hey everybody it's Bruce here with traveling of Bruce my video today is all
about cruise ship drink packages should you or shouldn't you is the question
you've already spent all this time and effort to figure out what ship you're
gonna go on where are you gonna go on the ship now you got to figure out
should you get a beverage package or not the cruise lines push these like you
cannot believe they even push them to the point where they give them away for
free or so you think it's not necessarily free let me get
into this first of all the cruise lines we've got Carnival Norwegian and Royal
Caribbean in this case all three offer various drink packages but to give you
an idea Carnival including gratuity would run you fifty nine seventy for a
day or let's say sixty bucks Norwegian runs you a hundred and twenty
dollars a day approximately and Royal Caribbean anywhere from seventy five to
eighty three dollars a day now these aren't the ultimate ultimate packages
but they're also not the basics either this will pretty well cover alcoholic
beverages some sodas copies and teas water generally speaking but again
there's a million combinations here the thing is when you're on a cruise ship
folks especially in the Caribbean like these folks it's hot it's hot it's sunny
it's humid and it's fantastic it's what you're there for to get away from the
stress of work and and everything else you want to relax you're on a holiday
you should be treating yourself but the question is how should you buy these
drink packages in some cases you have a limit of up to fifteen drinks in a day
under these package deals so you have to keep that in number one can you even
drink that much do you want to drink that much isn't worth your your health
the thing with a drink package is you have to buy the drink package for every
day of the cruise you can't just have it for one or two or
three days on a seven you're on a one-week cruise it's a seven-day deal
that includes the day you get on the ship
and the day you get off so you gotta ask yourself is this really worth my while
number two whether you're on shore or on the ship it only counts if you're on the
ship but if you're on shore like Nassau here downtown NASA you can't use your
drink package in any of the local restaurants so now you are not taking
advantage of your package on board the cruise ship now some of these cruise
lines have private islands and they allow you to enjoy your beverage package
on the island which i think is a great idea
that way at least when you're getting off the ship like these folks here
you're going to a to a island say Koko key that the real Caribbean has you can
use the drink package on short the catch here is this there are caches when you
buy a drink package you have to buy for two people you can't buy it for yourself
the second person is not as thirsty as you are you might be spending way too
much money number two even if you get the drink package given to you for free
for say let's say you know Legion gives you their $100 a day drink package for
no charge that means each person in the cabin
let's say two adults they must still pay the gratuity charge additionally and
that's 20 percent or twenty dollars of a per person on top so you may have paid
more for your cruise because they threw in the drink package and now you're
paying 40 bucks today in tips times seven days $280 for the privilege of
using the drink package you got to ask yourself is this worth my while the
drinks themselves are anywhere from say three dollars for a coffee maybe a
specialty coffee might be three fifty four dollars up to ten twelve dollars
for a cocktail you got to ask yourself maybe you're better off just paying a la
carte and on the one day you really want to tie one on you're spending a little
more than you would have done on the drink package but on the next day when
you're recovering you're spending way less you've really got to look at your
finances to decide it's a complicated issue it's tempting to take a drink
package but it might not be the bestia let's see you may be better off
going a la carte and when you go on shore you're buying drinks at two to
four dollars a piece instead of seven to twelve dollars on the ship and drink
more on shore than you do on the ship might be the motto here it all depends
on where you're going this is st. Martin here and you can really have a good time
in st. Maarten anyway there's a brief recap as best as I can tell you about
drink packages they run the gamut they can be very expensive you have to decide
for yourself what it is you want to be doing on the ship and is it worth your
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