When does a new day start for the beverage package?

[FOPMan]

Does a day start (end?) at midnight (ship’s time), or is it later? (Yes, I know that people don’t party on HAL to 2am).

[Sharon in AZ]

Good question.  I always thought it was midnight.

[kazu]

I was told it was midnight pre-covid.  I think that is sill the case but my cruises keep getting cancelled so I can’t vouch  for AC (after covid).

[Petronillus]

It's an interesting question, theoretically. Practically, though, I gotta wonder how many folks drink their daily limit under the beverage package?

[boze9999]

It is midnight.

 

[highscar]

Speaking of.  Because the soda card is gone I purchased a beverage card. Curious to know if there is a discount involved. The soda card was 50p/c off soda.  

[RuthC]

1 hour ago, highscar said:

Speaking of.  Because the soda card is gone I purchased a beverage card. Curious to know if there is a discount involved. The soda card was 50p/c off soda.  

No discount on a beverage card. The value is in the simplicity of the card vs. having a separate charge on your bill for every purchase. 

[CruiserBruce]

Is this REALLY an issue?

[FOPMan]

My wife likes fancy coffee and smoothies-  3 drinks gone by 9am, 5 more drinks (water, soda) by 4pm; 2 @ Happy Hour; glass of wine and expresso at dinner, and evening drinking (alcohol/soda) at Music Walk. The non-alcoholic drinks sneak up on you 🙂

[Petronillus]

1 hour ago, FOPMan said:

My wife likes fancy coffee and smoothies-  3 drinks gone by 9am, 5 more drinks (water, soda) by 4pm; 2 @ Happy Hour; glass of wine and expresso at dinner, and evening drinking (alcohol/soda) at Music Walk. The non-alcoholic drinks sneak up on you 🙂

Thanks! I hadn't thought of that.

 

=Bob=

 

P.S. This is the kind of stuff for which the boards of Cruise Critic are eminently enlightening and helpful. I check at rare intervals during the COVID-19 lockdown, and imho there wasn't much useful traffic. It gladdens my heat to see an uptick.

[strickerj]

Yeah, this is definitely more of an issue now that non-alcoholic beverages count toward your limit. :(

[POA1]

I was told that it was when the system was closed out for the night. This is vintage 2018 information, but we stayed up late enough to verify that it wasn't midnight on the dot. It was a little after the last bar closed and the ship ran its daily reports. On HAL, that's never super late though.

[jimgev]

I have never come close to seeing midnight on a cruise so I have no idea.

[nyold]

Is there a way to check your quota, say around 10pm? I also might get close to 15, not due to alcoholic drinks but due to soda and water in the afternoon

[KroozNut]

7 hours ago, nyold said:

I also might get close to 15, not due to alcoholic drinks but due to soda and water in the afternoon

 

Yeah... uh huh.. 😆🙄

[LadyBerard]

We sailed on the Rotterdam on 3/20.  We found alcoholic beverages extremely weak; therefore, we were ordering doubles.  Although I never went over my allotted 15 drinks per day, my husband did by a couple on a few days.  No biggie though.  Drink prices were quite reasonable compared to other lines.  Lowest final bill we have ever gotten on a cruise.  🙂

[MellyMel612]

Haven't sailed on HAL yet but on other lines we have had no problem drinking water from the tap as it's all filtered. I am assuming it's the same on HAL ships?

[CruiserBruce]

40 minutes ago, MellyMel612 said:

Haven't sailed on HAL yet but on other lines we have had no problem drinking water from the tap as it's all filtered. I am assuming it's the same on HAL ships?

Yes, the tap water is just fine.

[albingirl]

We met another couple recently on the ship who hit their limit midafternoon several days.  It was surprising that they didn't fall off the bar stool.

[KroozNut]

2 hours ago, CruiserBruce said:

Yes, the tap water is just fine.

 

In fact some would say (including us), that it's better than the bottle water sold.

[KroozNut]

58 minutes ago, albingirl said:

We met another couple recently on the ship who hit their limit midafternoon several days.  It was surprising that they didn't fall off the bar stool.

 

Maybe they were drinking water all day... those count you know. 😁

[nyold]

I actually kept a tally of the drinks when I sailed with a different line 3 years ago, just you know... out of curiosity if I got my money's worth. Turns out that on sea days, I can easily hit 15 mid afternoon, from mocktails and sodas and sweet drinks and what not.

[nyold]

1 minute ago, KroozNut said:

 

Maybe they were drinking water all day... those count you know. 😁

It's absolutely the water.... 😆 🤫

[MellyMel612]

24 minutes ago, KroozNut said:

 

In fact some would say (including us), that it's better than the bottle water sold.

I have always thought the same on any ship. I don't ever come near the daily limit alcohol-wise, but I sure wouldn't want to be keeping track every time I had water.