Drink Cards ??

[BallFour4]

The couple we traveled with occassionally "shared" drinks with their son's drink card. Dont' know that Carnival would appreciate that though.;)

 

First, the soda cards are never worth the pure cost of the card. What does justify the expense is the benefit of speedy service at the bars, dining room and in the theatre. All you need to do is flash the card and order your soda. If you don't have the card then you must wait for the transaction to be rung up and posted to your sign and sail card.

 

The card allows you to also get juices at the bars after exercise in the mornings. We use them to get pineapple juice and fruit juices during the day, and after our morning run.

 

The theatre and the dining room beverage service also make it easy, as your dining waiter will have your soda waiting for you each evening after you show the card to he/she and place your order the first night.

 

Ask yourself a question based on the logic from the response above. Let's say you and a friend go to a buffet and both of you are not very hungry. Can you and that friend go through the line one at a time, and then justify that you ate only as much as one hungry person? If you can live with that answer then do what you wish...

 

Finally, the cost of the actual soda is a fraction of the expense of serving a drink to cruise passengers. The shipping costs, human costs of labor involved and the entire expense are probably a small profit for Carnival.

 

A Tylenol costs about $2 at one of my hospitals by the time it gets to a patient. The difference is the expense of handling, dispensing and human cost to get it to the floor.

[serene56]

First, the soda cards are never worth the pure cost of the card. What does justify the expense is the benefit of speedy service at the bars, dining room and in the theatre. All you need to do is flash the card and order your soda. If you don't have the card then you must wait for the transaction to be rung up and posted to your sign and sail card..

 

the first and only time we used the soda cards we did not experience speedy service. At dinner the bar waiter came to our table only once. FIgured out midweek to order more then what we did.

in the show lounge seemed to take forever to bring me my small cup of soda which was mostly ice. one sip it was gone. at the bars-- especially if crowded the bar tender always managed to wait on the people who were "buying" drinks before finally getting to me.

 

We carry on our own now.

[BallFour4]

the first and only time we used the soda cards we did not experience speedy service.

 

Come on.. didn't you use that Philly "go get 'em" style? That poor service would not fly and Book Binders now would it? :)

 

Come sail with us, you use your experience and I'll use the Texas BS.

 

We'll get served our sodas or tossed from the dining room...

 

Take Care.