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Said this in another thread but after I sat down to do the math, I determined that anything under $65/pp would ultimately be “worth it” to us. That’s both based on my expected consumption, but also the price that even if we didn’t “break even” I would at least enjoy the peace of mind of not having to necessarily budget out our days. I purchased at $60.99 a few weeks ago. At the current price for my cruise at $72.99 I wouldn’t.

When you get to the final screen it will include the 18% when you pay

I’ve never done it myself, but I’ve been next to a car doing testing and it was four people at the same time.

Mine is $1,900 more than when I booked lol

For #3, you can go on the app and find all the bars and it shows their current menus. Example:

Expert in the port, changes in sandbars, currents, etc.

Here’s video of the collision:

The video I saw was clearly that it took out one of the mooring points. There's two at the end of the dock, and they hit the furthest one out.

Mine were all validated in about two days—this was a couple weeks ago.

I say better safe than sorry because you absolutely won’t be denied boarding with a booster

I’ve looked literally every day since we booked our cruise last October and it’s never gone lower than $60.99 for me. I kept hearing these “$50 a day” cases but it never came to fruition for my sailing

You pay the difference.

I have season tickets to an NHL team and so I'm pretty unfazed by $12.50 beers anymore lol

Glad to hear about Stone and Terrapin. I'm a big craft beer drinker and the beer scene on board is usually pretty depressing. I can certainly make due with those two.

I agree that the best method is really to look at the drink package as more of a "What's my break-even" when deciding if to purchase. Of course, you're just projecting what you think you might drink onboard + have to consider how many days at sea vs ported, how many days at Labadee or CocoCay, etc. I do like the "ease" of the drink package to the point that as long as I think I'll be in the ballpark of my "break-even" point, I'll purchase because I'm on vacation and I don't want to necessarily keep track and think "Oh, well if I drink more than this, then I should have gotten the drink package"--but that's just because I'm a neurotic budgeter, and at the end of the day, I'd rather slightly overpay (because I feel like that's in my hands where I could potentially "make up the difference") than wish I'd gotten the drink package because I was drinking more than what the drink package would have cost me, because I see that drink package $ amount as my "I know I won't pay anymore than this" number.

Unless I’m mistaken, RCI only requires the initial series for whatever vaccine maker, boosters are encouraged but not required to sail. It is possible certain destinations may require boosters

Ah yes, I see that now—they probably just misspoke. $77.99 for a week would be INSANE lol

All deluxe beverage packages are priced per night.

My Allure sailing next month has a BOGO 1/2 off that comes out to $72/pp. I’m really glad I bought at $60.99

I was really torn on the package. Wife and I drink pretty solidly on vacation. I sat down and wrote out what we would reasonably drink plus the port days plus CoCo Cay and determined if the price ever went under $65 pp/per day then we would be getting our money's worth without needing to commit to getting absolutely hammered. So when it was at $60.99 I got it. There's also some peace of mind attached that I don't have to worry about calculating how much we've spent on the cruise based on what we felt was "worth it" for a drink package, so as long as we get in the "ballpark" of what we spent for the drink package, I'm fine with that.

Gin is between $9.99-11.99, not sure what the tonic would cost with that. According to the RC App, a Tom Collins is $13 above prices don’t include automatic 18% gratuity

Haha, already counting on them to sweep the Panthers huh? (A good bet) I’m a Columbus Blue Jackets fan and take a lot of pride that we were the last team to beat Tampa in the playoffs. Good luck in your quest!

We have a group of 9 going on Allure next month and I’m under no illusion we would be able to find chairs together. It was a problem on our first cruise on Liberty 10 years ago.