rdcruisin

As someone else posted, wine by the glass up to $10 is included but there is only a 40% discount for the purchase of any wine bottle. The Wine Bottle Package is still available on longer cruises. Not always offered on 10 day cruises, but usually on longer cruises.

I was just on the 25 day Sapphire Princess cruise in April and -- ALAS -- the wine package was not offered.

Surely you can just get glasses of wine with your meals rather than buying a bottle? Then the drinks package could maybe work?

That was definitely a possibility. But with both of us wanting wine, we would have had to buy 2 unlimited beverage packages at $56.25 inc tip per day. On this cruise (25 days) it would have cost us over $2800. That's a heck of a lot of glasses of wine we would need to drink to justify the cost.

Turned out we didn't go dry, but just disappointed they didn't offer the wine package.

With the alcohol beverage package of $49 per day that includes 40% off all wines (at least those under $100 a bottle), you will save if you buy more than $130 of wine per day. You can take bottles that you buy back to your cabin to enjoy as well. Of course, you also save on all the other free drinks, sodas, coffee drinks, dessert liquers, water, etc.

I don't see how you would be saving anything since you still have to pay the other 60% of the cost of the bottle of wine PLUS the unlimited beverage package price.

We were just on the 25 day Grand Asia Crossing on the Sapphire Princess and were disappointed that they did not offer the wine package. You could get the unlimited beverage package at $49 per day, but since we are basically wine drinkers, it was not of interest to us.

We had previously enjoyed the benefits of the wine package, but this time had to buy the bottles with no discount. Seems they could offer both packages and still make money.