drink package daily limitations

New policy.......the unlimited alcoholic drink package now has a 15 drink limit per person per day. Given that is a LOT of drinks, but still there is now a limit.

This was discussed yesterday........

No problem for us. Have never even come close to 15 drinks with our AIBP.

New policy.......the unlimited alcoholic drink package now has a 15 drink limit per person per day. Given that is a LOT of drinks, but still there is now a limit.

Anyone who can drink 15 of anything, never mind if all 15 are ETOH, has a serious issue:eek:...diabetes, alcoholism, something.

Pretty sure they'd spend a lot of time visiting the "facilities".:o

Anyone who can drink 15 of anything, never mind if all 15 are ETOH, has a serious issue:eek:...diabetes, alcoholism, something.

Pretty sure they'd spend a lot of time visiting the "facilities".:o

Totally agree lol!! I think probably to curb those sneaky people who are still trying to get away with sharing one package

It's not such a great deal considering they've raised the prices for cruises that include them. If you drink less than 15 per day you've better off not taking the package or looking for a trip with cheaper prices to begin with.

Nothing is really free with Princess.

Even if you only have 6 or 7 cocktails a day and have some bottled water and espresso drinks you are going to come out better with the package rather than paying by the drink. For most cruises the price did not change on the 20th when the promo went in. I actually gave up a $800 pp discount from the casino on a 20 day cruise to get the drink package which is a huge savings. If I paid by the drink and had my usual mochas and bottled water for workouts etc. I would easily spend more than $80 per day.

It's not such a great deal considering they've raised the prices for cruises that include them. If you drink less than 15 per day you've better off not taking the package or looking for a trip with cheaper prices to begin with.

 

Nothing is really free with Princess.

8x15 = $120, the package is less than $60 so your maths are way off. The average drink being about $8.

Sent from my iPad using Forums

To compare what other cruise lines do HAL's package is not as good as Princess. It is 15 drinks a day period any kind of drink. The $ limit per drink is $8. You do not get any discount on bottles of wine. We had the drink package on our last HAL cruise. Not a good deal for us. My DH is mostly beer drinker, I am a wine drinker almost all wines except house wines were over the $8 limit. Both adults in the cabin have to buy the package. Compared to HAL's package the Princess drink package is great. Not surprised Princess has put a limit on daily drinks. I know on our Regal cruise over New Years we saw people sharing. On most nights in Crooners it was really crowded. We would see one person order a drink, then flag down a different waiter and order another. You could tell they were sharing the card. I saw it happen out on deck around the pool one would go the bar come back other person would flag down a waiter and order a drink. Our group started making a game out of it to see how many people we could find doing it. If we knew people were doing it Princess knew it also. I don't come close to 15 drinks a day but on a sea day I would exceed the cost of the package. We only get the package if it is part of a booking deal.

Believe the limit applies only to alcoholic beverages not all beverages. From the fine print in the current Princess Sip & Sail offer "A daily limit on alcoholic beverages will apply."

We booked our cruise 2 months ago. On Tuesday we added the SipNSail promo. The price of our cruise stayed exactly the same, so for us the promo was free. I cannot imagine that I could even come close to drinking 15 beverages, alcohol or not, per day. We are thrilled to have it added to our booking!

New policy.......the unlimited alcoholic drink package now has a 15 drink limit per person per day. Given that is a LOT of drinks, but still there is now a limit.

Is the limit 15 drinks of any kind or is it 15 Alcohol drinks? While I would never drink 15 alcoholic drinks in a day, if I include coffee bottled water and sodas along with a few cocktails, I could have over 15 drinks in a day.

Is the limit 15 drinks of any kind or is it 15 Alcohol drinks? While I would never drink 15 alcoholic drinks in a day, if I include coffee bottled water and sodas along with a few cocktails, I could have over 15 drinks in a day.

See post 9 above.

We too saw no increase in our Spring 2018 Med cruise fare (reserved a few weeks ago); Princess rep just added SnS to our package. Yay!

It's not such a great deal considering they've raised the prices for cruises that include them. If you drink less than 15 per day you've better off not taking the package or looking for a trip with cheaper prices to begin with.

Nothing is really free with Princess.

Nothing is free anywhere.

We too saw no increase in our Spring 2018 Med cruise fare (reserved a few weeks ago); Princess rep just added SnS to our package. Yay!

I would think those fares were raised before they released the spring 2018 schedules/sailings and long before the S&S was decided on.

We booked our cruise 2 months ago. On Tuesday we added the SipNSail promo. The price of our cruise stayed exactly the same, so for us the promo was free. I cannot imagine that I could even come close to drinking 15 beverages, alcohol or not, per day. We are thrilled to have it added to our booking!

I've been surprised at how many cruises have stayed the same price or gone up just slightly since the Sip + Sail was started this time.

I regularly have 4-5 drinks a week in my land-locked life, which I consider a pretty fair amount. One would have to be a serious alcoholic or at least an out and out lush to imbibe 6 or 7 drinks a DAY (and every day of the cruise), argumentatively the minimum you need to justify the cost of an AIBP.

That said, I'd have to believe that 98% of passengers in no way "need" the AIBP, and more and more cruisers are smart enough to realize that the value is one of convenience ONLY for those with such a surplus of money to unconditionally not care about paying up front for this extremely questionable perk. And bragging rights of course. Ultimately, for those of average means, or even those with money to spare who are wise enough to think twice before throwing it away, its virtually always a better deal to purchase drinks one at a time. Borrowing from Lennon: If you regular folks agree, clap your hands -- for you royalty, just rattle your jewelry. Please feel free to debate this without me. :-)

We had the drink package on our Celebrity cruise since it was a bonus, and we thought we were going to drink a lot, but in the end we only had a few. My fiance mostly drank mocktails and I have a coke addiction (the black liquid kind), so in the end I mostly just had sodas. We got the sip & sail package since we just booked our Princess cruise, but we are going to take the onboard credit instead, and just pay the $8 a day for the soda package since that's all we need.

If only there was a Gelato package...

I would think those fares were raised before they released the spring 2018 schedules/sailings and long before the S&S was decided on.

I booked a cruise this past December and just added S&S to it with no change in fare.

It's not such a great deal considering they've raised the prices for cruises that include them. If you drink less than 15 per day you've better off not taking the package or looking for a trip with cheaper prices to begin with.

Nothing is really free with Princess.

Perhaps they raised some prices on some cruises. For our two cruises that we just added the Sip and Sail the price did not change. We also had the Sip and Sail last December on the Regal and when we added it our price did not increase. So, Princess does have some good promos.

I booked a cruise this past December and just added S&S to it with no change in fare.

Yes as I said I think the prices were raised prior to the sailings being released to the public. Hence no change in your fare after adding the AIBP. Believe me I would think you paid for it somewhere in that cruise fare. IMO

Yes as I said I think the prices were raised prior to the sailings being released to the public. Hence no change in your fare after adding the AIBP. Believe me I would think you paid for it somewhere in that cruise fare. IMO

Not really sure that the prices were "raised", but they may have initially been high enough to include the AIBP. I have been tracking the cruise I booked since it was released and the price didn't change at all.

The cruise I booked last year with the AIBP never went down and balconies have been sold out since a year before the sail date.....so I wouldn't have gotten a better price even without the AIBP. Final payment is coming up on that one, so possibly one could get a 'deal' if enough people drop the cruise, but since balconies are currently sold out...it seems unlikely. Different cruises may have different results, but my experience so far has been worth it to book it with the AIBP! :D

We had the drink package on our Celebrity cruise since it was a bonus, and we thought we were going to drink a lot, but in the end we only had a few. My fiance mostly drank mocktails and I have a coke addiction (the black liquid kind), so in the end I mostly just had sodas. We got the sip & sail package since we just booked our Princess cruise, but we are going to take the onboard credit instead, and just pay the $8 a day for the soda package since that's all we need.

 

If only there was a Gelato package...

The Soda and More Package only includes fountain cokes. :( The AIBP includes cokes in cans.:) I realize you would need to drink a lot of cokes from cans each day to pay for the AIBP,

As others have said 15 drinks is a lot, and a big ask to do everyday, on the first few days you may go close and I think on the second day and first sea day of a recent cruise I maybe did 15 or it could have been 16 or 17:evilsmile: but the next morning I was feeling a bit worse for ware:o And was back to a more reasonable 8 or 9 and by the end of the cruise down to about 6.

Unless you have a drink problem the novelty as it were soon wares off.

This was discussed yesterday........

No problem for us. Have never even come close to 15 drinks with our AIBP.

Exactly.....

Bob