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MrsPete

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Told by WHOM?!?!?!?

I've heard of a 15-minute waiting period; that is, I've read of it on this board. I can't say I've seen it personally though.

 

I can believe this. It would be a way to thwart people trying to share a card; that is, it would make things annoying for people who want to get two drinks at once, and I remain convinced that this isn't about protecting people -- it's about stopping "sharing".

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Clarea

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I've heard of a 15-minute waiting period; that is, I've read of it on this board. I can't say I've seen it personally though....

They do have a waiting period between uses of the Freestyle machines.

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Merion_Mom

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Does anyone know if the shops on the Oasis sell Alcohol for the rooms. I know that you could preorder Alcohol packages on Carnival to be delivered to your stateroom does Royal offer this option?

 

This is all answered on the thread that you started. :)

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Powersboyee2

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That is a "normal" day on vacation??

 

For you, maybe, but definitely not for me.

 

2, MAYBE 3 glasses of wine between pre-dinner through after dinner before bed (1 with dinner and MAYBE one before OR one after) is plenty for me.

 

I know everyone is different, but I like to remember my vacation and your description of "normal" would have me in alcohol poisoning super quick.

 

 

 

Alcohol poisoning??? Really? Wow. Time to get out more.

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MattInFLL

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I've had a couple of bartenders give me the 15 minute speech. It was on Liberty. And my bartender friends on Majesty have told me there is such a policy but not really enforced. They do seem to give the bartenders a lot of discretion.

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mentor1000

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We were on Independence 3 weeks ago and our friend got a drink package. He was told by the bartender that the limit is 4 per hour (which would correlate to 15 min waiting). Ultimately, it's still up to the bartender to enforce the rule. If you try to get 10 drinks an hour, they know you're sharing. He did get 2 drinks at the same time couple times when we were heading to a show and they served it to him.

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Itsbeentoolong

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IOTS was one of the ships offering the free drinks package and free tips, we got this for our Navigator cruise in two weeks but we booked last March and at the time they were saying the deal weren't for much longer, don't know if they offered it again

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Alcohol poisoning??? Really? Wow. Time to get out more.

 

Not all of us believe the world revolves around alcohol or that you have to have it in order to have a good time.

 

I'm not a teetotaler by any means, but other than an occasional beer or wine with meals I've never seen the point.

 

Different strokes for different folks.

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dwhe

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I strongly suspect the real goal here is to catch the cheating/sharing crowd. It'd be easy to program the computer to alert the bartender that a patron had purchased six drinks ... and then the bartender could investigate whether a questionable pattern exists.

 

In my experience bar tenders don't care who drinks the drinks as long as they get the tips.

 

Many times in the casino I have ordered 2 beers from both my card and my wifes and drank them both to the point that they soon just hand them both to me.

 

They do however react to drunk people and quite rightly withhold service to anyone too drunk.

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Esmerelda

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Several times I have witnessed people on cruises that should not have been served alcohol. They were stumbling with some speech issues going on. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. (As a bartender, I also wouldn't want that to come back and bite me, people think their 10 feet tall and bulletproof with too much alcohol):cool:

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Wilson

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Agreed. Although I dont drink a lot on land, so even if my drink on board is weak, I would probably not recognize it!! Speaking of drinks...my new favorite is a Fire Jack......1/2 Fireball, 1/2 Jack Daniels......

 

As previously noted. This is better...

 

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Thetrail

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In my personal opinion, Spookwife has always had an attitude of judgement. The mixed drinks are so weak, containing far less alcohol than land based bars. In my estimation it takes three RCI rum and cokes to equal one on land.
Feel just the opposite from you. And your ":rolleyes:estimation" is based on science, please give us a break.....:rolleyes:
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RnbwSktles

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Fireball mixed with angry orchard (angry balls) is pretty awesome!

 

Never heard it called that! :D

 

That's the only way I really like Fireball (or any whiskey, really). I did try Fireball in cream soda because someone told me it would taste like a cinnamon bun. It did not.

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Thetrail

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I think it might have to do with where the independence is sailing from this summer.I was on the anthem last July and saw a lot of drunk people barely able to stand and witnessed a couple of arguments myself including in the casino one night where an ex paratrooper (his words not mine) got stuck into this couple because they where from Northern Ireland,calling them fenian bastards and the like.Security where there within 20 seconds and he was never seen again but the couple who where abused had there drink package suspended for 4 days while they looked into it.They where so annoyed by there treatment that they got off in Palma and flew home.Anyway a couple of days later extra staff where drafted in and by chance one was a barman that I went to school with and hadn't seen in years.So we are chatting one night in the music hall and he's tellin me how good the job is and so on and I said I might join ye but I'd like to be a security guard as it looked handy.He said they have the hardest job on the ship and to date (it was day 11)on that sailing 62 people had been put off.Wow
but don't believe his story that 62 people were "put off" the ship......:rolleyes:
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CCruiser1234

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Was just reading on a blog that on The Independance now you have to sign a waiver when you purchase the drinks package with someone commenting that they were refused a drink after they had 6 for there own safety.The ship is coming to Southampton soon so maybe that has something too do with it but are they really going to refuse and embarrass people after 6 drinks in one day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.******************.com/2016/04/28/spotted-new-royal-caribbean-unlimited-alcohol-package-waiver

 

 

It may end up that such enforcement causes embarrassment, but I can see no objective argument against it.

 

Anyone who desires or feels a need for more than six drinks at one sitting is probably not going to be the sort of person that RCCL-on behalf of the boozer's safety or not- wants around the vast majority of their customers.

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BeachChik

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Six (6) drinks in most states means you are legally drunk and you would fail the breathalyzer device that measures alcohol in expired air as to determine the concentration of alcohol in a person's body.

 

Not true. It depends on the person. Someone that is 125 pounds will be legally drunk before someone that is 250.

 

And it doesn't matter anyway. Unless you are driving there is no rule saying you can't be drunk.

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