Your highest bill?

[Denpetter]

Dear friends,

 

Just to be curious, what has been your highest bill on your cruise?

We did a good job and our joint bill came up to 1100 usd.:eek::eek:

 

But our excuse is "we arefrom Finland". :D

[Booking It]

For the husband and me, about $1,000. I don't drink beer... only straight shots or strong cocktails, so it doesn't take much for my bar bills to get pretty high.

[Denpetter]

For the husband and me, about $1,000. I don't drink beer... only straight shots or strong cocktails, so it doesn't take much for my bar bills to get pretty high.

 

Fabulous, I feel better now. :-)

:):):):) you are my kind of grl.

[HappyCampers3]

Not exactly sure about our highest...maybe around $300.00 (without onboard credit). Lowest, about $25.00 (with onboard credit). It's a game and you should learn how to play it (that is...OBC/perks from RCCI and your travel agent). If you have no onboard credit and you'd like a $300.00 ship bill, chip away and pay your tips, excursions and specialty dining before you go. Don't get sucked in to Bingo, the casino or the shops, and limit yourself to a couple drinks in the evening and take advantage of the drink prices in the port. It can be done, and you'll find yourself returning home to plan your next cruise!

[Room Service!]

It's usually in the $700.00 range.

[Riggy84]

I was a solo traveller, I prepaid my gratuities and had $100 OBC.

I had about $25 charged to my card. :D

[Kevin's girl]

When we first started cruising we averaged about $100/day. Whit the gradual increase in drink prices and such it is now more like $150 per day. My husband likes his beer and rum and cokes and I my soda package and we also enjoy wine with our dinner. That being said this is our vacation and I want no budget worries while on vacation. I prepay what I can before we cruise and then figure on at least a combined bill of about $1000. If less - great if not, it's ok.

[14Terry]

Our highest has been in the $700 range. Lowest..$20.:D

[yogimax]

Our biggest expense is usually tips.

[SECdawg]

We average about $100 a day. Mostly all from the bar. The highest was around $800. I don't remember any really low ones.

[Meltdown]

We just got of the Independence with a $3660 bill....... but as the OP, we are also Scandinavian from Sweden however.

[merees17]

$1800.00 on a 5 nighter :D no casino charges, shore excursions, or onboard shopping! Personal best :p

[luvscruising2007]

We generally book excursions prior to our cruise and pay cash for tips. We also pay cash at the casino. No drink or alcohol packages. I think our highest was probably our 1st cruise and ran around $500. Not really sure but we try to keep it down.

[trev71]

Highest about 450$

[chynnabow]

$1800.00 on a 5 nighter :D no casino charges, shore excursions, or onboard shopping! Personal best :p

 

Love it!!!

[SMASHROX]

DH and I did major damage with an over $2,500 tab on Oasis last September (not including the $500 we brought for tips, gambling, etc.). Those spa treatments and cocktails sure do add up!

[Cupcrazy]

I believe my highest was somewhere in the $700 range. On my last cruise 2 people I was traveling with both had bills of of over $4000. The casino loved them

[Ladysilver]

Our biggest expense is usually tips.

 

 

Us too. :eek:

[ctcruiser1721]

$950 on a 4 night cruise is our highest. No trinkets or shore excursions. Lots of very good wine and champagne and gratuities.

[narrow56]

Our biggest bill was probably about $300. We book shore excursions and specialty dining ahead of time.

[Kellie Poodle]

I can't remember the amount, but on our first cruise, a Western Caribbean out of Miami in the 80's I was awakened by rustling noises on the last night of the cruise.

 

I thought rats had gotten into the cabin and was in a state of terror until I realized that the rustling noise was sheet after sheet of computer paper being shoved under the door. There had to have been 20 sheets for a 7 day cruise.

 

We had the drink of the morning, the drink of the mid-morning, the drink of the afternoon, the drink of the mid-afternoon, the drink of the late-afternoon, the drink of the early-evening, etc. You get the picture.

 

In those days you paid your gratuities in cash and we did our own excursions so the entire bill, except for one spa massage each, was for featured fruit juice drinks.

 

I still have one "souvenir" glass from that cruise and it's actually real glass!

[knittinggirl]

Somewhere around a thousand on a 14-day Princess cruise. We reserved the excursions, but they were not charged to the account until after we boarded.

 

On RCI, sometimes we finish with a credit, because we get OBC and prepay our excursions, that sometimes get cancelled and refunded.

[gxchan]

Usually, I spend around $100-125 a day as a solo cruiser, exclusive of excursions which are prepaid, and hit my personal best on the 11/25/12 Adventure cruise, a bit more $1000 for the week. No excursions or spa treatments, just lots of rounds of drinks, individual drinks, prepaid tips and the slot and blackjack tournaments. LOL, when I asked for a printout next to last day I said it was mostly bar charges. With the printout in hand Olga, a wonderful GR person on Adventure, began reading off the charges, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, CASINO! Each time she got to a casino charge she would stop and say, see not all of them are bar charges LMAO

[RCCL Fan]

Ok you guys are making me feel bad... I usually average about $1400

 

but my worst ever was just under $3700

 

and no, I've never sailed longer than a 7-night, never go to the casino, and i pay tips in cash too.

 

 

For me its shore excursions, spa, laundry/dry cleaning/tux rental, and drinks

[mintypixie]

I have only sail once with RCCL and our bill was going to be around $800-$900. However thans to the casino it was only $60. I was a very happy camper.