royal caribbean drink package vs casino drinks

Getting the drinks plan carries the potential for one of two benefits. Or a better comparison, how do you measure the financial value in getting a Jr. The extraordinary additional cost of first undeniably not commensurate with the benefit you get from the cost. Take for example flying economy vs first class. I think the problem comes in you conflating “convenience” with something being “financially sound”. I would bet that most of the cruises make money on these drink packages (beyond the markup of the drink itself) with people not drinking enough to cover the cost of the package.

I just don’t like throwing money away or overpaying for something if I can avoid it. Like I said we got the Refreshments package because I knew we’d be drinking enough soda, sparkling water, juice and coffee to justify the price based on our normal day to day drinking habits… it was easy to do the math ahead of time. Doesn’t that involve keeping track of how many you’ve had and their cost? I mean, you want to at least break even otherwise it’s throwing money away.Īgain, if you know going in you’re going to drink enough premium drinks to exceed the cost of the package than by all means I get it… but if you’re buying it to sample drinks then you’re going in with a quota to hit in order to break even. So each day every day you and your cabin mate have to drink and/or sample at least enough premium beverages (specialty coffee, alcoholic beverages, mocktails, etc.) to break even on the package in order for it not to be a loss. Okay, but that’s not paying for convenience… that’s paying for getting to be able to sample a bunch of drinks… which is fine if that’s what you want to do.

I get that if you’re going to drink enough to hit the price of the deluxe drink package it’s worth it (whether it be just alcohol or a combo of alcohol, coffee, juice, etc.), but to me if you’re not then how is it still convenient? I mean the bartender takes your card and scans it for the drink… is the convenience skipping that and the signing of receipt (or do you still have to do that with the DDP)?

I had my credit card linked to my account (as I assume everyone else does)… at the end of the cruise the few alcoholic drinks I did buy just went on the card… seems pretty convenient to me. Question for those who say they do it for the convenience… if you’re not consuming enough drinks to hit the price of the package (or more) then aren’t you wasting money? Where’s the convenience? I sailed with my family recently on a 4 night… we bought the Refreshment Package which included everything but alcohol because we do drink the specialty coffee, and we all drink sparkling water like nobody’s business, but we’re not big alcohol drinkers.

Royal caribbean drink package vs casino drinks