rjmig88 Posted January 8, 2016 #1 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) I'm a first time cruiser and just finished registering for my first Atlantis Cruise for Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas cruise this January. I was a bit disappointed by there being no alcoholic drink package but doing some online research I understand why - Royal makes more money in a single night on an Atlantis cruise than they do any other week of normal cruising. If I order the Royal Replenish Package, which includes virgin cocktails, will they give me a discount on an alcoholic cocktail? Say an alcoholic margarita is $8 and a virgin one is $4, would they give someone a discount of $4 if they purchased the full alcoholic version? Thanks! Edited January 8, 2016 by rjmig88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GXmanDC Posted January 8, 2016 #2 Share Posted January 8, 2016 If they sold the alcoholic package on the Atlantis cruise, Royal Caribbean would go bankrupt. One year they ran out of Grey Goose and had to get more in one of the ports. I do not think you'll get a discount on alcoholic drinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjmig88 Posted January 8, 2016 Author #3 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) Wow that is crazy that they ran out of Grey Goose. :) I asked this question in the Royal Caribbean forum and they don't discount drinks on that package. The best you could probably do is get the free virgin one then pay for a shot to go with. Edited January 8, 2016 by rjmig88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COMBOY Posted January 8, 2016 #4 Share Posted January 8, 2016 FYI--drink packages usually aren't available on any charters sailings; not just Atlantis or RSVP. I was told that drink sales are 2X to 3X more than a regular sailing. They still do offer non-alcohol drink packages on Atlantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redlondon Posted July 5, 2016 #5 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I was thinking about an Atlantis cruise but I'd never cruise without an alcoholic drink package- my bar bill would cost double the cruise fare! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayAreaBC Posted July 9, 2016 #6 Share Posted July 9, 2016 I doubt I'm the only one who found the term "alcoholic drink package" amusing. Gay charters are always more expensive than standard straight cruises. You can get the straight discount if you book a gay group cruise such as Pied Piper, Brand g or All Out Vacations though. I have found the gay group cruises to be more sedate than RSVP or Atlantis but easier to make new friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 11, 2016 #7 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Unlike most gay people, I am not a heavy drinker. I dont smoke, and I am a republican. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sej67 Posted July 12, 2016 #8 Share Posted July 12, 2016 You almost had me until the 'Republican' part. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redlondon Posted July 13, 2016 #9 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I doubt I'm the only one who found the term "alcoholic drink package" amusing. Gay charters are always more expensive than standard straight cruises. You can get the straight discount if you book a gay group cruise such as Pied Piper, Brand g or All Out Vacations though. I have found the gay group cruises to be more sedate than RSVP or Atlantis but easier to make new friends. People who don't drink alcohol buy non alcoholic drink package, what would the American non amusing term be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boytjie Posted July 13, 2016 #10 Share Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) Unlike most gay people, I am not a heavy drinker. I dont smoke, and I am a republican. Go figure. Not sure what political affiliation has to do with it. :confused: Not a heavy drinker, not a smoker and I am Democrat. Edited July 13, 2016 by Boytjie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankc98376 Posted July 20, 2016 #11 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I remember the story about an RSVP cruise that drank a Holland America ship out of vodka the first night :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick401ca Posted July 20, 2016 #12 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I have been on 6 or 7 Atlantis cruises and none of them offered an alcohol package except the Atlantis Tahiti cruise on Oceania this April. There were some people who got the package and did nothing for much of the cruise but order drinks to get their monies worth. It was pretty stupid in my opinion to try and max out the drinks you could get because the whole point of the cruise was, in my mind anyway, to see the scenery and ports in French Polynesia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COMBOY Posted July 20, 2016 #13 Share Posted July 20, 2016 I remember the story about an RSVP cruise that drank a Holland America ship out of vodka the first night :) No,it wasn't HAL the first RSVP charters was in 1986 on Bermuda Star Lines out of New Orleans. All of the other mainstream cruise line wouldn't touch a gay charter, but smaller lines like defunct Bermuda Star would. Yes, they did run out of Vodka half way thru the cruise and had to reload at the first port of call. The other issue since it was an older ship was that as people were getting ready for dinner certain section of the ship would blow a fuse from all the hair dryers being run. LOL From Travel Weekly 7/18/2006: In the beginning This now-booming travel niche had a humble start just two decades ago with a single, albeit sold-out, sailing in 1986. That first 770-passenger, all-gay cruise charter, the brainchild of RSVP Vacations founder Kevin Mossier, set sail on Bermuda Star Lines Bermuda Star from New Orleans to the western Caribbean. (The first-ever all-gay cruise technically occurred in December 1974, when New York operator The Islanders Club chartered Paquet Cruises Renaissance for a weeklong Caribbean sailing; however, no further charters followed.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankc98376 Posted July 28, 2016 #14 Share Posted July 28, 2016 I doubt I'm the only one who found the term "alcoholic drink package" amusing. Gay charters are always more expensive than standard straight cruises. You can get the straight discount if you book a gay group cruise such as Pied Piper, Brand g or All Out Vacations though. I have found the gay group cruises to be more sedate than RSVP or Atlantis but easier to make new friends. I wondered if it was a package you could only buy one day at a time :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sej67 Posted July 30, 2016 #15 Share Posted July 30, 2016 So the official reason why no drink package is offered is that a). the Atlantis cruises are 95+% male, who drink more than women, and b). gay men maybe drink more than str8 men, and c). the average age is more like 40 than, say, 60 on str8 cruises. So how to explain that the Atlantis resorts in Cancun and PV have been offering drinks included ("free") for many years? The resorts meet all 3 of those criteria above. Does Atlantis charge more for a week in Cancun and PV than what is offered other weeks of the year at those resorts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boytjie Posted July 30, 2016 #16 Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) So the official reason why no drink package is offered is that a). the Atlantis cruises are 95+% male, who drink more than women, and b). gay men maybe drink more than str8 men, and c). the average age is more like 40 than, say, 60 on str8 cruises. So how to explain that the Atlantis resorts in Cancun and PV have been offering drinks included ("free") for many years? The resorts meet all 3 of those criteria above. Does Atlantis charge more for a week in Cancun and PV than what is offered other weeks of the year at those resorts? It has nothing to do with being gay, male or age. :confused: That Atlantis resorts that had drinks included had it included for all the guests. The cruise lines will allow charters to have these drinks packages is everyone on the ship has it. That would up the price and would not be fair to those that do not drink alcohol. It is not just gay charters that don't have the drinks packages, other charters do too. How many people on a regular cruise know other people on the ship? How many people on a gay charter know other people on the ship? After 11 RSVP cruises I know quite a few! So if I have the package I could easily "buy" my friends - that don't have it - some drinks. Edited July 30, 2016 by Boytjie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sej67 Posted July 31, 2016 #17 Share Posted July 31, 2016 The ordering for a friend thing I'm sure is a big factor, but there's no denying that men on average drink more than women, and most charters are roughly 50/50, not 95/5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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