Are drink packages worth the cost.

[BoozinCroozin]

5 hours ago, CajunOyster said:

You just keep telling yourself that the scumbags stealing $50 a day in sodas, coffees and milkshakes for their kids have nothing to do with rising prices.

Rising prices is do to greed and to raise the stock price, nothing more. You could "steal" milkshakes for every kid onboard at 5 per day and it wouldn't eat into their expenses. They are just charging more to get more revenue and pay the employees less. 

[ALWAYS CRUZIN]

Asking again. The liquor you purchase for your room. Lookin at an $85.00 bottle. Is the 18% gratuity added to it? That would take it to just over $100.00

[ledges1]

9 hours ago, BoozinCroozin said:

Rising prices is do to greed and to raise the stock price, nothing more. You could "steal" milkshakes for every kid onboard at 5 per day and it wouldn't eat into their expenses. They are just charging more to get more revenue and pay the employees less. 

The stock price has gone. Your conspiracy theory is not working. If they are so greedy, why do you support Carnival by going on their cruises.

[sarnold2245]

Really just depends on how much you drink.  Just got off the vista on a 7 day with the cheers package and it was definitely worth it.   Counted around 150 drinks between me and my gf not counting the first day.    At an average of $10 a drink I think we did alright.    Also helped with the occasional soda or milkshake for my daughter

[jsglow]

18 hours ago, ALWAYS CRUZIN said:

Asking again. The liquor you purchase for your room. Lookin at an $85.00 bottle. Is the 18% gratuity added to it? That would take it to just over $100.00

Not that I recall. I'd put my confidence at about 85%.

[Dadofsix]

On 6/25/2022 at 4:33 AM, BoozinCroozin said:

Rising prices is do to greed and to raise the stock price, nothing more. You could "steal" milkshakes for every kid onboard at 5 per day and it wouldn't eat into their expenses. They are just charging more to get more revenue and pay the employees less. 

Need to know what business college is teaching this new math. If a product has a fixed cost of $1 and you sell for $2 you have a profit of $1. Now under your new math fixed cost stays the same $1 but now we have 5 going out but only selling one. Where is the profit? Fixed cost now goes to $5 with a sales price of $2 for the only one you were able to monetize, leaving -$3 profit for every unit sold . Wouldn't be long before a place goes out of business. In a retail environment that shrinkage most often from shoplifting. Costs go up and prices go up. Now in order to make a $1 for every unit sold you must sell for $6 until morally ambiguous people ( who are now are complaining about the prices going up and justifying it to themselves and others as big business ripping off the poor people) decide instead of just stealing 5 now they can justify stealing 7. Where does it end?

[CruizinSusan70]

7 hours ago, sarnold2245 said:

  Also helped with the occasional soda or milkshake for my daughter

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[habc]

If you drink cocktails or fru fru drinks, even martinis as your drink of choice it’s going to be worth it. 4-5 drinks a day to break even 

 

If you’re a beer drinker it’s more iffy. They discount buckets of beer. There’s happy hour. You would need to buy 3 buckets a day to break even. Or 10 beers at a bar skipping all the deals.

 

of course if you are a special coffee drinker that figures into the total. 

[sarnold2245]

34 minutes ago, CruizinSusan70 said:

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 Not sure why this is a big deal.   The bartenders and servers would literally ask if our daughter wanted anything sometimes and ring them up that way.    It was not like we were hiding anything or trying to get one over on Carnival by sneaking drinks.   Most of the time she drank the juice cartons we brought on the ship ourselves.  

[CruizinSusan70]

5 minutes ago, sarnold2245 said:

 Not sure why this is a big deal.   The bartenders and servers would literally ask if our daughter wanted anything sometimes and ring them up that way.    It was not like we were hiding anything or trying to get one over on Carnival by sneaking drinks.   Most of the time she drank the juice cartons we brought on the ship ourselves.  

It's technically against the rules to share your Cheers package even though many people do it on a daily basis.  If less people did it, then possibly there would not be a price increase like we saw about a month or so ago.  The bartenders and servers would not let you share beers with others, yet sodas or a milkshake was OK.  Just continues the fact that Carnival has rules in place and they are never universally enforced.

[BoozinCroozin]

17 hours ago, Dadofsix said:

Need to know what business college is teaching this new math. If a product has a fixed cost of $1 and you sell for $2 you have a profit of $1. Now under your new math fixed cost stays the same $1 but now we have 5 going out but only selling one. Where is the profit? Fixed cost now goes to $5 with a sales price of $2 for the only one you were able to monetize, leaving -$3 profit for every unit sold . Wouldn't be long before a place goes out of business. In a retail environment that shrinkage most often from shoplifting. Costs go up and prices go up. Now in order to make a $1 for every unit sold you must sell for $6 until morally ambiguous people ( who are now are complaining about the prices going up and justifying it to themselves and others as big business ripping off the poor people) decide instead of just stealing 5 now they can justify stealing 7. Where does it end?

Because fixed cost is not $1, it is about $0.25. They make the difference up by charging 18% on $12 vs $0.25 ($0.045 vs $2.16). Instead of the entire $2.16 going to the crew as pooled tip money, the business is lowering that to may $1.50. Therefore the net is $2.16 - $1.50 - $0.25 = $0.41. This can easily be manipulated by simply increasing the arbitrary drink price of $12 to $15, reducing the amount of the "tips" that go to the crew. Now, if we want to see how it really works out, see what a cruise line is really paying for their liquor and products. After 1 drink, everything else is pure profit on a bottle of alcohol. They can get ~15 drinks per bottle. That means they are many 1400% profit. That little 2% hit for an extra milkshake or virgin daquiri isn't even a rounding error. 

 

So, if you are talking about the $ they charge vs the $ cost, then you have a valid point. But that is now how the business world works. And now, they increased the drink package price by ~$10 per day. That adds more pure profit to the table.

[CajunOyster]

On 6/25/2022 at 5:33 AM, BoozinCroozin said:

Rising prices is do to greed and to raise the stock price, nothing more. You could "steal" milkshakes for every kid onboard at 5 per day and it wouldn't eat into their expenses. They are just charging more to get more revenue and pay the employees less. 

And this is exactly why you could never run a business.  COGS is a real thing, you know.  Those milkshakes you steal aren't free.