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Killswitch

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Killswitch

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Only $12/day??? Wow - I wish. We don't go out and get plastered on a cruise but it's easy while on vacation to splurge with a bloody mary in the a.m., maybe a beer or margarita by the pool, a glass of wine at dinner, a couple of drinks while playing in the casino, and a night cap on the balcony before retiring for the evening -- don't think we could do that on $12 a day -- and don't think we'd be counted as drunk or unruly either!

 

 

Thats a 12 dolla a day average over the whole ship. Obviously not everyone drinks booze so some people make up for the difference.

 

You have six drinks a day. The average is 2...

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Wow, I think this was one of the most interesting posts I've read on Cruise Critic! When I was on the Oasis for two of the pre-inaugurals, I remember thinking to myself I had never SEEN so many drunk people! But the alcohol was free so I guess that was the reason. The Labadee Extravaganza seemed tamer in retrospect so I guess the moral of the story is ... it it's FREE, look out for the drunks! :D

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I've noticed a mathematically inverse relationship between the length of the cruise and the drunkenness of the average patron ... the longer the cruise, the less trashed people seem on a night-to-night basis. Anyone else note this too?

 

DH and I are wine people ... we go to Napa, or the Loire or Stellenbosch a couple of times a year ... we figure that on any carefully-selected (i.e. value conscious, we look for deals) RCCL cruise, we'll probably spend more on wine than on one of our fares. We're probably the eye-rolling jerks subsidizing this thing, but there's something really fun and special about sampling a huge range of new wines at sea. :)

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I've noticed a mathematically inverse relationship between the length of the cruise and the drunkenness of the average patron ... the longer the cruise, the less trashed people seem on a night-to-night basis. Anyone else note this too?

 

DH and I are wine people ... we go to Napa, or the Loire or Stellenbosch a couple of times a year ... we figure that on any carefully-selected (i.e. value conscious, we look for deals) RCCL cruise, we'll probably spend more on wine than on one of our fares. We're probably the eye-rolling jerks subsidizing this thing, but there's something really fun and special about sampling a huge range of new wines at sea. :)

 

 

I don't mind or begrudge people putting a little buzz on. Trust me.

 

As long as no ones wearing lamp shades or doing impromptu conga lines....or getting sick anywhere near me.

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I have not seen this,

But have read, that if you get out of control.

You get out, at the next port that is !

And at your own expense ! yikes. Not worth it.

 

One of the member reviews said it happened to them. They rated it one star. The thing I like about alcohol on a cruise ship is that you can have a glass of wine, and now worry about getting a DUI. In Driver Education we learned that Texas DUI laws are strict.

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Ive seen a few people over served now and then . Most of them where with me. We cruise with 4 families and one seaday of cruise ends up being adult day.Drinking Gambling and maybe even "kissing" if we can loose the kids, Then more drinking ,dancing and drinking.Oh and they build the ships with all the facilities to do this .Never any rowdy or crazy antics though .

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I seem to notice most of the out of control drinking going on off the ship in places like Carlos and Charlies...etc. Back onboard comes the hangover. Maybe we have just been lucky but we've never had to deal with drunk and rowdies on a ship. Maybe buzzed and happy but not out of control.

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Well that's good. Thanks. I've watched shows on tv that suggest they sell about 35000 dollars worth of booze per cruise and with say 3000 people that works out to about 12 dollars each or two to three drinks each per day.

 

 

Wow. You actually worked out the average dollar amount pp they spend on booze a day? Seems a little...over zealous, no?

 

There's a show that ran (and is rerun) on...CNBC was it? Anyway it was called something like the Business of Cruising and they did a whole segment on how they need X amount of dollars per passenger to hit their quota, and it worked out to about $12pp per day (although I thought I remembered it being like $7.50 or something). I don't think the poster was over-zealous...he was quoting the show...

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If you read a lot of comments on CC about how much everyone drinks, take it with a grain of salt. I certainly have posted things that make me sound like an alcoholic (lol) but I've never been, nor have I ever seen anyone, fall-down drunk and rowdy and screaming on a ship. Okay ONCE I had a deadly LI Iced Tea and then like 3 beers...but I just fell asleep by the pool and slept it off for 2 hours. Okay and ONCE I had a hangover but that was only because free drinks were involved. :)

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If you read a lot of comments on CC about how much everyone drinks, take it with a grain of salt. I certainly have posted things that make me sound like an alcoholic (lol) but I've never been, nor have I ever seen anyone, fall-down drunk and rowdy and screaming on a ship. Okay ONCE I had a deadly LI Iced Tea and then like 3 beers...but I just fell asleep by the pool and slept it off for 2 hours. Okay and ONCE I had a hangover but that was only because free drinks were involved. :)

 

Okay, the more posts I read by you the more I want to hang out with you on a cruise! ;)

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If you read a lot of comments on CC about how much everyone drinks, take it with a grain of salt. I certainly have posted things that make me sound like an alcoholic (lol) but I've never been, nor have I ever seen anyone, fall-down drunk and rowdy and screaming on a ship. Okay ONCE I had a deadly LI Iced Tea and then like 3 beers...but I just fell asleep by the pool and slept it off for 2 hours. Okay and ONCE I had a hangover but that was only because free drinks were involved. :)

 

 

And that other time with the guy in the place with the thing.

 

Don't forget that one!

 

lol

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And that other time with the guy in the place with the thing.

 

Don't forget that one!

 

lol

 

Hey you don't have to cover things up with me. I'll freely admit it was Col. Mustard, (or should that be Col. Muster here on CC?), with the candlestick in the library.

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:(

 

I need to keep my thread on topic. I already had half my posts and threads deleted because I was going off topic and having fun which I kinda think isn't right but anyhow.

 

What the heck WAS the original topic?? :D

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Yeah, but the Floataway Lounge is the graveyard of fun posts.

 

 

That whole thread on formal wear got the axe too....lol

 

These posts will probably get the axe. I fear I'll be banned soon anyhow. Never fails for me on moderated boards.

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:(

 

I need to keep my thread on topic. I already had half my posts and threads deleted because I was going off topic and having fun which I kinda think isn't right but anyhow.

But cant you hijack your own thread :D

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OK Kids,

 

Back to the topic at hand.....Drinking and Drunks....:eek:

That was me on the Radiance last month......2 beers at sail away from San Diego and 8 cosmos in 3 hours, so by 8:30 pm I stumbled back to the room and passed out....I knew I should have had something to eat that day! Good thing it was a Sea Day on Saturday.....But the Cabin Crawl was a blast with a slight HANGOVER........;)

 

Mike

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