With the beverage packages now going for $89/day or $109/day depending on level, that's about 8-9 drinks a day on average. That's a lot of liquor. I'm sure this works for some people, but it's got to push a lot of others over the edge to skip and drink less. For some of the lower inside cabins, you're paying more for the beverages than the rest of the entire cruise. Does that make sense? Even in the past when the drink packages were $20-30 cheaper I think I would have struggled to get my money's worth.
I just booked a cruise for spring, 2024 and decided to skip the beverage package and will just be content with water, tea, and coffee, and augment that with a nice glass of wine off the a la carte menu for dinner. Not much different than my typical beverage diet at home. This will be my first cruise skipping the drink package, and I'm perfectly fine with it. I would have ponied up $50-60/day for one of the bev packages, instead Celebrity is going to have to be content with the revenue from a single glass of wine from me.