Drink prices on eclipse

[siestaman]

I am soon to take a first cruise with celebrity on the eclipse and I have looked at the cabin drink packages and I am amazed to see they charge £52 for a bottle of gin!!

Can the experienced cruisers please advise if this is a typical price charged on other cruise lines. A friend has told me that the P&O cost is half this figure.

Also does anybody know if the wine package is worth taking. At the moment the website is not giving any details.

[MTElkwhistle]

Compared to P&O we found the drinks very expensive, mind you the exchange rate and 15% non optional tip dont help.

 

Others have said they dont think the prices are too bad, perhaps i'm just a tight Scot.

 

They dont seem to be offering the wine package for our cruise in October but I have been number crunching with the drinks package as the exchange rate seems to be going in our favour at the moment.

[Albert Ross]

It is not possible to buy the wine packages on S-class ships - either before the cruise or whilst on board.

 

The $80 for a bottle of in room gin is too expensive:eek: but

after a lot of consideration and fence sitting - I have actually concluded that if you drink 5-6 drinks a day of value $8, then the Classic a/i drinks packages are a pretty good deal. With a G&T before dinner, several glasses of wine with dinner and a digestif afterwards, this is not an obscene amount of drink and very do-able IMHO.

 

I have been watching the prices and it has fallen from £433 for 14nights to £414 for the Classic a/i so I bit the bullet and booked!.