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murrayghj

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2 quick questions:

 

1)where can you buy and what is considered premium coffee?

 

2)Am I understanding the all in a cabin restriction is now over or only over if you do the ultimate

 

 

I'd like to know where the premium coffee is available too...

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Cotswold Eagle

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Bubbles :)

 

Still water, is just regular bottled water. The other would be sparkling water.

 

I think the list should read like this

 

Bottled Water:

--> Sparkling Water (375 ml)

--> Still Water (500 ml)

 

Yes, you are correct. People appear to have been cutting and pasting from the UNOFFICIAL Royal Caribbean Blog, which appears to have typed out what is on the following document from the official UK site:

 

http://www.royalcaribbean.co.uk/_images/Royal%20Alcohol%20Beverage%20FAQ%20All%20Ships%20Web%20Nov%2013_tcm16-27947.pdf

 

Looking at the source document clears up the Great 2013 Bottled Water Mystery and provides a list of FAQs :)

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cruisenfever

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This is what was listed on the RC official blog yesterday:

 

 

 

The Royal Replenish Package

 

$20 per guest each day, includes:

  • Premium coffee
  • Premium tea
  • Bottled water
  • Sparkling water (375ml)
  • Still water (500ml)
  • Fresh squeezed orange juice
  • Non-alcoholic cocktails
  • Fountain soda with souvenir Coca-Cola cup

The Select Package

 

$40 per guest each day, includes:

  • Beer
  • Wine by the glass (up to $8 value)
  • Non-alcoholic cocktails
  • Fountain soda with souvenir Coca-Cola cup
  • 20% discount on purchases of bottles of wine

The Premium Package

 

$55 per guest each day, includes:

  • Call and premium cocktails (up to $10 value)
  • Frozen cocktails
  • Beers
  • Premium wine by the glass (up to $12 value)
  • Non-alcoholic cocktails
  • Still bottled water (500ml)
  • Fountain soda with souvenir Coca-Cola cup
  • 20% discount on purchases of bottles of wine

The Ultimate Package

 

$65 per guest each day, includes:

  • Premium coffee
  • Premium tea
  • Bottled water
  • Sparkling water (375ml)
  • Still water (500ml)
  • Fresh squeezed orange juice
  • Call and premium cocktails (up to $10 value)
  • Frozen cocktails
  • Beers
  • Premium wine by the glass (up to $12 value)
  • Non-alcoholic cocktails
  • Fountain soda with souvenir Coca-Cola cup
  • 20% discount on purchases of bottles of wine

The other major change to the unlimited alcohol packages is now any eligible guest in a stateroom may purchase a package. This is a change from the previous policy where all eligible guests in a stateroom had to purchase a package.

The new unnlimited beverage packages will be available for guests purchase starting today, November 15th on all ships, and pre-purchase online the first week of December at http://www.royalcaribbean.com/beforeyouboard/cruiseEnhancements.do or by calling our pre-cruise planning specialists at 1-800-398-9819. Once available online, you can purchase them approximately 2 months before sail date.

All package prices include the 15% gratuity. Also the the basic soda package and water package stay intact.

Guests who have already bought a ‘Classic’ package prior to the changes in November/December 2013, will receive the new Select package once on board and a refund to their onboard account for the $5 per day difference in pricing.

Guests who have already bought a ‘Premium’ package prior to the changes in November/December 2013, will receive the new Premium package once on board. If they wish to upgrade to the new Ultimate package, this can be done at a cost added to their onboard account of the $10 per day difference in pricing.

Could you provide a link where this is listed? Thanks

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DiamondSuiteCruiser

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Bubbles :)

 

Still water, is just regular bottled water. The other would be sparkling water.

 

I think the list should read like this

 

Bottled Water:

--> Sparkling Water (375 ml)

--> Still Water (500 ml)

 

I could be wrong but I thought STILL WATER was filtered bottled water, and does not include SPRING.:confused:

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This info was very helpful, but one final question I did not see the answer to is whether there is a need for the water package that gives me a pack of bottled water in my cabin when I arrive? I feel I shouldn't have to pay both if bottled water is included in the package I buy, but would I then have to go get it each day to bring to the cabin? (DH takes pills every 3 hours and hates the tap water? Both of us drink a lot of water.) no big deal really but since he is handicapped I like it to be as convenient as possible too.

 

 

Robin

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This info was very helpful, but one final question I did not see the answer to is whether there is a need for the water package that gives me a pack of bottled water in my cabin when I arrive? I feel I shouldn't have to pay both if bottled water is included in the package I buy, but would I then have to go get it each day to bring to the cabin? (DH takes pills every 3 hours and hates the tap water? Both of us drink a lot of water.) no big deal really but since he is handicapped I like it to be as convenient as possible too.

 

 

Robin

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I am somewhat of a water-aholic and spend a lot more than most people buying water on cruises (typically, I buy a few cases through the pre-package and then more as the week goes on). That being said, I was ready to do that again in a couple of weeks ---- Then I saw the new "enhanced" beverage packages. I was planning to get the premium package anyway, but was concerned that I would have to spend another hundred or two on water. Now it's included and it makes the package EXTREMELY worth it for me.

 

My plan - Empty the fridge in my room and make a few immediate trips to bars for water. I will think of it like an adventure. My goal is to visit every bar the first day before dinner to get a bottle of water from each one. It will give me a chance to familiarize myself with the ship (I'm already familiar with the ship, but it will still get me re-acclimated with it). I would venture to say that I will get about 10 bottles of water in the first couple of hours of getting on the ship (I like walking around a lot). After that, I plan on ordering a drink and telling them each time that I will want a bottle of water before my next drink (From past experiences on cruises, they unusually will get me the bottled water pretty quickly so I'm back to a regular drink - AND I'm a pretty good tipper (I NEVER have problems getting drinks)). I'm guessing that I will have the reputation of being the guy always asking for water by the end of my 10 days - hahahaha

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I am somewhat of a water-aholic and spend a lot more than most people buying water on cruises (typically, I buy a few cases through the pre-package and then more as the week goes on). That being said, I was ready to do that again in a couple of weeks ---- Then I saw the new "enhanced" beverage packages. I was planning to get the premium package anyway, but was concerned that I would have to spend another hundred or two on water. Now it's included and it makes the package EXTREMELY worth it for me.

 

My plan - Empty the fridge in my room and make a few immediate trips to bars for water. I will think of it like an adventure. My goal is to visit every bar the first day before dinner to get a bottle of water from each one. It will give me a chance to familiarize myself with the ship (I'm already familiar with the ship, but it will still get me re-acclimated with it). I would venture to say that I will get about 10 bottles of water in the first couple of hours of getting on the ship (I like walking around a lot). After that, I plan on ordering a drink and telling them each time that I will want a bottle of water before my next drink (From past experiences on cruises, they unusually will get me the bottled water pretty quickly so I'm back to a regular drink - AND I'm a pretty good tipper (I NEVER have problems getting drinks)). I'm guessing that I will have the reputation of being the guy always asking for water by the end of my 10 days - hahahaha

 

Sounds like an excellent plan. I can see people doing the same with beer, asking that the bottle not be opened when they order (or getting the Grolsch swag tops)!

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We got the premium package on the Allure last year and were happy except for the wine selections and water. With so many other choices, we didn't miss the wine much but I did miss water especially on port days so the Premium package seems to be one that we will choose on our Feb cruise. I have two questions that I don't see addressed here -- maybe I've missed it.

 

1. Besides the $10 restriction for the alcohol, are there any other brand name restrictions such as Patron tequila not being included as there was before?

2. Has there been a change in pricing onboard for alcohol prices in general -- I'd like to see bar menus from Nov-Dec to get more info.

 

Is there anyone getting the drink package in the near future that can bring information back?

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We will be purchasing the Premium drink package for our Mariner of the Seas cruise out of Singapore in January. We will have a few days where we will stay on the ship. So I was wondering whether that if we both are on a package we could order the souvenir beach cooler with 5 beers at one time. I understand that you can normally only order one drink per sea pass at any one time. I'm just thinking ahead for those hot humid days, sunning on the deck through the Straits of Malacca. Pure indulgence. I know it's lazy and we could just as easy get up and order another drink ourselves, but hey we're on holidays!

 

My husband and I were unable to get a bucket of beer on the Allure. We inquired thinking that it would make it easier on the servers. We were willing to even pay full price. The one drink at a time per person is a strict rule. Since you are sailing out of Singapore, rules may be different -- never hurts to ask.

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We got the premium package on the Allure last year and were happy except for the wine selections and water. With so many other choices, we didn't miss the wine much but I did miss water especially on port days so the Premium package seems to be one that we will choose on our Feb cruise. I have two questions that I don't see addressed here -- maybe I've missed it.

 

1. Besides the $10 restriction for the alcohol, are there any other brand name restrictions such as Patron tequila not being included as there was before?

2. Has there been a change in pricing onboard for alcohol prices in general -- I'd like to see bar menus from Nov-Dec to get more info.

 

Is there anyone getting the drink package in the near future that can bring information back?

1). I saw no brand name restrictions, just drink price limits.

 

2). My experience is that there's been about a 15% increase in drink prices sometime in the last few months.

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AtlantaCruiser72

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Just saw a drink menu posted from a current live review of the Allure, check it out here:

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1944015

 

Drink menu starts about post #271

 

If I scanned correctly there were only two mixed drinks and one wine by the glass above the $/drink limit and only Fosters oil cans excluded in terms of beers. I can live with that! I'd really like to see menus from the "R" bar on Vision/Radiance class ships and wine menus from Vintages (I'm fairly certain wines from the enomatic dispensers won't be included, like on Celebrity). I'd also be curious to see a current MDR wine list.

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Ourusualbeach

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Just saw posted on another thread that the new package did not start today as planned on the Allure but will be delayed by one week. I wonder if this is just the Allure but other ships as well.

 

Posts #4 and 6

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1945143

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mollyeilis

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This info was very helpful, but one final question I did not see the answer to is whether there is a need for the water package that gives me a pack of bottled water in my cabin when I arrive? I feel I shouldn't have to pay both if bottled water is included in the package I buy, but would I then have to go get it each day to bring to the cabin? (DH takes pills every 3 hours and hates the tap water? Both of us drink a lot of water.) no big deal really but since he is handicapped I like it to be as convenient as possible too.

 

Thanks for asking that. It allowed me to think about our situation and what would be the best. We, too, drink a lot of water, and found on our Disney cruise that once we bought an Evian package our bellies and swollen hands and feet felt MUCH better (than when we were drinking the tap water). Evian packages on Disney are MUCH less than the RCCL packages (painfully so!) so we were at a loss for our upcoming RCCL cruise.

 

Assuming the water in the drinks packages is decent, your post allowed me to think that DH and I would get drinks packages, and we would just order a ridiculously expensive bottled water package for DS, because that is all he would drink from the lowest package, but not enough to make $20/day worth it for him. And he's less sensitive so if he got super-thirsty the tap water works for him more than it works for DH and me.

 

Just hoping the drinks packages include Evian and not something that's just filtered tap water like Dasani.

 

 

I am somewhat of a water-aholic and spend a lot more than most people buying water on cruises (typically, I buy a few cases through the pre-package and then more as the week goes on).....

 

My goal is to visit every bar the first day before dinner to get a bottle of water from each one....

 

I like the plan. :)

 

Are the water packages onboard the same price range as the pre-purchase ones? How much are individual bottles of water on board?

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kutty77

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Just got off the phone with RCCL and was told that the Non-alcoholic coktails on the packages does not include the from Non-alcoholic drinks. They said that if you want a shirley temple or a non-alcololic bloody mary you can have that or you can get any other drink but they wont add the alcohol.

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Just got off the phone with RCCL and was told that the Non-alcoholic coktails on the packages does not include the from Non-alcoholic drinks. They said that if you want a shirley temple or a non-alcololic bloody mary you can have that or you can get any other drink but they wont add the alcohol.

 

I'm a little confused by this... are you saying that any alcoholic drink can be ordered without alcohol and be covered under the replenish ($20) package? Did you happen to ask about the frozen non-alcoholic drinks?

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