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Royal Caribbean Introduces New Beverage Packages

Following in the footsteps of sister line Celebrity Cruises, Royal Caribbean has launched a new 4 part beverage package program. The new beverage program offers 4 unique packages that vary in price and drinks offered.

Guests will be able to purchase the beverage packages on any Royal Caribbean ship sailing on a 4 night or longer cruise. Guests will also soon be able to purchase the packages online, beginning in December, approximately 2 months before sailing. The biggest change to the program is the policy on “entire stateroom” purchasing. Guests who wish to purchase one of the packages will not force other eligible guests in their cabin to purchase the package as well. Only guests who wish to purchase a drink package will be required to do so. Guests may only use the package for themselves and are limited to purchasing one drink at a time. Although, there is no limit on how may drinks a guest may purchase in one day, contrasting with other cruise line beverage packages.

The new packages and their prices can be found below:

Royal Replenish

Includes: Fountain soda (including Coca Cola Freestyle machines where available), non-alcoholic cocktails, premium coffee, premium tea, and bottled water.

Price: $20 per person, per day.

Select

Includes: Beer, wine by the glass (up to an $8 value), fountain soda (including Coca Cola Freestyle machines where available).

Price: $40 per person, per day.

Premium

Includes: Call and premium cocktails (up to a $10 value), frozen cocktails, beer, premium wine by the glass (up to a $12 value), non- alcoholic cocktails, bottled water, and fountain soda (including Coca Cola Freestyle machines where available).

Price: $55 per person, per day.

Ultimate

Includes: All options from Premium and Royal Replenish packages.

Price: $65 per person, per day.

All packages include gratuities in their base prices. Guests who purchase Select, Premium, or the Ultimate package will also receive a 20% discount on bottles of wine.

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By Mike Faust

Mike Faust is an avid world traveler, often found traversing city streets in Asia and Europe rather than his home city of Boca Raton. Mike has touched down in 39 countries, set sail on 35 cruises, and flown over 400,000 lifetime miles.

8 replies on “Royal Caribbean Introduces New Beverage Packages”

Even more of a rip off than before, premium used to include premium spirits too, we thought it was a bit overpriced then, this is the end of AI for us, actually we weren’ too impressed with our RCI cruise this year so I think we’ll give them a miss from now on!

Wow , every package is a loser for the customer. Most are water based drink that cost a few pennies to seventy five cents for beers. Ships buy their alcohol in the cheapest ports, and transfer it between ships. My last cruise the bar tender showed me the price list (their costs) 24 packs beer were most $14.37, some as low as $9.00 , wine was $4 a bottle to $11 a bottle, very few were over $20. Markup was 700% – 2000%

Have you ever purchased a beer or drink in a bar, restaurant,etc? How much did you pay for a beer or drink? This is no different.

the single drink price is ok at bar prices back home, yes that is true, however the cruise line charges the package for everyday of the cruise. Thus say the $40 a day package you have to drink 8 beers EVERY day to break even. may as well be half drunk the entire cruise at that rate for most people. A better idea would be drink cards, you pick how many you want on the card and they more you buy the cheaper per drink it gets. 10 beer card say $50, 20 beer $90 30 beer $120 , etc. that way you can space it out and the cruise line gets good profits as well.

That’s a ridiculous idea. These packages are optional. If you don’t drink much, don’t buy one. You’ll save money buying a la carte.

your now more expensive than celebrity and there 5*!!!!!!!!! i only want diet drinks not water and none alcoholic cocktails and now i have to pay more than double.

This is no bueno. Only for the higher ups that can afford. When can corporate start helping those that can’t afford as much as the elite??

not that I am endorsing it but at least its not like Carnival where everyone in the cabin over 21 has to purchase the package or you can’t buy it thats a crock I agree there should be drink cards the packages almost force people to drink a lot so they get their moneys worth

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