Drinks and more?

[akowilm]

We were lucky to book with 4 perks, including the premium beverage package.  We now have the option of upgrading to the Drinks and more package; it seems a no-brainer since we generally use some of our OBC in the casino anyway.  

We are able to upgrade for $126 for 2 of us.  Has anyone taken this upgrade recently, and if so, can you let me know some details? The package says it comes with two bottles of wine so I'm assuming if both of us book the package then it would be four bottles of wine, which would be great for our post cruise vacation blues. 

Also, it says we have full use of the mini bar and its restocked daily. Are the items in the mini bar the same as they've always been, to include Evian, Heineken, etc?  It will be nice to not have that emptied out at the beginning of the cruise for a change! 

Thanks in advance for any insight/advice!

[JaneStarr]

1 hour ago, akowilm said:

We were lucky to book with 4 perks, including the premium beverage package.  We now have the option of upgrading to the Drinks and more package; it seems a no-brainer since we generally use some of our OBC in the casino anyway.  

We are able to upgrade for $126 for 2 of us.  Has anyone taken this upgrade recently, and if so, can you let me know some details? The package says it comes with two bottles of wine so I'm assuming if both of us book the package then it would be four bottles of wine, which would be great for our post cruise vacation blues. 

Also, it says we have full use of the mini bar and its restocked daily. Are the items in the mini bar the same as they've always been, to include Evian, Heineken, etc?  It will be nice to not have that emptied out at the beginning of the cruise for a change! 

Thanks in advance for any insight/advice!

Check out this recent thread about the Drinks & More package:

Actually, this was the link that I intended to post:

 

Edited January 15, 2020 by JaneStarr

[flaca0604]

Just came off 5-night Equinox and we upgraded to Drinks n more since we also had the 4 perks and OBC.  We received 4 bottles of wine (2 white/2 red. — they were in our cabin when we arrived).  

Our cabin steward was aware that we had the drinks n more and let us know that anything in the mini bar was included.  It was stocked with regular & diet coke, sprite, Heineken,  mini Tito's vodka bottles, Evian, 2 375ml wine - 1 red/1 white, kind bars, and pringles.  We enjoyed the convenience of the mini bar as many times we forget to bring water to the room at night. We did have to ask the cabin steward to restock pringles nightly (nice munchie fix after a night of drinking). 

The wine tasting experience unfortunately was the same one that is included for Elites, so i was a little disappointed, was hoping it was one of their other wine experiences.

Super easy getting the $50 casino play, we just went to the casino cashier and they took care of it.

 

Enjoy!

 

Edited January 15, 2020 by flaca0604

[akowilm]

8 hours ago, flaca0604 said:

Just came off 5-night Equinox and we upgraded to Drinks n more since we also had the 4 perks and OBC.  We received 4 bottles of wine (2 white/2 red. — they were in our cabin when we arrived).  

Our cabin steward was aware that we had the drinks n more and let us know that anything in the mini bar was included.  It was stocked with regular & diet coke, sprite, Heineken,  mini Tito's vodka bottles, Evian, 2 375ml wine - 1 red/1 white, kind bars, and pringles.  We enjoyed the convenience of the mini bar as many times we forget to bring water to the room at night. We did have to ask the cabin steward to restock pringles nightly (nice munchie fix after a night of drinking). 

The wine tasting experience unfortunately was the same one that is included for Elites, so i was a little disappointed, was hoping it was one of their other wine experiences.

Super easy getting the $50 casino play, we just went to the casino cashier and they took care of it.

 

Enjoy!

 

This is exactly what I had hoped for!!  Thank you!!!!

[tyr00000ne]

Just had drinks & more on the Infinity. We upgraded from the classic perk with some on-board credit about 2 weeks before the cruise.

We received only 2 bottles of wine in the cabin, but we didn't care to ask for more because it was the cheap Morpho Helena wine. We packed it away in our checked bag and focused on drinking premium things.

The wine tasting experience wasn't bad, there were 12 different wines to taste from 6 different countries (a red and white from each). They had an assortment of cheeses and other snacks to cleanse your palate. The normal price of this experience was $30 or so. I did find out I like South African wines so I guess that made it worth it. It only lasted an hour on a sea day. It was nice chatting with the sommeliers and other wine-loving guests. 

Our mini bar had the same things as mentioned above, but instead of Tito's vodka they had Skyy Vodka. The small 375 mL red wine was Kendall Jackson Vintner's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. That was pretty good. We took one of those bottles home!

Having access to the large Evian waters late at night/early morning was a great perk.

Casino play was as described above. Despite only getting 2 bottles of wine per 2 people, we EACH got the $50 casino credit. I was prepared to fight for this if it wasn't the case. This credit also made the upgrade to Drinks & More a no-brainer for us, as we wanted premium drinks and had planned to use all of our excess on-board credit in the casino anyway. Playing Craps we were able to break even and turn the promo chips into ca$h.

No regrets here. Would do this again if we planned to get the Premium drink package. Enjoy!



 

[akowilm]

21 hours ago, JaneStarr said:

Check out this recent thread about the Drinks & More package:

Actually, this was the link that I intended to post:

 

Thank you, very helpful!

[akowilm]

7 hours ago, tyr00000ne said:

Just had drinks & more on the Infinity. We upgraded from the classic perk with some on-board credit about 2 weeks before the cruise.

We received only 2 bottles of wine in the cabin, but we didn't care to ask for more because it was the cheap Morpho Helena wine. We packed it away in our checked bag and focused on drinking premium things.

The wine tasting experience wasn't bad, there were 12 different wines to taste from 6 different countries (a red and white from each). They had an assortment of cheeses and other snacks to cleanse your palate. The normal price of this experience was $30 or so. I did find out I like South African wines so I guess that made it worth it. It only lasted an hour on a sea day. It was nice chatting with the sommeliers and other wine-loving guests. 

Our mini bar had the same things as mentioned above, but instead of Tito's vodka they had Skyy Vodka. The small 375 mL red wine was Kendall Jackson Vintner's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. That was pretty good. We took one of those bottles home!

Having access to the large Evian waters late at night/early morning was a great perk.

Casino play was as described above. Despite only getting 2 bottles of wine per 2 people, we EACH got the $50 casino credit. I was prepared to fight for this if it wasn't the case. This credit also made the upgrade to Drinks & More a no-brainer for us, as we wanted premium drinks and had planned to use all of our excess on-board credit in the casino anyway. Playing Craps we were able to break even and turn the promo chips into ca$h.

No regrets here. Would do this again if we planned to get the Premium drink package. Enjoy!



 

We feel the same way And we're glad to hear that it's panning out the way we had read it to. We aren't concerned about the bottles of wine, and we were planning on casino time anyway.  We just loved the idea of being able to grab a drink/snack when we felt like it, especially late night!