's the same. As to them lowering the price limit...we mainly just drink beer and mixed/frozen drinks so it's no big deal. Unless your real boozers It's not worth it.
The 15% tip they are automatically adding is assuming my service is already above and beyond and that is why I am willing to pay more only I don’t get a choice. Tips are no longer tips. They are now an expected part of their income and that is wrong. And then you are suggesting we tip more on top of that?! Please tell me what more a bartender or waitress is doing that they deserve a tip over any other person in the service industry. In this regard we should follow the Europeans. Most people save an entire year some two for one vacation and we basically have to lessen what we want in order to tip others who choose to work in this industry. I’m tired of being bullied into this. Tipping is out of control!!!
well said. My mom bought a bottle of water that was in our cabin, and she had to pay a 15% tip on a bottle of water that was in the room. Plus, we paid over a $100 each on tips. At the spa, tip was automatically added to our bill then they had the audacity to ask for additional tip.
When we went on the Royal Caribbean, we immediately had them take off the gratuity charge. As, we told them that we’d tip them as we went along. I tipped our cabin steward the very first day and had the best service ever. Even though I don’t drink I tipped the cocktail server whenever I got a glass of water. Service was much better, we had the same wait staff every single place & night because of this. It was excellent.
Last March my husband & I went on a 4 days cruise & the drink package was certainly worth it! I’m not a huge drinker but I felt that I got my money’s worth. I can’t think of any drink that was more than $20 that we had. I even took shots of patron. Neither of us reached our 15 drinks a day. I think the most I got in was 8 but still worth it to us!
When I had a carnival drink package, I looked and looked to try to find a drink that was $50 and never could find any drink that would come even close to that. On Carnival, I'm not sure that you can find a drink that would be over the $20 limit.
As someone that always purchases the drink package, I am extremely unhappy. No they were not alot of $50 drinks but there are plenty of drinks around $20 so I will now have to think about drink prices whereas I didn't have to before (that is the main point here). It takes away from the relaxing all inclusive feeling it provided and I compare it to cruise lines obviously gradually beginning to move all the "good food" and service to specialty dining so they won't have to include great food anymore, just mediocre food...hell some cruise lines are even doing speciality dining packages!
Currently on the sensation. We are drinkers and were worried about getting cut off so we gifted our room an additional bottle of scotch. We have not touched the scotch yet and we have been between 12-14 drinks every day. Haven't found a drink over $20 yet. Good wines at dinner are about 13, single malt whiskeys are 16.50. If you are going to drink more than 6 or 7, it's worth it. Also of note since it wasn't clear in my research, private islands use sail and sign for payment but it doesn't count against your 15.
It totally makes sense because when I asked the bartender, "what's the $50 drink?" He said there was like only 1 thing that was that expensive, and whatever he said it was (I don't recall), I wasn't interested in anyway!
It will only be an issue if they raise the price of the drink specials. It makes sense cause $50 is high for a single drink but it should include all of the drink specials that carnival have every day. It's still the best drink package in my opinion.
if I drank 15 drinks a day I would be walking around drunk and falling down all over the place
Lol well I usually drink the 15 but I spread them out over 12 hrs and I eat alot
They're pretty weak! They're not shall I say poured with a heavy hand! So I doubt you'd be falling down after 15 drinks unless you had like bottled beer or something like that! Because trust me the fruity and mixed drinks ain't going to do that for you! 😂😂😂
And my friend got cut off after his 15th! Lol
@@missnperfection9830 I agree that they are weak to the point that I had to seek out the strongest drinks on board in order to maintain a buzz sometimes
I'll just hurl in the pools
I think it's a great deal, IF you're going to drink over $52 of alcohol per day. Personally, I drink Long Island Iced Teas on board which run about $10 each. Five of those per day is pushing it for me so the drink package is not worth it for me. I'm not a soda drinker and normally drink juice, water, or black coffee with breakfast and lunch. To me, 15 alcoholic drink per day seems excessive! If you factor in a few milkshakes, sodas, or specialty coffees I guess it's not too bad. As far as the new price limit, $20 per drink seems more than reasonable. After all, if you're accustomed to buying very expensive alcoholic drinks, you're probably not going to be concerned about price anyway. I only wish that spouses could share the drink package because if one person in a room buys the package, the other has to get it too, if I'm not mistaken. That's way too much money for both of us. We could easily drink together within the limits of one package.
I don;t think it's a big deal ... me? I like a few drinks and I'm with you Don ... I can hardly tell the difference between $1 Whiskey and $100 Whiskey :)
I would have loved to have the $50 limit myself just to try the top shelf 🤓👍🏾
I think it is still a good deal. Royal Caribbean is 12.00 cut off. There where some drinks over 12.00.
I am not happy with this change.
What is to stop them from increasing drink prices to above $25?
Give it a few months Arthur I bet we will start to see price increases.
I have a Christmas cruise so hopefully not. I want to enjoy my first Christmas cruise.
They won't do that for the cocktails bc most people don't specify the brand of liquor but they will start doing that with top shelf liquors I'm sure :/
@@bigfiretogetherforever5047 that's how I feel about specialty dining as well but its hard to get other people to commit to multiple nights on specialty dining
@@bigfiretogetherforever5047 I completely agree. The best thing about specialty dining is the five-star star service
the waiter should have said wow thats a good wine ..some day i will love to get a 4k bottle of wine ...this way there is no insulting just a compliment
i would really like to blind taste a 4k wine vs a ...reg price wine and see the difference
ethyl alcohol is ethyl alcohol no matter what the drink
But it's not the waitstaff's responsibility to make sure you read the menu.
@@KBlocker29 couldn't agree with you more Keisha and I would be extremely insulted if they said to me you realize that that bottle is a $4,000 bottle of wine correct! I would be pissed! Like I couldn't afford it or something! Don't get me wrong not that I can afford a $4000 bottle of wine but I mean... ya know you get what I'm saying!😂😂😂
When you are at the income level of much of the waitstaff, it is so out of your league that they'll assume that you can afford it.
@@missnperfection9830 true and where do you draw a line 4000 usd , 2000 , 1000 , 100 ?
As long as the price is mentioned clearly in the menu and the wine is not aggressively cross sold by waiter . The responsibility lies with the person who ordered.
The other day I felt insulted when the staff at a grocery market pointed out that the tomatoes I was buying were higher priced , it's only later when I thought about it with a clam mind did I realise it was good of the staff to remind me because majority of shoppers including me always bought the cheaper tomatoes :-) I would never have bought those expensive tomatoes if it had not been a special dish I was preparing.
I thought the cocktails on Norwegian were pricey at $18. A cap at $20 sounds perfectly reasonable to me assuming most drinks are $8-$12
SoTweetie yes most drinks are $7.00 to $14.00
I don't think Carnival have a beverage package including alcohol in Australia. They have a soda, tea and coffee drink package but no package which includes alcohol. Carnival are a real let down in that respect. I went on a cruise 2 years ago, but I don't think it's changed. They need to step on their game.
I don’t drink so it doesn’t affect me but if I did I would not be happy. If I did drink 🍸 I would want the top shelf brands and not the cheap back bar stuff. I also wouldn’t want to worry about keeping track of overages. That is the whole point to drink packages, you can get what you want and not worry about it (within reason of course!). I am getting the sense that cruise lines in general are cheaping out more and more.
Yep I compare it to noticing that cruise lines are gradually moving all the food worth eating to speciality dining. I'm giving the MDR another shot on one of my favorite ships next week but last cruise, I felt like I might as well go the buffet if I wasn't doing specialty dining on a cruise casual night :(
Kat Dodd
I agree Kat. I was disappointed in the MDR food on the last cruise I was on. Which is distressing because I enjoy eating in the MDR and being served. I really don’t care for the buffet as I liken it to eating at a hog troth. People can be pigs at the buffet and eat like it was the last supper. It can be disgusting.
Mary Elizabeth yes we found azamara has gone down hill and we havè been going with them for years changed to holland America and royal carribean now trying Norwegian
Re drinks we had all our duty free confiscated and they said they dumped it _ and this was best of British drinks
We just got off a Carnival Cruise on Sunday and we never order the cheers program because we can't drink that much EVERY day. We both had as many drinks as we wanted and even bought bottles of prosecco for the table on the last night and our total bill for the cruise was $403 . . . Including a cheap beach transfer excursion we booked at the last moment. So for us (and many people) just skip the package entirely and bring a yeti cup for lemonade and enjoy the occasional drink you might add in.
I suppose I've been spoiled by Celebrity Cruises beverage packages. I don't believe there was a cutoff limit per day, and while it costs more than Carnival's(depends on how long the cruise is) they include(at least the two versions of the alcohol package) include bottled water, specialty coffee, specialty coffee drinks(with and without alcohol added), specialty teas, smoothies(no milkshakes available unfortunately) soda, and fresh squeezed juices along with the cocktails and liquor. One could also order mocktails with the alcohol packages, although there are separate packages specifically for non alcohol drinks, as well as for soda, wine and water. The basic alcohol bevvy package is offered as one of four "free" perks when booking a cruise and it's possible to upgrade to the premium if desired(with the upcharge naturally). There's more to it, but this post is already too doggne long! 😄
Im ok with it. Would I have tried a $50 drink, probably...see how the other half live, lol. But not a big deal.
For the first time, we booked a cruise with Princess and we got a "Free" Sip n Sail package for a 12 day cruise. Like Carnival its basically the same rules except I think the price cut off is $12.00. I do drink a lot of specialty coffees and an occasional soda. We both drink a lot of water. We have never had this so I am looking forward to seeing if this is a good fit OR we go back to his having soda package and me the coffee package and pay extra for any alcoholic drink we might consume. Thanks for sharing Don! Sounds like Carnival actually might have a better deal.
Thanks for sharing this...our very first cruise will be on Princess in May 2019 to Alaska...we both each have the Sip & Sail package included with our room...we are not big cocktail 🍹 or alcoholic drinkers. Were coffees,cokes,tea and waters included?? We preordered & paid for bottled water in our room already. Thanks for any reply 😀
@@stephaniefoley5569 If I'll not mistaken you can cancel the water, be quick. And read what you get for the sip and sail promotes.
Carolyn Gardner, thanks,I do not want to cancel the pack of bottled of water in our room. Will call travel agent in the morning to ask what the free Princess drink package details. If it’s just a 15 alcoholic drink per day only free deal...it’s not going to be very beneficial because we each will not drink 15 alcoholic drink the whole cruise 🚢 lol 😆 need to check again also on those other complementaries. Happy Labor Day
We usually get a case of bottled water for our room. On Princess its only $6.50 a case and we will have OBC so that will cover it. The Sip n Sale package covers bottle water, sodas from a gun, some juices, specialty coffees & teas, alcoholic drinks and non alcoholic drinks up to $12.00 each. Honestly, I drink more alcoholic drinks than the hubby but I think it would be around 4 -6 a day at most. I drink more "foo foo" coffee drinks and those run around $2.50 each. I don't think I could possible drink 15 cocktails a day.
I still get a case of water even with the drink package. Its conveient to have it when your room when you really need it.
As someone who doesn’t drink any alcohol even the bubbles package seems high per day. I did the bubbles last month on my first cruise ever and will not do bubbles or any drink package again. It was more of a pain just to get the beverage. Water and lemonade is more then enough.
So much better than the NCL drink policy. NCL does not include water or specialty coffees. It also has a limit of $15 per drink. The NCL drink package is also more expensive. Go figure!
We were very disappointed in NCL's drink package on one cruise where we got it. It only included cheap wine and did not include champagne, which is what Iike to drink.
Thank you for giving me this information do you have a great day
...that's quite a reduction (-$30)...the good thing about the drink package is one can try some of the premium scotches and other spirits one may not have had the opportunity to partake of...Carnival lowered the per drink price, but not the Cheers price as a whole :-(
Carnival charges for both people in the room and a 15 drink limit. Other cruise lines you can get a drink package for one person and no limit. We cruise 2 to 3 times a year and are starting to look at other cruise lines.
6:10 .. I agree with the wait staff / server .. it is inappropriate to inform he customer about the price of an expensive wine ... it might make him look bad ... they can;t know if he's trying to impress the girl! :)
Mike Baxter ,
The prices for wine are right there on the menu. Those prices caused me to go for a lower cost choice on the list. It still tasted good with the food served.
$50* 15 equals a good daily drink deal. Champaign for everyone!
@Don'sFamilyVacations Sounds like Royal Caribbean has the better drink package. On my next cruise, the current price is $45 per day with an 18% gratuity. That covers all premium liquors, mixed drinks, beers, most wine by the glass, specialty coffees, soda, bottled still and sparkling water, milkshakes at Jonny Rocket's, fresh squeezed juice, and smoothies at the spa. No limits on number of drinks. Bottles of wine are 40% off bottles under $100 and 20% off bottles over $100. I've seen Deluxe drink packages as low at $39 per day depending on the cruise.
I prefer Royal Caribbean. My husband and I went on the Carnival Triumph for our honeymoon, and it was basic and outdated, of course now they are updating her and changing the name!
There goes getting McCallan 18 on the rocks, $45 drink
I just cruised with Celebrity. Definitely a big spender type of line. Cocktails were quite a bit more expensive than other lines, which makes you think that the package is a good idea. IT IS NOT!
premium package would be over $650 a week per person.
Several couples said they get 1 and then bar hop to buy drinks separately to cut the cost. Unless you have money to burn, I feel pay as you go is a better deal.
Celebrity also constantly bothers you with adding the drink package and extra charge dining options THROUGHOUT THE CRUISE!
I won't be cruising with them again, I go to relax not be harrassed for money
Us non-drinkers sure can cruise cheaply. Wow, that guy bought $670.00 glasses of wine. Did he share with the table?
I've tried the drink packages a couple of times, I found service sucked unless you tipped double (because we already prepay for the tips). Ordering on the fly if you don't drink that much is better so far.
I never had that problem!
Well, i think the waiter should have drawn attention to the fact that a bottle of wine costs more than a certain limit, say 500 $. I would feel perfectly fine with that, even if i was billionaire.
Thanks Don for the great 👍🏻 info!! Drink 🍸 packages meh’ were not big drinkers, so it doesn’t really worry us Soda meh, don’t drink it🥤 it blows my mind that people pay such ridiculous prices for these, it just another. Cash 💰 💵 grab as we no, On my upcoming 🚢 there are four of us in a suite, we are not getting them on RCCL if you really want to 🍸 buy as you go, 15 drinks on Carnival 🎡 no way, I be falling down’ way to much, tots ridiculous’😱💧is the way to go’ u don’t need to buy it, take your own water 💦 bottle and drink it, the 😆fountains are fine💦 I haven’t been on a Cruise 🚢 yet where I have ever been 🤒 on water 💦 on board, looking forward to your upcoming vlogs on 👑#locafam🚢⭐️🌴👍🏻
I found the drink service with Cheers was so terrible and in the lounges they didn't have enough servers. It was so slow to get a drink I complained and asked for my money back. The bar manager gave me a "free" drink. Was a waste of money.
Hey don my first cruise is finally here I’m on the princes and going to the Caribbean for 10 days I’m so excited thank you for your tips and tricks for traveling and I won’t forget sunscreen 🚢🛳
Have a great cruise I leave on 2 days for my cruise in Southampton :)
Thumbs up for more awesome updates and tips .. thanks again !
Hmmm, my favorite top shelf vodka (Grey Goose VX cocktails) were $20.50 which is barely over the limit. would be $15.38 with a 25% "cheers" discount which places it UNDER $20 so I wonder if it's included? (Most likely not) I'll find out in about 3 weeks when I board the Carnival Fascination.
And remember, it is already paid for !! so you can really enjoy your cruise. !
Anyone else besides me look at the water behind Don and try to look for people floating in the ocean?!?! No?!?! Only me?!?! Well this is embarrassing!😐😮😟😦😦😦😦😦😦😂😂😂😂
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@@kylepifer9509 thanks Kyle! 😂😂😂😂
Um.. no 🤣
Lmao guilty 🤦😂😂
it may be a blue screen.
Tips should always be based upon service , cant understand the logic of pre charging a tip especially if the staff still expect a tip from you despite knowing that tip amount is pre charged and when you don't give additional tip the service quality drops.
Also pre charging a tip only ends up taking away the motivation factor of the staff to serve you better because they know they are getting a share of the tip whether they provided a good service or not.
I really do not drink, but I was not aware that one drink could be $50. For $50 you could buy two bottles of decent whiskey and a case of soda to mix with them!
Correction bring your own wine one bottle per person .
I never even paid attention to the alcohol cost limit. Because most of your mixed drinks are not going to cost more than 15 bucks.
I love your videos Don and your not that had either :) 💓
Not much of a drinker so I never get cheers. I wish they had levels to the packages since I only have one or 2 drinks a day. I just got off my 4th carnival Cruise (victory) and I'm going to look for another cruise line for my next few cruises. I had my first balcony and ended up spending a lot of time in my cabin. I missed dinner at the main dining room every night this time and had to eat from the dinner buffet and it was disappointing. The deserts were horrible! I don't know if the dinner buffet was always that bad because I always went to the dining room just to get out of my interior cabin. Now that I know the joy of a balcony, I'll get one from now on. Carnival is not going to cut it anymore!
If it keeps the cruise coast low.. but it does seem a bit drastic to cut it 60% right off the bat...
15 drinks in a day might not kill me but I would feel like I would die.
Drinks include sodas bottled water and premium coffees
9/28/19....Always get wine by the glass---just get 3-4 with dinner & that's a full bottle but priced as single glasses so "covered" by drinks pkg.
Also isn't special coffees & soft drinks included?
Great info Don. I learn a lot from your videos. Do you take over reservations made in the US for Cruises?
Yes he does, I booked a 7 day Mexican cruise thru him
Can’t get a drinks 🍸 package here in Australian been on two going on my third soon and I checked again about a drinks 🍷 package because my husband likes it, he comes on the cruises with me just because he likes that part of the cruise 😂 and duty free cigarettes but apart from that in Australia carnival only offer a wine package 📦 for 5 bottles I think it is around 180 dlrs when I checked their site and bubbles package not with water is around 10 a day, I don’t know why they do not have the spirit package here, you can’t even take two bottles of wine on here with Carnival, would love to know why it’s like this here Don maybe you might be able to do some research on this, maybe they think Aussies drink too much 😂😂😂. In saying that I’m still going on another cruise with them got an amazing bargain to the pacific Islands 🌴 9 nights in extended balcony for 800 Aust dlrs so not complaining 🚢
Rita Freeman I work for carnival in bar dep and I will confirm your opinion. Yess, it's coz they think Australians drink more then Americans, actually, they know that. :) And they earn much more selling drink by drink....
Clearly, Wisconsinites drink more than Australians lol
Marko Djuric thanks for your reply my suspicions are confirmed 😂😂😂.
Your welcome :) Only people from Texas can compare with Australians if we talking about drinking on a cruise ships :) Next month Im coming on a Spirit, so see you there!
Marko Djuric I’ll look out for you and say hello 👋 have you been to Australia 🇦🇺 before or will it be your first time here , also with the bubbles package here in Australia is it cans they serve or just post mix, my son just got back from the Carnival splender a few weeks ago and he said they served cans there on that ship 🚢
Could you imagine someone paying $52 a day for 15 $50 drinks thats $750. You could have saved $698 a day on drinks. That would be $4,886 on a 7 day cruise. That's nuts!
I've never seen a $50 drink on any carnival Cruise. Unless people are asking for JW blue, if they had it, I didn't see it on any menu during my last cruise.
this is the first time we bought cheers and they should stand by what they sell. the changes should be on future cruises not on the ones already sold. Very upset...
Thanks for the video! New subscriber.
I think the drink package should be the 15 at a discount,...any others could be at regular price
I just wish they'd offer a "beer and coffee only" drinks package for about half of what the regular package costs. I don't drink much wine or any liquor really, and I don't like soda. Call it a $10 limit maybe. What beers are available on a cruise ship anyway? Is it only crappy stuff like Bud and Stella or do they have real beer?
I have altered the deal,pray I don't alter it further.
You need to drink at least 3 or 4 every day for this to be worth the price, if I have that right. Alcohol may not be health tonic, but if you’re gonna drink, you’re much better off drinking a bunch on one day, and then taking a few days off. 4 drinks every day is real self-abuse. It’s also hell on the immune system, which nobody mentions when the Norovirus spreads like wildfire around the ship.
Going on a 7 day cruise and spending 800 dollars on a bargain drink package is not good, I went on a NCL cruise and the whole cruise was 804 dollars and that included the ultimate drink package with gratuities paid and no limit on the number of drinks but not the drinks over 15 dollars each.
God Bless I don't spend 4k on the entire cruise, round of drinks on me...
This is 2 year's ago please update. 18% Gratuity now. What else has changed?
The rules say no bringing beverages aboard. I wonder if that applies to beverage powders. You know those tubes and cannisters of low calorie powdered ice tea, fruit punch, orange, grape, etcetera drink mixes. Their water and your powders.
David Hoffman that is a good question to ask drictally to the cruise line
The bottle of wine story 🤯🤬
You are not eligible to buy drink pkg if anyone in your room doesn’t buy it
The crew is instructed implicitly or explicitly to have the cruisers spend as much as possible, is a way of scamming the tourists, specially if they are half drunk. I don't drink alcoholic beverages, only once in a blue moon, but if I would get the beverage package I would exhaust all the package every day, even if I don't drink it, I would pass along the excess of drinks to other people.
My question: So the cruise line adds on a $105 tip to your beverage package. over the whole trip, lets say I consume 20 beers, 10 whiskeys, and 10 wines. How does the $105 get divided up? by 40 drinks consumed, or by the total cost of the drinks then divided into the $105, it would never work out correctly if they (the cruise line) gave the employee 15%
Carnival has a limit of 15? On sea days I exceed that (not in cocktails but shots, glasses of wine at dinner). Norwegian didn't have a limit. Definitely feel like I got my money's worth with Norwegians drink package. Don't think Id sail Carnival on an itinerary with lots of sea days.
Bring your own wine. Twp per person each.
If the package price does not get reduced accordingly it is miserly.
Assuming the drink package allows 15 drinks per day with a max of $20 per drink, why not give the passengers a budget of $300 per day to spend as they seem fit. I can't imagine downing 15 alcoholic drinks/specialty coffees per day (the calories alone would be too much for me), but if I had the option of buying a nice bottle of wine at dinner, and, perhaps, a nice single-malt scotch, and some nice champagne... I'd be satisfied and would stay within the $300 budget.
Im no math genius but you realize what you are suggesting right? So they charge you about $50/day for the package but then you get to spend $300? Seems like carnival would be losing out on that deal. It's not groupon....$300 spending on board for $50!!! Lol
15 drinks @ $20 each comes to $300 a day that you can get for just $52? Sounds like a deal to me. Norwegian charges an outrageous $90 a day for their drinks package (no limit on the # of drinks) but if you are drinking more than 15 alcoholic beverages a day, seek help. ; )
Is that $52 a day or the whole week. The receipt shows x 7. NCL has free package and $109 f2f or the gratuity for the whole week unlimited drinks up to 15.00 drink
If you drink cognac this limits you I don't like this the only cognac you can have to drink is VSOP Hennessy which is nasty
sounds like it is 15 drinks total right? maybe 3-4 alcohol drinks a few soda drinks, a few coffee, a few bottled water. If I am not correct, please correct me Don. I would think 15 alcohol drinks a day would make anyone drunk their entire trip and they would possibly not even remember it. ( or be able to walk around very well).
15 drinks over 24(or even just say 12-16 hours) hours is not that much tho. To make you a little bit dizzy for sure but to get and stay drunk or even blackout? Not really. But maybe I am an alcoholic. Don't know. Depends on the drink I guess. Maybe if you maximize your alcohol output by choosing just hard cheap liquors. ^^
Thanks for another informative video. Ps I emailed you about booking a cruise. It's Veronica.
the only bad thing for me is the wife does not drink but we still have to buy 2 drink package. so it is cheeper for me just to pay as I go
I think it is reasonable for normal people not to have to subsidize people who care that their drink is a $50 drink instead of a $20 drink. I think most people could only tell the difference if they were in the habit of buying $50 drinks every day. And I think those people don't need subsidies from everyone else. So the change is reasonable.
So basically went from passable drinks to swill . ✔
Yes that's a big drop
Damn carnival, you don't already make enough money?
I think it's ok they did that
A quick question! I'm a senior citizen, and only drink juices, ICE tea and coke. I'm a 24 hour period I might drink only five or fewer. What would be The best thing to do ?
I only have a drink a couple of times a year so I might have a glass of champagne at bon voyage time but I also love my virgin cocktails such as Bloody Mary's and strawberry coconut colada. My parents took a cruise to the Mediterranean at the Millennium and they didn't have to pay for drinks or food or classes the entire cruise was all inclusive. I don't mind paying for the drinks package and I don't need a bartending class although I would take a cooking class if it were a very famous chef that I know. I know several. I am looking to take a cruise in the next 18 months and I want to make sure I don't miss any of the changes but I'm also not terribly interested in family vacations. I have no living family and I'm not 75 either. I do use an electric wheelchair and I would like to know the limitations on that. If there are any limitations. I can walk some but not very far
15 drinks? Challenge accepted.
4. 000 dollars for a bottle of wine🤯🤯😳😳😳😳😭😭😭
We just paid 429.11 each for the Cheers package, which included an 18%, not a 15% gratuity. Are we expected to tip additionally?! The $20 limit doesn't bother me. Other cruise lines have a lower limit, actually. I can deal with it. Do you know if things like milkshakes are included?
Hi do you know if the bottomless bubbles from carnival includes the juices in the brunch, prices are $5 per juice in the brunch.. I'm not talking about just oj is the press juices? Thanks
I am wondering if any of this has to do with the crazy global tariff conflicts amongst the nations of the Earth creating alcoholic beverage price increases.
What about the people that purchased the program before the change, but have not sailed yet...?
The Le9end ,
Good question. In theory contract law should apply IF you paid in full at the time you made the reservation, but cruise lines don't have to follow contract law so those early bookings will be subjected to the new rules.
If you are going by yourself would you get the drink package?