Coffee Confusion

[retird]

I found this article from November 2020

Specialty Coffee Drinks on Celebrity Cruises

What's a Specialty Coffee?

By

 Evan

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 14 November 2020

"Celebrity Solstice. Coffee. Cafe al Bacio." (CC BY-ND 2.0) by Tom Mascardo [Flickr]

You might have asked “what’s a specialty coffee” when trying to decide between a premium and classic beverage package with Celebrity Cruises.

The distinction matters since specialty coffees are only included in the premium alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage packages. They are not included in their classic beverage package counterparts. Instead, guests on classic packages must pay for specialty coffee à la carte.

All types of coffees are available at Café al Bacio, the onboard coffee shop on Celebrity ships.

 

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Non-Specialty Coffee

The good news is that most of Celebrity Cruises’s non-alcoholic coffees are included in classic alcohol and non-alcohol beverage packages for no additional charge.

Non-specialty coffees includes:

• Caffé Americano
• Caffé Latte
• Caffé Mocha
• Capuccino
• Caramel Macchiato
• Espresso
• Espresso Doppio
• Espresso Macchiato
• White Chocolate Mocha

Those without a beverage package (or a soda or water beverage package) can expect to pay around $4 to $6 per non-specialty coffee.

Specialty Coffee

Celebrity Cruises considers all coffees with alcohol, as well as a few non-alcoholic coffees, to be specialty coffees.

Non-alcoholic specialty coffees include:

• Affogato
• Caffé Shakerato (chilled)
• Espresso al Frutti di Bosco
• Espresso Croccante
• Espresso Caraibico
• Espresso Melba
• Ice Bianco Espresso
• IGLU (Caffe Frappè)

Expect to pay around $6 to $8 for these non-alcoholic coffees outside of a premium beverage package.

Alcoholic specialty coffees include:

• Amore (with Amaretto)
• Aspen Coffee (with Baileys, Kahlúa, and Frangelico)
• Café Diablo (with Courvoisier VS, Grand Marnier, and Sambuca)
• Café Kingston (with Tia Maria and Myer’s Dark Rum)
• Café Olé (with Courvoisier, Grand Marnier)
• French Kiss (Courvoisier and Grand Marnier)
• Venetian (with Frangelico and brandy)

While the premium alcoholic beverage package includes both the non-alcoholic and alcoholic specialty coffees, the premium non-alcoholic beverage package only includes the non-alcoholic specialty coffees.

Expect to pay around $10 for alcoholic coffees without a premium alcoholic beverage package.

Do You Need a Premium Beverage Package for Coffee?

If your coffee intake is largely limited to espresso-based drinks like cappuccinos without too many fancy add-ins, a classic beverage package should be more than sufficient if you don’t want to pay-as-you-go.

If you like fancy coffee concoctions, but don’t care for added alcohol, the premium non-alcoholic beverage package might make sense…especially if you also plan to partake in the smoothies and premium bottled water included with the package.

And if you enjoy alcohol, and consuming it with alcohol, the premium alcoholic beverage package is worth further investigation.

 

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[dawnvip]

4 hours ago, the penguins said:

Sorry you both have to have the same package. The coffee, teas and chocolate are the same on both packages.

For some reason there seems to be an effort to overthink this.

All coffees, teas and chocolate hot or iced without alcohol are included in either non alcoholic packages. If you did order something over the package for example a bottle of premium water you would only pay the difference in price plus 20% gratuity on the difference. 💲1extra would cost you 💲1.20. 

Not true on several points:

- both people do not have to be on same package, or on any package if they want to pay per drink

- drinks on the pemium non-alcoholic package incur FULL cost rather than the difference in price if you don't have the premium package. This was the case for myself when ordering a juice at the spa bar last month on Eclipse.

 

 

[cruisestitch]

Interesting list Retird posted.  
 

how to reconcile it to what is posted on Celebrities ty’s own website, hmmmmmm

[JerrySueW]

Thanks, retird! If this is still accurate the classic package would be my pick. I haven't heard of any of those specialty coffees. I have only cruised with Princess thus far and their specialty coffees are the espresso based drinks. Thus, my coffee confusion. 🙃

[WestLakeGirl]

If you are new to Celebrity, know that Café al Bacio does not have any simple brewed coffee. All the coffees that they serve there are espresso Based.  The closest thing they have would be the Americano, which is espresso to which they add a quantity of hot water. Simple brewed coffee is available at no charge at the buffet