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CARNIVAL ENHANCES CHEERS! PROGRAM – STATEMENT

Carnival Cruise Line has enhanced its CHEERS! all-inclusive beverage program to include a greater variety of non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a wider selection of high quality brand-name spirits and wines by the glass. The enhanced program will be available for purchase March 1, 2016.

CHEERS! is an all-inclusive beverage program that allows guests to enjoy a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages by paying a flat daily rate. Guests must be 21 or older to purchase CHEERS! and everyone in the same cabin must purchase the program.

The following beverages are now available within the enhanced CHEERS! program:

• All spirits, including cocktails, cognacs, whiskies, and other spirits, as well as beer and glasses of wine, costing less than $50 per serving (previously only drinks costing less than $10 per serving were included in the program).

• Sodas, including specialty sodas offered at the Havana Bar on Carnival Sunshine and new Carnival Vista debuting in May

• Zero-proof frozen cocktails

• RockStar energy drinks

• Specialty coffees and teas served in the main dining rooms, specialty restaurants and coffee bars

• 500ml bottles of water served in bars and lounges

• Vitamin Water

• Powerade

• Coconut Water

• Honest Tea

• Large format (1 liter and 1.5-liter) bottles of water in the main dining rooms and specialty restaurants

• 25 percent discount off the menu price for any spirit, cocktail or wine by the glass costing more than $50 per serving

• 25 percent discount off the menu price for wine and champagne by the bottle and larger format water bottles purchased outside the main dining rooms or specialty restaurants

• 25 percent discount off the menu price for all beverage classes and seminars

The cost for guests who purchase the CHEERS! program via Carnival’s web site prior to their cruise is $49.95 per person per day plus gratuities; the cost for the program purchased once on board is $54.95 per person per day plus gratuities.

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CnCsMom

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My only disappointment with this change is that we cruise March 13th and I had been buying gift cards to cover tips, Cheers and other on board spending either through AARP or from the grocery store to get the gas points. Now I'll have to buy it ahead of time or it's going to cost an additional $46 since they don't accept gift cards for purchase ahead of time.

 

Also, if you wanted to use your OBC for the program it's going to cost you more.

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Wow, that stinks! I just booked 2 cabins on Saturday and if I knew about this I would have booked the guys together in 1 cabin so they could get this! They would prefer the nicer wines...

 

I wonder if Carnival would let me switch people around due to this change. We are booked Early Saver...

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I'm curious about the 15 drinks per day max. This is not mentioned in John Heald's statement. And, I'd imagine, none of the other beverages count towards the 15 alcoholic beverages per day.

 

He just added that yes, it is still 15 per day :)

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Do you say anything that isn't belittling? I don't know how you got to 10,000 posts trolling people. You were downright rude to that Chali lady.

 

It's ok, I didn't take it as belittling. He was right, I can't imagine they would increase it. No worries!

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My only disappointment with this change is that we cruise March 13th and I had been buying gift cards to cover tips, Cheers and other on board spending either through AARP or from the grocery store to get the gas points. Now I'll have to buy it ahead of time or it's going to cost an additional $46 since they don't accept gift cards for purchase ahead of time.

 

Also, if you wanted to use your OBC for the program it's going to cost you more.

 

You are positive you can't use a GC to purchase on the website ahead of time?

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More options = more better. Carnival will make more money because this likely will cause more people to buy Cheers, but also since it is being spread among lower cost soft drinks, could decrease expenses for Carnival. They'll likely sell more soda and Rockstar compared to the higher end specialty liquors.

 

Good move. Everyone wins.

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Thanks for posting

 

The new program is an improvement over the old, but there's still need for changes such as requiring everyone over 21 to purchase it and they still need a tiered option for less drinks. I did it once and found it not to be worth it. Too much pressure to drink more to break even. I prefer local beers and drinks in port so that further dilutes the value of Cheers.

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You are positive you can't use a GC to purchase on the website ahead of time?

 

I just tried it, has to be a credit card. Trying to call Carnival right now to see if you can apply gift card through the phone. Unusual high call volume. Waiting on call back!

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I know I'm in good company when I say I'd love it if Carnival would offer a middle package for those of us that aren't big drinkers! The enhanced Cheers program still won't make sense for us. On our cruise last week, we only spent about $175 total for drinks. The bottomless bubbles package and about 7 virgin frozen drinks for DH, as he is a transplant receipient and cannot drink any alcohol, and for me, only 5 alcoholic drinks total, and a handful of frozen virgin drinks. Maybe a package that includes everything non-alcoholic, and a package for us lightweight drinkers? :o

 

Btw, I haven't seen this mentioned on cc, nor on any of the online images of the drink menus, but the drink prices have gone up! For the virgin drinks, the new price is $5.25 plus gratuity, and for the alcoholic frozen drinks, the price has increased to $8.25 plus gratuity. I didn't notice the price of any other drinks, since we only bought the previously mentioned. Has anyone else seen this? Maybe they were testing it out last week?

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• All spirits, including cocktails, cognacs, whiskies, and other spirits, as well as beer and glasses of wine, costing less than $50 per serving (previously only drinks costing less than $10 per serving were included in the program).

 

Just out of curiosity, what drinks are $30-$50 per serving?! More-so on the 40-50 side...

 

Also we pre-purchased Cheers for our Conquest Cruise on March 27th. Do we automatically change to this? Couldn't find that answer anywhere.

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