I’ve blogged on the virtues of cruise line drink packages before. While they are very much a YMMV situation depending on your habits, they are worth a few minutes of consideration in your cruise vacation planning. At best, they really can save you money. At worst, you know most of the cost of your cruise in advance and don’t have to worry about blowing your budget.
Royal Caribbean is running a promotion right now the offers 20 percent off the cost of your beverage package. I can’t guarantee it is available on every sailing, but reports are widespread that if you log into royalcaribbean.com and enter your “Cruise Planner” to shop for the packages, you’ll see the promotion. I did and found the offer.
I was able to pick up the Ultimate Package for $49 per day plus gratuity. The all-in price worked out to $57.82 per person, per day for our short 5-night getaway this fall. That’s actually a perfect deal for us as Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate Package includes bottled water and specialty coffees. We drink lots of coffee and water….and when we’re on vacationing…especially on a short “party” cruise like this, we’ll do our share of imbibing too.
If you are cruising Royal Caribbean soon, check and see if your cruise is eligible for a beverage package discount. It could be worth it depending on your situation.
Thanks for sharing! This is a no-brainer for us at this point. Here is MY vacation “math” on RCCL cruise ships, which may not apply to everyone reading your blog. We plan on getting the Replenish at $19/day/pax, because we wanted coffee, bottled water, fresh juice, etc.; Mrs. Mileage Jogger and Baby Mileage Jogger aren’t soda drinkers. Thank you for the post! I just checked my cruise planner, and RCCL is selling Ultimate for $46/day/pax + 18% for Oasis 7-NT in January 2017. The incremental cost between the Replenish (sunk cost in my mind) and Ultimate is $35.28 ($46 x… Read more »