What's Your Cruise Drink?

[Smartipantz]

You have just stepped on your cruise ship, what is the first drink you order?  There are so many delicious drinks!!

[mawvkysc]

Fun topic! I have no clue but can’t wait to hear other’s answers 

[MBMGWM]

I love to get a BBC (Bailey's Banana Colada) to get the cruise started.  One sip takes me to the islands!

[HBE4]

Not necessarily  my "cruise drink" - which tends to be many across a wide variety - but the first drink is usually tropical, like a coconut mojito.

 

Or whatever the Drink of the Day/Sailaway special is.

[mikensuenfl]

MIAMI VICE

[bonsai3s]

Mudslide

Guavarita

BBC

Melon Mojito

Boston Ice Tea

Tokyo Ice Tea

Miami Vice

Painkiller

Pineaple-Guava Sangria

and if the bar doesn't have a blender, a simple Drambuie or Midori on the rocks will do...or Hennessy.

[flyguyjake]

Bahama Mama

Lava Flow

Cadillac Margarita/Rocks/No Salt

Belvedere Apple Martini

Belvedere Chocolate-Espresso Martini

Michelob Ultra

Chandon Brut

Dom Perignon

Titos Soda w/splash of Cran

[smplybcause]

Lava flow is always my first drink. Well except on carnival they don't know what it is/can't make it. But it's first on royal, ncl, and msc.

[Nado44]

A celebratory champagne.

[dcgrumpy]

1 hour ago, smplybcause said:

Lava flow is always my first drink. Well except on carnival they don't know what it is/can't make it. But it's first on royal, ncl, and msc.

 

Are Lava Flow's on Royal and Miami Vice on Carnival similar?

 

On Royal my first drink is usually a frozen mojito. 

[smplybcause]

10 minutes ago, dcgrumpy said:

 

Are Lava Flow's on Royal and Miami Vice on Carnival similar?

 

On Royal my first drink is usually a frozen mojito. 

 

A lava flow (anywhere that does it right) is a Pina colada with strawberry syrup. 

 

A Miami vice is half Pina colada half strawberry daiquiri. 

 

Similar, but a daiquiri has lime in it - so a lava flow is missing the lime. Also I think because the Miami vice is frozen it doesn't have a strong of a strawberry flavor as a lava flow, but maybe that's just the lime making it not as strong? 

 

On carnival best I could tell was they only had strawberry daiquiri syrup and not just strawberry syrup so their lava flow was just a Miami vice heavy on the Pina colada because they just added strawberry daiquiri syrup instead of frozen strawberry daiquiri. It was not a lava flow and I never ordered it again for the rest of the cruise. To be fair the bartender said she could make me something close to a lava flow not a lava flow.

 

BTW there are some places/bartenders that think they're they same, but they're just making a Miami vice and calling it was lava flow. 

Edited December 8, 2021 by smplybcause

[cruisinelmo]

Gotta have my Pina Colada. We'll be in Old Town San Juan Puorto Rico soon which means a pitcher of Pina Colada's 

[Ashland]

Love a good Mojito, Chocolate Martini and of course there's the BUSHWACKER 

[CruiseDancer]

Either the BBC or the Love Connection - layered pina colada, strawberry daiquiri, and mango daiquiri.

[livingonthebeach]

Rum Runner on the balcony after unpacking 😉

Bahama Mama

Between The Sheets / Maiden's Prayer

Lychee Martini

Sex On The Beach

[klass2]

8 hours ago, smplybcause said:

Lava flow is always my first drink. Well except on carnival they don't know what it is/can't make it. But it's first on royal, ncl, and msc.

Same here. ❤️ I love Lava Flows and look forward to each cruise when I can drink them. I have only been on one Carnival Cruise and despite me explaining what one was, they didn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t make one properly. 

They taste sooo good and as a bonus they are pretty to look at. 

[Ocean Boy]

4 hours ago, Ashland said:

Love a good Mojito, Chocolate Martini and of course there's the BUSHWACKER 

What is in a bushwacker?

[Ocean Boy]

9 hours ago, MBMGWM said:

I love to get a BBC (Bailey's Banana Colada) to get the cruise started.  One sip takes me to the islands!

That sounds really good.

[colesc15]

We start every cruise with a shot of tequila at the pool bar immediately followed by a Miami vice or lava flow 

Edited December 8, 2021 by colesc15

[S.A.M.J.R.]

Lava Flow (mango version)!

[SRF]

Caipirinha

 

First drink and least one or two a day.  More on sea days 😄

 

[nvaldez87]

Caribbean Mule 😍

[bigmoose7563]

1 minute ago, nvaldez87 said:

Caribbean Mule 😍

Right there with you! Got hooked on this on Mariner in Sept

[nvaldez87]

1 minute ago, bigmoose7563 said:

Right there with you! Got hooked on this on Mariner in Sept

Not too sweet. Not heavy. Refreshing. Just perfect! 

[cruiseguy1016]

I started this tradition on my first cruise in 2001 and have done it on every cruise since. When I get on the ship, the first place I go is the Pool Bar to order a Bahama Mama. I have always said that that drink puts me in "cruise mode".